Daily and seasonal variations in physiological characteristics of mammals can be considered adaptations to temporal habitat variables. Across different ecosystems, physiological adjustments are expected to be sensitive to different environmental signals such as changes in photoperiod, temperature or water and food availability; the relative importance of a particular signal being dependent on t...

We use momentum correlations as physical observables in B → K∗l+l− decays with K polarized to study the long distance contributions. We show that these observables are sensitive to the scenarios of the long distance parametrizations. We find that the T-odd observable is directly related to the nonfactorizable effect in the standard model. PACS 13.20.He, 11.30.Er, 12.40.-y Typeset using REVTEX 1...

pas t twenty y e a r s or so. A l m o s t a l l these changes have occurred u n d e r the heading of "Chi ld Protection", a quite distinctive a n d identifiable w a y of doing chi ld welfare work w h i c h comes complete w i t h a n ideology of childhood, a set of professional procedures a n d practices based on beliefs about a phenomenon ent i t l ed "child abuse" a n d a n e w social w o r k ...

BACKGROUND.: We have shown that high-dose intravenous immune globulin (IVIG; 2 g/kg x2 doses)+rituximab (1 g x2 doses) was effective in lowering anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies and improving rates of transplantation. The aim of this report was to evaluate the efficacy of IVIG+rituximab on reduction of anti-HLA antibodies to a level that was permissive for living donor (LD) or dece...

``A na rch ic hand’ ’ is the te rm by w hich w e propo se to iden tify com p lex goa ldirec ted m ovem en ts o f a hand , w h ich a re pe rfo rm ed aga ins t the patien t’ s w ill, and that canno t b e volun tar ily inh ib ited . T h is phenom enon shou ld be d ifferen tia ted from the fee ling o f nonbelong ing o f a hand, know n in the lite ra ture since the repo rt of B rion and Jed inak (19...

The combined effects of electrical stimulation and carcass holding temperature were evaluated on some biochemical and quality characteristics of intact and hot-boned ovine muscles. Twenty-four lamb sides were randomly assigned to 4 treatments. Electrical stimulation was performed within 15 minutes postmortem (350 V with 10 Hz) for 4 minutes. Electrically stimulated and slowly chilled (5 hr at 1...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of tooth displacement and vibration on frictional force and stickslip phenomenon (SSP) when conventional brackets were used with a levelling/alignment wire. Materials and Methods: The samples consisted of six groups (n = 10 per group) with combinations of tooth displacement (2 mm lingual displacement [LD], 2 mm gingival displacement [GD], and no displacement [...

INTRODUCTION One of the most common complications of parenteral nutrition (PN) is liver dysfunction (LD). Therapeutic approaches for LD include, among others, administering cyclic parenteral nutrition (cPN), allowing some hours for metabolic rest. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cPN in treating PN-associated LD. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective observationa...

Purpose: Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) possesses high tendency to disseminate. However, SCLC patients with paraneoplastic syndromemediated by immunity against onconeural antigens remain in limited-stage disease (LD) without distant metastases. Cumulative evidence regulates that a balance between immune and regulatory T (Treg) cells determines the magnitude of immune responses to not only self-a...