BACKGROUND Determination of the severity of appendicitis and differentiation between complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis are clinically important. Severe appendicitis frequently affects extraperitoneal spaces. We have investigated CT findings of retroperitoneal space (RPS) in patients with appendicitis to create a model for identification of complicated appendicitis. METHOD CT images o...

This study explores various scenarios and flexibility mechanisms to integrate high penetrations of renewable energy into the US (United States) power grid. A linear programming model e POWER (Power system Optimization With diverse Energy Resources) e is constructed and used to (1) quantify flexibility cost-benefits of geographic aggregation, renewable overgeneration, storage, and flexible elect...

RPs (ribosomal proteins) are main components of the ribosome having essential functions in its biogenesis, function and structural integrity. Although most of the RP molecules are in the cytoplasm, being incorporated into translating ribosomes, some RPs have non-ribosomal functions when they are off ribosomal subunits. Notably, in eukaryotes, RPs are also present at transcription sites and some...

Male growing pigs were fed a diet containing 250 g/kg of native corn starch (CS; 26% amylose, 74% amylopectin) or 250 g/kg of raw potato starch (RPS), as examples of digestible starch and resistant starch (Type II), respectively. Whole-tract digestibilities of organic matter, crude protein and starch were greater in pigs fed CS than in those fed RPS through at least d 23 of the study. However, ...

Pharmacokinetic (PK) studies of radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) are distinctive because small concentrations active ingredients. Whereas methods applicable to non-RP medicinal products cannot be used for RPs, radionuclide can provide an insight into behaviour. The aim the study was compare approaches pre-clinical PK evaluation RPs and other products. article describes main aspects non-RPs, defining ...

Four atrazine-resistant mutants from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis were isolated. Sequence analysis revealed three different mutant strains carrying mutations in the herbicide-binding pocket: i) MAV 2: L212-Glu----Lys, ii) MAV 3: L216-Phe----Ser and iii) MAV 4 = MAV 5: L217-Arg----His, L220-Val----Leu. Except MAV 3 all Rps. viridis mutants are different from those selected by th...

Abstract Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum (Rps), previously known as R. solanacearum phylotypes I and III is one of the causal agents bacterial wilt, a devastating disease that affects more than 250 plant species. Emerging Rps strains were identified infecting new hosts. P824 strain was isolated from blueberry in Florida. including PD7123 hybrid tea roses several countries through Europe. P781 repr...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has a high level of genetic variation in fruit color, which is an important quality trait considered by breeders and consumers. The stripe color pattern determined the green (gs) locus observed only peel tissue tomato. Using two different F2 populations (351 97 individuals), we mapped gs to long arm chromosome 7 found that it cosegregated with TOMATO AGAMOUS-LIKE 1...

It is assumed that many measurement programs fail because of the lack of normative models to assess a measurement program in advance. Our last years ESCOM presentation was about enhancing GQM with the characteristics of software development and software products. This enhancement improves the definition process of a measurement program. Schlumberger RPS is continuing its measurement program suc...

High performance, small code size, and good scalability are important requirements for software implementations of multi-precision arithmetic algorithms to fit resource-limited embedded systems. In this paper, we describe optimization techniques to speed up multi-precision multiplication and squaring on the AVR ATmega series of 8-bit microcontrollers. First, we present a new approach to perform...