We present a refined gravitational lens model of the four-image lens system B1608+656 based on new and improved observational constraints: (i) the three independent time-delays and flux-ratios from Very Large Array (VLA) observations, (ii) the radio-image positions from Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) observations, (iii) the shape of the deconvolved Einstein Ring from optical and infrared Hubb...

Sheets of muscle fibres dissected from surface portions of frog ileofibularis and semitendinosus muscles were soaked in solutions with elevated K and Cl concentrations. The KCl-loaded muscles were then bathed in low [Cl-] solutions, whereby the membrane potential became transiently inside positive. The repolarization of the twitch fibres from the tonus bundle ("intermediate fibres") was faster ...

The one-step synthesis (44 % isolated yield) of the 1,5-benzodiazapine functionalised phosphine 1, C31H31N2OP, is reported. Bridge cleavage {MCl(μ-Cl)(η5-Cp*)}2 (M=Ir, Rh) with 2 equiv. 1 in CH2Cl2 gave mononuclear compounds [MCl2(η5-Cp*)(P-1)] a; M=Rh, b) which functions as a P-monodentate ligand. Rapid C(sp3)−H bond activation, at room temperature, observed for leading to unusual cyclometalla...

We present a comparison of late-type galaxies (Sa and later) in intermediate-redshift clusters and in the field using images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Cluster and field galaxies are selected by matching photometric and spectroscopic catalogs of four cluster fields: Cl 0152 1357, Cl 1056 0337 (MS 1054), Cl 1604+4304, and Cl 1604+4321. Concentration, ...

Steers (n = 335) of known genetic background from four fundamentally different growth types were subjected to two production systems to study differences in cooking loss (CL), tenderness, and chemical composition. Growth types were animals with genetic potential for large mature weight-late maturing (LL), intermediate mature weight-late maturing (IL), intermediate mature weight -early maturing ...

background: this study sought to assess symphyseal morphology in adolescents with different mandibular growth patterns (mgps) in order to see if a relation exists. materials and methods: in this study the symphyseal parameters (height, depth, and ratio) of normal subjects were compared with four groups with malocclusion (cl iii vertical, cl ii vertical, cl iii horizontal, and cl ii horizontal)....

OBJECTIVES Validated assessment tools are required to support competency-based education. We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool for Pediatric Colonoscopy (GiECATKIDS), an instrument developed by 41 North American experts using Delphi methodology. METHODS GiECATKIDS consists of a 7-item global rating scale (GRS) and an 18-i...

smooth coefficients aα(x), L+ be a formally adjoint differential operation. Let L0, L0 be minimal operators (i.e., for example, D(L0) is the clozure of C∞ 0 (Ω) in the norm of the graph ‖u‖L = ‖u‖L2(Ω)+‖Lu‖L2(Ω)), and L, L+ be maximal expansions of L,L+ in the space L2(Ω) respectively (i.e. L = (L0 ) ∗, L+ = (L0)∗), L̃ = L|D(L̃) where D(L̃) is the clozure of C∞(Ω̄) in the norm of the graph ‖u‖L and...

Received June 02nd, 2014 – Accepted June 07th, 2014

AIMS AND BACKGROUND To present survival and toxicity outcomes in patients with clinically localized, non-metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) combined with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective study of 849 PCa patients (pts) treated from 1996 to 2005. Until August 2000, all patients (281) were treated with conventio...