We explore the dependence of the ratio of a galaxy’s circular velocity, Vc, to its central velocity dispersion, σ0, on morphology, or equivalently light concentration, for rotationally and pressure supported galaxies. Such a dependence is expected if light traces the mass. Over the full range of galaxy types, masses and brightnesses, and assuming that the gas velocity traces the circular veloci...

BACKGROUND Heart failure is one of the most leading cause of death worldwide, but the mechanical characteristics of the pulmonary system in these patients have not been studied enough. The aim of this study was to measure mechanical pulmonary changes in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) by using impulse oscillometry (IOS), which can obtain data by simpler means and independently from...

Define the neighborhood characteristic of a graph to be s1 − s2 + s3 − · · ·, where si counts subsets of i vertices that are all adjacent to some vertex outside the subset. This amounts to replacing cliques by neighborhoods in the traditional ‘Euler characteristic’ (the number of vertices, minus the number of edges, plus the number of triangles, etc.). The neighborhood characteristic can also b...

Priorto the 1991/92 season,Noodsberg usedacustomdesigned PC based system for pan boiling control. This system was abandoned in favour of a new supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) package, calledTurbolink, mainlybecause of a lackofavailablesupportfor theoldsystem. Thenewpackage has provedto be extremelypowerful and its scopeof application has been extended to the provision of an ove...

INTRODUCTION Postoperative wound seroma is common after mastectomy. This complication is associated with significant impact on patient outcomes and healthcare costs. The optimal closure approach for seroma prevention remains unknown but some evidence suggests that quilting suture of the dead space could lower the incidence of seroma. The aim of this trial is to compare seroma formation using qu...

Beginning with the WTO‘s Doha Development Agenda and establishment of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts of trade reforms have become central to the global development agenda. This has been particularly true of agricultural trade reforms due to the importance of grains in the diets of the poor, presence of relatively higher protection in a...

Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs; NaV1.1-NaV1.9) have been proven to be critical in controlling the function of excitable cells, and human genetic evidence shows that aberrant function of these channels causes channelopathies, including epilepsy, arrhythmia, paralytic myotonia, and pain. The effects of peptide toxins, especially those isolated from spider venom, have shed light on the struc...