Aim: It was aimed to find out simple parameters that can be used in the emergency triage and discriminate patients requiring hospitalization or blood transfusion (BT) among those presenting with macroscopic hematuria (MH).
 Material Method: Medical records of department (ED) MH were investigated retrospectively. The patients’ vital signs including pulse rate (PR), systolic pressure (SBP) d...

Coulomb explosions on silicon surfaces are studied using large-scale molecular-dynamics simulations. Processes under investigation begin by embedding a region consisting of 265–365 singly charged Si ions on a Si @111# surface. The repulsive electrostatic energy, initially stored in the charged region, leads to a local state with ultrahigh pressure and stress. During the relaxation process, part...

The Si nanopillars with high aspect ratio were fabricated by dry-etching the thin SiO(2)-covered Si substrate with a rapidly self-assembled Ni nanodot patterned mask. Aspect-ratio-dependent ultra-low reflection and anomalous luminescence of Si nanopillars are analyzed for applications in all-Si based lighting and energy transferring systems. The Si nanopillars induce an ultra-low reflectance an...

UNLABELLED We estimated the predictive power with respect to defibrillation outcome of ventricular fibrillation (VF) mean frequency (FREQ), mean peak-to-trough amplitude (AMPL), and their combination. We examined VF electrocardiogram signals of 64 pigs from 4 different cardiac arrest models with different durations of untreated VF, different durations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and use o...

The prokaryotic molecular chaperone GroE is increasingly expressed under heat shock conditions. GroE protects cells by preventing the irreversible aggregation of thermally unfolding proteins. Here, the interaction of GroE with thermally unfolding citrate synthase (CS) was dissected into several steps that occur before irreversible aggregation, and the conformational states of the unfolding prot...

BACKGROUND For hemodialysis (HD) patients, many risk factors for death are associated with each other intricately. However, they are often considered separately in clinical settings. We evaluated the maintenance HD patients' risk of death within one year from multiple risk factors simultaneously considering their interrelationships using a novel index (survival index, SI) for HD patients in the...

Rhizobia are the only bacteria known to induce a multitude of small heat shock proteins (sHsps) upon temperature upshift. The sHsps of Bradyrhizobium japonicum fall into two different classes, class A and class B. Here, we studied the chaperone activity and oligomeric features of two representative members of each class. The purified sHsps were efficient chaperones, as demonstrated by their abi...

The archael small heat-shock protein (sHSP), MjHSP16.5, forms a 24-subunit oligomer with octahedral symmetry. Here, we demonstrate that the IXI motif present in the C-terminal domain is necessary for the oligomerization of MjHSP16.5. Removal increased the in vitro chaperone activity with citrate synthase as the client protein. Less predictable were the effects of the R107G substitution in MjHSP...