Disposal of RO concentrates emanating from inland brackish water desalination plants presents a difficult environmental problem. The solution adopted by Mekorot – the National Water Company of Israel – is to construct a 30 km waste disposal pipeline for collecting concentrates emanating from several RO desalination plants and discharging them into the sea. The discharged concentrates are highly...

The injection of naked plasmid DNA directly into the muscle cells of mice has been shown to induce potent humoral and cellular immune responses. The generation of a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response after plasmid DNA injection may involve the presentation of the expressed antigen in the context of the injected myocytes' endogenous major histocompatibility (MHC)-encoded class I molecules or ...

Water treatment plants in the US may operate under the assumption that chlorine masks earthy and musty odors from geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) in drinking water. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated the effects of chlorine and chloramines on geosmin and MIB by two sensory analysis approaches – a statistical Pairwise Comparison Test, and Flavor Profile Analysis (FPA). All Pairwise Ranki...

We have studied the influence of a beta adrenergic blocking agent and an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor on cerebral blood flow (CBF) during general anaesthesia before surgery. Nine patients served as controls and received no special pretreatment. Two other groups were allocated randomly to receive either metoprolol 0.07 mg kg-1 i.v. (nine patients) at the time of induction or cap...

A-α-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 245 (1986); Suppl. 7, 56 (1987) Acenaphthene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 35 (2010) Acepyrene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

BACKGROUND Demonstration of a circadian rhythm in two parameters of heart rate turbulence--turbulence onset (TO) and turbulence slope (TS)--has been difficult. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to devise a new method for detecting circadian rhythm in noisy data and to apply it to selected Holter recordings from two postmyocardial infarction databases: Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (C...

A-α-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 245 (1986); Suppl. 7, 56 (1987) Acenaphthene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 35 (2010) Acepyrene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

BACKGROUND Off-line calculation of the pulse pressure variation (PPV(ref)) has repeatedly been shown to be a reliable predictor of fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients. This study was designed to assess the ability of two algorithms for automated calculation of PPV (PPV(auto)) (Intellivue MP 70) and stroke volume variation (SVV(auto)) (FloTrac/Vigileo) to predict fluid respo...

A-α-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 245 (1986); Suppl. 7, 56 (1987) Acenaphthene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 35 (2010) Acepyrene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity and to determine phytochemical constituent of ethanolic leaf extract of Aegle marmelos(L.) Corr. Serr.. Plant materials are collected from Punjab. Ethanolic extract was screened for different phytochemical constituents. Acute toxicity studies are done according to OECD guidelines. Ethanolic extracts were screened for anti-inflammat...