Nuclei are aggregates of neurons distributed in the central nervous system and are fundamental functional units that share anatomical and physiological features. Despite their importance, the cellular basis that leads to nucleogenesis is only poorly understood. Using exo utero electroporation with an enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) gene, we show that the precerebellar neurons derived...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hem-o-lok clips are safe and reliable for controlling the renal vasculature. We retrospectively evaluated the CT appearance of Hem-o-lok clips in patients who had undergone laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) or nephroureterectomy (LRU) as well as their appearance on ex vivo CT scans. METHODS Between January 2006 and December 2006, 19 patients underwent LRN or LR...

Practice Effects (PE) have been gaining interest as an early marker of pathological cognitive decline among older adults, with cognitively compromised individuals exhibiting diminished or absent PE, presumably due to reduced ability to learn. However, the opposite pattern has also been observed, with MCI participants showing larger PEs than controls. In this prospective cohort study, we examine...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate renal function in renal cancer patients undergoing radical nephrectomy (RN) or partial nephrectomy (PN) (open or laparoscopic - ORN, OPN, LRN or LPN) and to identify risk factors contributing to renal function loss. METHODS We analysed 228 consecutive renal cancer patients admitted for OPN, LPN, ORN or LRN. The variables analysed were age, gender, weight, type of surgery...

Objective: To compare the clinical safety of laparoscopic (LRN) and open radical nephrectomy (ORN) surgery for large renal tumors (>7 cm). Methods: The clinical data of the 80 patients with renal tumors more than 7 cm who underwent radical nephrectomy during June 2010 to march 2014 were collected and analyzed. LRN (observation group) were performed in 29 patients, and ORN (control group) were p...

Evaluating the oil-water temperatures in flowlines is demanding mostly deep offshore applications where flow assurance issues and dramatic heat transfer are anticipated to occur. Consequently, a 3-D mathematical model of Newtonian under non-isothermal conditions established investigate mechanisms two-phase transportation horizontal inclined flowlines. In this study, first modified then implemen...

CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is the main research method for assessing the wind environment around building complexes. Recent research showed the importance of turbulence models used in simulation and different turbulence models were developed to improve the precision of CFD simulation results. In this paper, a comparison of different turbulence models in simulating wind enviro...

The aim of the current work is to investigate a series of new subgrid models by employing the Kolmogorov equation of ltered quantities (KEF), which is an exact relation of turbulence in physical space. Di erent formulations of KEF are derived, including the forms in velocity eld (homogeneous isotropic turbulence, inhomogeneous anisotropic turbulence, homogeneous shear turbulence, homogeneous ro...

Shell models of turbulence have been employed as toy models which, in their chaotic states, show statistical properties similar to real fluid turbulence, including Kolmogorov energy spectrum and intermittency. These models are interesting because, at the present stage, it is still quite difficult or almost impossible to study relations between those traditional statistical properties and the st...

The study of compressible homogeneous shear flows has been largely analyzed in literature. Predictions for these flows require an improvement of existing turbulence models. Rapid-distortion-theory (RDT) has largely showed its relevance and its utility to identify compressibility effects which allow us to analyze performances of compressible turbulence models from the existing literature. This p...