BACKGROUND Our recent proteomic study has shown that plasma protein levels of fetuin-B (Ft-B) and zinc-α2-glycoprotein (ZAG) are significantly elevated in obesity-resistant (OR) rats exposed to a high fat diet. Time profiling of the plasma concentrations of Ft-B and ZAG in OR rats has shown stable regulation of these proteins throughout the entire period of rat breeding. METHODS To firmly est...

An analytical procedure for the calculation of the inductance of planar zig-zag spiral inductors is proposed. The procedure is based on the partial inductance concept and models the inductor as a series of a number of parts. The self-inductance of each individual part, which has the shape of a parallelogram, and the mutual inductance between any two parts of the inductor are determined. The ind...

OUT understanding of the fundamental physical limits of information handling has developed along a very convoluted path. Most of the initially plausible physical conjectures have turned out to be wrong. A participant’s personal view of these events is not a disciplined contribution to the history of science. I do, however, last my own mistakes along with those of others.

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Abstract Novel Monte Carlo methods to generate samples from a target distribution, such as posterior Bayesian analysis, have rapidly expanded in the past decade. Algorithms based on Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs), non-reversible continuous-time processes, are developing into their own research branch, thanks important properties (e.g., super-efficiency). Nevertheless, practice...

Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in adult body and plays an essential role maintaining heat production for entire body. Recently, muscle-derived non-shivering thermogenesis under cold conditions has received much attention. Zinc-α2-glycoprotein (ZAG) adipokine that was shown to influence energy metabolism adipose tissue. We used ZAG knock-out (ZAG KO) wild-type (WT) mice investigate ...