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Aim: to investigate the effect of nicotine-containing vapes in comparison with traditional tobacco smoking on markers vascular wall damage: high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), albuminuria (AU), and ankle-brachial index (ABI). Material Methods: We examined 369 young subjects without cardiovascular diseases (age median 21 [20;21] years) (159 men 210 women). The hsCRP levels serum were as...

state well-formedness. In order to define formally that rs and d are well-formed and correspond correctly, we require several auxiliary notions: childd(x, i, y) , d(y).uhdr = x ∧ d(y).uoff = i ∧ 0 ≤ i ≤ d(x).loff leafd(〈x, i〉) , 〈x, i〉 ∈ d ∧ @y. d(y).uhdr = x ∧ d(y).uoff = i descendd(〈x, i〉, 〈y, j〉) , 〈x, i〉 = 〈y, j〉 ∨ descendd(〈x, i〉, 〈d(y).uhdr , d(y).uoff 〉) issetd(〈x, i〉) , d(x).flags(i) = ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Activation-induced cytidine deaminase is essential for somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination of the immunoglobulin genes in B cells. It has been proposed that aberrant targeting of the somatic hypermutation machinery is instrumental in initiation and progression of B-cell non Hodgkin's lymphomas. In this study, we investigated the B-cell receptor and the...

For optically deep waters, remote-sensing reflectance (r(rs)) is traditionally expressed as the ratio of the backscattering coefficient (b(b)) to the sum of absorption and backscattering coefficients (a + b(b)) that multiples a model parameter (g, or the so-called f'/Q). Parameter g is further expressed as a function of b(b)/(a + b(b)) (or b(b)/a) to account for its variation that is due to mul...

in recent years dietary fibers have been considered due to its beneficial effects. since the amount of fiber in dietary diet is usually less than the recommended amount (30 gr/day), fortification of bread with fiber can play an important role to achieve its health benefits. this project was studied to investigate on the possibility of supplementation of flour with dietary fibers. two different ...