Inhibition of ammonia excretion (J(amm)) is a common response to Cu exposure in freshwater (FW) and seawater (SW) organisms. To determine the mechanism of this response, a euryhaline species of guppy (Poecilia vivipara) was exposed to 20 μg Cu/l in FW (0 ppt) and SW (25 ppt) for 96 h. In both salinities, Cu transiently inhibited ammonia excretion (J(amm)) followed by a full recovery by the end ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore nurses' and physicians' experiences with the ars moriendi model (AMM) for spiritual assessment. DESIGN Convergent, parallel, mixed-methods. SETTING Palliative home care in Belgium. SAMPLE 17 nurses and 4 family physicians (FPs) in the quantitative phase, and 19 nurses and 5 FPs in the later qualitative phase. METHODS A survey was used to investigate first i...

Executive Summary Research in Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM) aims to create robotic agents capable of performing physical work in unstructured and open environments. Such technology will impact a variety of application areas with significant economical, societal, and scientific importance. Among them are assistive and elderly care, planetary exploration, manufacturing, and supply chain ma...

Under cold acclimated conditions, goldfish (Carassius auratus) express an interlamellar cell mass (ILCM) which limits diffusive ion loss but may also impede branchial ammonia excretion (J(amm)). In the present study, goldfish were subjected to a 2-week 5 or 25 °C acclimation in order to modulate the degree of ILCM gill coverage and determine potential effects on J(amm). 25 °C-fish displayed gil...

BACKGROUND Revascularization of stenotic cerebral arteries is hypothesized to improve cognition by increasing cerebral perfusion. AIMS We compared cognition impairment among patients treated with percutaneous angioplasty and stenting (PTAS) and aggressive medical management (AMM) versus AMM alone in the Stenting versus Aggressive Medical Therapy for Intracranial Arterial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) T...

This review provides an overview of prey preferences of seven core Arctic marine mammal species (AMM) and four non-core species on a pan-Arctic scale with regional examples. Arctic marine mammal species exploit prey resources close to the sea ice, in the water column, and at the sea floor, including lipid-rich pelagic and benthic crustaceans and pelagic and ice-associated schooling fishes such ...

Hadis merupakan sumber kedua tertinggi dalam hierarki pengambilan hukum, kefahaman dan pencernaan maksud hadis daripada bahasa Arab perlu difahami dengan jelas sebelum tersebut boleh diangkat sebagai hukum. Dalam konteks karya al-Halal wa al-Haram fi al-Islam karangan Sheikh Yusuf al- Qardawi melalui tiga buah edisi terjemahan Arab-Melayu didapati kata nama khas diterjemahkan perkataan yang tid...

By employing a semi-analytical dynamical mean-field approximation theory previously proposed by the author [H. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. E 67, 041903 (2003)], we have developed an augmented moment method (AMM) in order to discuss dynamics of an N -unit ensemble described by delay Langevin equations. In AMM, original N -dimensional stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs) are transformed to in...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a highly immunotropic human herpesvirus with oncogenic potential and is involved in numerous pathologies. EBV utilizes its major envelope glycoprotein gp350 to bind to its receptor CR2/CD21 on target cells for initiating the infection. We have previously shown that EBV is able to modulate transcription and translation of a number of cytokine genes via its gp350-media...

BACKGROUND In highly sensitized patients (HSP) awaiting renal transplantation, accurate delineation of acceptable human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatches (AMM) aids identification of suitable crossmatch negative donors. Comparison of differences in polymorphic triplet amino acid sequences in antibody accessible regions of HLA may predict immunogenicity. We have examined the ability of the HLAM...