We examined the effects of alkyl-substituted y-butyrolactones (GBLs), and y-thiobutyrolactones (TBLs) on GABA currents in cultured, voltage-clamped rat hippocampal neurons. Convulsant GBLs and TBLs reversibly diminished GABA responses in a concentration-dependent manner. @-Ethyl+methyl GBL (&EMGBL) completely abolished GABA responses at 3 rnh! (I&,, 390 PM), while TBL and @-ethyl-&methyl TBL (&...

In a group signature [19], any group member can sign on behalf of the group while remaining anonymous, but its identity can be traced in an future dispute investigation. Essentially all state-of-theart group signatures implement the tracing mechnism by requiring the signer to escrow its identity to an Open Authority (OA) [2, 14, 4, 25, 5, 7, 24]. We call them Tracing-by-Escrowing (TbE) group si...

The role of airway inflammation in ventilated preterm newborns and the risk factors associated with the development of chronic lung disease are not well understood. Our objective was to analyze the association of the airway inflammatory response in ventilated preterm infants by serial measurements of TNF-alpha and IL-10 in tracheobronchial lavage (TBL) with perinatal factors and lung function m...

Objectives To examine whether introduction of Team-based Learning (TBL) improves student learning resulting in improved performance on final examination questions and decreased failures in an infectious diseases course. Methods To improve mastery of course content, we designed an intervention, which provided weekly TBL exercises in study years 2 and 3 to review concepts presented during didac...

Regular expressions can be used as patterns to extract features from semi-structured and narrative text [8]. For example, in police reports a suspect’s height might be recorded as “{CD} feet {CD} inches tall”, where {CD} is the part of speech tag for a numeric value. The result in [1] shows us that regular expressions could have higher performance than explicit expressions in some applications ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Floral symmetry is a trait of key importance when considering floral diversification because it is thought to play a significant role in plant-pollinator interactions. The CYCLOIDEA/TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 (CYC/TB1)-like genes have been implicated in the development and evolution of floral symmetry in numerous lineages. We thus chose to investigate a possible role for these gene...

Abstract We employ a novel discrete element method (DEM) force formulation to simulate adhesive wear and assess the effects of material loading parameters on properties third-body layer (TBL) formed during sliding motion. The study emphasizes role material’s critical length scale $$d^{*}$$ d <mml:mr...

Introducción: El tumor de Buschke – Lowenstein (TBL) es enfermedad transmisión sexual causada por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH), descrita como una forma intermedia entre un condiloma acuminado y carcinoma células escamosas. Afecta principalmente al área genital anorrectal, posee capacidad transformación maligna alta tasa recurrencia. La cirugía tratamiento primera línea. Caso clínico: Pres...

In this paper we focused on analyzing the sustainability of selected companies and ranked them as per their sustainable growth in last three years. Companies with highest or top ranking was analysed for its dynamic capabilities over years same suggested to other at lower step. The study compare business performance pharmaceutical identify unique suggestions recommendations companies. proposed s...

Aim: This survey study aimed to describe student and faculty experiences perceptions regarding the sudden shift delivery of online team-based learning (TBL) due COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Data such as perception engagement effectiveness TBL, challenges recommendations for improving TBL experience were collected. Results: Eighteen (58.1%) 154 (75.9%) students completed survey. Most did not feel ...