AIM In traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, it is desired to monitor the intracranial pressure (ICP) to assess the cerebral haemodynamics and guide the therapy. The study was designed to see if the pulsatility index (PI) measured by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) predicts information about ICP values. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 52 TBI patients with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score < ...

Z/nZ (n = ∏k i=1 pi ei ) are defined by extending anomalous elliptic curves over a prime filed Fp. They have n points over a ring Z/nZ and pi points over Fpi for all pi. We generalize Satoh-Araki-Smart algorithm [10], [11] and Rück algorithm [9], which solve a discrete logarithm problem over anomalous elliptic curves. We prove that a “discrete logarithm problem over super-anomalous elliptic cur...

Autonomous Control Modes and Optimized Path Guidance for Shipboard Landing in High Sea States Progress Report (CDRL A001) Progress Report for Period: April 10, 2015 to July 9, 2015 PI: Joseph F. Horn 814-865-6434 [email protected] Penn State University Co-PI: John Tritschler (301) 995-1637 [email protected] U.S. Naval Test Pilot School Co-PI: Chengjian He (408) 523-5100 [email protected] Ad...

Water deficit and phosphate (Pi) deficiency adversely affect growth and biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) of legume crops. In this study, we examined the impact of interaction between soil water conditions and available soil-Pi levels on growth, nodule development and BNF potential of nine cowpea varieties grown on dry savanna soils. In our experimental design, soils with different available s...

Abstract Diverse wet adhesives were prepared from oleic acid (OA), polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), and cis -1,4-polyisoprene (PI) at different ratios for attracting trapping insects. The of (PVP-PI)/OA 1:2, 1:1 2:1 (g/g). ratio between PVP PI was 9 to 1 blends irradiated with doses 10 50 kGy. Adhesion properties, water sorption, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis s...

Human glutathione S-transferase pi (GST-pi) may serve as a useful tumor marker because of the high frequency with which it is found in elevated levels in several tumor types. To determine whether GST-pi is useful as an indicator for cancers of the head and neck, expression of GST-pi mRNA was investigated by Northern analysis in this tumor type. Overexpression of GST-pi mRNA was detected in 9 of...

ABSTRACT The resistance gene Pi-ta protects rice crops against the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea expressing the avirulence gene AVR-Pita in a gene-for-gene manner. Pi-ta, originally introgressed into japonica rice from indica origin, was previously isolated by positional cloning. In this study, we report the nucleotide sequence of a 5,113-base pair region containing a japonica susceptibili...

Homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) are mobile DNA elements that are thought to confer no benefit to their host. They encode site-specific DNA endonucleases that perpetuate the element within a species population by homing and disseminate it between species by horizontal transfer. Several yeast species contain the VMA1 HEG that encodes the intein-associated VMA1-derived endonuclease (VDE). The evo...

Granzyme B (graB) plays a pivotal role in cytotoxic lymphocyte granule-mediated apoptosis through cleavage of intracellular proteins in target cells. Proteinase inhibitor-9 (PI-9) is a potent inhibitor of graB and is highly expressed in cytotoxic lymphocytes. Here, we show by immunohistochemistry that PI-9 is also abundantly expressed in human testicular Sertoli cells and placental syncytial tr...

Clinical trials using allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are ongoing for the purpose of providing therapeutic benefit for a variety of human disorders. Pertinent to their clinical use are the accessibility to sufficient quantities of these cells allowing for repetitive administration, as well as a better understanding of the specific mechanisms by which allogeneic MSCs evade host immune r...