Response of renal vasculature to changes in renal perfusion pressure (RPP) involves mechanisms with different frequency characteristics. Autoregulation of renal blood flow (RBF) is mediated by the rapid myogenic response, by the slower tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) mechanism, and, possibly, by an even slower third mechanism. To evaluate the individual contribution of these mechanisms to RBF a...

The factors responsible for the development of hypertension during chronic activation of intrarenal V1receptors are unknown. We therefore tested whether medullary interstitial infusion of the selective V1-receptor agonist [Phe2,Ile3,Orn8]vasopressin (V1 agonist) influences renal antihypertensive mechanisms initiated by increased renal perfusion pressure (RPP). In intact anesthetized rabbits, th...

In this paper, we give an overview of power grid, smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), and the deployment cost analysis step by step. The importance between Relay Placement Problem (RPP) and the deployment cost in an AMI system is highlighted. Additionally, a decision supporting system in a pilot AMI system funded by National Science Council (NSC) is briefly described where RPP i...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the oncological and functional outcome of retropubic and perineal approaches to radical prostatectomy. METHOD Data from 1,304 patients who underwent either radical retropubic (RRP) or radical perineal prostatectomy (RPP) over a 12-year period were compared. Variables included age, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level preoperative, prosta...

The idea of left(right) palindromic permutations(LPPs,RPPs) and left(right) generalized Smarandache palindromic permutations(LGSPPs,RGSPPs) are introduced in symmetric groups Sn of degree n. It is shown that in Sn, there exist a LPP and a RPP and they are unique(this fact is demonstrated using S2 and S3). The dihedral group Dn is shown to be generated by a RGSPP and a LGSPP(this is observed to ...

We analyze how termination charges affect retail prices when taking into account that receivers derive some utility from a call and when firms may charge consumers for receiving calls. We assume that consumers form expectations about network sizes in a passive, but ex-post rational way. We show that RPP enlarges the set of equilibria compared to CPP. For a given termination charge and inelastic...

The importance of social responsibility of corporate and business units is increasingly emphasized by researchers and practitioners in recent years. Since supply chains play important roles in today’s business environment, the issue of social responsibility should be considered carefully when designing and planning of supply chains to move towards sustainability. This paper addresses the proble...

We experienced the growth of urethral hair along the urethral stricture six years after simultaneous urethral repair and reimplantation of penile prosthesis (RPP) in a patient with a urethral stricture. We detected hair in the urethra with a stricture on the bulbous urethra. Further, we performed hair removal by using a pair of cystoscopic forceps and internal urethrotomy. Then, we performed RP...

The Rural Postman Problem (RPP), as an Arc Routing Problem (ARP), consists of determining a minimum cost tour of a specified arc set of a graph (G=(V,A)) but, with the particularity that only a subset R (R ⊆ A) of arcs is required to be traversed at least once. RPPs are applied in a variety of practical contexts, namely the industrial interesting case of path optimization for components cutting...