1Department of Pediatrics, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia, 3Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 4Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, ...

The resolution of conventional surface-plasmon-resonance (SPR) imaging has been limited by the diffraction nature of light. A wide-field extended-resolution optical imaging technique, standing-wave SPR fluorescence (SW-SPRF) microscopy, has been developed. Based on evanescent SPR standing waves, SW-SPRF provides lateral resolution approaching 100 nm and offers the advantages of significant sign...

Abstract Chemical enhanced oil recovery applications continue to face a variety of obstacles, particularly in high saline and high-temperature reservoirs, addition chemical prices. This issue creates difficulty developing optimal recipes that can withstand these extreme circumstances so achieve maximal hydrocarbon at the lowest feasible cost. The usefulness surfactant polymer (SP) mobilizing in...

BACKGROUND H3N2 influenza viruses circulating in humans and European pigs originate from the pandemic A/Hong Kong/68 virus. Because of slower antigenic drift in swine, the antigenic divergence between swine and human viruses has been increasing. It remains unknown to what extent this results in a reduced cross-protection between recent human and swine H3N2 influenza viruses. OBJECTIVES We exa...

Cortical synchronization during NREM sleep, characterized by electroencephalographic slow waves (SW <4 Hz and >75 µV), is strongly related to the number of hours of wakefulness prior to sleep and to the quality of the waking experience. Whether a similar increase in wakefulness length leads to a comparable enhancement in NREM sleep cortical synchronization in young and older subjects is still a...

PURPOSE The degree of difficulty in performing lateral window sinus augmentation may depend on the morphology of the maxillary sinus. The aim of this was to measure the distances between the medial and lateral sinus wall (sinus width [SW]) at different levels and apply those SW values to formulate a new sinus classification. MATERIALS AND METHODS Edentulous sites adjacent to maxillary sinuses...

in this study, the development of structural elements and the relationship between these elements and dikes emplacements investigated by the field surveys and analysis of satellite images of the east dasht-e bayaz fault zone. in this area nnw-sse (t2) and nw-se trending dikes are which follow the fractures of the region. we measured geometric characters of dikes (such as thickness, attitude, di...

BACKGROUND An avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus (SIV) is enzootic in swine populations of Western Europe. The virus is antigenically distinct from H1N1 SIVs in North America that have a classical swine virus-lineage H1 hemagglutinin, as does the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus. However, the significance of this antigenic difference for cross-protection among pigs remains unknown. OBJECTIVES We...

Migratory divides are thought to facilitate behavioral, ecological, and genetic divergence among populations with different migratory routes. However, it is currently contentious how much genetic divergence is needed to maintain distinct migratory behavior across migratory divides. Here we investigate patterns of neutral genetic differentiation among Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) populations wi...