in the present  paper electrical conductivity (ec) of colloidal gas aphron (cga) suspensions was measured for anionic and cationic surfactants (sodium dodecyl sulfate (sds) and tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (ttab)). experiments were made for different concentrations of sds (6, 8.1, 10 mm) and ttab (2, 3.51, 5 mm). cga drainage behavior was observed and measured using 1 liter measuring c...

The Terrain-Based Genetic Algorithm (TBGA) is a self-tuning version of the traditional Cellular Genetic Algorithm (CGA). In a TBGA, various combinations of parameter values appear in different physical locations of the population, forming a sort of terrain in which individual solutions evolve. We compare the performance of the TBGA against that of the CGA on a known suite of problems. Our resul...

Escherichia coli clonal group A (CGA) was first reported in 2001 as an emerging multidrug-resistant extraintestinal pathogen. Because CGA has considerable implications for public health, we examined the trends of its global distribution, clinical associations, and temporal prevalence for the years 1998-2007. We characterized 2,210 E. coli extraintestinal clinical isolates from 32 centers on 6 c...

In this retrospective study, we evaluated the chromogranin A (CgA) baseline value as a predictor of clinical outcome in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treated with abiraterone 1000 mg per day, whose disease progressed after docetaxel chemotherapy. In the 48 evaluable patients, serum CgA level was normal when <120  ng/ml (group A, n=16), within three times t...

INTRODUCTION Chromogranin A (CgA) is a non-specific marker of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) and is important in monitoring the disease course and NET treatment. AIM OF THE STUDY Usefulness of suppression test of CgA secretion with octreotide in diagnosis and predicting the therapy outcome in NET patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 32 patients with NET of gastrointestinal tract, ...

There has been considerable interest in understanding the effects of antioxidants in flap survival during diabetes. Previous studies showed that chlorogenic acid (CGA) exhibits potent antioxidant effects. We aimed to determine the effects of systemic CGA treatment on skin flap survival in an experimental random-pattern dorsal skin flap model in diabetic rats. Twenty-eight male Wistar rats were ...

In previous papers [1,2,3] relating to the concept of Combined Gravitational Action (CGA) we have established the CGA-theoretical foundations as an alternative gravity theory that already allowed us to resolve -in its contextsome unexpected and defiant problems occurred inside and outside the Solar System like, e.g., the anomalous Pioneer 10’s deceleration; the observed secular increase of the ...

This paper presents an efficient generation alternation model for real-coded genetic algorithm called rc-CGA. The most important characteristic of the proposed rcCGA model is the implicit self-adaptive feature in its crossover and mutation mechanism. By applying two crossover operators (BLX-α and UNDX crossover) in conjunction with Non-Uniform mutation to rc-CGA, respectively, we define two new...

OBJECTIVE Parietal cell antibodies (PCAs) are found in 20% of type 1 diabetic patients, denoting autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia, which may predispose to enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cell hyper/dysplasia and gastric carcinoid tumors. We evaluated whether chromogranin A (CgA), 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA), and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) contribute to screening for ECL cell h...

Chromogranin A (CgA) is widely used as an immunohistochemical marker of neuroendocrine neoplasms and has been measurable in plasma of patients. We assessed the clinical role of plasma CgA in diagnosing pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm (PNEN). CgA was checked in 44 patients with pancreatic mass who underwent surgical resection from 2009 through 2011. The cutoff value for diagnosing PNEN and th...