Background The effect of addictive substances on brain’s utilizing mechanisms of glucose for neuronal functions are poorly understood. To identify novel neurobiological mechanisms of addiction (precisely on brain glucose metabolism), we developed a model that incorporates the b-cell and the fishbone models of glucose metabolism and examined the role of various psychostimulants (alcohol, cocaine...

Unit-load warehouses store and retrieve unit-loads, typically pallets. When storage and retrieval operations are not coordinated, travel is from a pickup and deposit (P&D) point to a pallet location and back again. In some facilities, workers interleave storage and retrieval operations to form a dual-command cycle. Two new aisle designs proposed by Gue and Meller (2006) use diagonal aisles to r...

BACKGROUND Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies is common in clinical practice. While perforation of the ileum and jejunum due to the ingested foreign body is common, duodenal perforation is rare. In this report, our experience with this rare entity is shared. CASE REPORT Here we present a 31-year-old patient with gastrointestinal tract perforation at the second part of the duodenum due to ...

We investigate the effect of assigning the most-active items to the best locations in unitload warehouses with non-traditional aisles. Specifically, we report the performance of flying-V and fishbone designs when products exhibit different velocity profiles. We consider both singleand dual-command operations in a warehouse where receiving and shipping are located at the midpoint of one side of ...

RATIONALE Ingestion of a fishbone is a common cause of esophageal injury, but spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a rare condition due to the esophageal penetration by a swallowed fishbone. Prompt diagnosis can be seldom made owing to incomplete patient history taking and difficulties in imaging evidence identification. PATIENT CONCERNS We describe the case of a 62-year-old woman who was stuck i...

Strong burst of the internal kink mode has been observed during ECRH on the HL-2A. It has been experimentally identified that the energetic electrons, which deviate from Maxwell velocity distribution, excite the mode, which was so called electron fishbone (e-fishbone). The energy distribution of the electrons is indirectly measured by a hard X-ray detector (CdTe) with the pulse height analysis ...

Nile tilapia (Oreochormis niloticus) fishbone is a fish part with unknown composition. After elaboration of flour fishbone of tilapia it was analysede. The results in 100 g of flour were: moisture (14.2%), protein (40.8%), total lipids (25.3%), and ash (18.3%), and mineral (in 100 g) was 2715.9 mg (calcium), 1.3 mg (iron), and 1132.7 mg (phosphorus). A total of 22 fatty acids were detected in f...

The fishbone-like internal kink instability driven by supra-thermal electrons generated by lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) is of strong interest for the burning plasma research, as the trapped particle averaged bounce characterising the interaction of trapped alpha particles with low frequency magnetohydrodinamic (MHD) modes in burning plasmas depends on energy, not on mass. The charged fusio...