The safe integration of cardiovascular devices requires the sustainable coverage of their luminal surface by endothelial cells (ECs). The engineering of active surface textures has the potential to coordinate cellular adhesion and migration under the action of hemodynamic forces. We define a paradigm to rationally design textures maximizing EC activities as a function of the applied stresses. T...

Two experiments examine use of an evaluative conditioning (EC) paradigm in the acquisition of fear and disgust responding to neutral facial expressions. In Experiment 1, 60 participants were randomly assigned to one of three evaluative learning conditions in which neutral facial expressions were paired with fearsome, disgusting, or neutral pictures. No statistically significant differences were...

Endothelial cell (EC) identity is in part genetically predetermined. Transcription factor NR2F2 (also known as chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor II, COUP-TFII) plays a key role in EC fate decision making; however, many of the underlying mechanisms remain enigmatic. In the present study, we demonstrate that NR2F2 differentially regulates gene expression of venous versus ly...

We investigate the impossibility of solving certain problems in an unreliable distributed system where multiple processes may fail. A necessary condition is provided for the solvability of problems in the presence of multiple faulty processes, and variants of problems which are unsolvable in the presence of a single faulty pro~~s (such as consensu.s, ehoo~ing a leader, r~g, matching) are shown ...

Drawing on the social exchange paradigm, this study evaluated mediating effects of employee commitment (EC) in relationship between high-performance work practices (HPWP) and engagement (EE) Nigeria. The used theory paradigm has been previously works Blau (1964), Gouldner (1960), Settoon et al. (1996). adopts a cross-sectional survey research design via questionnaire administration. Three (vigo...

Electronic structure theory under the influence of apolar solvents suffers from substantial methodical difficulties since in this case the solvent-induced solute polarization originates mainly from specific directional interactions and higher electric multipoles. Continuum solvation models based on the dielectric solvent response such as the PCM approach ignore such interactions and can therefo...