Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) is a major superoxide scavenger and may be important to normal vascular function and cardiovascular health. We analyzed family data from 610 healthy Australians to detect and quantify the effects of genes on normal variation in plasma levels of EC-SOD and to test for pleiotropy with plasma nitric oxide (NO) and apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I). Using maxim...

[1] Bulk and size-segregated aerosol samples were collected from the NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown as it cruised from Cape Town, South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and into the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea (February to April 1999; 33 S to 19 N). Throughout the Northern Hemisphere, aerosol loading was greater than in the Southern Hemisphere. Samples collected in air that had passed over India sh...

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is essential for continuous glycolysis necessary for accelerated tumor growth. The aim of this study was to reconsider if assay of total tissue activity of this enzyme could be useful as marker for endometrial carcinoma (EC). Activity of LDH was measured spectrophotometrically in homogenate supernatants of uterine tissue samples of 40 patients (10 normal endometria, ...

Raw buffalo milk samples from the agroindustrial zone in upper Egypt were analyzed for the presence of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy. Five organochlorine pesticides namely, alachlor, dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene, lindane and methoxychlor and three organophosphorus pesticides chlorpyrifos, malathion, and parathion-methyl were detected in...

A series of materials was prepared by curing acrylated epoxidized soybean oil (AESO) and dibutyl itaconate (DBI) or ethyl cinnamate (EC) comonomers to provide examples of thermosets with a high proportion of bio-based carbon, in accordance with the principles of green chemistry. The comonomers, representative of cellulose-derived (DBI) or potentially lignin-derived (EC) raw materials, were test...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a serious complication that occurs in approximately 1-5% of patients treated with heparin and may be associated with severe thrombotic events. HIT is mediated by antibodies directed mostly to epitope(s) formed by complexes between heparin or other anionic mucopolysaccharides and platelet factor 4 (PF4). Anti-PF4/heparin IgG antibodies from six patients ...

An electronic commerce (EC) web site is not only an information system but also a channel of marketing and selling. An evaluation model that takes both the technical factors of developing the web system and the marketing factors of attracting consumers to use it into consideration is therefore very crucial. As far, most of the studies related to EC web sites focused on developing technical prin...

As a background sampling site in western Japan, the Kanazawa University Wajima Air Monitoring Station (KUWAMS) continuously observes air pollutants, including PM1, PM2.5, organic carbon (OC) and element (EC). Data for September 2019 to April 2020 were compared with data 2018 2019. The mean concentrations of both PM1 PM2.5 4.10 µg/m3 (47%) 5.82 (33%) lower, respectively Coronavirus Disease (COVI...

We study how exposure to (Soviet) communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist state planning, affected the preferences for family support, which we refer as informal insurance. Against backdrop that ‘communism gave rise abolition of family’, document it actually strengthened preference (the demand) insurance without depressing individuals' social exploit cross-country and ...