Gláucia Murta, ∗ Marcelo Terra Cunha, † and Adán Cabello 4, ‡ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de F́ısica Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain Universidade...

Dietary supplementation with polyphenolic antioxidants to animals was shown to be associated with inhibition of LDL oxidation and macrophage foam cell formation, and attenuation of atherosclerosis development. We investigated the effects of pomegranate juice (PJ, which contains potent tannins and anthocyanins) consumption by atherosclerotic patients with carotid artery stenosis (CAS) on the pro...

Example 2 Figure 2 shows an analysis of some diabetes data from Efron, Hastie, Johnstone and Tibshirani (2004). The outcome Y is a measure of disease progression after one year. We consider four covariates (ignoring for now, six other variables): age, bmi (body mass index), and two variables representing blood serum measurements. A nonparametric regression model in this case takes the form Y = ...

BACKGROUND Pneumocystis jirovecii (PJ), a pathogenic fungus, causes severe interstitial Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among immunocompromised patients. A laboratory-developed real-time polyermase chain reaction (PCR) assay was validated for PJ detection to improve diagnosis of PCP. METHODS Forty stored bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples (20 known PJ positive [PJ+] and 20 known PJ negative [P...

In the 1980s, New Historicism was a strikingly innovative way of examining literary history, as well as practicing literary theory. Greatly influenced by the work of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault, New Historicists in America and their British counterparts, Cultural Materialists, set to rewrite the history of Western literature in such a way as to challenge what they considered the socio-p...

Adenosine (ADO) is a homeostatic inhibitory autocoid that is released at sites of inflammation and tissue injury, and exerts anti-inflammatory effects via multiple interactions at ADO receptor subtypes. Inhibition of ADO kinase (AK) increases extracellular ADO concentrations and AK inhibitors have demonstrated ADO-mediated anti-inflammatory effects in acute models of inflammation. To evaluate t...

A 910MHz high efficiency RF transceiver for Wireless Body Area Network in medical application is presented in this paper. High energy efficiency transmitter and receiver architectures are proposed. In wireless body sensor network, the transmitter must have higher efficiency compared with the receiver because a large amount of data is sent from sensor node to receiver of the base station and sma...

Recent analysis of the ground-based observations of the Polarization Jet (PJ) effects in the subauroral ionosphere has shown that PJ can rapidly develop in the nearmidnight sector near the Harang Discontinuity (HD). Based on these observations, a simple, semi-quantitative theory of the PJ formation and its main characteristics is constructed. According to the model, PJ starts to develop, as pro...