Diabetic foot (DF) syndrome is the most common lower-extremity complication of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes (T2D) (1). DF affects the quality of life of T2D patients and is associated with increased morbidity (2). T2D-related mechanisms induce endothelial dysfunction and adverse effects on vascular biology (3). We have recently shown that measurements of endothelial function and arterial s...

For X a compact abelian group and B an infinite subset of its dual X̂, let CB be the set of all x ∈ X such that 〈φ(x) : φ ∈ B〉 converges to 1. If F is a free filter on X̂, let DF = {CB : B ∈ F}. The sets CB and DF are subgroups of X. CB always has Haar measure 0, while the measure of DF depends on F . We show that there is a filter F such that DF has measure 0 but is not contained in any CB . Thi...

(with DF = 1 for F = P). As explained in [2], essential properties required on the operators DF are ”locality” and ”computability”. At each face F of P, the operator DF should depend only of the translation class modulo Z of the normal cone No(P, F ) to P at a generic point of F (if F is of codimension k, the normal cone is an affine cone of dimension k). In particular if P is an integral polyt...

For a quasidifferentiable function f defined on R 2 , it is proved, in the sense of Demyanov and Rubinov, that the following assertion [∂f (x),∂f (x)]∈Df (x) (∂f (x) + ∂f (x)), [∂f (x),∂f (x)]∈Df (x) (∂f (x) − ∂f (x)) ∈ Df (x) in this paper, where Df (x) denotes the set of all quasidifferentials of f at x. It is shown that this way can be viewed as an approach to determining or choosing a repre...

The nonlocal correlation energy in the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method can be interpreted in terms of a coupling of zero-point energies of characteristic modes of semilocal exchange-correlation (xc) holes. These xc holes reflect the internal functional in the framework of the vdW-DF method. We explore the internal xc hole components, showing that they share properties with thos...

Dengue fever/dengue haemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) is the most important emerging viral disease affecting nearly half of the world’s population. It is estimated that there are between 50 to 100 million cases of DF and about 500 000 cases of DHF which require hospitalization every year. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, over the past 15 years, DF/DHF has become a leading cause of hospitalization a...

OBJECTIVE An Asian dust storm (ADS) contains airborne particles that affect conditions such as asthma, but the mechanism of exacerbation is unclear. The objective of this study was to compare immune adjuvant effects and airway inflammation induced by airborne particles collected on ADS days and the original ADS soil (CJ-1 soil) in asthma model mice. METHODS Airborne particles were collected o...

The objectives of Experiment 1 were to determine the interval from ovulation to deviation, and diameter of the dominant follicle (DF) and largest subordinate follicle (SF) at deviation in Nelore (Bos indicus) heifers by two methods (observed and calculated). Heifers (n = 12) were examined ultrasonographically every 12 h from ovulation (Day 0) to Day 5. The time of deviation and diameter of the ...

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PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to investigate the differences in lower airway inflammatory immune responses, including cellular responses and responses in terms of inflammatory mediators in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and the airway, to rhinovirus (RV) infection on asthma exacerbation by comparing a control and a murine asthma model, with or without RV infection. METHODS BAL...