BACKGROUND Stress ulcers are acute superficial inflammatory lesions of the gastric mucosa induced when an individual is subjected to unusually high physiologic demands. In recent years, use of acid suppression therapy (AST) for stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) in inpatient settings other than intensive care has become increasingly common, leading to increased drug cost and an avoidable increased ...

The development of high-quality fluoride-ion transporting electrolytes is a crucial demand for fluoride shuttle batteries (FSBs). However, the uncontrolled chemical and electrochemical activities ions narrow available potential window, hindering high-voltage FSB cells. We present method upgrading recently developed lactone-based liquid by complexation F – with Li + Mg 2+ ions. In resultant /F h...

The sup-11 1 locus of C. elegans was defined by rare dominant suppressors of unc-93(e1500) III, a mutation that affects muscle structure. All ten of these dominant suppressors have a recessive "scrawny" phenotype. Two additional classes of sup-11 alleles were identified. One class, null alleles, was obtained by reversion of the dominant suppressor activity. These null alleles are recessive embr...

Oxygen radicals have been widely implicated in neoplastic transformation; however, little is known regarding their mode of action. In an attempt to delineate potential mechanisms of action, an analysis of superoxide effects on cell growth was studied in normal and two nontumorigenic, immortal cell lines derived from normal Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) fibroblasts. The two immortal cell lines dif...

We present a technique for the coherence transfer of laser light through a fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbation via the fiber link is compensated by remote users. When compensating the fiber noise by remote users, the time base at the remote site independent from that at the local site does not destroy the performance of the fiber output light. Using t...

In this paper, we present a digital system called (SP/sup 2/INN) for simulating very large-scale spiking neural networks (VLSNNs) comprising, e.g., 1000000 neurons with several million connections in total. SP/sup 2/INN makes it possible to simulate VLSNN with features such as synaptic short term plasticity, long term plasticity as well as configurable connections. For such VLSNN the computatio...

A conspicuous correlate of the developmental transformation of axonal growth cones to synaptic terminals is a marked increase in synthesis and axonal transport of a methionine-rich, acidic polypeptide of approximately 25 kDa. This polypeptide, designated "super protein" (SuP), is the most prominent species among methionine-labeled proteins conveyed by rapid axonal transport in mature CNS and PN...

We present a semi-classical study of the effects of the Lorentz force on electrons during high harmonic generation in the soft and hard X-ray regions driven by near- and mid-infrared lasers with wavelengths from 0.8 to 20 μm, and at intensities below 1015 W/cm2. The transverse extent of the longitudinal Lorentz drift is compared for both Gaussian focus and waveguide geomet...