Autoimmune diseases affect more than 50 million Americans, resulting in significant healthcare costs. Most autoimmune diseases occur sporadically; however, endemic pemphigus foliaceus (EPF) is an autoimmune skin disease localized to specific geographic loci. EPF, and the related diseases pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF), are characterized by skin lesions and autoantibodies t...

assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. in order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. the salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. due to the dominant role of ...

The early events in the cardiac hypertrophic process induced by hemodynamic load include activation of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and c-fos gene expression. However, it is unknown whether stretch acts directly or through local paracrine factors to trigger changes in cardiac gene expression. Herein we studied the involvement of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and angiotensin II (Ang II) in load-induce...

progressive collapse is defined as the spread of an initial failure from element to element, eventually resulting in the collapse of an entire structure or a disproportionately large part of it. the current progressive collapse analyses and design methods in guidelines and codes focus on the alternate load path method. this method is suitable especially in the case of blast-induced progressive ...

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...

Abstract Sintered NdFeB materials are more and widely used in the military field because of their excellent magnetic performance cost performance. The demagnetization caused by impact was discussed this paper to provide a theoretical basis for application NdFeB. Firstly, experimental platform material under built, corresponding load calibrated using thin-film piezoelectric sensor. In experiment...