Objective: In patients with diabetes mellitus, increased rate of lipoprotein oxidation and oxidative stress have important role in diabetic angiopathy, including nephropathy. We designed a study for comparing the level of Ox-LDL in diabetic patients with Macro-albuminuria, Micro-albuminuria, versus Normo-albuminuric. Materials and Methods: One hundred and thirty five patients with type 2 dia...

This paper studies the interaction between monetary and macro-prudential policies in a simple model with both nominal and financial frictions. The nominal friction gives rise to a conventional monetary policy objective emphasized in the New Keynesian literature. The financial friction, in the form of an occasionally binding collateral constraint, gives rise to a financial stability objective. ...

Poliomyelitis, an acute viral infectious disease caused by poliovirus, still remains a public health problem in developing countries. Despite the global effort to eradicate polio, continuing the polio immunization with a potent and safe vaccine is essential. For accurate vaccine evaluation, three types of cell lines including Hela, Hep2C and Vero were evaluated and compared using two methods of...

Saqqara pyramid lies to the south west of Cairo near the epicenter of Cairo earthquake that took place on 12 October 1992. The Pyramid is severely damaged by the earthquake with epicenter at about 14 km away. As a result numerous efforts are exerted to restore the pyramid and to prevent it from total collapse. The current work is motivated by such efforts with focus on the potential of using th...

background: to differentiate sarcocystis macro-cyst-forming species in slaughtered sheep in babol area, mazandaran province, sequence analysis of 18s rrna gene was performed. methods: overall, 150 slaughtered sheep were examined macroscopically in slaughterhouse, babol and intra-abdominal and diaphragm muscles tissues infected with macro-cyst of sarcocystis spp. were collected in 2013. one macr...

J. Eeon. Entomol. 73: 8-11 (1980) Postharvest samples of cull tubers and volunteer plants in commercial potato fields provided a large food resource for Phthorimaea opercu/ella (Zeller) during noncropping periods. In commercial, spring-planted fields sampled in 1977 and 1978, 27.6 and 74.3 surface culls/ 100 m2 and 1092.9 and 1670.0 subsurface culls/100 m2, respectively, were recovered 2 months...

The Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM, V 3.25) was used to simulate the effect of swine manure applications on nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) concentrations in subsurface drain water from continuous corn for Iowa soils. Measured values of subsurface drain flow, NO3-N concentrations in drainage water, and residual NO3-N in the soil profile from three chisel plow plots were available for the growing...

Florida’s coastal environment is especially vulnerable to nonpoint source pollution for two reasons. One, the extent of the karst nature of the platform allows great interaction between ground and surface waters. Second, the low gradient of the land results in high water tables. Both of these factors result in poor attenuation of contaminants in the subsurface, and the release of nutrients and ...

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Pletser et al. performed a seismic-refraction survey on Devon Island with the goal of assessing the feasibility of astronauts carrying out such operations on Mars to detect subsurface water. We demonstrate that the seismic analysis is fundamentally flawed. The survey performed in this test will likely bear little resemblance to future crewed geophysical surface operations, and better methods ex...