A comprehensive review of methods for determination of l-lysine with detailed description of biosensors

A comprehensive review is given of the Earth-Venus measurements made with the Lincoln Laboratory Millstone radar in 1959 and 1961. The time-delay and Doppler shift data yield a value for the Astronomical Unit of 499.0052 ± 0.001 light-sec. Using 299 792.5 km/s for the speed of light leads to an AU of 149 598 000 ± 300 km. With the radius of Earth taken as 6 378.15 km, the solar parallax then becomes 8″.79416 ± 0″.00002. This value is consistent with measurements made at various other laboratories to about one part in 105.

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Diabetes mellitus and thermoregulation

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology ◽

10.1139/y87-215 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 65 (6) ◽

pp. 1365-1376 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

A. R. Scott ◽

T. Bennett ◽

I. A. Macdonald

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Core Temperature ◽

Final Section ◽

Peripheral Blood Flow ◽

Neuronal Function ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Reduce Heat Loss ◽

Heat Conservation ◽

Thermoregulatory Function

Diabetes mellitus is accompanied by a variety of alterations in metabolic, cardiovascular, and neuronal function. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the ways in which these pathophysiological aspects of diabetes may impair thermoregulatory function. The influence of diabetic neuropathy and vasculopathy on the control of peripheral blood flow is reviewed and the additional effects of changing levels of blood glucose and insulin are discussed. Both hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis are associated with hypothermia, but the reasons for this in ketoacidosis are not clear. Impairment of heat conservation may contribute to and could be a consequence of autonomic neuropathy. The final section of the paper describes a study of our own in which metabolic stability was maintained by infusing insulin intravenously before and during the determination of the thermoregulatory responses to acute cold stress. Under these conditions, there was impairment of reflex vasoconstriction in the limbs of diabetics with neuropathy. This failure to reduce heat loss resulted in half the diabetics with neuropathy shivering in response to moderate cooling, which in some subjects was accompanied by a fall in core temperature. Diabetics without neuropathy and nondiabetics neither shivered nor dropped core temperature.

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Identification, control strategies, and analytical approaches for the determination of potential genotoxic impurities in pharmaceuticals: A comprehensive review

Journal of Separation Science ◽

10.1002/jssc.201401143 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 38 (5) ◽

pp. 764-779 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Ambavaram Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy ◽

Jafariah Jaafar ◽

Khalid Umar ◽

Zaiton Abdul Majid ◽

Azmi Bin Aris ◽

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Keyword(s):

Control Strategies ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Genotoxic Impurities ◽

Analytical Approaches

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Is it worth carrying out determination of n-butane in postmortem samples? A case report and a comprehensive review of the literature

International Journal of Legal Medicine ◽

10.1007/s00414-015-1260-9 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 130 (5) ◽

pp. 1223-1229 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Souleiman El Balkhi ◽

Caroline Coutaz-Fluck ◽

Fanny Moreau ◽

François Paraf ◽

Jean-Michel Gaulier

Keyword(s):

Case Report ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Comprehensive Review

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Successful Dental Implant Placement Surgeries With Buccal Bone Fenestrations

Journal of Oral Implantology ◽

10.1563/aaid-joi-d-12-00233 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 112-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liviu Steier ◽

Gabriela Steier

Keyword(s):

Treatment Outcomes ◽

Dental Implant ◽

Bone Plate ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Preventative Measures ◽

Implant Placement ◽

Success Criteria ◽

Implant Treatment

This is the first comprehensive review of the classification, preventative measures, diagnosis, treatment methods, and determination of success criteria of buccal bone plate fenestrations (BPFs) secondary to posterior implant surgeries. The purpose of this review is to present and discuss the current literature from peer-reviewed journals, recent studies, and international implantology guidelines and to provide practitioners with guiding points to identify and understand whether BPFs are complications or accidents of implant surgeries. In addition, this review sets forth a detailed set of criteria for the evaluation and diagnosis of BPFs and for the subsequent classification of BPFs as either complications or accidents of posterior implant surgeries. From the literature analyzed, it is clear that BPFs are disqualified from the class of implant treatment failures because BPFs neither impair nor significantly delay treatment. A comprehensive outline of preventative measures and surgery aids to avoid fenestrating the buccal bone plate during implant placement, and a variety of repair methods are included in this review. Considerations of treatment outcomes and patient sensitivities are also included in this comprehensive review.

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A revised scoring scheme for the classification of socio-economic status in Nigeria

Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics ◽

10.4314/njp.v48i1.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 26-33

Author(s):

Michael O. Ibadin ◽

George O. Akpede

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Public Service ◽

Economic Status ◽

Rater Reliability ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

The Past ◽

The University

Background: Researchers in medicine and related fields in Nigeria have usually made recourse to the instrument developed by Olusanya et al and Oyedeji in the past three-and-a half decades for determination of socioeconomic status (SES). Beside the question of their age, however, these instruments were purposive and might no longer be suitable because of the changes in the parameters on which they were based.Objective: To develop a robust but generic scheme that takes into consideration the changes in the nation’s socioeconomic space in the succeeding three and a half decades.Methods: A detailed and comprehensive review of the extant schemes was undertaken with a view to identifying their inherent weaknesses. The latter were then factored into the design of a new scheme taking into consideration the emergent restructuring of career positions in the civil/public service as well as the place of private and informal sectors of the economy. The new scheme was validated at the University of Beninand Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospitals.Results: The new scheme had a remarkably high Inter-rater reliability (r = 0.947, p<0.001), raterre- rater reliability (r = 0.984, p <0.001) and % agreement (with modified Oyedeji’s tool as standard) of 67% (K coefficient = 0.47, r = 0.71, p<0.001)Conclusion/Recommendation: The new scheme could be a viable tool for the assessment of SES of families and individuals, which not only takes into consideration current realities of the nation’s economy, but also is readily adaptable to meet foreseeable changes.

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Functions on quotient singularities

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.1987.0116 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 324 (1576) ◽

pp. 1-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Invariant Theory ◽

Quotient Singularity ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Invariant Functions ◽

Quotient Singularities ◽

Free Actions

There are two main results: a determination of the modality of a generic function on any given two-dimensional quotient singularity and a listing of all the zero-modal functions. To achieve this, a comprehensive review of the invariant theory for free actions on C 2 is needed. The problem is put in context by a general discussion of classification of invariant functions, and several different extensions of the main results are indicated.

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