Duncan D AdamsFaculty of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New ZealandAbstract: In diabetic retinopathy, collapse of the retinal vasculature is associated with loss of the pericytes.These are contractile cells that together with endothelial cells form the terminal arterioles of the retina.The cause of the loss of pericytes is not known.Recent
Ambient lighting conditions play a crucial role in determining the perceptual quality of images from photographic devices.In general, inadequate transmission light and undesired atmospheric conditions jointly degrade the image quality.If we know the desired ambient factors associated with the given Cream low-light image, we can recover the enhanced
Understanding the molecular mechanism of signalling in the important super-family of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is causally related to questions of how and where these receptors can be activated or inhibited.In Night Lights this context, it is of great interest to unravel the common molecular features of GPCRs as well as those related to a
This paper is an extension of the recent work by the authors where a simplifying assumption of no costs Cocoa Powder of entry to the religious market was set.In the present paper, the religious market is regulated in the sense that a sect in order to establish itself in a market has to bear costs of entry.In the case of one official denomination th
The article discusses normal incidence sound absorption by aluminium foam manufactured with powder metallurgy technology.Aluminium foams with different surface morphologies were obtained by varying the type of precursor and adding filler materials during the foaming process.The sound absorption coefficients found for these aluminium foams were comp