Intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of purified recombinant human tumour necrosis factor ol (TNFol, 4-8#g) in conscious rats, produced increases in colonic temperature (1.0~ and resting oxygen consumption (VO 2, 14%) which were maximal after 80-90 minutes. Pretreatment with propranolol (10 mg/kg s.c.) significantly inhibited the rise in VOa, and prevented the increase in body temperature. I...

The current study was an attempt to investigate the relationship among L2 Motivational Self-System, Reading Comprehension Ability, and Gender of Iranian EFL Learners. 70 participants of both male and female at intermediate level at Shokooh Institute in Kashmar-Iran were randomly selected. The instruments of the study were a L2 motivational self-system questionnaire by Yan(2011), and a reading c...

A new fully differential (FD) low input impedance CMOS current buffer with low voltage, and low power operation is presented. The low input impedance is achieved by remarkable reduction of the input node voltage swing using a novel double feedback scheme. Some advantages of the proposed double feedback scheme over the conventional (either positive or negative) feedback techniques are: lower inp...

This paper is primarily intended as an introduction for mathematicians to some of the rich algebraic combinatorics arising in for instance conformal field theory (CFT). It is essentially self-contained, apart from some of the background motivation (Section I) and examples (Section III) which are included to give the reader a sense of the context. Detailed proofs will appear elsewhere. The theor...

This paper proposes a new noninvasive measurement method for tracking the tendency of mean arterial pressure (MAP) in the radial artery. The designed system consists of a tonometer, a microsyringe device, and a model-based fuzzy logic controller. The modified flexible diaphragm tonometer is to detect the continuous blood pressure waveform and vessel volume pulse. A precise mathematical model de...

Group dynamic assessment (G-DA) grounded in Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory (SCT) is believed to have the potential to provide a context for capturing a group of learners’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) (Poehner & Lantolf, 2010; Shabani, 2010). The present study aims at testing the applicability of G-DA in identifying the mediational strategies offered by a mediator during his G-DA interac...

The fate of HIV-infected cells after reversal of proviral latency is not well characterized. Simonetti, et al. recently showed that CD4+ T-cells containing intact proviruses can clonally expand in vivo and produce low-level infectious viremia. We hypothesized that reversal of HIV latency by activation of CD4+ T-cells can lead to the expansion of a subset of virus-producing cells rather than the...

Microelectrode recordings in the rostral (n. reticularis) and lateral (ventralis lateralis) human thalamus were carried out in locally anaesthetized diskinetic patients during stereotaxic operations. Their responses to voluntary motor tasks prompted by imperative verbal stimuli were tested. Spontaneous and evoked unit activities were studied using computer processing techniques. In the n. retic...