Comparative effect of bisoprolol and losartan in the treatment of essential hypertension.

Objective: We investigated the effects of bisoprolol and losartan on subjects with essential hypertension, by conducting heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of ECG signals. Our intention was to establish the set of linear and nonlinear heart rate variability parameters, which could be used as a noninvasive markers in the treatment of hypertension.

Materials And Methods: Sixty subjects with essential hypertension included in this study were divided in two groups.

Phosphocholine-binding antibody activities are hierarchically encoded in the sequence of the heavy-chain variable region: dominance of self-association activity in the T15 idiotype.

A methodology based on the representation of each amino acid of a protein sequence by the electron-ion interaction potential and subsequent analysis by signal processing was used to determine the characteristic or common frequency (in Hz) that reflects the biological activity shared among phosphocholine (PC)-binding antibodies. The common frequency for the variable portion of the heavy chain (VH) of the PC-specific antibodies is found to be at f = 0.37 Hz.

A new approach to revealing functional residues from analysis of protein primary structure.

A protein's biological function is encrypted within its primary structure. Nevertheless, revealing protein function from analysis of its primary structure is still unsolved problem. In this article we present a new methodology for determining functionally significant amino acid residues in proteins sequences, which is based on time-frequency signal analysis and Smoothed Pseudo Wigner Ville distribution (SPWV).

Patterned growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanowire arrays on inorganic substrates at low temperature without catalyst.

We report an approach for growing aligned ZnO nanowire arrays with a high degree control over size, orientation, dimensionality, uniformity, and possibly shape. Our method combines e-beam lithography and a low temperature hydrothermal method to achieve patterned and aligned growth of ZnO NWs at <100degreesC on general inorganic substrates, such as Si and GaN, without using catalyst. This approach opens up the possibility of applying ZnO nanowires as sensor arrays, piezoelectric antenna arrays, two-dimensional photonic crystals, IC interconnects, and nanogenerators.

A time-frequency approach for the analysis of normal and arrhythmia cardiac signals.

Previously, electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have been analyzed in either a time-indexed or spectral form. The reality, is that the ECG and all other biological signals belong to the family of multicomponent nonstationary signals. Due to this reason, the use of time-frequency analysis can be unavoidable for these signals.

ZnO nanobelt/nanowire Schottky diodes formed by dielectrophoresis alignment across au electrodes.

Rectifying diodes of single nanobelt/nanowire-based devices have been fabricated by aligning single ZnO nanobelts/nanowires across paired Au electrodes using dielectrophoresis. A current of 0.5 microA at 1.

Large-scale Ni-doped ZnO nanowire arrays and electrical and optical properties.

Large-scale Ni-doped ZnO nanowire (NW) arrays are grown. The electrical conductivity of a single Ni-doped ZnO NW has been increased for 30 times. The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of the doped ZnO NWs has a red shift, suggesting possible doping induced band edge bending.

Simplified model of low energy x-ray backscattering.

The reflection of x-rays from a half space is studied within the framework of a model that assumes multiple isotropic scattering of photons without energy loss. An exactly solvable analytical expression for the angular distribution of reflected photons is derived. The range of validity of the model was determined by the Monte Carlo simulation thereby incorporating energy loss and angular dependences.