Neodymium (Nd) isotopes are considered a valuable tracer of modern and past ocean circulation. However, the promise of Nd isotope as a water mass tracer is hindered because there is not an entirely self-consistent model of the marine geochemical cycle of rare earth elements (REEs, of which Nd is one). That is, the prevailing mechanisms to describe the distributions of elemental and isotopic Nd ...

Evidence on cognitive abilities and driving activity's self-confidence associated with difficulty in performing among post-stroke patients is still insufficient. Therefore, the cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate association between survivors' patients. The findings indicated a significant (p<0.05) ability age status. Moreover, status shows (p <0.05) self-confidence. an occ...

We study numerically the collapse of massless scalar elds in two-dimensional dilaton gravity, both classically and semiclassically. At the classical level, we nd that the black hole mass scales at threshold like M bh / jp ? p j , where ' 0:53. At the semiclassical level, we nd that in general M bh approaches a non-zero constant as p ! p. Thus, quantum eeects produce a mass gap not present class...

Background: Nandrolone decanoate (ND) is an anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) which influences the ovarian structure and function. We assessed the effects of ND on the ovarian volume, number of primordial follicles, and level of hormones and also evaluated the modulatory effects of gonadotropins on the histopathological changes imposed by the administration of ND. Methods: Six groups of Sprague...

Title Eccentric Abscess Due to Bile Duct Microperforation Caused by Self-expandable Metal Stent and Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Author(s) Kuwatani, Masaki; Kawamoto, Yasuyuki; Nakamura, Toru Citation Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 14(5): A29-A30 Issue Date 2016-05 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65182 Right © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0...

Reaction of (CpSiMe(3))(3)U or (CpSiMe(3))(3)Nd with (Cp*Al)(4) or Cp*Ga (Cp* = C(5)Me(5)) afforded the isostructural complexes (CpSiMe(3))(3)M-ECp* (M = U, E = Al (1); M = U, E = Ga (2); M = Nd, E = Al (3); M = Nd, E = Ga (4)). In the case of 1 and 2 the complexes were isolated in 39 and 90% yields, respectively, as crystalline solids and were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction,...