BACKGROUND It has been previously demonstrated that extracorporeal low-energy shock-wave (SW) therapy ameliorates left ventricular (LV) remodeling through enhanced angiogenesis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in pigs in vivo. However, it remains to be examined whether SW therapy also exerts anti-inflammatory effects on AMI. METHODS AND RESULTS: AMI was created by ligating the proximal l...

Cancer is still the major cause of death across the world. Regular approaches cannot effectively solve the emerging problems, including drug/radiation resistance, side effects, and therapeutic ineffectiveness. Natural dietary supplements have shown effectiveness in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Sarsaparilla (Smilax Glabra Rhizome) has growth-inhibitory effects on several cancer cell l...

BACKGROUND Lack of data on skin whitening (SW) among Cameroonian female university students prompted us to undertake the present study which aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitudes, practices and motivations of female university students vis-a-vis SW. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted from January to April 2013 in 4 university campuses of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Any female stu...

Quality problems in information systems and software (IS/SW) are common technological problems. A number of different development methods and mature models have been proposed to address these challenges. Recent research on agile and lean SW development methods suggests that companies often speed up IS/SW development by omitting necessary quality procedures. While agile methods are commonly used...

In SoC design, the software becomes more and more significant to meet short time-to-market constraints as well as to exploit its reprogrammability. Since most of SoC design cycle is spent in validation, designers need to have a fast validation of SW design to achieve a real reduction in design cycle. The SW validation needs also to be accurate in terms of SW timing and in the context of the ent...

A set of physical theories is represented by a nonempty subset {SVNj | j ∈ IN} of the lattice of consequence operators defined on a language Λ. It is established that there exists a unifying injection S defined on the nonempty set of significant representations for naturalsystems M ⊂ Λ. If W ∈ M, then SW is a hyperfinite ultralogic and ⋃ {SVNj (W) | j ∈ IN} = SW( W) ∩ Λ. A “product” hyperfinite...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stones break better when the rate of shockwave (SW) delivery is slowed. It has been hypothesized that the greater cavitation accompanying a fast rate shields pulse propagation, thus interfering with the delivery of SW energy to the stone. We tested this idea by correlating waveforms measured at the SW focus with cavitation viewed using high-speed imaging. MATERIALS AND ...

Swainsonine (1, 2, 8-trihyroxyindolizidine, SW), a natural alkaloid, has been reported to exhibit anti-cancer activity on several mouse models of human cancer and human cancers in vivo. However, the mechanisms of SW-mediated tumor regression are not clear. In this study, we investigated the effects of SW on several human lung cancer cell lines in vitro. The results showed that SW significantly ...

Swainsonine (SW) is a toxin produced by locoweeds and harmful to the livestock industry. Degrading SW by Arthrobacter sp. HW08 was demonstrated as a promising way to deal with SW poisoning. However, it is unknown which part of the subcellular enzymes in Arthrobacter sp. HW08 is responsible for biodegrading SW and whether the metabolites are atoxic. In this study, intracellular and extracellular...

Objectives: The objective of this study is to report on the development of an instrument to assess non-physical aspects of physical activity (PA) -related self-worth (SW). Methods: Three hundred thirty five women (mean age = 36.69 ± 15.94 yrs, BMI = 24.87 ± 4.56) completed the Women’s Physical Activity Self-Worth Inventory (WPASWI), General SW Scale, and a PA Questionnaire. Rasch analysis was u...