Background: The use of biomarkers for diagnosis of Preeclampsia (PE), a life-threatening pregnancy disorder, could reduce serious complications of this disease. In this study, we investigated dysregulation of endoglin (Eng) expression and diagnostic accuracy of soluble endoglin (sEng) in PE patients. Methods: For this case-control study, 26 mild and 15 severe preeclamptic women along with 20 no...

This study examines the predictive capability of our recently proposed reaction mechanism (Norinaga and Deutschmann, Ind Eng Chem Res 2007, 46, 3547) for hydrocarbon pyrolysis at varying temperature. The conventional flow reactor experiments were conducted at 8 kPa, over the temperature range 1073–1373 K, using ethylene, acetylene, and propylene as reactants to validate the mechanism. More than...

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The wear of polymer-based materials is connected to their brittleness. We have previously formulated a quantitative definition of brittleness in terms of elongation at break and storage modulus for thermoplastic polymers. We provide a formula connecting brittleness to viscoelastic recovery (healing) after sliding wear. Our model fits a selection of ten thermoplastics representing several classe...

Comparison of cloud statistics from spaceborne lidar systems S. Berthier, P. Chazette, J. Pelon, and B. Baum Service d’Aéronomie du CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, 4, Place Jussieu – 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Laboratoire mixte CEA-CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Space Science and Engineering...

728 J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 56, No. 9, 2008 September T he audio forensics community eagerly returned to Denver in June for another successful AES conference. The AES 33rd International Conference, Audio Forensics—Theory and Practice, picked up where the successful 26th Conference left off in 2005. With 2008 marking the 60th anniversary of the Audio Engineering Society, the 33rd Conference was...

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Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data is published by the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Vapor-Liquid Equilibria and Salt Apparent Molar Volumes of the Water + 2-Propanol + Tetrabutylammonium Bromide System J. T. Slusher, K. J. Decker, H. Liu, C. A. Vega, P. T. Cummings, and J. P. O'Connell J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1994, 39 (3), 506-509 • DOI: 10.1021/...