Renal failure has been being concerned for serval decades. Over the world, more than one million people die annually due to End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) that is the ultimate and the worst stage of kidney disease, in which the functions of patients’ kidneys have been completely lost. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are most common among diffe...

Focusing exclusively on the semantics of the words coherence and contradiction, it looks like they could be related concepts, considering that the more contradictory a couple of elements are, the less coherent they appear to be, and viceversa. Unfortunately, reviewing the concepts of contradiction degrees studied in [1] and [2], and coherence measures examined at length in [5], it is clear that...

Abstract The Unix diff utility that compares lines of text is used pervasively by version control systems. Yet certain changes to a program may be di cult to describe accurately in terms of modi cations to individual lines of code. As a result, observing changes at such a xed granularity may lead to unnecessary con icts between di erent edits. This paper presents a generic representation for de...

T HE industrial sector has long been regarded as the stepchild of marketing in terms of the amount of research effort devoted to its problems. There are, however, indications that the situation may be changing. Research on industriallorganizational buying behavior is growing, and a considerable body of empirical knowledge about processes surrounding the innovation and diffusion of industrial te...

Leptin, the ob gene product, is produced by adipose tissue and is submitted to a complex hormonal and metabolic regulation. Leptin plays a critical role in the balance of body weight. Here we report on secretion and hormonal regulation of leptin by brown adipocytes. Using the recently established T37i cell line, we show that leptin expression and secretion occurred as a function of cell differe...

Agricultural liming materials are used to correct soil acidity and to improve plant growth and microbial functionality. A relatively low-grade agricultural lime was found to contain up to 125 mg kg(-1) arsenic (As), which is above any fertilizing materials code threshold. The color of the milled material is brown due to ample oxide dendrites. Microprobe elemental maps confirmed that these acces...

Teh ultrasound-assisted magnetic stirrer was used as an effective extraction technique for teh evaluation of total phenolic contents (TPC) and antioxidant potential of ten Pakistani brown rice cultivars. For this purpose, ultrasonic (240W frequency 50/60 Hertz) assisted magnetic stirrer coupled with three solvents methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol in pure and aqueous fractions (80:20) were...