System for ITER1 Pedro Lima, M.Isabel Ribeiro, Pedro Apar cio Instituto Superior T ecnico/Instituto de Sistemas e Rob otica Av.Rovisco Pais,1 | P 1096 Lisboa Codex, PORTUGAL

Background: A number of former studies have shown that tuberculosis (TB) is higher in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients than non-diabetics. Both DM and TB are major public health problems in Iran, and because of the lack of investigation in this field in the region, we conducted this study to evaluate the prevalence of DM in admitted pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Methods: The medical files of...

The explosive proliferation of battery powered equipment in the past decade has created unique requirements for a voltage regulator that cannot be met by the industry standards like the LM340 or the LM317. These regulators use an NPN Darlington pass transistor (Figure 1), and will be referred to in this document as NPN regulators. The demand for higher performance is being met by the newer low-...

Multidrug resistance-associated protein 3 (MRP3), unlike other MRPs, transports taurocholate (TC). The difference in TC transport activity between rat MRP2 and MRP3 was studied, focusing on the cationic amino acids in the transmembrane domains. For analysis, transport into membrane vesicles from Sf9 cells expressing wild-type and mutated MRP2 was examined. Substitution of Arg at position 586 wi...

We report the detection of CN, HCN, HNC, CS, HCO+, C2H and H2CO (ortho and para) in the protoplanetary disks of DM Tau and GG Tau. For the first time organic molecules are observed in objects representative of the presolar nebula. These molecules are underabundant with respect to the standard dense clouds. The depletions in the “outer” disk of DM Tau (100 < r < 900 AU), derived from the line in...

pigment and is widely used as a coating material for solid pharmaceutical preparations. Recently, many studies have been performed, from a material science perspective, to modify the function of TiO2 as a strong photocatalyst. In some studies the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 has been linked to oxidation-reduction reactions. With regard to pigment use, TiO2 is usually surface-treated to preve...

It is well-known that if T is a Dm–Dn bimodule map on the m×n complex matrices, then T is a Schur multiplier and ‖T‖cb = ‖T‖. If n = 2 and T is merely assumed to be a right D2-module map, then we show that ‖T‖cb = ‖T‖. However, this property fails if m ≥ 2 and n ≥ 3. For m ≥ 2 and n = 3, 4 or n ≥ m2 we give examples of maps T attaining the supremum C(m,n) = sup{‖T‖cb : T a right Dn-module map o...