Wireless carriers today are faced with creating more efficient distribution channels, increasing customer satisfaction, while also improving margin and profitability. Industry trends are pushing the sale of handsets further into the retail channel. The cost and effort of provisioning handsets, activating users, and updating handset parameters can be greatly reduced by using over-the-air activat...

Transcellular Cl(-) secretion is, in general, mediated by two steps; (1) the entry step of Cl(-) into the cytosolic space from the basolateral space across the basolateral membrane by Cl(-) transporters, such as Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransporter (NKCC1, an isoform of NKCC), and (2) the releasing step of Cl(-) from the cytosolic space into the luminal (air) space across the apical membrane via Cl(...

Recessive mutations of sulfonylurea receptor 1 (SUR1) and potassium inward rectifier 6.2 (Kir6.2), the two adjacent genes on chromosome 11p that comprise the beta-cell plasma membrane ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) channels, are responsible for the most common form of congenital hyperinsulinism in children. The present study was undertaken to identify the genetic defect in a family with dominantly...

In a polymer membrane fuel cell more than half of the chemical energy of hydrogen is converted to heat during generation of electricity. This causes an increase in the cell temperature. The Cooling field design has a significant role in cell cooling. The cell's performance and stability are reduced due to inappropriate heat dissipation. In this paper, the cooling flow and heat transfer in cooli...

Introduction: It has recently been suggested that the KATP channel subunits Kir6.x and BKCa channels exist in the endoplasmic reticulum of cardiomyocytes and neurons. Our previous studies showed the electrophysiological behavior of cation channels in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) of rat hepatocytes. Therefore, we hypothesized that KATP channels and Ca2+-activated potassium channels m...

The performance of proton-exchange membrane fuel cell cooling system using coolant flow channels enhanced with baffles was numerically investigated. To do this, the maximum temperature of the cooling plate, temperature uniformity and also pressure drop along the flow channels were compared for different cases associated with number of baffles and their dimensions inside the channels. The govern...

The emerging wireless communication technology gives mobile financial services, location-based services by providing users with the capability of accessing data at any time and place. The broadcast problem including the plan design is considered. The data are inserted and numbered at a predefined order into customized size relations. The server fetches the requests and broadcasts the data to th...

Olfactory masking has been used to erase the unpleasant sensation in human cultures for a long period of history. Here, we show a positive correlation between the human masking and the odorant suppression of the transduction current through the cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) and Ca2+-activated Cl- (Cl(Ca)) channels. Channels in the olfactory cilia were activated with the cytoplasmic photolysis o...

Ex situ experiments were conducted to study water droplet dynamics in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) gas channels with different trapezoid channel open angles and GDL materials under controlled air velocities (0.48e7.23 m s 1). High speed videos revealed that the droplets interacted with the channel walls at lower air velocities (0.48e4 m s 1) and led to channel corner filling depen...