The objective of the study was to determine the value of metabolic indicators characterising the energy and acid-base metabolism of dairy cows for predicting the risk of retained placenta (RP). The connection between RP and different factors analysed, and the effect of RP on the development of puerperal metritis (PM) as well as on reproduction and milk production was studied. A total of 105 Hol...

Purpose of the study was to compare Rarebit Perimetry (RP) with Standard Automatic Perimetry (SAP) in patients with ischemic retrochiasmal lesions. Seventeen patients with homonymous hemianopia underwent SAP and RP. Correlation between the two techniques was evaluated, congruent defects were quantified in the spared hemifield and residual vision areas were investigated in the blind hemifield. A...

BACKGROUND Between the years 1993 and 2003, more than 140,000 men underwent radical prostatectomy (RP), thus making RP one of the most common treatment options for localized prostate cancer in the United States. DISCUSSION Localized prostate cancer treated by RP is one of the more challenging procedures performed by urologic surgeons. Studies suggest a definite learning curve in performing th...

Although subjects have little or no awareness of masked primes, Bodner and Masson (2001) found that priming of lexical decisions is often enhanced when masked repetition primes occur on a high proportion of trials. We used baseline prime conditions to specify the locus of this repetition proportion (RP) effect. In Experiments 1A and 1B, a .8-RP group showed more priming than did a .2-RP group, ...

Rapid prototyping (RP) is an automated manufacturing process that quickly builds physical models from CAD files of 3D prototypes. With the high advanced network technologies, many different software and hardware systems can be integrated as a distributed platform to provide more services, solve more complicated problems and achieve better performance. The main objective of this paper is to deve...

Rapid Prototyping (RP) can be defined as a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. What is commonly considered to be the first RP technique, Stereolithography, was developed by 3D Systems of Valencia, USA. The company was founded in 1986, and since then, a number of different RP techniques have b...

PURPOSE To establish effective antitumor immunotherapy for esophageal cancer, we tried to identify an useful target antigen of esophageal cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We did cDNA microarray analysis to find a novel candidate antigen, proliferation potential-related protein (PP-RP). We examined cytotoxicity against tumor cells in vitro and in vivo of CTLs specific to PP-RP established from esop...

The main character of the present note is the Schwarzian derivative, and we start with a brief reminder of its definition and main properties. Let f : RP → RP be a projective line diffeomorphism. For every point x ∈ RP there exists a unique projective transformation gx : RP 1 → RP whose 2-jet at x coincides with that of f . The Schwarzian derivative S(f) measures the deviation of the 3-jet jf f...

The central protease of eukaryotes, the 26S proteasome, has a 20S proteolytic core particle (CP) and an attached 19S regulatory particle (RP). The RP is further subdivided into lid and base subcomplexes. Little is known about RP assembly. Here, we show that four conserved assembly factors govern biogenesis of the yeast RP base. Nas2 forms a complex with the Rpt4 and Rpt5 ATPases and enhances 26...

BACKGROUND The risk factors for radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are unclear. Mean lung dose (MLD) and percentage of irradiated lung volume are common predictors of RP, but the most accurate dosimetric parameter has not been established. We hypothesized that the total lung volume irradiated without emphysema would influence the onset of RP...