Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders involving the abnormal folding of a native cellular protein, named PrP(C), to a malconformed aggregation-prone state, enriched in beta sheet secondary structure, denoted PrP(Sc). Recently, autophagy has garnered considerable attention as a cellular process with the potential to counteract neurodegenerative diseases of protein aggregation such...

lidocaine (lc) is a local anesthetic agent. the aim of this study was to prolong the anesthetic effect of this drug in the oral cavity in the treatment of oral mucositis. films of lc were prepared with three different molecular weights (mw) of chitosan in three different concentrations (1-3%) and were then cross-linked by solvent casting evaporation method with tripolyphosphate penta sodium sal...

The biogeochemistry of dissolved selenium (Se) was investigated over 3 years (2015–2017) in the subtropical, warm monomictic and meso-eutrophic Lake Kinneret (Sea Galilee, Israel). We monitored seasonal variation vertical distribution total Se (T.Se), inorganic oxyanions (Se(IV) & Se(VI)), reduced fraction (Red.Se), organic (Org.Se) volatile compounds. T.Se varied between ~ 100 160 ng L−1 with ...

Introduction: In recent years, the use of neutrons has increased in various fields such as medicine and industry. One of the important applications of neutrons is in medical research. Neutrons have greater linear energy transfer than gamma rays and are considered more dangerous radiation. Hence, the detection and determination of neutron dose is a very important and vital issu...

High-temperature conventional superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials under high pressure has been reportedly found twelve different compounds recent years. However, the experimental evidence on which these claims are based recently called into question. Here we discuss measurement of trapped magnetic flux, that should establish definitively indeed high-temperature superconductors. Its abs...

Stator flux oriented vector control of induction motor (IM) drives for speed sensorless control has several advantages. But the application of a pure integrator for the flux estimation is difficult due to the presence of measurement noise and dc offset. To overcome these problems, some have used a programmable cascaded low pass filter (PCLPF). In this paper, it is shown that some problems still...

Cogging torque reduction of axial flux permanent magnet brushless dc (PMBLDC) motor is an important issue which demands attention of machine designers during design process. This paper presents magnet notching technique to reduce cogging torque of axial flux PMBLDC motor designed for electric vehicle application. Reference axial flux PMBLDC motor of 250 W, 150 rpm is designed with 48 stator slo...

the present work studied the application of membrane bioreactor (mbr) for tapioca wastewater processing that contained chemical oxygen demand (cod) ranging from 4000-9000 mg/l. a preliminary study was initially conducted in order to evaluate membrane performance with respect to its flux with mlss concentration ranging from 4,500 to 10,500 mg/l. it was clear that fouling was observed during the ...

background several studies have been carried out to evaluate the effects of dialysis on o2 saturation. while the dialysis procedure may lead to hypoxia under different circumstances, there are few studies available on the effects of membrane type on o2 saturation in these patients. objectives this study was to appraise the effects of high and low flux membrane on pulse oxymetery in dialysis pat...