Abstract Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy was used to record the space-and time-resolved number density of argon metastable atoms, Ar(1s 3 ) (Paschen notation), in plane-to-plane dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) operated a Penning Ar–NH mixture at atmospheric pressure. In both low-frequency (LF 650 V, 50 kHz) and dual LF–radiofrequency (RF 190 5 MHz) α – γ mode, revealed single p...

Although platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is the plasma fraction that contains higher levels of platelet-sequestered proteins such as growth factors and chemokines, it is also abundant in bioactive lipids whose role in wound healing has not been well characterized. This study provides a preliminary evaluation for the effect of the lipid component of PRP on selected genes related to wound healing. Spr...

We measure the evolution of the galaxy Luminosity Function as a function of large-scale environment up to z = 1.5 from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) first epoch data. The 3D galaxy density field is reconstructed using a gaussian filter of smoothing length 5h Mpc and a sample of 6582 galaxies with 17.5 ≤ IAB ≤ 24 and measured spectroscopic redshifts. We split the sample in four redshift bins ...

Decreased upright cerebral blood flow (CBF) with hyperpnea and hypocapnia is seen in a minority of patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS). More often, CBF is not decreased despite upright neurocognitive dysfunction. This may result from time-dependent changes in CBF. We hypothesized that increased oscillations in CBF occurs in POTS (N = 12) compared to healthy controls (N = 9), and ...

lactoferrin (lf) is an iron-binding multi-functional glycoprotein which has numerous physiological functions such as iron transportation, anti-microbial activity and immune response. in this study, different in silico approaches were exploited to investigate lf protein properties in a number of mammalian species. results showed that the iron-binding site, dna and rna-binding sites, signal pepti...

This grand aspiration subsumes the more modest research goal of simply characterizing the knowledge that people have of their native languages. Given this overlap in aims, it makes sense to leverage whatever is known about language itself in the pursuit of computational models of language use. Indeed, in confronting such a daunting challenge it would be foolish to waste intellectual resources d...

lactoferrin (lf) has antimicrobial properties against bacteria, fungi and several viruses including herpes virus, hiv and hepatitis c virus. the aim of this study was to detect lf in pmns and plasma of the patients suffering from hepatitis c and the healthy persons. the sonicated solutions of pmns of two groups were evaluated by sds-page (10%), isoelectric focusing (30%) and dot blotting .the l...

We present a self-consistent, semi-analytical ΛCDM model of star formation and reionization. For the cosmological parameters favored by the WMAP data, our models consistently reproduce the electron scattering optical depth to reionization, redshift of reionization and the observed luminosity functions (LF) and hence the star formation rate (SFR) density at 3 ≤ z ≤ 6 for a reasonable range of mo...

ABSTRACT We present our final study of the white dwarf cooling sequence (WD CS) in globular cluster NGC 6752. The investigation is main goal a dedicated Hubble Space Telescope large program, for which all observations are now collected. WD CS luminosity function (LF) confirmed to peak at mF606W ≃ 29.3 ± 0.1, consistent within uncertainties with what has been previously reported, and complete do...