BACKGROUND Cigarette smoke (CS) increases oxidative stress (OS) in the lungs. Pomegranate juice (PJ) possesses potent antioxidant activities, attributed to its polyphenols. This study investigates the effects of PJ on the damaging effects of CS in an animal model and on cultured human alveolar cells (A549). METHODS Male C57BL/6J mice were divided into the following groups: Control, CS, CS + P...

Software development in distributed computation is complicated by the extra overhead of communication between connected, dispersed hosts in dynamically changing, multiple administrative domains. Many disparate technologies exist for trust management, authentication, secure communication channels, and service discovery, but composing all of these elements into a single system can outweigh princi...

Results of a 12-yr study in an oligotrophic South Carolina salt marsh demonstrate that soil respiration increased by 795 g C m22 yr21 and that carbon inventories decreased in sediments fertilized with nitrogen and phosphorus. Fertilized plots became net sources of carbon to the atmosphere, and sediment respiration continues in these plots at an accelerated pace. After 12 yr of treatment, soil m...

We present the first system developed for automated grading of high school essays written in Swedish. The system uses standard text quality indicators and is able to compare vocabulary and grammar to large reference corpora of blog posts and newspaper articles. The system is evaluated on a corpus of 1 702 essays, each graded independently by the student’s own teacher and also in a blind re-grad...

We collected samples monthly, from April to August 1998, to measure the abundance of autotrophic picoplankton in San Francisco Bay. Samples taken along a 160-km transect showed that picocyanobacteria (Synechococcus sp.) was a persistent component of the San Francisco Bay phytoplankton in all the estuarine habitats, from freshwater to seawater and during all months of the spring–summer transitio...

| We investigate a translation of SDL diagrams into the complete visual representation of Pictorial Janus (PJ) programs in order to analyze the speci cation by visual debugging and animation. We additionally introduce timing concepts to PJ (Timed PJ) for a mapping of the SDL timing statements. The concepts transforming SDL interaction and process diagrams into Timed PJ are outlined by an exampl...

Methods: Pair watch suturing technique duct to mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy (PWS-PJ) perform by absorbable-monofilament totally 12 stitches, start at 9 o'clock of pancreatic 3 jejunal side, 7 stitches posterior side and 5 anterior side. Post operative fistula was diagnosis using amylase activity on post day 7. Objectives: Investigated rate related complication conventional (C-PJ) PWS-PJ. Resul...

| This article discusses the application of Pictorial Janus (PJ) for the rapid development and analysis of protocols by animation and complete visualization. In order to make PJ applicable in the context of hardware description we rst extend PJ by timing facilities (Timed PJ) and introduce an approach for integrating VHDL models into this visual framework preserving the simulation semantics of ...

Strain JAU4234, identified as Streptomyces padanus, was isolated from soil collected in Jiangxi Province, China. It produced actinomycin X2, fungichromin, and a new polyene macrolide compound with antifungal activity, antifungalmycin 702. Antifungalmycin 702 had good general antifungal activity and may have potential future agricultural and/or clinical applications.