Background & Aims: During liver fibrosis, tissue repair mechanisms replace necrotic tissue with highly stabilized extracellular matrix proteins.Extracellular matrix stabilization influences the Bento speed of tissue recovery.Here, we studied the expression and function of peroxidasin (PXDN), a peroxidase that uses hydrogen peroxide to cross-lin

This study examines spontaneous phonetic accommodation of a dialect with distinct categories by speakers who are in the process of merging those categories.We focus on the merger of the NEAR and SQUARE lexical sets in New Zealand English, presenting New Zealand participants with an unmerged speaker of Australian English.Mergers-in-progress are a un

This study mainly investigates the path planning and collision avoidance problem of autonomous agricultural machineries in the complex rural road.First, the grid model is used to build the global map of machineries and the particle swarm optimisation algorithm is used to search the global path.A non-linear dynamic inertia weight is introduced to av

The characteristics of palm oil mill wastewater (POMW) were brown color, pH 3.8-4.3, temperature 48-55oC, total solids 68.2-82.1 g/l, suspended solids 26.2-65.6 g/l, oil and grease 19.1-25.1 g/l, COD 49.9-160.7g/l and BOD 32.5-75.3 g/l.After centrifugation (3,184 xg) of 50 ml POMW for 10 min, the POMW was separated into 3 layers: top Credenza (oil)

Daina Kalnins,1 Michael Wilschanski21Clinical Dietetics, Respiratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah University Hospitals, Jerusalem, IsraelAbstract: Poor clinical outcomes in cystic fibrosis are often associated with undernutrition.Normal growth and development should be ach