Human expeditions to Mars will require adaptation to the 24.65-h Martian solar day-night cycle (sol), which is outside the range of entrainment of the human circadian pacemaker under lighting intensities to which astronauts are typically exposed. Failure to entrain the circadian time-keeping system to the desired rest-activity cycle disturbs sleep and impairs cognitive function. Furthermore, di...

PURPOSE To evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) due to space occupying lesions (SOL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Eleven patients and 12 cases that underwent surgery for CTS due to SOL were studied retrospectively. We excluded SOL caused by bony lesions, such as malunion of distal radius fracture, volar lunate dislocation, etc. The average age was 51 years. There...

Cryptorchidism is the most common birth defect in reproductive system of mammalian species. In this case report a 7.6-year-old male Labrador breed dog was presented with complaints vomition, indigestion, distended abdomen, and progressive weight loss. The monorchid from birth. clinical revealed that Babesia (small form) Anaplasma positive, leukocytosis high Serum Glutamate-Oxaloacetic Transamin...

In homogenous space Sol we study compact surfaces with constant mean curvature and with non-empty boundary. We ask how the geometry of the boundary curve imposes restrictions over all possible configurations that the surface can adopt. We obtain a flux formula and we establish results that assert that, under some restrictions, the symmetry of the boundary is inherited into the surface. MSC: 53A10

We discuss existence and classification of totally umbilic surfaces in the model geometries of Thurston and the Berger spheres. We classify such surfaces in H × R, S × R and the Sol group. We prove nonexistence in the Berger spheres and in the remaining model geometries other than the space forms.

Realizing the benefits of SDN for many network management applications (e.g., traffic engineering, service chaining, topology reconfiguration) involves addressing complex optimizations that are central to these problems. Unfortunately, such optimization problems require (a) significant manual effort and expertise to express and (b) non-trivial computation and/or carefully crafted heuristics to ...

The spatial and temporal variation of SOL cluster bacteria was assessed in oligomesotrophic Lake Mondsee and adjacent lakes by fluorescence in situ hybridization over two annual cycles. The filamentous SOL bacteria were present in Lake Mondsee throughout the study period, and the seasonal dynamics of the SOL community were remarkably similar with respect to both abundance and composition in the...

Elastases in cystic fibrosis (CF) pulmonary fluids damage lung tissue and perpetuate cycles of infection, inflammation and injury. Elastases from three different sources may be present in CF airways: neutrophils, macrophages and Pseudomonas. We measured how well the cephalosporin-based antielastase L-658,758 blocks the activity of human neutrophil elastase (NE), human proteinase-3, human macrop...