* This paper is part of a project “US-EU Monetary Relations after the Introduction of the Euro” undertaken by Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington D.D., Daniel Gros, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels and Niels Thygesen, EPRU. Financial support from the European Commission under the New Transatlantic Dialogue, and from the Danish National Resea...

We study the phase diagram for strongly interacting matter using ’t Hooft determinant extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model with a Polyakov loop in light and strange quark sectors (up, down strange) focusing on effect of magnetic field dependence coupling strengths these interactions. This was obtained so as to reproduce recent lattice QCD results quarks dynamical masses. A finite is known induce s...

the zinc-cadmium oxide (zno-cdo) nanocomposites with different weight percentages of cadmium oxide (cdo) nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by the sonochemical method using zinc and cadmium nitrates as precursors to probe their nano-structured surfaces for the decomposition reactions of chloroethyl phenyl sulfide (ceps) as a surrogate of sulfur mustard agent simulant. scanning electron...

Glucose metabolism status may play a predictive role in the severity of the complications among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). However, few studies have focused on the prognostic value of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and Homeostatic Model Assessment 2 for Insulin Resistance (HOMA2-IR) in patients with DM, non-ST-segment elevation infarction (NSTEMI), and single concomitant chro...

Wireless Communication increasingly influences several aspects of our. As the frequency spectrum is limited for the popular technologies IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11.x a huge effort is spent on routing, rate selection, handover, or jamming detection. Such algorithms heavily depend fast and accurate link quality estimation. In this thesis we show the strength and weaknesses of state of the art ...

Lactobacillus helveticus can possess one or two cell envelope proteinases (CEPs), called PrtH2 and PrtH. The aim of this work was to explore the diversity of 15 strains of L. helveticus, isolated from various origins, in terms of their proteolytic activities and specificities on pure caseins or on milk casein micelles. CEP activity differed 14-fold when the strains were assayed on a synthetic s...

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Censored Regression Quantile (CRQ) methods provide a powerful and flexible approach for the analysis of censored survival data when standard linear models are felt to be appropriate. In many cases however, greater flexibility is desired to go beyond the usual multiple regression paradigm. One area of common interest is that of partially linear models, where one (or more) of the explanatory vari...

Inconsistencies between species has stunted the progress of developing new analgesics. To increase the success of translating results between species, improved comparable models are required. Twelve rats received rectal balloon distensions on 2 different days separated by 24.3 (SD 24.6) days. Rectal balloon distensions were also performed in 18 humans (mean age: 34 yr; range: 21-56 yr; 12 men) ...