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Anti-inflammatory, antioxidative and anti-atherogenic bioactivity in marine sources ascribed to nonlipid constituents

Background: Long-chain n3-polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n3-PUFA) are well known for their anti-inflammatory activity and their impact on cardiovascular disease. Cold-pressed whale oil (CWO) has half the amount of LC n3-PUFA compared to cod liver oil (CLO). Still, there has been observed more pronounced beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease markers from intake of CWO compared to intake of CLO in human intervention studies. Extracts from CWO deprived of fatty acids have also been shown to display antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects in vitro. The aim of this study was to investigate whether intake of a high-fat Western-type diet (WD) supplemented with CWO would prevent the development of atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E-deficient (ApoE) mice. Methods: Seventy female ApoE mice were fed a WD containing 1% CWO, CLO or corn oil (CO). Atherosclerotic lesion formation, body and tissue weights, hepatic gene expression together with serum levels of LDL/VLDLcholesterol, ox-LDL, total antioxidant status and various serum cardiovascular disease/proinflammatory markers were evaluated. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS, and Shapiro-Wilk’s test was performed to determine the distribution of the variables. Statistical difference was assessed using One-Way ANOVA with Tukeys’ post hoc test or Kruskal-Wallis test. The hepatic relative gene expression was analysed with REST 2009 (V2.0.13). Results: Mice fed CWO had less atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic arch compared to mice fed CO. Levels of LDL/ VLDL-cholesterol and ox-LDL-cholesterol were also markedly reduced whereas total antioxidant levels were enhanced in mice fed CWO compared to CO-fed mice. In addition, CWO-fed mice gained less weight and several hepatic genes involved in the cholesterol metabolism were up-regulated compared to CO-fed mice. Conclusion: In the present study mice fed a WD supplemented with 1% CWO had reduced formation of atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic arch, reduced serum LDL/VLDL-cholesterol and ox-LDL-cholesterol, increased serum total antioxidant status and reduced body weight compared to mice fed a WD supplemented with 1% CO.
Blur Identification for Content Aware Processing in Images

In many types of photographies, it is desirable to have the entire image sharp. And in the opposite occurrence, some techniques try to deblur them. Classically, the blur is modeled in image processing as 訣岫捲岻 噺 岫月 茅 血岻岫捲岻. With x a pixel, g the degraded image, f the true image, * the operator of convolution and h the point spread function, noted PSF (Tao et al., 2005). The process of the image restoration is estimating the true image from the observed image (Savakis & Trussel, 1993). Many estimators like inverse filters or Wiener filters require a priori knowledge of the PSF. Nevertheless, PSF estimator gives more or less only information of smooth around a point but none information inside a specific zone. Another technique to extract blur information proposes to evaluate depth in image using in particular depth from focus or depth from defocus approaches (Ma & Staunton, 2005). We cannot confront these approaches to our problem as they require a bunch of images of the same scene obtained by combining different optic properties of the camera.where we consider only one image in this study.
Rheology of Polymer/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites

Over the last few years, polymer/layered silicate (PLS) nanocomposites have been an area of intense academic and industrial research. No matter the measure-journal articles, patents, and industry research and development (R&D) funding-efforts in PLS-nanocomposite have been exponentially growing worldwide for the last ten years. Aside from the understanding in fabrication, characterization, and improved mechanical and other properties, the measurement of rheological properties of PLS-nanocomposites under molten state is crucial to gain fundamental understanding of the processability of these materials. In the case of PLS- nanocomposites, the measurements of rheological properties are also helpful to find out the strength of polymer-layered silicate interactions and the structure-property relationship in nanocomposites. This is because rheological behaviors are strongly influenced by their nanoscale structure and interfacial characteristics. In this article, recent advances in melt-state rheological properties of PLS-nanocomposites are highlighted. To begin this a very brief description of structure and dynamics of PLS-nanocomposites are also described.
A Simple Coupled-Line Wilkinson Power Divider for Arbitrary Complex Input and Output Terminated Impedances

─ A simple and analytical design methodology for a novel coupled-line power divider with arbitrary complex terminated impedances is proposed in this paper. Because of the usage of a single-section coupled line, the additional odd-mode characteristic impedance increases the design degree of freedom and makes the isolation structure still use a single resistor when terminated impedances are extended from real values (such as 50 Ohm) to arbitrary complex values. To design this generalized coupled-line power divider, the electrical parameters including electrical lengths and characteristic impedances can be redesigned by the provided closed-form mathematical expressions when complex terminated impedances are known. The validity of this given design methodology has been confirmed by simulation and measurement of two typical microstrip examples. Index Terms ─ Arbitrary complex terminated impedances, coupled line and power divider.
The salivary biomarkers: future clinical investigation technique

Human saliva is a clear, slightly acidic biological fluid containing a mixture of secretions from multiple salivary glands, including the parotid, sublingual gland other minor glands beneath the oral mucosa as well as gingival crevice fluid. Salivary diagnostics has evolved into a sophisticated science and serves as a subset of the larger field of molecular diagnostics, now recognized as a central player in a wide variety of biomedical basic and clinical areas. Saliva biomarkers are source of indicators for local, systemic, and infectious disorders. The saliva based microbial, immunologic, and molecular biomarkers offers unique opportunities to bypass the painful invasive procedures such as biopsies and repeated blood draws by utilizing oral fluids to evaluate the condition of diseased individuals. Accurate and reliable early stage disease detection is the benefit of salivary biomarkers. Salivary biomarkers represent a promising non-invasive approach for oral cancer detection also. This review explains about the salivary biomarkers and their diagnostic approaches
‘No Residual Tumor’ Rate in Radical Cystectomy Specimens

©Copyright 2019 by the Association of Urological Surgery / Journal of Urological Surgery published by Galenos Publishing House. Correspondence: Berrak Gümüşkaya MD, Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Ankara, Turkiye E-mail: drberrakgumuskaya@gmail.com ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0599-8968 Received: 28.01. 2019 Accepted: 28.01. 2019 Journal of Urological Surgery, 2019;6(3):258-259
Variations in 24-μm morphologies among galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey: new insights into the Hubble sequence

To study the distribution of star formation and dust emission within nearby galaxies, we measured five morphological parameters in the 3.6- and 24-µm wavebands for 65 galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and eight galaxies that were serendipitously observed by SINGS. The morphological parameters demonstrate strong variations along the Hubble sequence, including statistically significant differences between S0/a-Sab and Sc-Sd galaxies. Early-type galaxies are generally found to be compact, centralized, symmetric sources in the 24-µm band, while late-type galaxies are generally found to be extended, asymmetric sources. These results suggest that the processes that increase the real or apparent sizes of galaxies’ bulges also lead to more centralized 24-µm dust emission. Several phenomena, such as strong nuclear star formation, Seyfert activity, or outer ring structures, may cause galaxies to deviate from the general morphological trends observed at 24 µm. We also note that the 24-µm morphologies of Sdm-Im galaxies are quite varied, with some objects appearing very compact and symmetric but others appearing diffuse and asymmetric. These variations reflect the wide variation in star formation in irregular galaxies as observed at other wavelengths. The variations in the 24-µm morphological parameters across the Hubble sequence mirror many of the morphological trends seen in other tracers of the ISM and in stellar emission. However, the 24-µm morphological parameters for the galaxies in this sample do not match the morphological parameters measured in the stellar wavebands. This implies that the distribution of dust emission is related to but not equivalent to the distribution of stellar emission.
Interleukin-6, Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha and Metabolic Disorders in Youth

Background : To compare Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Tumor Necrosis Factor a (TNF alpha ) levels in obese and overweight youth to their normal weight counterparts. Furthermore, we compared IL-6 and TNF alpha levels in obese and overweight individuals with and without additional metabolic disorders such as Metabolic Syndrome (MS), Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and prediabetes. Methods: All 54 consecutive obese children and adolescents with Body Mass Index (BMI) >= 95th centile and 50 overweight children and adolescents with 85th £ BMI alpha were measured in all the participants and in 40 normal weight age-matched individuals (controls). Results: IL-6 levels were increased in obese children and adolescents compared to the controls (2.4 ± 1.9 vs 1.0 ± 0.5 pg/mL, P alpha levels were comparable between obese and normal weight (2.1 ± 1.2 vs 2.0 ± 0.6 pg/mL respectively, P = 0.805), overweight and normal weight (2.0 ± 1.0 pg/mL, P = 0.834), obese and overweight participants (P = 0.997). Obese and overweight individuals with NAFLD had elevated levels of TNF alpha compared to their counterparts with normal liver (2.7 ± 1.1 vs 1.0 ± 1.0 pg/mL, P = 0.005). Conclusions: Youth with excessive weight have elevated IL-6 levels, especially in the presence of MS. TNF alpha levels, although comparable between normal weight and excessive weight youth, are raised in overweight and obese individuals with NAFLD. doi:10.4021/jem111w
Visual research for segmenting emerging markets

This paper presents a visual research method for segmenting emerging markets. It contributes to an under researched topic and addresses problems experienced by some traditional segmentation approaches. A cross section of 250 households was taken from a major Sub Saharan African city. 10-20 images were collected for each household, along with more traditional segmentation and lifestyle data. The visual data were analysed by creating a photo montage for each household, which were then ranked according to perceived living standard. Analysis reveals distinct breaks in terms of living standard, which allows households to be grouped together into broad life quality segments on the basis of visual data. The research highlights the value of visual data in supporting traditional segmentation techniques.
A Multibeam Antenna Array Based on Printed Rotman Lens

A compact printable multibeam antenna array is studied in this paper. The antenna system is composed of a printed Rotman lens and an antipodal dual elliptically tapered slot antenna array; both of the two components are studied, respectively, at first, and then integrated on a single printed circuit board to make up the integrated unit of the multibeam antenna array. Measured results of all components are presented.
Eastern Kentucky University From the SelectedWorks of Wasim Qazi 2008 Sustainable Teachers ' Development : Exploring the Effect of Follow-up Support an an Element

A professional development program with built-in follow up support mechanism was offered during years 2004-06 in selected districts of Pakistan. The training reportedly had sustained impact on teachers’ attitude toward teaching. This paper investigates the role of follow up support as an element of sustainable teacher development, and the part of teachers’ learning they could have implemented over the period after the end of project. Data was collected through classroom observations, interviews with these teachers and the head teachers of these schools, and analysis of lesson plans and reflective journals maintained by the teachers. Findings affirm that the follow up support enabled the teachers for sustainable implementation of their learning. Follow-up support became more effective with other elements like collegial support, head teacher’s encouragement and favourable school culture. It helped teachers to sustain their changed role after professional development.
Precise Local Geoid Determination to Make GPS Technique More Effective in Practical Applications of Geodesy

SUMMARY Global Positioning System (GPS) has the benefits of high accuracy and simultaneous 3-D positioning in Geodetic aims, however, GPS derived ellipsoidal heights must be transformed to orthometric heights to have any physical meaning in a surveying or engineering applications. Obtaining orthometric heights as related to GPS measurements is one of the most important research areas of Geodesy. The motivation for such research is to obtain the orthometric heights with decreased amount of spirit levelling measurement work, which is the conventional way of determining these heights. The main advantage of levelling measurements is the high accuracy. On the other hand, levelling measurements require high cost and lengthy observation time and with these aspects, it is not convenient for the practical geodetic purposes. So, one another way of obtaining orthometric heights from GPS measurements is to have a precise geoid model in working area. Actually, a precise geoid model is very important part of a complete and reliable geodetic infrastructure. In this paper, the importance of having a precise geoid model in practical applications of geodesy, while GPS technique is being involved so much in to the applications will be emphasized. Especially the necessity of local geoid models in a national geodetic infrastructure will be indicated and precise determination of a local geoid model using GPS and Levelling data will be summarized with its methodology and results as a case study.
Determinants of Innovation and the Economic Growth of Innovators Tracing the evolution of innovative firms over time

The idea of the project Dynamic Patterns of Innovative Activities among Finnish Firms was that looking at firms history and development over time can reveal information about the innovative activities and the innovation potential of these firms. The project wanted to answer the question: How does history influence innovative activities and how does it point to successful innovation? This paper analyses the question: How does history point towards successful innovation? We focus on those firm-level determinants of innovation and economic growth that can be followed over years, i.e. innovative efforts described by firm-level R&D capital, R&D collaboration, patenting, business acquisitions and restructuring, and recruitment of highlyeducated personnel. One of the targets of the project was to get more in-depth knowledge of what kinds of data sources the Database of Finnish Innovations (Sfinno Database) and the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) conducted in Finland are when compared with each other. It follows from this target that the focus of this paper is on innovative firms that have launched one or more product innovations onto the market. Product innovations are covered more extensively than process innovations in the Sfinno Database.
Discrete Power Control in Heterogenous Networks

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets) where femtocell base stations (FBSs) are deployed within the radio coverage of macrocell base stations (MBSs) to increase network capacity, co-channel interference limits overall sy stem performance with universal frequency reuse. This paper investig ates new distributed downlink discrete power contro l scheme for FBSs in HetNets with FBSs cooperation. The objectiv of the proposed power control scheme is to maximi ze the number of simultaneous FBSs transmissions in a sing le transmission wireless channel where each FBS is allowed to transmit only if the signal-to-interference-noise r atio (SINR) requirements for both FBSs and MBS user s are satisfied. We apply a stochastic learning automata technique t o FBSs where each FBS is treated as a learning auto m ton and maintains a probability vector to select its discre te transmit power. During the learning process, eac h FBS adjusts its probability vector based on the feedback from FGW t hat indicates the number of FBSs transmissions that can be supported under the SINR requirement constraints of FUEs and MUEs. Simulation results show the propose d algorithm can achieve more than twice the number of simultane ous FBS transmissions achieved by existing schemes in the literature.
Exchange interactions and critical temperature of bulk and thin films of MnSi: A density functional theory study

Recent theoretical work (H.Wu, M. Hortamani, P. Kratzer, and M. Schefler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 237202 (2004), M. Hortamani et al. Phys. Rev. B 74, 205305 (2006), M. Hortamani, Ph.D. Thesis, Freie Univ. Berlin (2006) ) predicted ferromagnetism at zero temperature in thin MnSi films of B2-type crystal structure on Si(100). The relevance of this finding for finite-temperature experiments needs to be clarified by further investigations, since bulk MnSi is a weak ferromagnet with an experimentally measured Curie temperature of only T_C=30K, and T_C in thin films is generally expected to be lower than for bulk materials. Here, we estimate T_C of such MnSi films using a multiple-sublattice Heisenberg model with first- and second-nearest neighbor interactions determined from density functional theory calculations for various collinear spin configurations. The Curie temperature is calculated either in the mean-field approximation (MFA) or in the random-phase approximation (RPA). In the latter case, we find a weak logarithmic dependence of T_C on the magnetic anisotropy parameter which was calculated to be 0.4 meV for this system. In stark contrast to the above mentioned rule, large Curie temperatures of more than 200 K for a monolayer (ML) MnSi film, and more than 300 K for a 2ML MnSi film with B2-type structure on Si(100) are obtained within the RPA, and even higher values in MFA. Complementary calculations of MnSi bulk structures and thin unsupported MnSi films are performed in order to analyze these findings. We find that bulk MnSi in the cubic B2 structure is paramagnetic, in contrast to MnSi in the B20 ground state structure, in agreement with the Stoner criterion. In a tetragonally distorted B2 structure, the Mn atoms gradually develop a spin magnetic moment, passing through a low-spin and a high-spin state. However, the ferromagnetism of the MnSi/Si(100) films cannot be explained by tetragonal distortions alone, since the distorted B2 bulk structure is found to order antiferromagnetically. Comparison of the calculations of supported and unsupported films suggest that the reduced coordination of Mn atoms near surfaces and interfaces is crucial for the ferromagnetic ground state of the films. The coordination number of the Mn atoms in B2-like MnSi films on Si(100) constitutes a borderline case where the spin magnetic moments of Mn are still large despite their six-fold coordination to Si, but the sp-d hybridization with Si states gives rise to a sizable ferromagnetic coupling of the Mn spins. We conclude that the Curie temperatures predicted from the Heisenberg Hamiltonian make MnSi films an interesting subject for further experimental investigation of spintronics materials. We conclude that the Curie temperatures predicted from the Heisenberg Hamiltonian make thin MnSi films an interesting subject for further experimental investigation of spintronics materials.
Does the dark condition enhance growth and survival of Clarias batrachus larvae at higher stocking density

An experiment was conducted to rear the larvae in total dark environment with a probability of enhanced growth and survival, as the Clarias batrachus larvae is photonegative in nature. Hence the larvae were reared at four density treatments (D1000, D2000, D3000 and D4000) with three replications of each treatment for 14 days under dark condition to find out the optimum density level during its rearing. Growth parameters such as final total length and wet weight of the C. batrachus larvae were recorded significantly (P < 0.05) higher in D1000 followed by D2000 treatment group and it was observed that the growth rate decreased with the increasing level of stocking density. The daily weigh gain, weight gain, percent weight gain and specific growth rate were found significantly (P < 0.05) higher in D1000 treatment group. The survival rate was recorded more than 90% in D1000 and D2000 treatment groups at the end of experiment and among all the treatment groups D1000 showed significantly (P < 0.05) higher survival rate. The lowest survival rate was observed in higher stocking density treatment group (D4000). If growth and survival of Clarias batrachus larvae is considered, up to 2000 larvae m -2 density is acceptable while rearing in dark condition.
Potential development and application of agri-biotechnology in the Asian and Pacific region.

Agriculture is fundamental to the economy of the Asian and Pacific (ASPAC) region. Farmers in this region are facing challenges of feeding a large population with limited arable land and dwindling water resources. Developing agri-biotechnology, conventional or non-conventional, is of paramount importance in resolving problems associated with agricultural production. The application of agri-biotechnology could help countries of the ASPAC region in coping with poverty and hunger. However, in the present age of environmental sensitivity, all technologies developed for application in agriculture must be economically feasible, ecologically sound, environmentally safe and socially acceptable. Therefore, commercialization of agri-biotechnologies may only be possible if they are effective, safe, affordable and easy to use. Risk assessment is essential for application and adoption of eco-friendly agri-biotechnologies. Since farmers in developing countries of the ASPAC region are largely poor, research support by government and industry is crucial to ensure successful development and adoption of technologies that are beneficial to producers, agribusiness people and the general public in the countries of this region.