In infants with cleft lip and palate, failure to thrive (FTT) condition has largely been attributed to early feeding difficulties. Presurgical Nasoalveolar Molding (PNAM) forms an integral part of treatment modality for cleft infants in such conditions, by providing a myriad of benefits.It balances several aspects of treatment such as growth, aesthetics and function in cleft infants and also pr...

Let F be a nonarchimedean local field, let GL(n) = GL(n, F ) and let ν denote Plancherel measure for GL(n). Let Ω be a component in the Bernstein variety Ω(GL(n)). Then Ω yields its fundamental invariants: the cardinality q of the residue field of F , the sizes m1, . . . ,mt, exponents e1, . . . , et, torsion numbers r1, . . . , rt, formal degrees d1, . . . , dt and the Artin conductors f11, . ...

Abstract Background Acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) catalyzes the final step in triglyceride (TG) synthesis and is highly expressed enterocytes (EC). DGAT1 deficiency (DGAT1D) a rare autosomal recessive protein losing enteropathy (PLE) classified as congenital diarrheal disorder (CDD). Presumably, fat ingestion causes accumulation of substrates within EC causing lipotoxicity-i...

This paper is concerned with the acoustical analysis on sub-harmonic of glottal source in Mandarin tones. The methods used in this research are: 1) extracting glottal source of tones by inverse filtering; 2) analyzing subharmonic and spectrum tilt by FTT; 3) simulating the double peak pulse by 4 functions and describing the natures of them in both time and frequency domains. There are 3 conclus...

The Controller Area Network has a maximum transmission rate of 1 Mbitk and its fixed priorities-based medium access control limits the maximum bus utilisation when timeliness guarantees are required. An implementation of earliest deadline first (EDF) message scheduling on CAN, based on the F’IT CAN protocol, is presented, which allows higher utilisation factors with timeliness guarantees. The a...

Uniaxial trackers are widely employed as the frame for solar photovoltaic (PV) panel installation. However, when used in sloping terrain scenarios such mountain and hill regions, it is essential to apply a solar-tracking strategy with factors considered, eliminate shading effects between arrays reduce electricity production loss due changes. Based on uniaxial tracker of PV farm located Ningxia,...