Dyspepsia is a common clinical condition, and its diagnostic evaluation and treatment result in the expenditure of enormous healthcare resources each year. Studies indicate that the omeprazole test is the most sensitive and cost effective test for diagnosing gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) in patients with extra-oesophageal or more "classic" symptoms suggestive of GORD. Studies also in...

The near-surface environment of Mars is a challenging environment for microorganisms to survive. Yet, resources such as perchlorates and hydrogen peroxide-water mixtures are available that could provide supportive tools for putative Martian life. Here, we focus on the useful properties of perchlorates such as hygroscopicity and the suppression of the freezing point of water, and point to perchl...

Wildfires are recurrent natural events that have been increasing in frequency and severity recent decades. They threaten human lives damage ecosystems infrastructure, leading to high recovery costs. To address the issue of wildfires, several activities must be managed coordinated order develop a suitable response is both effective affordable. This includes actions taken before (mitigation, prev...

Experimental autoimmune vitiligo was induced by the intradermal injection of the purified mushroom tyrosinase emulsified in Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) in female C57BL/6 mice. The onset of vitiligo was characterized by hair hypopigmentation and total melanocyte depletion in the basal layer of the epidermis. Oral administration of semipurified mushroom tyrosinase prevented experimental auto...

Widespread fire activity taxes suppression resources and can compound wildfire hazards. We examine the geographic synchronicity of danger across western United States forests as a proxy for strain on resource availability. Interannual variability in number days with synchronous danger, defined weather indices exceeding local 90th percentile ?40% forested land, was strongly correlated (r = 0.85)...

Dispatching firefighting resources effectively plays a vital role in wildfire management. To control the fire timely manner, should be dispatched an effective and reasonable way. Moreover, relationship between various resource-dispatching processes intuitive for firefighters to make decisions. In this paper, we propose novel event-response tree-based model dispatch different kinds of based on s...

background and aim : the hearing loss and acoustic feedback signal in the binaural hearing aids may annoy users, make speech reorganization difficult, and affect the sound quality. this paper presents a new method for acoustic feedback suppression in binaural hearing aids, based on the combination of binaural information and blind source separation. this method can enhance sound from the specif...

Overeating may be a consequence of the suppression of negative emotions, by depleting self-control resources. This experiment investigated whether (a) there is a causal relationship between the suppression of negative emotions, negative mood, and overeating in people with binge eating disorder (BED) and whether (b) this relationship is increased in depressed people with BED. Sixty-six women wit...

Social species show considerable variation in the extent to which dominant females suppress subordinate reproduction. Much of this variation may be influenced by the cost of active suppression to dominants, who may be selected to balance the need to maximize the resources available for their own offspring against the costs of interfering with subordinate reproduction. To date, the cost of repro...