Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of canine peripheral airways was performed at various times after hyperventilation, and BAL fluid (BALF) cell and mediator data were used to evaluate two hypotheses: 1) hyperventilation-induced mucosal injury stimulates mediator production, and 2) mucosal damage is correlated with the magnitude of hyperventilation-induced bronchoconstriction. We found that epithelia...

Enabling cryptographically enforced access controls for data hosted in untrusted cloud is attractive for many users and organizations. However, designing efficient cryptographically enforced dynamic access control system in the cloud is still a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose Crypt-DAC, a system that provides practical cryptographic enforcement of dynamic access control. Crypt-DAC ...

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LH-DAC) experimentation has emerged as a leading technique for materials processing at extreme pressures and temperatures. LH-DAC systems are often employed to better characterise the structure properties of in applications ranging from condensed matter physics geophysical research planetary science. This article reviews related laser-based characterisation, fir...

El incremento en el número de pacientes lista espera trasplante renal ha llevado a intentar aumentar posibles donantes incorporando candidatos que anteriormente no se habrían considerado óptimos, incluyendo entre estos los asistolia (DA) y aquellos con criterios «expandidos» (DCE). Los receptores injertos DA controlada (DAc) sufren más función retrasada del injerto, pero presentan una evolución...

In this paper a new 8-bit 50-Msample/s CMOS digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is presented. The circuit employs 9 operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and CMOS transistors as switching circuit. The proposed DAC is simulated using SPICE simulation program with 3μm CMOS technology. Simulation results shows verify good performance of the circuit.

Abstract— In this paper, a generic and simple approach to design Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulators (CT ƩΔMs) based on Finite Impulse Response Digital-to-Analog Converter (FIR DAC) is introduced. The numerical conversion from Continuous-Time to Discrete-Time allows the designer to explore complex modulator architectures and different feedback DAC shapes, without dealing with difficult equat...

The Drosophila signaling factor decapentaplegic (dpp) mediates the effects of hedgehog (hh) in tissue patterning by regulating the expression of tissue-specific genes. In the eye disc, the transcription factors eyeless (ey), eyes absent (eya), sine oculis (so) and dachshund (dac) participate with these signaling molecules in a complex regulatory network that results in the initiation of eye dev...

PURPOSE Recent findings indicating that many genes related to cancer development are silenced by an aberrant DNA methylation suggest that inhibitors of this process may be effective cancer therapeutics. In this study we investigated the efficacy of low-dose 5-aza-2'-deoxycitydine (DAC), a methylation inhibitor, with interleukin (IL) 12, one of the most potent cytokines with antitumor activity. ...