AST-120 (kremezin; Kureha Chemical, Tokyo, Japan) is an oral spherical carbonaceous adsorbent, which was approved for clinical use in Japanese chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in 1991. It adsorbs indole, the precursor of indoxyl sulfate, in the intestines and prevents indoxyl sulfate production. Indoxyl sulfate, initially identified as a major uremic toxin that causes uremic symptoms, cont...

This paper introduces a large collection of reusable software components that AT&T is making available in an OpenSource form. This software has been widely used around the world and includes

Oberon-2 is an object-oriented language with a class structure based on type extension. The runtime structure of Oberon-2 is described and the low-level mechanisms for dynamic type checking explained. It is shown that the superior type-safety of the language, when used for programming styles based on heterogeneous, pointer-linked data structures, has an entirely negligible cost in runtime perfo...

The diagnostic value of CSF lactate dehydrogenase and aspartate transaminase in cases of brain tumours (except for CSF AST in the benign tumours), congenital hydrocephalus, and brain abscess is established. Tumour cyst fluids show a higher enzymatic activity than does the CSF. The two enzyme estimations do not help in differentiating the supratentorial from the infratentorial tumours. CSF AST i...

This paper studies the problem of sequence-to-sequence alignment, namely establishing correspondences in time and in space between two di erent video sequences of the same dynamic scene. The sequences are recorded by uncalibrated video cameras, which are either stationary or jointly moving, with xed (but unknown) internal parameters and relative inter-camera external parameters. Temporal variat...

The aspartat aminotransferase (AST)/alanin aminotransferase (ALT) (De-Ritis) ratio (AAR) is an easily applicable blood test. An elevated AAR on the one hand has been associated with an increase in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD on the other hand is associated with an increase in cardiovascular disease, all-cause mortality, and diabetes. As the AAR is also elevated in case of mu...

See article by Huang et al. [1] (pages 150 –160) in this cytokines, prostanoids, platelet activators, vasoactive issue. agents and growth factors [8]. Mast cell activation may also have a role to play in the Mast cells are implicated to be involved in the pathoinitiation and progression of heart disease. Histamine has genesis of atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes. been shown to promot...