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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at a silver electrode as a detection system in flowing streams (1990)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSurface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at a silver electrode as a detection system in flowing streamsNeil J. Pothier and R. Ken. ForceCite this: Anal. Chem. 1990, 62, 7, 678–680Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1990Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1990https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac00206a005https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00206a005research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views162Altmetric-Citations31LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Hexarelin, a growth hormone-releasing peptide, discloses protectant activity against cardiovascular damage in rats with isolated growth hormone deficiency. (1997)

The ability of hexarelin, a recently synthesized hexapeptide with a remarkable growth hormone (GH)-releasing activity, to reverse signs of cardiovascular dysfunction in GH-deficient animals was studied in young male rats made GH deficient by the administration of an anti-GH-releasing hormone serum (GHRH-Ab) for 20 days. Heart preparations from GHRH-Ab treated rats, subjected to low-flow ischemia and reperfusion, showed: a progressive increase of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure during the ischemic period and a poor recovery of contractility at reperfusion as compared to control hearts; a decreased rate of formation of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, the stable metabolite of prostacyclin, in perfusates of both preischemic and reperfusion period; an increased vasopressor activity of angiotensin II on the coronary vasculature. The endothelium-dependent relaxing function in GH-deficient rats was also evaluated in aortic ring preparations, which showed: a decreased rate of formation of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, an hyperreactivity to endothelin-1, a markedly reduced vasopressor response to NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor) and a decreased vasodilator response to acetylcholine of precontracted aortic tissue. Hexarelin (80 micrograms/kg, s.c. twice daily), administered for 15 days to GHRH-Ab-treated rats, fully restored the somatotropic function and reversed all the signs of cardiac and endothelial dysfunction. In fact, in heart preparations from rats treated with hexarelin the trend of the ischemic damage was similar to that observed in control rats and both the rate of formation of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and the vasopressor activity of angiotensin II were reverted to control levels. Furthermore, all the parameters of endothelial function were in the normal range. These results indicate that GH deficiency in rats is responsible for an impairment of cardiac function that is associated with a damage of the endothelium-dependent relaxing function not limited to coronary vessels but widespread in the circulation. These alterations are fully reverted by an in vivo treatment with hexarelin.
Precision and Accuracy of Intraoperative Temperature Monitoring (1983)

Using tympanic membrane (TM) temperature as a standard for core temperature, we quantitated the accuracy and precision of seven other temperature monitoring sites during anesthesia, namely, the nasopharynx, esophagus, rectum, bladder, axilla, forehead, and great toe. Accuracy was quantitated as the difference between TM temperature and the temperature at each of the other sites; precision was quantitated as the correlation between TM temperature and the temperature at each of the other sites. Results indicate that the accuracy of measurements made using the great toe, forehead, and axilla is less than the accuracy of measurements made using the nasopharynx, esophagus, bladder, and rectum. Precision of measurements made using the nasopharynx, esophagus, and bladder is greater than the precision at the axilla, forehead, and rectum, and much higher than the precision at the great toe. Measurements of body temperature using the nasopharynx, esophagus, and bladder are recommended for intraoperative use as providing the best combination of accuracy and precision.
Comparing two dependent groups via quantiles (2012)

This paper considers two general ways dependent groups might be compared based on quantiles. The first compares the quantiles of the marginal distributions. The second focuses on the lower and upper quantiles of the usual difference scores. Methods for comparing quantiles have been derived that typically assume that sampling is from a continuous distribution. There are exceptions, but generally, when sampling from a discrete distribution where tied values are likely, extant methods can perform poorly, even with a large sample size. One reason is that extant methods for estimating the standard error can perform poorly. Another is that quantile estimators based on a single-order statistic, or a weighted average of two-order statistics, are not necessarily asymptotically normal. Our main result is that when using the Harrell–Davis estimator, good control over the Type I error probability can be achieved in simulations via a standard percentile bootstrap method, even when there are tied values, provided the sample sizes are not too small. In addition, the two methods considered here can have substantially higher power than alternative procedures. Using real data, we illustrate how quantile comparisons can be used to gain a deeper understanding of how groups differ.
Localization Method Using Vector-Histogram (2008)

In this paper, we propose the localization algorithm using vector histogram matching method in environments with perpendicular walls. Conventional histogram matching method gets the wrong rotated value, because it has matched between other angle values when is a sharp rotation. In our proposed method, we do match angle values using direction of data. This method gets reference data and current data from the laser range finder. It calculates a magnitude and direction of a point adjacent. It makes a direction histogram from the scan data and calculates a rotated value of the mobile robot using cross correlation. The current data compensate as a rotated value. After getting the main direction from the reference data, two scan data make parallel to x-axis based on the main direction. Then using two scan data make x-axis histogram and y-axis histogram. It gets Δα, Δß, using cross correlation, where Δα and Δß are variations of x-axis and y-axis. Translation value Δx, Δy calculates using rotated value and Δα, Δß. Consequently, it accomplishes a self-localization of the mobile robot through problem solving of the histogram matching method.
Effects of intramuscular injections of folic acid on serum folates, haematological status and growth performance of growing-finishing pigs (1990)

In a first trial, 48 piglets aged 5 weeks, grouped into 6 blocks of 8 pigs each, were used to determine the effect of intramuscular injections of folic acid on serum folates, haematological status, growth performance and carcass characteristics. Each block consisted of 2 pens of 4 pigs; in one pen, pigs received, by weekly intramuscular injections, an increasing volume of a solution containing 5 mg/ml folic acid, while in the other the animals were non-injected controls. The concentration of serum folates in treated pigs was 19% higher (P = 0.005) than in controls. There was no effect of treatment (P greater than or equal to 0.29) on haemoglobin and haematocrit. During the starting period, (5-11 weeks) average daily gain was not influenced by folic acid injections but feed intake and feed conversion were decreased (P = 0.07 and P = 0.05 respectively). No effect of folic acid (P greater than or equal to 0.23) was noted from 11-23 weeks of age, suggesting that the supplement was suboptimal during the growing-finishing period. In a second trial, 72 piglets aged 9 weeks were assigned to 6 blocks of 12 animals each. The following treatments were randomly distributed in each block according to a 2 x 3 factorial design: level of feeding (restricted vs ad libitum) and weekly intramuscular injections of increasing volume of solutions containing either 0, 15 or 30 mg/ml of folic acid. The variables studied were the same as in Trial 1. Concentrations of serum folates varied quadratically (P = 0.0001) with the dose injected, a plateau being attained with injections of 15 mg/ml. There was no effect of treatment (P = 0.043) on haemoglobin and haematocrit. During the growing period (9-15 weeks), no effect (P greater than or equal to 0.72) of folic acid was noted on growth performance. However, during the finishing period (15-21 weeks), folic acid given at a dose of 30 mg/ml decreased (P = 0.006) feed intake while no effect (P greater than or equal to 0.13) of the vitamin supplementation was noted on average daily gain and feed conversion. In both trials, there was no effect (P greater than or equal to 0.21) of any treatments on carcass characteristics. These results indicate that a supplement of folic acid administered by intramuscular injections was effective in increasing concentration of serum folates of starting or growing-finishing pigs. This supplement may be associated with a decrease in feed intake.
Certain imprecisions in the bubble point measurement. (1981)

We distinguish between the bubble point values inherent in the porous qualities of a filter, and those perceived by different observers. The perceived bubble point may also be influenced by the extent of filter area, although this effect may be masked by the test procedure. The normal experimental bubble point variation of some ±10% requires careful definition in terms of the all-important relationship between bubble point values and organism retention. We suggest that in high challenge conditions based upon filter retention, it would be advantageous to define the advent of the bubble point more precisely by careful measurement of air pressure and airflow rate.
Neurogenic hyperalgesia: psychophysical studies of underlying mechanisms (1991)

1. Psychophysical studies were made, in humans, of the sensory characteristics and underlying mechanisms of the hyperalgesia (often termed "secondary hyperalgesia") that occurs in uninjured skin surrounding a local cutaneous injury. The hyperalgesia was characterized by lowered pain thresholds and enhanced magnitude of pain to normally painful stimuli. The "injury" was produced by a single intradermal injection of 10 microliters of 100 micrograms of capsaicin, the algesic substance in hot chili peppers. 2. On injection of capsaicin into the volar forearm, the subjects experienced intense burning pain, accompanied immediately by the formation of three areas of hyperalgesia surrounding the injection site. The largest mean area (55 cm2) was hyperalgesic to a normally painful punctate stimulation of the skin. Nested within this was an area of tenderness to gentle stroking (38 cm2) and a much smaller area of hyperalgesia to heat (2 cm2). An area of analgesia to pinprick, approximately 4 mm in diameter and centered on the injection site, developed within minutes and typically disappeared within 24 h. The hyperalgesia to heat and to stroking disappeared within 1-2 h, whereas the hyperalgesia to punctate stimuli, although gradually decreasing in area, lasted from 13 to 24 h. 3. The radial spread of the mechanical hyperalgesia (to punctate and stroking stimuli) away from the injury was dependent on neural activity and not produced, for example, by algesic substances transported away from the injury. The injection of capsaicin into a small area of anesthetized skin did not produce hyperalgesia in the surrounding, unanesthetized skin. Also, the hyperalgesia in normal skin readily crossed a tight arm band that blocked the circulation of blood and lymph. 4. The spread of mechanical hyperalgesia away from the injury was peripherally mediated via cutaneous nerve fibers because it was blocked by a thin mediolateral strip of cutaneous anesthesia placed 1 cm away from the capsaicin injection site. Hyperalgesia developed normally on the capsaicin side of the strip but not on the other side. 5. Heat stimulation of the skin that produced pain that was equivalent in magnitude and time course to that produced by an injection of capsaicin (10 micrograms) resulted in much smaller areas of mechanical hyperalgesia. It was postulated that there exist special chemosensitive primary afferent nerve fibers that are more effective in producing mechanical hyperalgesia than are the known thermo- and mechanosensitive nociceptive nerve fibers. 6. Once developed, the mechanical hyperalgesia became only partially dependent on peripheral neural activity originating at the site of injury.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
[Pyrrolo(3,2-d)pyrimidines as potential antitumor agents]. (1980)

Antibacterial and antitumor properties of pyrrolo (3,2-d) pyrimidines having diverse substituents in the second, fourth and sixth position were investigated. Forty-four compounds were examined in vitro and 20 in vivo. A number of the derivatives were shown to inhibit the growth of M. tuberculosis H37Rv and lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus casei 7469. Antibacterial activity depends on the character of the substituents in positions 2, 4 and 6. The tested compounds when administered per os to mice with sarcoma 180 (a solid variety) proved several dozen times less toxic than 6-mercaptopurine. Some of them inhibited the tumour growth up to 50%. The data obtained in vitro experiments indicate that the mechanism of the antitumour action of pyrrolo (3,2-d) yrimidines from that of 6-mercaptopurine.
Human growth, biological maturation, motor performance and contextual factors in Madeira children (2014)

The central aims of this study were: (1) to construct age- and gender-specific percentiles for motor coordination (MC), (2) to analyze the change, stability, and prediction of MC, (3) to investigate the relationship between motor performance and body fatness, and (4) to evaluate the relationships between skeletal maturation and fundamental motor skills (FMS) and MC. The data collected was from the ‘Healthy Growth of Madeira Children Study’ and from the ‘Madeira Child Growth Study’. In these studies, MC, FMS, skeletal age, growth characteristics, motor performance, physical activity, socioeconomic status, and geographical area were assessed/measured. Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape, mixed between-within subjects ANOVA, multilevel models, and hierarchical regression (blocks) were some of the statistical procedures used in the analyses. Scores on walking backwards and moving sideways improved with age. It was also found that boys performed better than girls on moving sideways. Normal-weight children outperformed obese peers in almost all gross MC tests. Inter-age correlations were calculated to be between 0.15 and 0.60. Age was associated with a better performance in catching, scramble, speed run, standing long jump, balance, and tennis ball throwing. Body mass index was positively associated with scramble and speed run, and negatively related to the standing long jump. Physical activity was negatively associated with scramble. Semi-urban children displayed better catching skills relative to their urban peers. The standardized residual of skeletal age on chronological age (SAsr) and its interaction with stature and/or body mass accounted for the maximum of 7.0% of variance in FMS and MC over that attributed to body size per se. SAsr alone accounted for a maximum of 9.0% variance in FMS and MC over that attributed to body size per se and interactions between SAsr and body size. This study demonstrates the need to promote FMS, MC, motor performance, and physical activity in children.
다래나무뿌리의 식물화학적 성분 (2000)

The root of Actinidia arguta was extracted with methanol and the methanol extract was suspended in H₂O and successively partitioned with n-hexane, CH₂Cl₂, EtOAc and n-BuOH. Repeated column chromatographic separation of the EtOAc extract resulted in the isolation of two flavonoids (compounds 2 and 3) and two triterpenes (compounds 1 and 4) and CH₂Cl₂ extract to afford three lignans (compounds 5-7). Their structures have been established by spectroscopic means to be (+)-tormentoside(1), (-)-catechin(2), (-)-epicatechin(3), (+)-uscaphic acid-28-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(4), (+)-pinoresinol(5), (+)-medioresinol(6), and (-)-syringaresinol(7).
Cellulose Nanocrystals and Polyanionic Cellulose as Additives in Bentonite Water-Based Drilling Fluids: Rheological Modeling and Filtration Mechanisms (2015)

This research aims to develop low cost, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and high performance water-based drilling fluids (WDFs) using bentonite (BT), polyanionic cellulose (PAC), and cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). The effect of concentration of BT, PAC, and CNCs on the rheological and filtration properties of PAC/CNC/BT-WDFs was investigated. Eight empirical rheological models were applied to fit quantitatively the fluid properties. Results showed that the presence of PAC, CNCs, and BT improved the rheological and filtration properties of the WDFs. Among the eight empirical rheological models, the Sisko model performed the best in simulating the rheological behavior of the fluids. At the same concentration level of PAC and CNCs, CNCs had more impact on the rheological properties, whereas PAC had more influence on the filtration property. The incorporation of PAC resulted in very low permeable filter cakes, leading to the excellent filtration property. The combined use of PAC and CNCs yielded better rheological and filtration properties.
Increasing Mortality Due to End-Stage Liver Disease in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (2001)

Highly active antiretroviral therapy has decreased human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated mortality; other comorbidities, such as chronic liver disease, are assuming greater importance. We retrospectively examined the causes of death of HIV-seropositive patients at our institution in 1991, 1996, and 1998-1999. In 1998-1999, 11 (50%) of 22 deaths were due to end-stage liver disease, compared with 3 (11.5%) of 26 in 1991 and 5 (13.9%) of 36 in 1996 (P=.003). In 1998-1999, 55% of patients had nondetectable plasma HIV RNA levels and/or CD4 cell counts of >200 cells/mm(3) within the year before death. Most of the patients that were tested had detectable antibodies to hepatitis C virus (75% of patients who died in 1991, 57.7% who died in 1996, and 93.8% who died in 1998-1999; P=NS). In 1998-1999, 7 patients (31.8%) discontinued antiretroviral therapy because of hepatotoxicity, compared with 0 in 1991 and 2 (5.6%) in 1996. End-stage liver disease is now the leading cause of death in our hospitalized HIV-seropositive population.
Synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles by electron irradiation at 5–15 keV energy (2007)

Thin coatings (∼10 µm) made from a mixture of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and HAuCl(4) or PVA and AgNO(3) on quartz plates were irradiated with 5-15 keV electrons, at room temperature. The electron energy was varied from coating to coating in the range of 5-15 keV, but electron fluence was kept constant at ∼10(15) e cm(-2). Samples were characterized by the UV-vis, XRD, SEM and TEM techniques. The plasmon absorption peaks at ∼511 and ∼442 nm confirmed the formation of gold and silver nanoparticles in the respective electron-irradiated coatings. The XRD, SEM and TEM measurements reveal that the average size of the particles could be tailored in the range of 130-50 nm for gold and from 150-40 nm for silver by varying the electron energy in the range of 5-15 keV. These particles of gold and silver embedded in the polymer could also be separated by dissolving the coatings in distilled water.
A Noise-Adding Radiometer for the Parkes Antenna (1988)

A design for a noise-adding radiometer will be included as part of the reimplementation of the Parkes antenna microwave front end. Designed as an aid for antenna calibration, the Parkes NAR will support the Voyager-Neptune encounter in 1989.
식민지기 일본어 조선종교관련 단행본 목록작성에 관한 소고 (2016)

After the war defeat, civic groups and academic circles posed problems continuously regarding Japan’s faulty awareness of history, and it was also true that there were some sensible Japanese intellects encouraged by that. Now is the time for us to reflect ourselves. Have we really been successful in figuring out Japanese colonial culture and its substance? Some critical research has been done on Japanese colonial culture after the emancipation, but it still remains as a difficulty task to deal with to figure out its substance overall.
This report is going to arrange Chosun’s religion-related literature written in Japanese dealing with Christianity, Buddhism, and the believers among many areas of culture area. As a study method, this author will extract religion-related materials from the list made by pioneers who arranged the publications of the colonial era. From the lists of materials, this researcher collected and arranged Suematsu Yasukatsu (末松保和)’s list of literatures, Sakurai (櫻井) and Shikata (四方)’s list of literatures, and religion-related materials from 『The Collection of Tables of Contents of Literatures from the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria and Japan』. Yet, the materials arranged in this report are just the tip of the iceberg, so it will be needed to conduct follow-up research to examine other books and complement the data. First, it will be necessary to investigate not only Sakurai’s literatures but Sakurai’s books, too, for better arrangement. Second, it will be needed to see if there is any material omitted in 『The Collection of Tables of Contents of Literatures from the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria and Japan』 by examining 『The Collection of Lists of Literatures from the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria and Japan (1868-1945)』. Third, it will be required to examine the lists of Japanese materials in Korea after the emancipation and include all the data by searching information from 「A Database of the Books about Jojeon Relations in the Modern Times」 and also NACSIS-CAT in National Institute of Informatics.
Effects of Saharan dust on the microbial community during a large in situ mesocosm experiment in the NW Mediterranean Sea (2010)

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