BACKGROUND Associations between body composition and the energy expended on basal metabolism and activity are complex and age dependent. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine associations between body composition and daily (DEE), basal (BEE), and activity energy expenditure (AEE) throughout the adult life span. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was conducted in 529 adults aged 18-96 y. DEE wa...

The relatively rare entity pyothorax-associated lymphoma (PAL) is an aggressive disease with a poor prognosis. Therefore, PAL should be diagnosed as soon as possible with minimal invasion. We herein report the case of an 81-year-old man with PAL that was successfully treated with chemotherapy. A computed tomography-guided tumor biopsy could not provide adequate specimens for pathological invest...

Limited proteolysis is widely used in biochemical and crystallographic studies to determine domain organization, folding properties, and ligand binding activities of proteins. The method has limitations, however, due to the difficulties in obtaining sufficient amounts of correctly folded proteins and in interpreting the results of the proteolysis. A new limited proteolysis method, named proteas...

L-Phenylalanine is one of the essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized in mammals in adequate amounts to meet the requirements for protein synthesis. Fungi and plants are able to synthesize phenylalanine via the shikimic acid pathway. L-Phenylalanine, derived from the shikimic acid pathway, is used directly for protein synthesis in plants or metabolized through the phenylpropanoid pathw...

Sound is an important medium in our lives, but its ephemeral nature can be problematic when people cannot recall something they heard in the past. Motivated by everyday conversational breakdowns, we present the design of a continuous, near-term audio buffering application: the Personal Audio Loop (PAL). PAL was designed as a truly ubiquitous service to recover audio content from a person’s rece...

This paper adds temporal logic to public announcement logic (PAL) and dynamic epistemic logic (DEL). By adding a previous-time operator to PAL, we express in the language statements concerning the muddy children puzzle and sum and product. We also express a true statement that an agent’s beliefs about another agent’s knowledge flipped twice, and use a sound proof system to prove this statement....

Excessive fat ectopically deposited in the non-adipose tissues is considered as one of leading causes myopathy. The aim this study was to investigate role Dihydroartemisinin (DHA) palmitate (PAL)-incubated H9c2 cells (lipotoxicity-induced cell injury model). Cell viability PAL-treated determined by MTT assay, and apoptotic regulators were examined qRT-PCR western blot analysis, absence or prese...

ROBERTO QUINLAN* , ANDREW M. PATERSON †, , ROLAND I. HALL § , PETER J. DILLON , ANNA N. WILKINSON , BRIAN F. CUMMING , MARIANNE S. V. DOUGLAS* AND JOHN P. SMOL † *Paleoecological Assessment Laboratory (PAL), Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada †Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen’s University, ...

We prove a conjecture of Aanjaneya, Bishnu, and Pal that the maximum number of diffuse reflections needed for a point light source to illuminate the interior of a simple polygon with n walls is bn/2c − 1. Light reflecting diffusely leaves a surface in all directions, rather than at an identical angle as with specular reflections.