INTRODUCTION Our goal in this combined modeling and experimental study was to gain insight into the transmembrane potential changes in defibrillation conditions, namely, when shocks are delivered by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Two hypotheses concerning the presence and characteristics of virtual electrode effects (VEE) during an ICD shock were tested numerically and experim...

We conducted studies with mice, rats, and monkeys which demonstrated the ability of glucan to induce either nonspecific or specific enhancement of host resistance to infectious diseases. Intravenous pretreatment of mice with glucan significantly enhanced the survival of mice challenged with either Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus or Rift Valley fever virus. Pretreatment was benef...

Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus associated with sporadic outbreaks in human and equid populations in the Western Hemisphere. After the bite of an infected mosquito, the virus initiates a biphasic disease: a peripheral phase with viral replication in lymphoid and myeloid tissues, followed by a neurotropic phase with infection of central nervous system (C...

Using the idea of a quasi-coincedence of a fuzzy point with a fuzzy set, the concept of an (α, β)-fuzzy bi-ideal in ordered semigroups is introduced, which is a generalization of the concept of a fuzzy bi-ideal in ordered semigroups and some interesting characterizations theorems are obtained. A special attention is given to (∈,∈ ∨q)-fuzzy bi-ideals. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 06F...

In this paper, we characterize when the radical $\sqrt{I}$ of every interior ideal $I$ a semigroup $S$ is subsemigroup $S$. Also, (or right or left quasi-ideal bi-ideal subsemigroup) an bi-ideal)

Abstract Brooks and Makover developed a combinatorial model of random hyperbolic surfaces by gluing certain ideal triangles. In this paper, we show that for any $\epsilon>0$, as the number triangles goes to infinity, generic surface in Brooks–Makover’s has Cheeger constant less than $\frac {3}{2\pi }+\epsilon $.

In this paper, as a further generalization of ideals, we introduce the notion symmetric bi-interior ideal quasi ideal, bi-ideal and interior semigroup study properties ideals simple semigroup.

The structurally correlated dihedral angles epsilon and zeta are known for their large variability within the B-DNA backbone. We have used molecular modelling to study both energetic and mechanical features of these variations which can produce BI/BII transitions. Calculations were carried out on DNA oligomers containing either YpR or RpY dinucleotides steps within various sequence environments...

Scheme. Gentry starts with a definition of an abstract scheme using rings and ideals, omitting instantiation details at first. His scheme is as follows (additional remarks appear after the description): KeyGen(R,BI). On input a ring R and the basis BI of an ideal I, this randomised algorithm generates via (Bsk J , B pk J ) ←R IdealGen(R,BI) two bases for an ideal J and outputs the public key pk...

We have prepared a murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) capable of distinguishing between wild-type Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus and the TC-83 vaccine derivative. This MAb, 1A2B-10, was derived from immunization with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the first 19 amino acids of the E2 glycoprotein of Trinidad donkey VEE virus. The MAb reacts with prototype viruses from all nat...