BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE THE ELECTRO SENSOR COMPLEX (ESC) IS SOFTWARE THAT COMBINES THREE DEVICES USING BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE, GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE, AND SPECTROPHOTOMETRY: (1) ES-BC (Electro Sensor-Body Composition; LD Technology, Miami, FL) to assess body composition, (2) EIS-GS (Electro Interstitial Scan-Galvanic Skin; LD Technology) to predict autonomic nervous system activity, and (3) ES ...

OBJECTIVE Ischemia-modified albumin (IMA), a novel biochemical marker, is known to reflect ischemia in early phases of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In the present study, we evaluated the role of IMA on the prediction of coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden and ischemic burden in patients with non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTEACS). PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-six cons...

Angiosperm genome sizes (GS) range c. 2400-fold, and as nucleic acids are amongst the most phosphorus- (P) and nitrogen (N)-demanding cellular biomolecules, we test the hypothesis that a key influence on plant biomass and species composition is the interaction between N and P availability and plant GS. We analysed the impact of different nutrient regimes on above-ground biomass of angiosperm sp...

Fibrinogen (Fib) is a useful marker for predicting the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in adult population. However, whether Fib can be a predictor for the presence and severity of CAD in very young MI patients (≤35 years old) remains to be determined. A total of 418 males from 61,863 patients with MI who were under 35 years old were sequentially recruited in our study. The patients w...

The Roegneria of Triticeae is a large genus including about 130 allopolyploid species. Little is known about its high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs). Here, we reported six novel HMW-GS genes from R. nakaii and R. alashanica. Sequencing indicated that Rny1, Rny3, and Ray1 possessed intact open reading frames (ORFs), whereas Rny2, Rny4, and Ray2 harbored in-frame stop codons. All of...

The crystal structure of glutamine synthetase (GS) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis determined at 2.4 A resolution reveals citrate and AMP bound in the active site. The structure was refined with strict 24-fold noncrystallographic symmetry (NCS) constraints and has an R-factor of 22.7% and an R-free of 25.5%. Multicopy refinement using 10 atomic models and strict 24-fold NCS constraints further ...

Governments design and implement policies to achieve a variety of goals, but perhaps none are as pressing shifting national economies away from non-renewable fuels towards more sustainable, environmentally-friendly technologies. To incentivize such transitions, governments provide subsidies private public companies innovate, i.e., engage in research development (R&D) develop those However, ...

Let C r ((0; 1]) denote the metric space of C r self-maps of 0; 1] and C s;r ((0; 1]) denote the metric space of C s families of maps in C r ((0; 1]) with the parameter space 0; 1]. Let Hs;r be the unimodal families with non-constant topological entropy in C s;r ((0; 1]). We show that for s 0, r 2, there is an open and dense subset Gs;r of Hs;r such that each family in Gs;r has a map with a hom...

Suppose that the consumption side of a constant returns production economy is described by an excess demand function f: R’,, -+ R’ satisfying the usual properties of continuity, homogeneity of degree zero, and p. f( p) = 0 for all p. A property of central importance is the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference (WA). The excess demand function f satisfies WA iff(p)#f(q) and q.f(p)O....

Nitrogen fixation is tightly regulated in Rhodospirillum rubrum at two different levels: transcriptional regulation of nif expression and posttranslational regulation of dinitrogenase reductase by reversible ADP-ribosylation catalyzed by the DRAT-DRAG (dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyltransferase-dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase) system. We report here the characterization of...