To gain insight into the physiological role of a kidney-specific chloride channel, CLC-K2, the exact intrarenal localization was determined by in situ hybridization. In contrast to the inner medullary localization of CLC-K1, the signal of CLC-K2 in our in situ hybridization study was highly evident in the superficial cortex, moderate in the outer medulla, and absent in the inner medulla. To ide...

“K2-spice” is a term representing a new group of designer drugs that contain synthetic cannabinoids, which are incorporated into herbal products. These synthetic cannabinoids bind the same receptors as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana, but with greater affinity. Unfortunately, people that intentionally abuse K2-spice experience clinical signs that are more adverse ...

Measuring personality is a complex task. Besides difficult content-based problems there are some psychometric issues to be met, i. e. socially desirable answering tendencies. The present study uses simulation-based objective personality measurement to meet these psychometric issues. Computer-based “guard” and “stray” scenars are developed and tested in two samples of Special Forces applicants r...

Introduction Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin essential for the functioning of several proteins involved in blood clotting.1 Discovered in 1929 by Danish scientist Henrik Dam, the vitamin received the letter “K” because the initial discoveries were reported in a German journal in which the substance was designated as “Koagulationsvitamin.” Research during the last 30 years has resulted in gre...

This paper may be viewed as a corrigendum as well as an extension of the paper by (Czumaj et al., Theoret. Comput. Sci. 262 (1–2), (2001) 569–582) where they deal with the variable length scheduling problem (VLSP) with parameters k1; k2, denoted VLSP(k1; k2). In the current paper, we >rst discuss an error in the analysis of one of the approximation algorithms described in (Czumaj et al., Theore...

many constants and coefficient effect on the modeling results. in many cases, it is possible these constants and coefficients differ from their real values in the environment, but the modeling results adapted with real boundary conditions due to other factors adjustment during modeling. uncertainty analysis is a tool for assessing the effect of uncertainty of various factors on the modeling res...

relative resistance of 43 iranian as well as introduced apple cultivars to blue mold (penicillium expansum) was studied within years 2010-2011. the fruit physicochemical traits were also evaluated as measures of potential resistance to decay. local p. expansum strains were isolated from decayed apple fruits and the most aggressive isolate (5,000 spores ml-1) used as inoculum. fruits were wound-...

We prove the inequality E[(X/μ)k]≤(k/μlog(1+k/μ))k≤exp(k2/(2μ)) for sub-Poissonian random variables X, such as Binomially or Poisson distributed variables, with mean μ. The asymptotic behaviour E[(X/μ)k]=1+O(k2/μ) matches a lower bound of 1+Ω(k2/μ) small k2/μ. This improves over previous uniform raw moment bounds by factor exponential in k.

We perform a homogeneous search for and analysis of optical occultations phase variations the most favorable ultra-short-period (USP) ($P<1$~d) sub-Neptunes ($R_{p}<4 R_{\oplus}$) observed by $\textit{Kepler}$ K2, with aim better understanding their nature. first selected 16 K2 USP sub-Neptunes, based on expected occultation signal. filtered out stellar variability in light curves, using slidin...