Minerals have an important role to play in growth and productive performance of the animals. The present study aimed to analyze the effect of sheanut cake (SNC) and palm press fiber (PPF) inclusion at different levels in the complete diets of buffalo calves on maintaining mineral balance. The experiment was conducted on 18 graded Murrah buffalo calves in 2 x 2 x 2 Latin Square Design (LSD). Thr...

Pterygopalatine fossa (PPF) is a difficult-to-access anatomic area located behind the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus. Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) often affects this area, and the management of feeding artery to the tumor is important in the surgery. Endoscopic endonasal approach to the PPF without endangering all other nasal structures is useful in the management of JNA. W...

OBJECTIVE Preoperative determination of prostate cancer (PCa) tumor volume (TV) is still a big challenge. We have assessed variables obtained in prostatic biopsy aiming at determining which is the best method to predict the TV in radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens. MATERIALS AND METHODS Biopsy findings of 162 men with PCa submitted to radical prostatectomy were revised. Preoperative charact...

BACKGROUND Changes in synaptic efficacy are believed to mediate the processes of learning and memory formation. Accumulating evidence implicates cell adhesion molecules in activity-dependent synaptic modifications associated with long-term potentiation (LTP); however, there is no precedence for the selective role of this molecule class in long-term depression (LTD). The mechanisms that modulate...

The properties and synthesis procedures of the nanometrically thin pyrolyzed photoresist films (PPF) and the pyrolytic carbon films (PCF) were compared, and a number of similarities were found. Closer examination showed that the optical properties of these films are almost identical; however, the DC resistance of PPF is about three times higher than that of PCF. Moreover, we observed that the w...

Assessing the trustworthiness of sensor data and transmitters of this data is critical for quality assurance. Trust evaluation frameworks utilize data provenance along with the sensed data values to compute the trustworthiness of each data item. However, in a sizeable multi-hop sensor network, provenance information requires a large and variable number of bits in each packet, resulting in high ...

OBJECTIVE The diabetic state induced by streptozotocin injection is known to impair oligodendroglial remyelination in the rat brainstem following intracisternal injection with the gliotoxic agent ethidium bromide (EB). In such experimental model, propentofylline (PPF) recently showed to improve myelin repair, probably due to its neuroprotective, antiinflammatory and antioxidant effects. The aim...

We prove some coincidence and common fixed point theorems for nonself maps (not necessarily continuous) satisfying different contractive conditions on an arbitrary nonempty subset of a metric space. As applications, we demonstrate the existence of: (i) common fixed points of the maps from the set of best approximations, (ii) solutions to nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Our work sets analogues, u...

Developmental changes in release probability (P r) and paired–pulse plasticity at CA3 – CA1 glutamate synapses in hippocampal slices of neonatal rats were examined using field EPSP recordings. Paired–pulse facilitation (PPF) at these synapses was, on average, absent in the 1 st postnatal week but emerged and became successively larger during the 2 nd postnatal week. This developmental increase ...

and Applied Analysis 3 Definition 2.3. Let X, p be a partial metric space. Then, 1 a sequence {xn} in X, p is called a Cauchy sequence if limn,m→∞p xn, xm exists and is finite ; 2 the space X, p is said to be complete if every Cauchy sequence {xn} inX converges, with respect to τp, to a point x ∈ X such that p x, x limn,m→∞ p xn, xm . Lemma 2.4. Let X, p be a partial metric space. a {xn} is a C...