We report upper limits on CO J=2–1 and CO J=5–4 emission from the quasar SDSSp J104433.04-012502.2 at z = 5.73 from observations made with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland-Association Array. Previously reported limits on CO J=6–5 emission (Iwata et al. 2001) were obtained at z = 5.80, which is now thought to be off by 1%, and the observations likely missed the relevant redshifts for molecular gas...

Distributed object systems provide the key to building large scale applications that can execute on a range of platforms. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification from OMG attempts to address interoperability and heterogeneity issues that arise in such systems. Our goal is to investigate performance issues for distributed object systems. We claim that object caching i...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe and compare the longitudinal mechanical activity, deformation, and deformation rate of the different layers of dorsal and ventral neck muscles in healthy volunteers during head lifts against gravity. METHODS The cross-sectional study included 19 healthy volunteers (mean age, 28 years; SD, 7 years). Ultrasound with speckle-tracking analysis was used to in...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Diabetic patients usually require more medications than their nondiabetic counterparts. This work examined the effect of hyperglycemia on the pharmacokinetic properties of cyclosporine in a diabetic dog model. MAIN METHODS Diabetes was induced using a streptozotocin/alloxan combination and verified by measuring the serum glucose level. Cyclosporine was administered as a bolus ...

This paper describes algorithms for scheduling traffic in wireless data networks with multiple channels per cell. The paper assumes that a reservation-based medium access control (MAC) protocol is used. The main objective of the scheduling algorithms is to reduce the computation time while maximizing the utilization of the network resources, thereby improving the system throughput. The scheduli...

OBJECTIVE Cross-transfer effects were investigated during an occupationally embedded task that involved learning a fine motor skill. Cross-transfer is a phenomenon that occurs when an untrained limb receives some of the same benefits in performance from unilateral training that the contralateral limb received. It was hypothesized that cross-transfer would occur after a unilateral training regim...

The purpose of this study was to determine if blood pressure (BP) measured in the forearm or with an extra-long BP cuff in the upper arm accurately reflects BP measured in the upper arm with an appropriately sized BP cuff in patients with large upper arm circumference. A method-comparison design was used with a convenience sample of 49 PACU patients. Noninvasive blood pressures were obtained in...

Background and Aim: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the 13th most common cancer worldwide and accounts for 4% of all adult malignancies. Herein the state of the art and recent advances in cross-sectional radiological imaging applied to RCC are reviewed, including ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography. Methods: Literature search of peer-...

Cell metabolism is comprised of enzyme-catalyzed biochemical reactions and carrier-mediated transport processes. Taken as a whole, these reactions form interrelated metabolic pathways which are combined into a cellular metabolic network. Metabolic fluxes describe the amount of material chemically converted or transported per time unit and are considered as the key parameters of any metabolic pa...