Mutations affecting transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily receptors, activin receptor-like kinase (ALK)-1, and endoglin (ENG) occur in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). To determine whether the TGF-β/ALK1/ENG pathway was involved in PAH, we investigated pulmonary TGF-β, ALK1, ALK5, and ENG expressions in human lung tissue and cultured pulmonary-artery smooth-mus...

System identification involves identification of a behavioral model that best explains the measured behavior of a structure. This research uses a strategy of generation and iterative filtering of multiple candidate models for system identification. The task of model filtering is supported by measurement cycles. During each measurement cycle, the location for subsequent measurement can be chosen...

RecoMMended citAtion: PUPOVAC, Vanja; BILIC-ZULLE, Lidija; PETROVECKI, Mladen (2008). �On academic plagiarism in Europe. An analytic approach based on four studies”. In: R. COMAS, J. SUREDA (coords.). �Academic cyberplagiarism” [online dossier]. Digithum. No. 10. UOC. [Accessed: dd/mm/yy] ISSN 1575-2275 Dossier “Academi...

Wireless body-area network (WBAN) is an emerging area that combines health care and comsumer electronics applications, and its standardization is still in progress. The WPAN standards such as IEEE802.15.4 and 4a do not meet the WBAN requirements such as energy efficiency on the body, scalable QoS, and inter-networks isolation summarized in Fig. 6.9.1. Due to energy absorption in the human tissu...

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is published by the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Review Ion-Exchange Resins: A Retrospective from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Spiro D. Alexandratos Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2009, 48 (1), 388-398 • DOI: 10.1021/ie801242v • Publication Date (Web): 26 November 2008 Downloaded from http://pubs....

Compared to human-engineered artifacts, biological systems are strikingly powerful: they are reliable and flexible, capable of storing information at incredible density, and — most importantly — able to self-replicate. In many ways, biology, when viewed as a technology, is vastly superior to any other. Scientists have been modifying biological systems for many years — both to better understand ...

The relation between the equivalent roughness and different grain size percentiles of the sediment in gravel-bed rivers was determined under the hypothesis that the vertical distribution of the flow velocity follows a logarithmic law. A set of 954 data points was selected from rivers with gravel size sediment or larger, with a non-sinuous alignment and free of vegetation or obstacles. According...