Conventional wisdom suggests that halting or reversing long-term atherosclerosis requires increasing the amount of circulating high-density lipoprotein (HDL) coursing through the vasculature. However, recent evidence seems to indicate that reducing the size of cholesterol-containing lipid plaques might be accomplished by methods that either do not raise or, in fact, lower the amount of circulat...

Psychophysical experiments have shown an equivalence between sensitivity reduction by background light and by bleaches for the human scotopic system. We have compared the effects of backgrounds and bleaches on the light-sensitive membrane-current responses of isolated rod photoreceptors from the salamander Ambystoma tigrinum. The quantum catch loss was factored out from the desensitization due ...

in order to study the intercropping arrangements of coriander (coriandrum sativum l.) and fenugreek (trigonella foenum-graecum l.), a field experiment was conducted during growing season of 2010 at agriculture research station, college of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. a randomized complete block design with three replications was used. treatments included: mono-crop of fenu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Optimal physical activity is important in attaining a peak bone mass. Physically active women have better bone mineral density and reduce fracture risk as compared to females living a sedentary life. The objective of this study was to compare parameters of bone profile and serum homocysteine levels in physically active and non-active postmenopausal females. METHODS I...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of cigarette smoke inhalation (CSI) and its cessation on tibiae bone quality. Forty-one male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: Group 1--control (n = 14), Group 2--3 months of CSI and 2 months without exposure to CSI (n = 12), and Group 3--5 months of CSI (n = 15). At the end of the experimental period, the anim...

We consider a random matrix model of interaction between a small n-level system, S, and its environment, a N-level heat reservoir, R. The interaction between S and R is modeled by a tensor product of a fixed n n × matrix and a N N × Hermitian random matrix. We show that under certain ‘macroscopicity’ conditions on R, the reduced density matrix of the system Tr S R S R (eq) ρ ρ = ∪ , is given by...

in order to evaluate the yield, yield components and protein contents of two wheat cultivars (zarrin and gaspard) in sole cropping and intercropping systems,an experiment was conducted using replacement serious technique and different combinations of intercropping with high plant density and optimal of each cultivar. a factorial experiment was conducted in the form of randomized complete block ...