Systemic inflammation and coronary microvascular endothelial dysfunction are essential pathophysiological factors in heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) that support the use of statins. The pleiotropic properties of statins, s...
(1) Background: Chronic inflammation and fibrosis are key players in cardiac remodeling associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Monocytes and T-helpers (Th) are involved in both...
The main objective of this paper is to generalize the Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics in order to include the anomalous transport in systems in non-equilibrium conditions. Considering the generalized entropy, the corresponding flux and entropy p...
People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM as well as information, communication, and technology (ICT) careers. The underrepresentation of individuals with disabilities in STEM may reflect systemic issues of access. Curricular materials th...
Background: Heart failure with supranormal ejection fraction (HFsnEF) has recently emerged as a distinct phenotype within the preserved ejection fraction spectrum. However, its clinical profile, underlying mechanisms, and prognostic significance rema...
Clinical indications for adipose tissue therapy are expanding towards a regenerative-based approach. Adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction consists of extracellular matrix and all nonadipocyte cells such as connective tissue cells including fibro...
This study developed an approach for remote estimation of Vegetation Fraction (VF) and Flower Fraction (FF) in oilseed rape, which is a crop species with conspicuous flowers during reproduction. Canopy reflectance in green, red, red edge and NIR band...
This paper investigates the stability of continued fractions with complex partial denominators and numerators equal to one. Such fractions are an important tool for function approximation and have wide application in physics, engineering, and mathema...
Background/Objectives: The prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is expected to surpass that of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), yet it remains under-researched. Compared to HFrEF, patients with HFp...
The objective of this study is to reveal the intrinsic connection between fractal operators in physical fractal spaces and continued fractions. The specific contributions include: (1) reviewing fundamental concepts of continued fractions and physical...
The 2 Gy per fraction equivalent dose (EQD2) is an important quantity used in determining equivalent prescription doses for different fractionation regimens and evaluating different fractionation regimens, but it does not match its definition when it...
In the present study, we aimed to derive analytical solutions of the homotopy analysis method (HAM) for the time-fractional Navier–Stokes equations in cylindrical coordinates in the form of a rapidly convergent series. In this work, we explore...
A common approach to optimising hydrodynamic journal bearings for power loss is to reduce the lubricant supply and direct the oil to specific bearing areas where it is needed to guarantee safe operation. This requires information on the processes in...
Heart failure (HF) is a significant global healthcare burden with increasing prevalence and high morbidity and mortality rates. The diagnosis and management of HF are closely tied to ejection fraction (EF), a crucial parameter for evaluating disease...
Accurate calculation of the whitecap fraction is of great importance for the estimation of air-sea momentum flux, heat flux and sea-salt aerosol flux in Earth system models. Past whitecap fraction parameterizations were mostly power functions of wind...
This article characterises viral fraction metatranscriptomes (smaller than 0.2 µm) from the pelagic zone of oligotrophic Lake Baikal (Russia). The study revealed the dominance of transcripts of DNA viruses: bacteriophages and algal viruses. We...
An experimental study of quasi-two-dimensional liquid foams with varying liquid fractions is presented. Experiments are conducted in a Hele-Shaw cell with a local permeable obstacle placed in the center and filling 35, 60 and 78% of the cell gap. Foa...
Aluminium can be essential in reducing climate impacts as weight reduction is critical. Rheocasting is getting more and more attention from the electronics and automotive industries. The solid fraction in Rheocasting determines the processing outcome...
The paper deals with the problem of construction and investigation of branched continued fraction expansions of special functions of several variables. We give some recurrence relations of Horn hypergeometric functions
Finite-precision chaotic generators are deterministic finite-state systems whose structure is not established by continuous-domain chaos indicators or by ciphertext statistics. We study a map on
A mixture fraction approach was applied to predict the combustion behavior of polymeric materials. In comparison to the combustion of gaseous mixtures, the presence of solid fuels complicates the description of the combustion. Accurate predictions of...
When processing low-quality gibbsite–kaolinite bauxites, technologies that involve different methods of mechanical and chemical enrichment with the separation of a difficult-to-utilize fine kaolinite fraction for disposal are used. Before produ...
Estimating the fetal fraction of DNA in a pregnant mother’s blood is a risk-free, non-invasive way of predicting fetal aneuploidy. It is a rapidly developing field of study, offering researchers a plethora of different complementary methods. Such met...
The aniline point (AP) is an important physical property of a petroleum fraction. The AP gives an indication of the aromatic hydrocarbon content in a hydrocarbon mixture and can also be an indicator of the ignition point of a diesel fraction. In this...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common monogenic kidney disease. Patients at high risk of severe disease progression should be identified early in order to intervene with supportive and therapeutic measures. However,...
Study basis: As a byproduct of protein metabolism, serum uric acid is a controversial risk factor and is the focus of several recent studies in the field of cardiovascular disease. Whether serum uric acid is involved in the development of these patho...
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is considered a major health care problem with frequent decompensations, high hospitalization and mortality rates. In severe heart failure (HF), the symptoms are refractory to medical treatment and...
Polyethylene wax (PEW) often carries a broad carbon-number distribution (CND) that limits its use in grades with controlled melting point, viscosity, and hardness. This study examines how multistage molecular distillation reshapes PEW composition and...
The signal detection problem for cyclostationary signals is addressed within the fraction-of-time probability framework, where statistical functions are constructed starting from a single time series, without introducing the concept of stochastic pro...
A correlation model for the diffuse fraction was recently developed on the basis of a data set obtained in the western part of the Taiwanese mainland. However, it is widely agreed that no existing diffuse fraction correlation model is applicable to a...
The Hg fractions in three sediment cores of the eutrophic estuary in northern Taiwan were determined by the Bloom sequential extraction method, which chemically divided the sedimentary Hg into five fractions: water-soluble (F1); human stomach acid (F...
A new fractionation protocol for wheat straw organosolv lignin was developed on the basis of the dominating H-bonding orientations of its components. Acetone as H-bond accepting aprotic polar solvent and methanol as H-bond donating and accepting prot...
We analyzed variations in three tree properties: tissue density, carbon fraction, and carbon density within bole tissues of nine Californian conifer species. Model performance for all three tree properties was significantly improved with the addition...
Lignocellulose-based biorefineries are considered to play a crucial role in reducing fossil-fuel dependency. As of now, the fractionation is still the most difficult step of the whole process. The objective of this study is to investigate the potenti...
The gap fractions of three mature hemi-boreal forest stands in Estonia were estimated using the LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer ( LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA), the TRAC instrument (Edgewall, Miami, FL, USA), Cajanus’ tube, hemispherical...
In this study, to determine the biomass fraction to apply to the estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the waste incineration sector, municipal solid waste, industrial waste, and sewage sludge incineration facilities were selected and ana...
Evaluating the two-phase flow parameters across tube bundles is crucial to the analysis of vibration excitation mechanisms. These parameters include the temporal and local variation of void fraction and phase redistribution. Understanding these two-p...
Sorption properties play a key role in the mobility of selenium (Se) and fraction distribution changes, leading to the bioavailability of Se in the soil environment. Thus, the effect of soil physicochemical properties on the sorption of exogenous sel...
To analyze the hyperspectral reflectance characteristics of rice canopies under changes in diffuse radiation fraction, experiments using different cover materials were performed in Nanjing, China, during 2016 and 2017. Each year, two treatments with...
Understanding the phase transformation and fraction affected by thermal changes is imperative for ensuring the safety of a welded joint. This study proposes a methodology for predicting the phase transformation and fraction of a welded joint using an...
Influence of the roll speed (RS) during roll compaction on ribbon, granule, tablet properties and its effect on the prediction of the ribbon solid fraction at-gap is often neglected or controversially discussed. The aim of this study was to investiga...
The cloud amount, referred to as the frequency of cloud occurrences, is of great importance for the Earth–atmosphere system. It was conventionally quantified as the area fraction of clouds in a given region, discarding the three-dimensional nat...
The paper is related to the classical problem of the rational approximation of analytic functions of one or several variables, particulary the issues that arise in the construction and studying of continued fraction expansions and their multidimensio...
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is a chronic and progressive syndrome that continues to be a substantial financial burden for health systems in Western countries. Despite remarkable advances in pharmacologic and device-based therapy over...
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome associated with poor quality of life, substantial healthcare resource utilization, and premature mortality, in large part related to high rates of hospitalizations. The clinical manifestations of heart failure are...
The alpine grassland ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau is a vital base for animal husbandry and a key ecological security barrier in China. Phosphorus (P), an essential nutrient, is among the primary factors limiting grassland productivity. However, t...
Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome involving structural and/or functional abnormalities of the heart. Heart failure is often classified based on left ventricular ejection fraction, which serves as a predictor of mortality. The majority...
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a multifarious syndrome, accounting for over half of heart failure (HF) patients receiving clinical treatment. The prevalence of HFpEF is rapidly increasing in the coming decades as the global...
The aims of this study were to examine the bioactive component(s) responsible for the anticoagulant activity of M. malabathricum Linn. leaf hot water crude extract via bioassay-guided fractionation and to evaluate the effect of bioactive component(s)...
A method for determination of the volume fraction in binary liquid mixtures by measurement of the equalization wavelength of intermodal interference of modes LP01 and LP11 in a liquid core optical fiber is presented in this paper. This method was stu...
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