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Showing 1 to 20 of 392 for “"sham"”.
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Sham City
<p><em>Sham City</em> is a collection of poems completed while enrolled in The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. The poems are accompanied by a critical introduction.</p>
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In the dark : an experimental study in distinguishing an authentic herbal substance from a sham substance
… of experiments to determine whether a credible sham substance could be developed for use in a clinical trial for Chinese herbal medicine. Methods: Three separate studies were undertaken in sequential order between 2009 and 2011, with the second and third study attempting to improve on each …
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From Hartree Product to Kohn-Sham and Beyond: Exploring Self-Interaction in Self-Consistent Field Methods
… (SIE) is a commonly known problem that most Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) approximate functionals display to varying extents. It originates from the incomplete cancellation of the Coulomb self-repulsion by the approximate exchange functionals. This is one of the major challenges for …
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Imperial reorderings of land and belonging in Bilad al-Sham: on the disruption of an indigenous ontology of dwelling
… and capitalism in twentieth-century Bilad al-Sham reconfigured Indigenous understandings of land, and how contemporary imperial and neoliberal orders continue to reshape people’s relationships to place. Using my hometown, al-Fuheis, as a case study, I trace how an ontology once marked by …
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Ab Initio Treatment of Complex Systems Kohn-Sham Orbitals for Multi Reference Methods and the Base Pairing Properties of Xanthine
Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen. Der erste untersucht die Eignung von LHF-Orbitalen für Multireferenzverfahren. Das Ziel dieses Teils ist eine effizientere Berechnung angeregter Zustände, was zur spektroskopischen Charakterisierung vieler organischer und bioorganischer Moleküle …
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The Efficacy of Acupuncture Versus Non-Penetrating Sham Acupuncture in Relieving Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) in Healthy Human Adults
… received acupuncture (ACU). Group three received sham acupuncture (S-ACU) with non-penetrating needles. Outcomes included grip strength, visual analogue scale for pain (VAS) and pain pressure threshold (PPT). Skin conductance (SC), skin temperature (ST) and perfusion (BF) were recorded to quantify …
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Einfluss von supraphysiologisch dosiertem Testosteron auf das Remodeling nach Myokardinfarkt bei der Ratte
… eine Infarzierung (MI) oder Scheininfarzierung (SHAM) dieser Tiere, acht Wochen danach die kernspintomographische, echokardiographische und hämodynamische Evaluierung der linksventrikulären Funktion. Ferner wurden molekularbiologische Marker wie ANP, MHC und IGF-1 untersucht, um so das kardiale …
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The impact of ischaemic preconditioning on cerebrovascular function in healthy individuals.
… individuals, the impact of bilateral arm RIPC or SHAM on resting CBF, cerebrovascular reactivity, cerebral autoregulation, and autoregulation during hypercapnia. Methods: Nine healthy participants (age 32.6±11.1 yrs; BMI 25.9±4.4 kg/m2) underwent two laboratory visits; RIPC and SHAM. RIPC …
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Utilization of abomasally infused ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid in sheep
… DNA, or a 1:1 combination of RNA and DNA or a sham infusion. Tris buffer was used as the solvent for RNA and DNA, the carrier for soy protein and the sham infusion. Infusions, except for the sham, were calculated to be isonitrogenous supplying 2.5 g nitrogen per day. Following a 10-day …
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The Long Term Effects of Short-Wave Diathermy and Long-Duration Static Stretch on Hamstring Flexibility
… wave diathermy and prolonged stretch versus sham diathermy and prolonged stretch and control and to observe how long those changes last.</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Heat and stretch techniques have been touted for years. To date, the effect of short-wave diathermy and hamstring …
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Taming the Inverse and Forward Problems in Density Functional Theory
… density $n(x)$ that minimises a Kohn-Sham total energy functional defined using some exchange-correlation (xc) functional $E_\text{xc}[n]$. Towards this end, the associated Euler-Lagrange equations, i.e. the Kohn-Sham equations, are often solved in practice, which demand a procedure …
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The effects of congestive heart failure and functional overload on rat skeletal muscle
… IIx expression) compared to the control animal (SHAM). The mixed red gastrocnemius, regardless of the severity of CHF, exhibited significant (p<0.05) changes in all of the MHC isoforms. The slow soleus and fast white gastrocnemius did not display any significant changes in MHC expression. The …
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Can low-dose lithium supplementation protect against sarcopenic obesity in ovariectomized mice?
… in ovariectomized (OVX) mice. 28-week-old sham and OVX C57BL/6J mice were divided into a control (con) or Li group, giving rise to four groups: sham-con, OVX-con, sham-Li, and OVX-Li (n = 6-10 per group). OVX-Li mice were provided a dose of 50 mg/kg/day of Li via drinking water for 8 weeks. …
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Examination of voluntary wheel running on markers of adipose thermogenesis in intact and ovariectomized female mice
… (OVX=20) while the remaining twenty underwent a sham surgery (SHAM=20). SHAM and OVX mice were further randomized into one of two experimental groups: 1) sedentary (SHAM SED=10, OVX SED=10) and 2) voluntary wheel running (SHAM VWR=10, OVX VWR=10) for the duration of the study period (8-weeks). …
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Ocelli and octopamine and their effects on cabbage looper moth flight activity
… by studying the flight activity of control, sham, and anocellate moths with and without octopamine treatment. Sham and anocellate moths were produced by cauterization in last-instar larvae, of ocellar primordial cells for anocellate moths, and of non-involved cells for sham moths. Flight …
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ENHANCING EXERCISE PERFORMANCE THROUGH ISCHAEMIC PRECONDITIONING
… resulted in the fastest TT time compared to SHAM [17 secs (90% CI: 0, 34 secs); P=0.097], but there was no benefit of applying a greater number of cycles [5 secs (-35, 26 secs); P=0.49] or employing unilateral IPC [18 secs (-11, 48 secs, P=0.29]. Local versus Remote cuff placement did not …
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Effetto nell’auto-somministrazione dell’agonista sintetico del recettore cannabinoide CB1, WIN 55,212-2, nel modello animale di depressione della bulbectomia olfattoria (OBX)
… were either olfactory-bulbectomized (OBX) or sham-operated (SHAM), and following 21 days they were implanted with intravenous catheters. A 3-week period is necessary for the development of a depressive-like phenotype following OBX surgery, which was verified by means of the motility and …
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Lesioning of the Nucleus of the Hippocampal Commissure Followed by Food Deprivation Stress in Birds Demonstrates Simultaneous Involvement in both the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis
… in this experiment and split into 3 groups: 1) Sham surgical controls without FD (SHAM), 2) Sham surgical birds with 2h FD stress (SHAM+FD), and 3) Birds subjected to electrolytic lesioning and 2h FD (LES+FD). Blood, brain and anterior pituitary (APit) were sampled promptly from each bird at 2h …
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Home-based exergames to improve cognitive function in Multiple Sclerosis: the EXTREMUS Study
… are superior to a placebo-analogue (sham) cognitive intervention. The hypothesis is that exergames offer a comprehensive approach to improve both motor and cognitive domains. Methods. This is a multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled, single blind, parallel arm study. People with MS …
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