The aim of this study was to investigate radioprotective effect of the polysaccharides from soybean meal (SMP) against X-ray radiation-induced damage in mouse spleen lymphocytes. MTT and comet assay were performed to evaluate SMP's ability to prevent cell death and DNA damage induced by radiation. The results show that, X-ray radiation (30 KV, 10 mA, 8 min (4 Gy)) can significantly increase cel...

This paper presents an effective approach to significantly improve the electrical properties and recovery performance of shape memory polymer (SMP) nanocomposites that are able for Joule heating triggered shape recovery. Reduced graphene oxide (GO) is self-assembled and grafted onto the carbon fibers to enhance the interfacial bonding with the SMP matrix via van der Waals and covalent crosslink...

An efficient parallel iterative method for unstructured grids developed by the authors for SMP cluster architectures on the GeoFEM platform is presented. The method is based on a 3-level hybrid parallel programming model, including message passing for inter-SMP node communication, loop directives by OpenMP for intra-SMP node parallelization and vectorization for each processing element (PE). Si...

Introduction MBRs (membrane bioreactors) are a recent innovation of the activated sludge process, which eliminates many constraints associated with the traditional gravity settling. Nevertheless, it suffer membrane fouling. The colloidal and macromolecular fraction of MBR sludge has been reported as the main foulant of MBR systems. SMP can be classified into BAP (biomass associated products) an...

Students have learning style preferences that are often classified according to their visual (V), aural (A), read-write (R), and/or kinesthetic (K) sensory modality preferences (SMP). The purposes of this investigation were to compare student perceived and assessed SMPs and examine the associations between those SMPs and status (i.e., undergraduates vs. graduates), sex, and course performance. ...

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is a potent fibrotic factor responsible for the synthesis of extracellular matrix (ECM) and is implicated as the major determinant in pathogenesis of chronic fibroses, including kidney. The novel small compound SMP-534 reduced ECM production induced by TGF-beta in fibroblast cells. SMP-534 inhibited TGF-beta-induced p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase...

مادة آلی محلول رنگی (CDOM) مقیاس مهمی در سنجش کیفیت آب است. می‌توان اذعان کرد CDOM نور موجود لایه‌های را کاهش می‌دهد و فعالیت‌های بیولوژیکی فتوسنتز مختل می‌کند سرانجام، مانع رشد جمعیت فیتوپلانکتون‌‌هایی می‌شود که برای زنجیرة غذای آبزیان ضروری‌اند. بیشتر تحقیق‌هایی تا کنون به انجام رسیده، از طول موج خاصی اندازه‌گیری ضریب جذب استفاده شده است اما، این تحقیق، امکان گسترة‌ وسیعی باندهای طیف مرئی، تع...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to determine the efficacy of the antimalarial artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) artesunate +sulfamethoxypyrazine/pyrimethamine (As+SMP), administered in doses used for malaria, to treat Schistosoma haematobium in school aged children. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The study was conducted in Djalakorodji, a peri-urban area of Bamako, Mali, using a...

BLAST is a tool for finding biologically similar sequences to given query sequences in annotated sequence database. Since the number of sequences in the database increases at exponential rate, and the number of users drastically increases, the performance of BLAST is a primary concern to service sites like NCBI. NCBI developed a parallel BLAST for the speedup of BLAST using threads on SMP machi...