The synergistic effect of pre-bond contamination by thermal degradation and de-icing fluid on the tensile behavior scarf composite bonded joints has been investigated experimentally. types considered are related to repair process aircraft structures. Three scenarios have considered: namely, (TD) a combination with two different levels (TD+DI1 TD+DI2). DI2 is more severe than DI1. Contamination ...

Phthalates are environmental chemicals widely used in consumer and personal care products. In this study, we examined associations of urinary phthalates with blood pressure, triglycerides, and lipoproteins in children and adolescents, performing a cross-sectional analysis of a subsample of US children 6 to 19 years of age who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

Peripheral and intraspinal feedback is required to shape update the output of spinal networks that execute motor behavior. We report lumbar dI2 interneurons in chicks receive synaptic input from afferents premotor neurons. These innervate contralateral brachial cord, their ascending projections cerebellum. findings suggest neurons function as local circuits, are involved lumbo-brachial coupling...

Prolonged food deprivation in mammals typically reduces glucose, insulin, and thyroid hormone (TH) concentrations, as well as tissue deiodinase (DI) content and activity, which, collectively, suppress metabolism. However, in elephant seal pups, prolonged fasting does not suppress TH levels; it is associated with upregulation of adipose TH-mediated cellular mechanisms and adipose-specific insuli...

During spinal cord development, distinct classes of interneurons arise at stereotypical locations along the dorsoventral axis. In this paper, we demonstrate that signaling through bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type 1 receptors is required for the formation of two populations of commissural neurons, DI1 and DI2, that arise within the dorsal neural tube. We have generated a double knockout of ...

A new species of the genus Lathriopyga Caroli, from the Republic of Moldova is described and figured. It differs from its closest relative, Lathriopyga bulgarica Smolis, Skarżyński & Pomorski, by the presence of 3+3 chaetae Di on Abd. V, Di1 as a long macrochaeta, Di2, Di3 as short macrochaetae, presence of three chaetae Oc on head and the form of mandible (with 6–7 denticles appearing as a fri...

Dr Trasande and his group in the article on phthalates conclude that urine phthalate concentrations (represented by urine di-2-ethylhexylphthalate [DEHP] concentrations) were associated with increased insulin resistance in this cross-sectional study of adolescents. Dr Trasande refers to this as an association and indicated that this study cannot rule out the possibility that insulin-resistant c...

A given nonincreasing sequence D = (d1, d2, · · · , dn) is said to contain a (nonincreasing) repetition sequence D∗ = (di1 , di2 , · · · , dik ) for some k ≤ n − 2 if all values of D −D∗ are distinct and for any dil ∈ D ∗ there exists some dt ∈ D −D∗ such that dil = dt. For any pair of integers n and k with n ≥ k + 2, we investigate the existence of a graphic sequence which contains a given rep...