Thromboelastography® (TEG®) is used to guide clinical decision-making across many medical and surgical subspecialties. Advances in this field have resulted in analyzers becoming increasingly user friendly, and have led to a reduction in the possibility of user error. The new TEG®6s does not come with the warnings of vibration and movement avoidance of its predecessor. It was decided to test the...

BaBiO3 is a material where formally Bi 4+ ions with the half-filled 6s-states form the alternating set of Bi and Bi ions resulting in a charge ordered insulator. The charge ordering is accompanied by the breathing distortion of the BiO6 octahedra (extension and contraction of the Bi-O bond lengths). Standard Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations fail to obtain the crystal structure insta...

Two families A and B of sets are said to be cross-intersecting if each set in A intersects each set in B. For any two integers n and k with 1 6 k 6 n, let ([n] 6k ) denote the family of subsets of {1, . . . , n} of size at most k, and let Sn,k denote the family of sets in ([n] 6k ) that contain 1. The author recently showed that if A ⊆ ( [m] 6r ) , B ⊆ ( [n] 6s ) , and A and B are cross-interse...

Sea-urchin sperm tails (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) were obtained by amputation in synthetic sea water and were purified by differential centrifugation. Most of the arms of the outer nine doublets and soluble matrix proteins were removed by this treatment. The central pairs of microtubules were dissolved by dialysis against EDTA at pH 7.5. The extract contained essentially a single component...

Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite imageries are widely used for various remote sensing applications because they easy to access free download. A precise atmospheric correction is necessary be applied the optical so that derived information becomes more accurate reliable. In this study, performance of algorithms (i.e., 6S, FLAASH, DOS, LaSRC, Sen2Cor) was evaluated by comparing object's spectra...

We address a growing interest in trapping and cooling of mixed-species alkali-metal atoms. Long-range coefficients that arise in the multipole expansion of molecular potentials for unlike alkali-metal dimers are calculated. The coefficients for the heteronuclear alkali-metal dimers corresponding to different molecular symmetries that separate to nS-n8S ,nS-n8P ,nS-n8D , and nP-n8P atomic levels...

Legionella pneumophila is a Gram-negative opportunistic human pathogen that infects and multiplies in a broad range of phagocytic protozoan and mammalian phagocytes. Based on the observation that small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) play an important role in controlling virulence-related genes in several pathogenic bacteria, we attempted to identify sRNAs expressed by L. pneumophila. We used computati...

Heparin- and heparan sulfate-like glycosaminoglycans (HLGAGs) represent an important class of molecules that interact with and modulate the activity of growth factors, enzymes, and morphogens. Of the many biological functions for this class of molecules, one of its most important functions is its interaction with antithrombin III (AT-III). AT-III binding to a specific heparin pentasaccharide se...