The consumption of cacao-derived (i.e., cocoa) products provides beneficial cardiovascular effects in healthy subjects as well as individuals with endothelial dysfunction such as smokers, diabetics, and postmenopausal women. The vascular actions of cocoa are related to enhanced nitric oxide (NO) production. These actions can be reproduced by the administration of the cacao flavanol (-)-epicatec...

Three-dimensional segmented echo planar imaging (3D-EPI) is a promising approach for high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging, as it provides an increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at similar temporal resolution to traditional multislice 2D-EPI readouts. Recently, the 3D-EPI technique has become more frequently used and it is important to better understand its implications for fM...

The development of environmental protection industry (EPI) has connection with many factors, such as policy, market and economic factors. Different factors have complex mutual influence, the sensitivity EPI to policy is higher than other industries, so its own characteristics. This paper adopted method system dynamics (SD) analyze promoting effect Financial on regarding (EPM) carrier EPI, takin...

An assay was standardized to measure extrinsic pathway inhibitor (EPI) activity in human plasma. Variables that could potentially influence its measurement were systematically examined. The coefficient of variation of the assay was 6.3% for the same sample assayed on different days. The linear regression line for a plot of observed v expected values of mixtures of plasmas with different EPI lev...

Purpose: In 2021, the CKD-EPI-creatinine and CKD-EPI-creatinine-cystatin-C combined equations were revised again by Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive Diseases (NIDDK) it was reported that its accuracy increased. The main object this study is to compare diagnostic performance 2009 CKD-EPI eGFRcr, 2012 eGFRCysC, eGFRcr-CysC,...

Weber, Jean-Michel, and Deena S. Shanghavi. Regulation of glucose production in rainbow trout: role of epinephrine in vivo and in isolated hepatocytes. Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol 278: R956–R963, 2000.— The rate of hepatic glucose production (Ra glucose) of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) was measured in vivo by continuous infusion of [6-3H]glucose and in vitro on isola...

A fast T(1) measurement sequence using inversion recovery Look-Locker echo-planar imaging at steady state (IR LL-EPI SS) is presented. Delay time for a full magnetization recovery is not required in the sequence, saving acquisition time significantly for high-resolution T(1) mapping. Imaging parameters of the IR LL-EPI SS sequence were optimized to minimize the bias from the excitation pulses i...

Despite progress in stereo reconstruction and structure from motion, 3D scene reconstruction from multiple images still faces many difficulties, especially in dealing with occlusions, partial visibility, textureless regions, and specular reflections. Moreover, the problem of recovering a spatially dense 3D representation from many views has not been adequately treated. This document addresses t...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive and powerful imaging tool for detecting brain activities. The majority of fMRI studies are performed with single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI) due to its high temporal resolution. Recent studies have demonstrated that, by increasing the spatial-resolution of fMRI, previously unidentified neuronal networks can be measured. However, ...

Management of Tata Steel, the largest steel making company of India in the private sector, felt the need to develop a framework to determine the levels of ergonomic performance at its different workplaces. The objectives of the study are manifold: to identify and characterize the ergonomic variables for a given worksystem with regard to work efficiency, operator safety, and working conditions, ...