several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (ps) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. this study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and ps among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east iran. using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of ps, a hospitalba...

introduction: we have recently reported the presence of two potassium currents with 598 and 368 ps conductance in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (rer) membrane. the 598 ps channel was voltage dependent and atp sensitive. however, the 368 ps channel was rarely observed and its identity remained obscure. since cationic channels in intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and rer play import...

objective(s)cpg oligodeoxynucleotides (cpg odns) have been shown to have potent immunostimulatory adjuvant activity for a wide range of antigens. due to susceptibility of phosphodiester cpg odns (po cpg) to nuclease degradation, nuclease-resistant phosphorothioate cpg odns (ps cpg) were currently utilized in an in vivo model. in this study, according to some recently reported drawbacks with ps ...

results the results showed that the pcp degradation increased with an increase in zvi dosage from 0.056 to 1.4 g/l, an increase in persulfate concentration from 2.5 to 15.0 mm/l, and an increase in zvi to ps molar ratio from 0.1 to 2.5. the optimal initial ph for pcp removal was 5.0 and the maximum removal efficiency of 70% was achieved within 120 minutes. moreover, the zvi catalyst was reused ...

Based on introducing two optimization algorithms, group search optimization (GSO) algorithm and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, a new hybrid optimization algorithm which named particle swarm-group search optimization (PS-GSO) algorithm is presented and its application to optimal structural design is analyzed. The PS-GSO is used to investigate the spatial truss structures with discr...

We consider the Cauchy problem for the semilinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) { (i∂t +∆)u = μ|u|, (t, x) ∈ [0, Tλ)× R, u(0, x) = λf(x), x ∈ R, where u = u(t, x) is a C-valued unknown function, μ ∈ C\{0}, p > 1, λ ≥ 0, f = f(x) is a C-valued given function and Tλ is a maximal existence time of the solution. Our first aim in the present paper is to prove a large data blow-up result for (NLS) in H-...

Background: Acute blood purification (ABP) therapy is used regularly in the clinical setting and reportedly alleviates organ failure associated with severe systemic inflammatory responses, leading to reduced mortality. The present study aimed to determine whether there is a difference in efficacy between polysulfone (PS) membranes, which are currently used regularly in the clinical setting, and...

There is considerable evidence to support the hypothesis of relationship between paradoxical sleep (PS) and learning–memory processing. It has been suggested that PS is important in memory retention at the specific time course called PS windows (PSW). The time of PSWs occurrence and duration of these PSWs following the training sessions and, the neurochemical nature of PSWs has not been well kn...