Jeju water is the groundwater of Jeju Island, a volcanic island located in Republic of Korea. We investigated whether Jeju water improved glycemic control in patients with diabetes. This was a 12-week single-center, double-blind, randomized, and controlled trial. The subjects daily drank a liter of one of three kinds of water: two Jeju waters (S1 and S2) and Seoul tap water (SS). The primary ou...

Developing organic optoelectronic materials with desired photophysical properties has always been at the forefront of organic electronics. The variation of singlet-triplet splitting (ΔEST) can provide useful means in modulating organic excitons for diversified photophysical phenomena, but controlling ΔEST in a desired manner within a large tuning scope remains a daunting challenge. Here, we dem...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the surface roughness of IPS Empress 2 ceramic when treated with different finishing/polishing protocols. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen specimens of IPS Empress 2 ceramic were made from wax patterns obtained using a stainless steel split mold. The specimens were glazed (Stage 0-S0, control) and divided into two groups. The specimens in Group 1 (G1) were finished/polished...

A Furuta pendulum is a serial connection of two thin, rigid links, where the first link is actuated by a vertical control torque while it is constrained to rotate in a horizontal plane; the second link is not actuated. The second link of the conventional Furuta pendulum is constrained to rotate in a vertical plane orthogonal to the first link, under the influence of gravity. Methods of geometri...

bordetella pertussis is a gram negative bacterium that causes respiratory tract infection in human (whooping cough). pertussis toxin (pt) is the main component of current acellular pertussis vaccine and the s1 (subunit1) is the main immunogenic part of it. thus, s1 has been the target of many studies as a potent candidate of acellular vaccine against bordetella pertussis, lacking the side effec...

Frontoparietal white matter supports information transfer between brain areas involved in complex haptic tasks such as somatosensory discrimination. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the relationship between microstructural integrity of frontoparietal network white matter and haptic performance in persons with chronic stroke and to compare frontoparietal network integrit...

BACKGROUND MicroRNA (miRNA)-mediated control of gene expression suggests that miRNAs are interesting targets and/or biomarkers in the treatment of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders, where often memory-associated gene expression is adversely affected. METHODS The role of miRNAs in the rescue of impaired fear extinction was assessed using the 129S1/SvlmJ (S1) mouse model of impaired fear ex...

[S1,Q15=MAC15(S1), P13=MAC13(S1,Q15)] [S2,Q25=MAC25(S2),P23=MAC23(S2,Q25)] [S4,Q46=MAC46(S4),P45=MAC45(S4,Q46)] Q36=MAC36(S1|S2|S3) P35=MAC35(S3, S1|S2, Q15, Q25, Q36) [S3, (S1|S2), Q15, Q25, Q36, P35] Q5B= MAC5B(S1|S2|S3|S4|S5) P56=MAC56(S5, (S1|S2|S3|S4),Q36,Q46,Q5B) [S5, (S1|S2|S3|S4),Q36, Q46, Q5B, P56] P6B=MAC6B(S6, ((S1|S2|S3|S4 |S5)| S7|S8),Q5B,Q7B,Q8B) [S6, ((S1|S2|S3|S4 |S5)| S7|S8),Q5...

We give precise conditions under which the real interpolation space [Y0, X1]θ,p coincides with a closed subspace of [X0, X1]θ,p when Y0 is a closed subspace of codimension one. We then apply this result to nonharmonic Fourier series in Sobolev spaces Hs(−π, π) when 0 < s < 1. The main result: let E be a family of exponentials exp(iλnt) and E forms an unconditional basis in L2(−π, π). Then there...

It is generally believed that prokaryotic translation is initiated by the interaction between the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence in the 5' UTR of an mRNA and the anti-SD sequence in the 3' end of a 16S ribosomal RNA. However, there are two exceptional mechanisms, which do not require the SD sequence for translation initiation: one is mediated by a ribosomal protein S1 (RPS1) and the other used le...