BACKGROUND Macrophage infiltration in adipose tissue together with the aberrant production of pro-inflammatory cytokines has been identified as the key link between obesity and its related metabolic disorders. This study aims to isolate bioactive ingredients from the traditional Chinese herb Radix Astragali (Huangqi) that alleviate obesity-induced metabolic damage through inhibiting inflammatio...

In this paper we present measurements and analysis on the mechanical thermomechanical properties of LLM-105 based plastic bonded high explosive RX-55-DQ. Specifically uni-axial compression, thermal (CTE ratchet growth), for some provide a comparison to TATB-based PBX 9502. We also same property performed RX-55-DQ samples that underwent accelerated aging.

Abstract: In this paper, a chatter free sliding mode control(SMC) strategy for chaos synchronization is proposed to the nonlinear uncertain chaotic systems in the presence of unknown bounded uncertainties and external disturbances. The sliding mode surface with differential operators is introduced to divert the discontinuous function swith term into the first derivative of the control input, an...

As a potential solution for the backhaul of next-generation mobile or low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, free-space optical (FSO), has received much attention recently. Various techniques have been suggested employing an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in FSO systems, such as anomalous reflection, power amplification, and beam splitting. It is also possible to deliver more receiver (Rx) by ...

The signals emanating from complex systems are usually composed of a mixture of different oscillations which, for a reliable analysis, should be separated from each other and from the inevitable background of noise. Here we introduce an adaptive decomposition tool-nonlinear mode decomposition (NMD)-which decomposes a given signal into a set of physically meaningful oscillations for any wave for...

UNLABELLED When thyroid tissues exhibited concentrations of therapeutic (131)I that appeared to be less than that predicted by data from the preceding diagnostic (131)I, the phenomenon was called stunning. We hypothesized that stunning arose from the early effects of the therapeutic dose of (131)I and that the initial uptake of (131)I, observed within the first day, was not impaired by the diag...

Orbital radiotherapy (Rx) is a commonly used treatment for Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO), but controlled clinical trials evaluating different Rx doses and application forms have not been performed. In euthyroid patients with moderately severe GO, we randomly compared the efficacy and tolerability of three Rx protocols. Orbital Rx (telecobalt) was administered either in 20 divided fractions of 1 G...