objective: it is a firm belief that blood transfusion is life-saving in many situations, but at the same time transfusion complications could be life-threatening. the possible effects of blood transfusion related immunomodulatory (trim) and its related mechanisms is one of the important debatable subjects in the field of blood transfusion medicine. one of the mechanisms through which transfus...

Thirty-two crossbred cattle (steers = 17; heifers = 15) exhibiting an ultrasound fat thickness at the 12 to 13th rib region of at least 10 mm were selected from a slaughter shift at a commercial packing plant. After splitting, alternating sides of each carcass were trimmed of 1) subcutaneous fat in excess of 6.4 mm; 2) all kidney, pelvic, and heart fat; and 3) all cod or udder fat and fat in th...

Cancer is a highly prevalent genetic disease and it is estimated that almost every second person will suffer from the disease during his or her life-time. Despite intensive research over the last 50 years, the development and progression of the disease is, in many cases, still incompletely understood. In the past few years, a distinctive family of proteins called the TRIM (tripartite motif), or...

We describe a floating-gate trimmed, 14-bit, 250Ms/s current-steered DAC fabricated in a 0.25μm CMOS logic process. We trim the static INL to ±0.3LSB using analog charge stored on floating-gate pFETs. The DAC occupies 0.44mm of die area, consumes 53mW at 250MHz, allows on-chip electrical trimming, and achieves 72dB SFDR at 250Ms/s. Introduction Emerging standards for communications systems requ...

Under some mild assumptions, we study the state complexity of the trim minimal automaton accepting the greedy representations of the multiples of m ≥ 2 for a wide class of linear numeration systems. As an example, the number of states of the trim minimal automaton accepting the greedy representations of mN in the Fibonacci system is exactly 2m.

Fifty foodservice purveying companies were sampled in 12 U.S. cities evenly distributed across six geographical regions. Beef whole muscle cuts (WMC) and portion control items (PCI) from the primal rib and loin were evaluated for surface fat levels. Fat thicknesses were measured on WMC before and after fabrication, whereas additional PCI were measured for fat trim levels before distribution. Th...

Deploying solid state drives (SSDs) in RAID configurations can leverage the performance of persistent storage systems into a new dimension. However, the Achilles’ heel of SSDs and, therefore, also SSD RAIDs is their write performance, especially for small random requests. To prevent a degradation of the write throughput, it is important to maintain an adequate amount of free flash capacity. Thi...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a shoe with an axialcontoured lateral branch would induce greater lateral roll of the forelimb hoof during the time between heel and toe lift-off at end of the stance phase (breakover). Animals-10 adult horses. PROCEDURE A gyroscopic transducer was placed on the hoof of the right forelimb and connected to a transmitter. Data on hoof angular velocity were collect...

Thymic selection is a tightly regulated developmental process essential for establishing central tolerance. The intensity of TCR-mediated signaling is a key factor for determining cell fate in the thymus. It is widely accepted that low-intensity signals result in positive selection, whereas high-intensity signals induce negative selection. Transmembrane adaptor proteins have been demonstrated t...