AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the changes in the left atrial (LA) shape and to identify the determinants of these changes in chronic mitral regurgitation (MR). METHODS AND RESULTS We enrolled 125 consecutive patients (56 ± 16 years, 51% men) with chronic MR caused by myxomatous mitral valve disease in sinus rhythm and 45 control patients (54 ± 15 years, 55% men) undergoing transtho...

Carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals (cCNC) are highly dispersible particles useful in many industries. In particular, they can be applied to form Pickering emulsions and foams for “green” applications the cosmetics, pharmaceutical industry or food processing. We demonstrated that carboxylated enhance foamability foam stability when mixed with cationic surfactant ethyl lauroyl arginate (LAE), ha...

Biodegradable colloidal particle materials are becoming attractive candidates as eco-friendly chemical additives in the low-carbon economy era. However, developing cheap, stable, and efficient paper-sizing agents is still a challenging issue for both paper-making academic community industry. Here, an easy-fabricating, high-performance alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA) emulsion that stabilized by...

Endothelial dysfunction has been recognized as a pathophysiologic mechanism in the progression of heart failure (HF). However, little attention has been given to the ability of dietary approaches to improve endothelial function. This study examined the effects of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet on endothelial function, exercise capacity, and quality of life in patients w...

This paper extends the derivation of the Lagrangian averaged Euler (LAEα) equations to the case of barotropic compressible flows. The aim of Lagrangian averaging is to regularize the compressible Euler equations by adding dispersion instead of artificial viscosity. Along the way, the derivation of the isotropic and anisotropic LAE-α equations is simplified and clarified. The derivation in this ...

Biofilm formation is one of the main obstacles in membrane treatment. The non-oxidizing biocide ethyl lauroyl arginate (LAE) promising for mitigating biofilm development on surfaces. However, operating conditions LAE and their impact detachment are not comprehensively understood. In this study, a real-time vitro flow cell system was utilized to observe dispersal caused by shear rate, concentrat...

Serotonin plays a role at the pathophysiology of depression in humans and in experimental models. The present study investigated the depressive behavior and the weigh evolution in adult rats (60 days) treated from the 1st to the 21st postnatal day with fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (10 mg/kg, sc, daily). The depressive behavior was induced by the forced swim test (FST). T...

Abstract We present a new catalog of 9318 Ly ? emitter (LAE) candidates at z = 2.2, 3.3, 4.9, 5.7, 6.6, and 7.0 that are photometrically selected by the SILVERRUSH program with machine learning technique from large area (up to 25.0 deg 2 ) imaging data six narrowband filters taken Subaru Strategic Program Hyper Suprime-Cam intensive program, Cosmic HydrOgen Reionization Unveiled Subaru. constru...

Abstract The present work deals with the study of first three harmonics of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains of cosmic ray intensity over the period 1991-1994 for Deep River neutron monitoring station. It is observed that the diurnal time of maximum remains in the co-rotational direction; whereas, the time of maximum for both diurnal and semi-diurnal anisotropy has significantly shifted tow...

Broadband frequency-selective fading channels usually have the inherent sparse nature. By exploiting the sparsity, adaptive sparse channel estimation (ASCE) methods, e.g., reweighted L1-norm least mean square (RL1-LMS), could bring a performance gain if additive noise satisfying Gaussian assumption. In real communication environments, however, channel estimation performance is often deteriorate...