BACKGROUND During 2007 and 2008 it is likely that millions of patients in the US received heparin contaminated (CH) with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, which was associated with anaphylactoid reactions. We tested the hypothesis that CH was associated with serious morbidity, mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) stay and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia following adult cardiac surgery. METHO...

Agonist-induced Ca(2+) entry into the pulmonary endothelium depends on activation of both store-operated Ca(2+) (SOC) entry and receptor-operated Ca(2+) (ROC) entry. We previously reported that pulmonary endothelial cell SOC entry and ROC entry are reduced in chronic hypoxia (CH)-induced pulmonary hypertension. We hypothesized that diminished endothelial Ca(2+) entry following CH is due to dera...

PURPOSE To isolate and characterize cholesteryl ester-containing, lipoprotein-like particles (LLPs) from normal aged human Bruch's membrane (BrM)/choroid (Ch). METHODS From BrM/Ch of 20 eyes of 10 donors aged >60 years, LLPs were released by high-salt buffer, fractionated by density gradient ultracentrifugation, and characterized by determining cholesterol, triglyceride, and phospholipid conc...

In one-dimensional case, it is shown that the basic principles of quantum mechanics are properties of the set of intermediate cardinal-ity. The concept of discrete space is not a unique alternative of the continuous space. Since discrete space is a countable set, there is an intermediate possibility connected with the continuum problem: space may be neither continuous nor discrete. The commonly...

The expected utility hypothesis is one of the foundations of classical approaches to economics and decision theory and Savage’s Sure-Thing Principle is a fundamental element of it. It has been put forward that real-life situations exist, illustrated by the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes, in which the Sure-Thing Principle is violated, and where also the expected utility hypothesis does not hold. ...

In two recent papers [9, 10] we answered a question raised in the book by Eklof and Mekler [7, p. 455, Problem 12] under the set theoretical hypothesis of ♦א1 which holds in many models of set theory, respectively of the special continuum hypothesis (CH). The objects are reflexive modules over countable principal ideal domains R, which are not fields. Following H. Bass [1] an R-module G is refl...

It is shown that Feynman's formulation of quantum mechanics can be reproduced as a description of the set of intermediate cardinality. Properties of the set follow directly from the independence of the continuum hypothesis. The concept of discrete space is always regarded as a unique alternative to continuous space. Nevertheless, there is one more possibility originated from the continuum probl...

It is shown that the independence of the continuum hypothesis points to the unique definite status of the set of intermediate cardinality: the intermediate set exists only as a subset of continuum. This latent status is a consequence of duality of the members of the set. Due to the structural inhomogeneity of the intermediate set, its complete description falls into several “sections” (theories...

background primary congenital hypothyroidism (ch) is the most common treatable cause of mental retardation and can be classified into permanent and transient types. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of permanent and transient congenital hypothyroidism (ch) in hamadan, west province of iran. methods the study population included all cases with primary congenital hypothyro...