Background: The use of biomarkers for diagnosis of Preeclampsia (PE), a life-threatening pregnancy disorder, could reduce serious complications of this disease. In this study, we investigated dysregulation of endoglin (Eng) expression and diagnostic accuracy of soluble endoglin (sEng) in PE patients. Methods: For this case-control study, 26 mild and 15 severe preeclamptic women along with 20 no...

1Student Member of JSCE, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi (Takeda 4-3-11, Kofu 400-8511, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 2Member of JSCE, Dr. of Eng., Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi (Takeda 4-3-11, Kofu 400-8511, Japan) 3Dr. of Eng., UMR HydroSciences Montpe...

This study examines the predictive capability of our recently proposed reaction mechanism (Norinaga and Deutschmann, Ind Eng Chem Res 2007, 46, 3547) for hydrocarbon pyrolysis at varying temperature. The conventional flow reactor experiments were conducted at 8 kPa, over the temperature range 1073–1373 K, using ethylene, acetylene, and propylene as reactants to validate the mechanism. More than...

The wear of polymer-based materials is connected to their brittleness. We have previously formulated a quantitative definition of brittleness in terms of elongation at break and storage modulus for thermoplastic polymers. We provide a formula connecting brittleness to viscoelastic recovery (healing) after sliding wear. Our model fits a selection of ten thermoplastics representing several classe...

Comparison of cloud statistics from spaceborne lidar systems S. Berthier, P. Chazette, J. Pelon, and B. Baum Service d’Aéronomie du CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, 4, Place Jussieu – 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Laboratoire mixte CEA-CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Space Science and Engineering...

728 J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 56, No. 9, 2008 September T he audio forensics community eagerly returned to Denver in June for another successful AES conference. The AES 33rd International Conference, Audio Forensics—Theory and Practice, picked up where the successful 26th Conference left off in 2005. With 2008 marking the 60th anniversary of the Audio Engineering Society, the 33rd Conference was...

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–In recent years, voltage instability has been responsible for many major network collapses throughout the world; hence the growing interest of power engineers and researchers to address this problem. This thesis provides an introduction to the concepts and definitions related to voltage stability problems in power systems. It also gives a concise description of the stability problems of the di...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A 6-base insertion (6bINS) polymorphism in intron 7 of the endoglin gene (ENG), which codes for a component of the transforming growth factor-beta receptor complex, was reported to be associated with intracranial aneurysm (IA) in a Japanese population. A recent report using a white population could not replicate the association. We tested for this association with high st...

Three pointing devices (mouse, touch pad, touch screen) were evaluated for usability with a WindowsTM-style menu selection task while in a moving off-road environment. A pilot study determined which commercially available devices had the potential to promote good performance in the environment. Eighteen subjects performed a series of complex pointing tasks that simulated the use of a standard a...