Nitroxyl anion (HNONO(-)), the one-electron reduced form of nitric oxide (NO), induces positive cardiac inotropy and selective venodilation in the normal in vivo circulation. Here we tested whether HNO/NO(-) augments systolic and diastolic function of failing hearts, and whether contrary to NO/nitrates such modulation enhances rather than blunts beta-adrenergic stimulation and is accompanied by...

Images are rich information carriers and (such as medical images) are normally contaminated by additive and substitutive noise which makes the extraction of features (and clinical data analysis) difficult. Hence to enhance the image quality prior to post processing, image pre-processing operations such as de-noising with linear and non-linear filters have been applied traditionally. Recently no...

The use of geomembrane plastic in salt production has been effectively used since 2012. Geomembrane can increase the growth by almost 100%. is a relatively thin, interconnected polymer sheet. repeatedly for approximately two years and exposed to sunlight. This research was conducted determine traces components dried sun using drying mat. UV-Visible detect presence functional groups FTIR spectro...

Images are rich information carriers and (such as medical images) are normally contaminated by additive and substitutive noise which makes the extraction of features (and clinical data analysis) difficult. Hence to enhance the image quality prior to post processing, image pre-processing operations such as de-noising with linear and non-linear filters have been applied traditionally. Recently no...

Images are rich information carriers and (such as medical images) are normally contaminated by additive and substitutive noise which makes the extraction of features (and clinical data analysis) difficult. Hence to enhance the image quality prior to post processing, image pre-processing operations such as de-noising with linear and non-linear filters have been applied traditionally. Recently no...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate spatial effects of variation and social determinants of salt intake in Britain. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS 2105 white male and female participants, aged 19-64 years, from the British National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2000-2001. PRIMARY OUTCOMES Participants' sodium intake measured both with a 7-day dietary record and a 24-h...

Climate change and other anthropogenic stressors are converging on coastal ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how these stressors interact to affect ecosystem structure and function has immediate implications for coastal planning, however few studies quantify stressor interactions. We examined past and potential future interactions between two leading stressors on New England salt marshes: sea...

The rate of regeneration of reduced RNase by glutathione was examined in the presence of several added substances: substrate, phospholipid, other proteins, bacterial ribosomes, and neutral salts. Of these, only neutral salts showed substantial effects. K2HOP4 and (NH4)2SO4 strongly accelerated regeneration, the alkali chlorides showed moderate acceleration or inhibition, while LiBr and KSCN str...

The effects of dissolved salts (NaCI, KCI, MgCl,, CaCI,, Na,SO,, MgSO,, and their mixtures) on oxygen and hydrogen isotope partitioning between brines and coexisting phases (vapor and calcite) were experimentally determined at 50-350 C and 300 C, respectively. In liquid-vapor equilibration experiments, for all of the salts studied, the hydrogen isotope fractionation factors between the salt sol...

Visual information transmitted in the form of digital images is becoming a major method of communication in the modern age, but the image obtained after transmission is often corrupted with noise. The received image needs processing before it can be used in applications. Image noise removal involves the manipulation of the image data to produce a visually high quality image. This paper reviews ...