Removal of VOCs by photocatalysis process using adsorption enhanced TiO2–SiO2 catalyst Linda Zou a,∗, Yonggang Luo b, Martin Hooper c, Eric Hu b a Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, Vic. 8001, Australia b School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic. 3217, Australia c Gippsland Centre for Environmental Science, Mo...

Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, 4th Floor, Clinical Sciences Building, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic. 3050, Australia. Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia. Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, 9 North, 9 Floor, City Campus, Main Block, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan Stre...

A. J . KING*, K. A. WARD , P. O’CONNOR , D. GREEN , Z. TONKIN* AND J. MAHONEY* *Freshwater Ecology, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Vic., Australia Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, Shepparton, Vic., Australia Forest Management, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Tatura, Vic., Australia Murray-...

BACKGROUND Accurately assessing changes in the quality of life of older people living permanently in nursing homes is important. The multi-attribute utility instrument most commonly used and recommended to assess health-related quality of life in the nursing home population is the three-level EuroQol EQ-5D-3L. To date, there have been no studies using the Health Utilities Index Mark III (HUI3)....

OBJECTIVE To test whether lesion site patterns in patients with chronic, severe aphasia who have no meaningful spontaneous speech are predictive of outcome following treatment with a nonverbal, icon-based computer-assisted visual communication (C-ViC) program. DESIGN Retrospective study in which computed tomographic scans performed 3 months after onset of stroke and aphasia test scores obtain...

Aortic valve (AoV) calcification is common in aged populations. Its subsequent aortic stenosis has been linked with increased morbidity, but still has no effective pharmacological intervention. Our previous data show endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is involved in AoV calcification. Here, we investigated whether deficiency of ER stress downstream effector CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homolog...

Data on inclusive jet production in the transverse-momentum (pJ.) range 0-8 GeV /c for 200-GeV/c p, 1r-, 1r+, K-, K+, and]) incident on a hydrogen target are presented. The jet cross section is fully corrected for losses and biases, and compared with the predictions of a model based on quantum chromodynamics. Both the absolute cross section and the inclusive charged-particle distributions insid...

BACKGROUND Several mapping algorithms have been published with the EORTC-QLQ-C30 for estimating EQ-5D-3L utilities. However, none are available with EQ-5D-5L. Moreover, a comparison between mapping algorithms in the same set of patients has not been performed for these two instruments simultaneously. In this prospective data set of 100 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, we investigate...

The repeatability of DNA methylation measures may also affect the power of epigenome-wide association studies From Pierre-Antoine Dugué,* Dallas R English, Robert J MacInnis, Jihoon E Joo, Chol-Hee Jung and Roger L Milne Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Uni...

Vasoactive intestinal contractor (VIC)/endothelin-2 (ET2) is a vasoactive peptide hormone comprising 21 amino acids. The complete nucleotide sequence of the full-length gene encoding preproVIC (PPVIC) was determined. The PPVIC gene contains five exons that span 6 kb and shows a duplication on exons 2 and 3, coding for the VIC and VIC-like peptides respectively. Similarities between the genomic ...