We study the extensibility of piecewise polynomial functions defined on closed subsets of R2 to all of R2. The compact subsets of R2 on which every piecewise polynomial function is extensible to R2 can be characterized in terms of local quasi-convexity if they are definable in an o-minimal expansion of R. Even the noncompact closed definable subsets can be characterized if semialgebraic functio...

Measurements of hepatic iron concentration (HIC) are important predictors of transfusional iron burden and long-term outcome in patients with transfusiondependent anemias. The goal of this work was to develop a readily available, noninvasive method for clinical HIC measurement. The relaxation rates R2 (1/T2) and R2* (1/T2*) measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have different advantages ...

R2 is a non-long-terminal-repeat (LTR) retrotransposon that inserts specifically into 28S rDNA. R2 has been identified in many species of arthropods and three species of chordates. R2 may be even more widely distributed in animals, and its origin may be traceable to early animal evolution. In this study, we identified R2 elements in medaka fish, White Cloud Mountain minnow, Reeves' turtle, hagf...

BACKGROUND There is an ongoing debate as to whether early diabetic nephropathy in Type 2 diabetes mellitus may be attributed to the glomerulus or to the proximal tubule. Urinary excretion of nephrin and vascular endothelial growth factor may increase even in the normoalbuminuria stage. In the course of diabetic nephropathy, the proximal tubule may be involved in the uptake of urinary nephrin an...

Let M be a compact, orientable, irreducible, ∂-irreducible, anannular 3manifold with one component T of ∂M a torus. A slope r on T is a T isotopy class of essential, unoriented, simple closed curves on T , and the distance between two slopes r1 and r2, denoted by 4(r1, r2), is the minimal geometric intersection number among all the curves representing the slopes. For a slope r on T , we denote ...

ID: 6000 Title: MRI Relaxometry BMD Measurements using Conventional Phase Symmetrized Rapid Increased Flip Spin Echo and Standard Gradient Echo and its correlation with DXA Purpose: Recently, several special MRI protocols have been developed for BMD measurements for deriving R2(=1/T2), R2*(=1/T2*) and R2'(=R2*-R2) applied in several cross sectional studies. But, due to high slew rate gradients ...

The self-assembly in solution and adsorption at the air-water interface, measured by small-angle neutron scattering, SANS, and neutron reflectivity, NR, of the monorhamnose and dirhamnose rhamnolipids (R1, R2) and their mixtures, are discussed. The production of the deuterium-labeled rhamnolipids (required for the NR studies) from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa culture and their separation into the p...

In the spinal cord injury (SCI) population, a relationship between adiposity and leg bone has not been reported, nor one between serum estradiol and leg bone mass. A cross-sectional, comparative study of 10 male pairs of monozygotic twins discordant for SCI was performed. Relationships were determined among bone mineral density (BMD), bone mineral content (BMC), lean mass, fat mass, and serum s...