Protective Effect of Aqueous Garlic Extract Against Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rats

Gö;ksel Şener,Levent Kabasakal,Özer Şehirli,Şule Çetinel,Esra Cikler,Nursal Gedik 한국식품영양과학회 2005 Journal of medicinal food Vol.8 No.3

An in vitro comparison of possibly bioactive titanium implant surfaces

Gö,ransson, A.,Arvidsson, A.,Currie, F.,Franke-Stenport, V.,Kjellin, P.,Mustafa, K.,Sul, Y. T.,Wennerberg, A. Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 2009 Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A Vol.a88 No.4

<P>The aim of the study was to compare Ca and P formation (CaP) and subsequent bone cell response of a blasted and four different possibly bioactive commercially pure (cp) titanium surfaces; 1. Fluoride etched (Fluoride), 2. Alkali-heat treated (AH), 3. Magnesium ion incorporated anodized (TiMgO), and 4. Nano HA coated and heat treated (nano HA) in vitro. Furthermore, to evaluate the significance of the SBF formed CaP coat on bone cell response. The surfaces were characterized by Optical Interferometry, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). CaP formation was evaluated after 12, 24 and 72 h in simulated body fluid (SBF). Primary human mandibular osteoblast-like cells were cultured on the various surfaces subjected to SBF for 72 h. Cellular attachment, differentiation (osteocalcin) and protein production (TGF-β<SUB>1</SUB>) was evaluated after 3 h and 10 days respectively. Despite different morphological appearances, the roughness of the differently modified surfaces was similar. The possibly bioactive surfaces gave rise to an earlier CaP formation than the blasted surface, however, after 72 h the blasted surface demonstrated increased CaP formation compared to the possibly bioactive surfaces. Subsequent bone cell attachment was correlated to neither surface roughness nor the amount of formed CaP after SBF treatment. In contrast, osteocalcin and TGF-β<SUB>1</SUB> production were largely correlated to the amount of CaP formed on the surfaces. However, bone response (cell attachment, osteocalcin and TGF-F production) on the blasted controls were similar or increased compared to the SBF treated fluoridated, AH and TiMgO surface. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 2009</P>

A CRITIQUE OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Gü,l Berna &Ouml,zcan 국제개발협력학회 2016 국제개발협력연구 Vol.8 No.3

With empirical evidence gathered from four different donor programmes launched in the Kyrgyz Republic, this study offers a critical analysis of western aid interventions. The findings point out that local effects of extensive aid exposure have weakened reforms and captured agency interests. Aggressive market liberalisation and decentralisation policies ignored long-term state and industrial capacity building. 키르기스공화국에서 실시되는 4개의 원조 프로그램에 대한 경험적 근거를 토대로, 다음 연구는 서구 원조 개입에 대해 비판적으로 분석한다. 연구 결과, 광범위한 원조 노출의 지역적 효과는 개혁을 약화시키고 원조기관의 이익을 위하는 것으로 나타났다. 공격적인 시장자유화와 지방분권정책이 국가 및 산업의 장기적인 역량 구축을 무시하는 것이다.

Shell models and the possibility of application to fusion plasmas

Gü,rcan, &Ouml,D,Hennequin, P,Vermare, L,Garbet, X,Diamond, P H Published jointly by The Institute of Physics and 2010 Plasma physics and controlled fusion Vol.52 No.4

<P>An extensive study of spectral shell models with possibilities for application to fusion plasmas is discussed. A set of shell models addressing various aspects of the characteristics of fusion plasmas have been derived. Difficulties associated with plasma medium, namely its intrinsic excitability, and importance of mescals have been discussed. The numerical implementation of shell models is discussed. It was observed that depending on the parameter regime, they may lead to steady state or display characteristics of predator–prey dynamics.</P>

Two-hole structure outsideNi78: Existence of aμsisomer ofCo76andβdecay intoNi76

S&ouml,derstr&ouml,m, P.-A.,Nishimura, S.,Xu, Z. Y.,Sieja, K.,Werner, V.,Doornenbal, P.,Lorusso, G.,Browne, F.,Gey, G.,Jung, H. S.,Sumikama, T.,Taprogge, J.,Vajta, Zs.,Watanabe, H.,Wu, J.,Baba, H.,Dom American Physical Society 2015 PHYSICAL REVIEW C - Vol.92 No.5

<i>K</i>-mixing in the doubly mid-shell nuclide ¹⁷⁰Dy and the role of vibrational degeneracy

S&ouml,derstr&ouml,m, P.-A.,Walker, P.M.,Wu, J.,Liu, H.L.,Regan, P.H.,Watanabe, H.,Doornenbal, P.,Korkulu, Z.,Lee, P.,Liu, J.J.,Lorusso, G.,Nishimura, S.,Phong, V.H.,Sumikama, T.,Xu, F.R.,Yagi, A.,Zha North-Holland Pub. Co 2016 Physics letters. Section B Vol.762 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>A detailed study of the structure of the doubly mid-shell nucleus Dy 104 1 66 170 has been carried out, following isomeric and <I>β</I> decay. We have measured the yrast band up to the spin-parity <SUP> J π </SUP> = <SUP> 6 + </SUP> state, the K = 2 <I>γ</I>-vibration band up to the <SUP> 5 + </SUP> state, a low-lying negative-parity band based on a <SUP> 2 − </SUP> state that could be a candidate for the lowest energy octupole vibration state within this nucleus, and a candidate for the <SUP> K π </SUP> = <SUP> 6 + </SUP> two quasi-particle isomer. This state was determined to have an excitation energy of 1643.91(23) keV and a half life of 0.99(4) μs, with a reduced hindrance for its decay to the ground-state band an order of magnitude lower than predicted by <SUB> N p </SUB> <SUB> N n </SUB> systematics. This is interpreted as being due to <I>γ</I>-vibrational mixing from a near degeneracy of the isomer and the <SUP> 6 + </SUP> state of the <I>γ</I> band. Furthermore, the parent nucleus <SUP>170</SUP>Tb has been determined to have a half-life of 0.91 ( − 13 + 18 ) s with a possible spin-parity of <SUP> 2 − </SUP> .</P>

FUTURE ASPECTS OF TEACHING TOURISM BUSSINES ENGLISH

Cengiz GÖ,K 세계문화관광학회 2007 Conference Proceedings Vol.8 No.0

In today's world technology develops and changes quickly. If we do not consider future in this highly changing world we would fall behind our competitors. Those changes force people renew themselves in education as well. This is another aspect of globalization. Our world is becoming a global village, and people are able to get in touch with each other quickly and easily. This interaction plays a vital role in tourism which is a comer stone of Service Industry. Also the share of tourism export increases nearly to 30% in the world economy. (http://www.world-tourism.org/facts/menu.html) Having a good communication will lead to better and high quality service in Tourism Industry. And good communication can be maintained by good Tourism Business English education. The methods that are used to teach foreign language in today's classes are not up to date and were developed under the conditions which were totally different from today. In this study, how should the Tourism Business English education be carried out in the future will be explained in the light of developments around the world. Education and language is as old as human history. People interacted and get in touch with each other in every pace of their lives. As the societies developed and got bigger the level of interaction increased as well. Also when prosperity level of people increased the life standards of people become better. As a result of this people's view changed on their life styles. People began to spare more time for themselves, and began to travel to the other countries for their holidays. Tourism is one of the important elements in economy of most countries. Countries try to attract more tourists every year. Every year many people travel around the world for different reasons. Those reasons include, holiday, business, health, religion etc. Each year number of those people who travel around the world reaches 763, 9 million. As mentioned above share of tourism export increases to nearly 30% in the world economy (http://www.world-tourism.org/facts/menu.html). As a result of this the need for qualified and educated staff increases rapidly. Tourism Business English is as important as job qualifications for a person who works in Tourism Industry. The need for foreign language in different sectors can be seen at Figure 1. English has been the most used language all over the world. It is one of the most taught and learnt languages in the world. English is everywhere. Some 380 million people speak it as their first language and another 600 million speak it as their second. A billion are learning it, about a third of the world's population is in some sense exposed to it and by 2030, it is predicted almost half of the world will be more or less proficient in it. It is the language of globalization - of international business, politics and diplomacy. It is the language of computers and the Internet. You'll see it on posters in Beijing, you'll hear it in pop songs in Tokyo, and you'll read it in official documents in Prague. Deutsche Welle broadcasts in it. Bjork, an Icelander, sings in it. French business schools teaching it. It is the medium of expression in cabinet meetings in Bolivia. English is now the global language. (20,000 Teaching Jobs (English) Oxford Seminars. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.) Business English must be seen in the overall context of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), as it shares the important elements of needs analysis, syllabus design, materials selection and development which are common to all fields of work in ESP. As with other varieties of ESP, Business English implies the definition of a specific language corpus and emphasis on particular kinds of communication in a specific context.

Porosity estimation by semi-supervised learning with sparsely available labeled samples

Lima, Luiz Alberto,Gö,rnitz, Nico,Varella, Luiz Eduardo,Vellasco, Marley,Mü,ller, Klaus-Robert,Nakajima, Shinichi Elsevier 2017 Computers & geosciences Vol.106 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>This paper addresses the porosity estimation problem from seismic impedance volumes and porosity samples located in a small group of exploratory wells. Regression methods, trained on the impedance as inputs and the porosity as output labels, generally suffer from extremely expensive (and hence sparsely available) porosity samples. To optimally make use of the valuable porosity data, a semi-supervised machine learning method was proposed, <I>Transductive Conditional Random Field Regression</I> (TCRFR), showing good performance (Görnitz et al., 2017). TCRFR, however, still requires more labeled data than those usually available, which creates a gap when applying the method to the porosity estimation problem in realistic situations. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing two graph-based preprocessing techniques, which adapt the original TCRFR for extremely weakly supervised scenarios. Our new method outperforms the previous automatic estimation methods on synthetic data and provides a comparable result to the manual labored, time-consuming geostatistics approach on real data, proving its potential as a practical industrial tool.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> A porosity estimation method with simultaneous facies classification is proposed. </LI> <LI> The method combines the benefits of ridge regression and conditional random fields. </LI> <LI> Two preprocessing techniques are introduced, inspired from image processing. </LI> </UL> </P>

First observation ofγrays emitted from excited states south-east ofSn132: Theπg9/2−1⊗ν_f7/2multiplet ofIn83132

Jungclaus, A.,Gargano, A.,Grawe, H.,Taprogge, J.,Nishimura, S.,Doornenbal, P.,Lorusso, G.,Shimizu, Y.,Simpson, G. S.,S&ouml,derstr&ouml,m, P.-A.,Sumikama, T.,Xu, Z. Y.,Baba, H.,Browne, F.,Fukuda, N.,G American Physical Society 2016 Physical Review C Vol.93 No.4

<P>For the first time, the gamma decay of excited states has been observed in a nucleus situated in the quadrant south-east of doubly magic Sn-132, a region in which experimental information so far is limited to ground-state properties. Six gamma rays with energies of 50, 86, 103, 227, 357, and 602 keV were observed following the beta-delayed neutron emission from Cd-133(85), populated in the projectile fission of a U-238 beam at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN within the EURICA project. The new experimental information is compared to the results of a modern realistic shell-model calculation, the first one in this region very far from stability, focusing in particular on the pi 0g(9/2)(-1) circle times nu 1f(7/2) particle-hole multiplet in In-132(83). In addition, theoretical estimates based on a scaling of the two-body matrix elements for the pi h(11/2)(-1) circle times nu g(9/2) analog multiplet in Tl-208(127), one major proton and one major neutron shell above, are presented.</P>

Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM): Cost-Savings and Economic Benefits

G.R.B.E. R&ouml;mer,A. Peters,E. Koerhuis,H.J.A. Stuyt 동국대학교 정보융합기술원 2006 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Sy Vol.7 No.2