The GafChromic XR Type R film is a relatively new product for recording high radiation dose in interventional radiological procedures. Means of measuring the film response were studied in this investigation. Two handheld reflective-type densitometers of different models were compared in the range of 0-8 Gy. They were found to be in excellent agreement. Five reflective flatbed scanners of differ...

INTRODUCTION Saxagliptin added to metformin extended release (XR) and uptitrated metformin XR were evaluated for their impact on daily glucose measurements and their tolerability in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) inadequately controlled with metformin monotherapy. METHODS Patients aged 18-78 years on metformin 850-1,500 mg with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) 7.5-11.5% at screening...

and Applied Analysis 3 The evolution system R t, s is said to be equicontinuous if for all bounded set Q ⊂ X, {s → R t, s x : x ∈ Q} is equicontinuous for t > 0. x ∈ C −q, b , X is said to be a mild solution of the nonlocal problem 1.1 , if x t φ t g x t for t ∈ −q, 0 , and, for t ∈ J , it satisfies the following integral equation: x t R t, 0 [ φ 0 g x 0 ] ∫ t 0 R t, s f ( s, xs, ∫ s 0 K s, r, ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate, in a randomized clinical trial, the effects of metformin immediate release (IR) compared with metformin extended release (XR) on the gastrointestinal tolerability and glycemic control. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled 253 Caucasian patients with type 2 diabetes not well controlled by diet (glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c] >7.0% and <8.5%). Patient...

Let X be a projective variety with a linearized action of an algebraic group G. If X is smooth, and the ground field is C, then the geometric invariant theory quotient X//G can be identified with a quotient constructed using symplectic geometry, the “reduced space” Xr. This result, due to Mumford, Guillemin and Sternberg, connects geometric invariant theory and symplectic geometry. Suppose now ...

BACKGROUND Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for xylose fermentation into fuel ethanol has oftentimes relied on insertion of a heterologous pathway that consists of xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) and brings about isomerization of xylose into xylulose via xylitol. Incomplete recycling of redox cosubstrates in the catalytic steps of the NADPH-preferring XR a...

An x-ray specular reflectivity (XR) and off-specular diffuse scattering (XDS) study of the coupled thermal capillary fluctuations and the intrinsic profiles of two interacting fluid-fluid interfaces is presented. The measurements are carried out on complete wetting films of perfluoromethylcyclohexane (PFMC) on the surface of bulk liquid eicosane (C20), as a function of film thickness 30<D<160 A...

A family A of sets is said to be t-intersecting if any two sets in A contain at least t common elements. A t-intersecting family is said to be trivial if there are at least t elements common to all its sets. Let X be an r-set {x1, ..., xr}. For k ≥ 2, we de ne SX,k and S∗ X,k to be the families of k-signed r-sets given by SX,k := {{(x1, a1), ..., (xr, ar)} : a1, ..., ar are elements of {1, ...,...

In this paper, we consider the variable-order nonlinear fractional diffusion equation ∂u(x, t) ∂t = B(x, t)xR u(x, t) + f(u, x, t), where xR α(x,t) is a generalized Riesz fractional derivative of variable order α(x, t) (1 < α(x, t) ≤ 2) and the nonlinear reaction term f(u, x, t) satisfies the Lipschitz condition |f(u1, x, t) − f(u2, x, t)| ≤ L|u1 − u2|. A new explicit finite difference approxim...

The Davis-Putnam-Logemann-Loveland algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms for solving the satis ability problem. Its e ciency depends on its choice of a branching rule. We construct a sequence of instances of the satis ability problem that fools a variety of \sensible" branching rules in the following sense: when the instance has n variables, each of the \sensible" branching rules brin...