(1) International Consultant, Academy of Veterinary Medicine of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] (2) Professor at the Department of Fisheries Engineering and Researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences/UFC, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. National Council for Scientifical Technological Development (CNPq) Researcher. Correspondence to: Regin...

We present the UFC (Unconnected From Connected) algorithm which discovers both connected and disconnected frequent graphs. It discovers connected frequent graphs by means of any existing graph mining algorithm and then joins these graphs with each other creating unconnected frequent graphs with increasing number of connected components. We compare our method with previously proposed UGM algorit...

Objectives Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to stressors, but links to neurophysiological and neuroanatomical changes are unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine whether stress-induced cortisol alters negative feedback on pituitary corticotroph function and pituitary volume. Design Prospective controlled stu...

OBJECTIVE To determine which parameter is the most useful screening test for hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal suppression in asthmatic children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Paediatric allergy clinics in Cape Town, South Africa. PARTICIPANTS 143 asthmatic children of mostly mixed ancestry, aged 5-12 years. OUTCOME MEASURES Primary outcome measures included Spearman correlation co...

OBJECTIVE Muscular exercise induces hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation and when regularly repeated, as in endurance training, leads to HPA axis adaptation. To assess whether non-professional endurance-trained (ET) men with a substantial training load and no clinical or biological features of HPA axis overactivity can present subtle alterations of HPA axis sensitivity to glucoco...

SUMMARY Cushing's syndrome is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Although surgery is the first-line treatment, drugs can still play a role as an ancillary treatment to be employed while waiting for surgery, after unsuccessful operation or in patients unsuitable for surgery. We were asked to evaluate a 32-year-old male waiting for cardiac transplantation. Idiopathic hypokinetic c...

Laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC and Institute of Biomedicine of the Brazilian Semiarid/ INCT/CNPq: MD, MSc; MD, PhD, Full Professor of Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC; MD, Medical Doctor of the Brasília Base Hospital; MSc, PhD, Associate Professor of the Medicine Course of the Christus Faculty; DVM; DVM, PhD, Professor of the Superior School of Agriculture...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is responsible for the design and implementation of Canada’s deep geological repository (DGR), which will be constructed ~ 500 m below ground surface to safely contain isolate used nuclear fuel. Used fuel containers (UFC), designed by NWMO as part multi-barrier system DGR, comprises an inner steel core with outer copper layer that serves a corros...

Peat soil is widely distributed in the Dianchi Lake area of Yunnan, and effect cement deep-mixing method on peat foundation mainly affected by humic acid (HA). In this paper, a composite curing agent formed adding different proportions ultra-fine (UFC) to ordinary Portland (OPC) used cure HA-containing cohesive soil. Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray...

The peat soil in the Dianchi Lake area of Yunnan, China, is widely distributed, bringing many problems to engineering. foundation usually treated by cement mixing method, and reinforcement effect cemented mainly affected humic acid (HA). Ultra-fine (UFC) can improve performance reduce consumption, decreasing CO2 emissions impact human activities on environment. Simulated soils different environ...