leakiness


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the condition of permitting leaks or leakage

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In addition to creating a large and structured paddle with minimal leakiness, cross-linkages between setules might function to minimize setule bending during power strokes.
By inducing these beneficial gut microbiome changes, metformin reduces gut leakiness and lowers levels of circulating toxins that induce inflammation throughout the body--effects that help to reduce inflammation-related insulin resistance and elevated blood-sugar levels.
p=0.4 denotes the Dropout parameter, where approximately p number of units will be dropped in the output, [alpha] controls the "leakiness" of the Leaky-ReLU activation units.
Some bodies, moreover, can never be seen as fully "adult" as a result of their perceived unruliness, leakiness, or even stickiness.
The modification of the microbiota, alteration of the intestinal mucosal structure, aging (15) could lead to a progressive leakiness of the blood-brain-barrier (16), which, corroborated with parietal intestinal inflammation and excessive stimulation of the immune response, determine the initiation of pathological processes with multiple local and systemic repercussions: intestinal, hepatic diseases, metabolic disorders, type 2 diabetes complications such as pigmentary retinopathy, kidney toxicity, hypertension, diabetic foot (17).
(37) The openness and permeability of the female body becomes difficult when women attempt to express bodily agency, especially when the piercing of the body in a fencing bout comes to mean, as Jennifer Low puts it, that 'The language of combat in fencing manuals furthers implications about the gendering of leakiness and permeability'.
This results in improvement in the mechanical rigidity of vesicles and membrane cohesion and the leakiness of membrane and finally increases the entrapment efficiency of the niosomes.
Baluk, "Significance of blood vessel leakiness in cancer," Cancer Research, vol.
In CF cells, homozygous for F508del CFTR, this complex is disrupted and CFTR delocalisation and degradation are associated with disorganization of actin cytoskeleton and tight junction leakiness [6-8].
Gut permeability is increased in HFD-fed mice models that are characterized with increased inflammation linked to leaking microbial cell wall component lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of gram-negative bacteria causing endotoxemia [5]; however, non-DIO-induced gut leakiness and endotoxemia are not defined well.
Keshavarzian, "Intestinal CYP2E1: A mediator of alcohol-induced gut leakiness," Redox Biology, vol.
Cartier et al., "Prevention of gut leakiness by a probiotic treatment leads to attenuated HPA response to an acute psychological stress in rats," Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol.
In this study they considered a potential source of nonuniformity in the blood flow: the enhanced fluid exchange between the vascular and interstitial space mediated by the high leakiness of tumor vessels which could lead to a coupling between vascular, transvascular and interstitial fluid flow.