The organization and quantity of myosin irrigation into myosin-free “ghost” fibers were compared between normal and PSE myosin. Considerable amounts of myosin were incorporated into the “ghost” fibers for both normal and PSE myosin. Elec t ron microscopic s tudy showed tha t the myosin f i laments were formed a l l over the thin filaments after the irrigation. However, there was almost no diffe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To describe the epidemiology and associations of poststroke epilepsy (PSE) because there is limited evidence to inform clinicians and guide future research. METHODS Data were collected from the population-based South London Stroke Register of first strokes in a multiethnic inner-city population with a maximum follow-up of 12 years. Self-completed forms and interviews no...

OBJECTIVE Pegylated-interferon/ribavirin (peg-IFN/RBV) therapy with a protease inhibitor is the standard therapy for genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C. Despite improving treatment outcomes, patients with thrombocytopenia are often difficult to treat because interferon commonly exacerbates thrombocytopenia. In this study, partial splenic embolization (PSE) was performed in patients with hypersplen...

Picture-story exercise (PSE) measures of implicit motives provide objective, stable, and valid scores. However, PSE scores are also characterized by substantial variability from one picture to the next, resulting in low internal consistency estimates. We argue that this variability is a critical source of the PSE’s validity because it reveals stable if-then contingencies between the situational...

Utilizing a screening method designed for the identification of genes involved with enhanced protein secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae we identified a gene, which we named PSE-1 (Protein Secretion Enhancer). Overexpression of PSE-1 in a multi-copy plasmid, as shown by Northern hybridization, gave a fourfold enhancement in total protein secretion. The repertoire of proteins that are found to...

The aim of this work was to study the sarcomeric organization of muscles with PSE-like zones and normal muscle (control), focusing on the SHG signal pattern of myosin (single or double band). Second harmonic generation microscopy has been applied on pork Semimembranosus samples fixed at 24 hours post mortem. Electronic microscopy was applied on the same samples to improve SHG images interpretat...

Chronic severe liver disease (i.e., cirrhosis) is a common complication of chronic alcohol abuse. Cirrhosis can cause brain dysfunction, most notably the disorder portal­systemic encephalopathy (PSE), which is characterized by cognitive and motor dysfunction and, eventually, by hepatic coma. Restoration of normal liver function—for example, through liver transplantation—can reverse some of the ...

Unanticipated software adaptations are becoming increasingly important in the domain of computer networks. Due to the performance and availability requirements of computer networks, these adaptations need to be enforced at runtime (by means of hot-swapping). However for dynamic changes to yield valid systems, a safe state for reconfiguration of the involved software modules must be enforced. Th...

Cocoa and coffee are the most important crops in Cote d'Ivoire. Until recently, the difference between world and administered producer prices provided an important source of government revenue. As a result of a continued decline of world prices of both crops, however, the Ivoirien government was forced to cut producer prices in half. Because 40 percent of Ivoirien households grow either cocoa o...

This paper presents the software architecture and implementation of the problem solving environment (PSE) IIELLPACK for modeling physical objects described by partial differenlial equations (FDEs). The scope of this PSE is broad as IIELLPACK incorporates many PDE solving systems and some of these, in (urn, include several specific PDE solving melhods. Its coverage for 1-0, 2·0 and 3-D elliptic ...