We describe a system for monitoring and controlling i.v. anaesthesia in rats using burst suppression ratio (BSR) detection in the extradural EEG. After bolus injection, peak BSR values of 95% were achieved with propofol 8 mg kg-1, etomidate 3.5 mg kg-1 and alphaxalone 4.5 mg kg-1. Thiopental 32 mg kg-1 produced a peak BSR of 70% (larger doses were not tolerated). Recovery was fastest with propo...

In vehicles, consumer complains against BSR (buzz, squeak, rattle) noises are increasing. The BSR noises includes continuous or impulsive sounds depending on the generation mechanism. The evaluation method for rating the annoyance of BSR noises is required after taking these irregularly and periodicity. For continuous sounds, conventional Fourier transfer provides sufficient information on the ...

In 2013, the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) underwent a review by the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) to evaluate the overall impact of research supported by the Division and make recommendations for future investments. A key recommendation was that BSR leverage both its data resources and new study designs to gain mechanistic insights on the pathways linking behavio...

The data for this study were provided by the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register for Rheumatoid Arthritis (BSRBR-RA). The BSRBR-RA is funded by a grant from the BSR. The BSR currently receives funding from AbbVie, Pfizer, Roche and UCB and in the past from Swedish Orphan Biovitrium and Merck. This income finances a wholly separate contract between the BSR and the University of M...

In the situation where a large increase in trade and freight transport volumes in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) is expected and in which the BSR is facing a major economic restructuring, efforts to achieve more integrated and sustainable transport and communication links within the BSR are needed. One of these efforts is the development of logistics centres (LCs) and their networking, which will ...

Previous work has shown that nicotine facilitates brain stimulation reward (BSR) but that the maximum effect obtainable with nicotine is similar to that seen with compounds having a low addiction liability (e.g., caffeine, diphenhydramine, pseudoephedrine). Two studies further explored nicotine’s effects on BSR using a threshold-tracking procedure. Male, Long-Evans rats were implanted with stim...

This document specifies the Bootstrap Router (BSR) mechanism for the class of multicast routing protocols in the PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) family that use the concept of a Rendezvous Point as a means for receivers to discover the sources that send to a particular multicast group. BSR is one way that a multicast router can learn the set of group-to-RP mappings required in order to fun...

Sulfate, the main dissolved contaminant in acid mine drainage (AMD), is ubiquitous in watersheds affected by coal and metal mining operations worldwide. Engineered passive bioremediation systems (PBS) are low-cost technologies that remediate sulfate contamination by promoting (1) precipitation of sulfate-bearing compounds, such as schwertmannite and gypsum; and (2) microbially-mediated sulfate ...

BACKGROUND The blasticidin S resistance gene (bsr) is a selectable marker used for gene transfer experiments. The bsr gene encodes for blasticidin S (BS) deaminase, which has a specific activity upon BS. Therefore, its expression is supposed to be harmless in cells. The work reported on herein consisted of experiments to verify a possible toxicity of bsr on mammalian cells, which include severa...

This paper proposes a new method for selecting appropriate buyer-supplier relationships (BSR) for specific projects. Because it is almost impossible in reality to establish mathematical relationships between the BSR attributes and the factors of a project, the concept of relationship indices (RI) is introduced to quantify such BS relationships which are in turn established through design of exp...