Smooth/Enhance effect

Pharmacology These agents are synthetic adrenocortical steroids with basic glucocorticoid actions and effects. Glucocorticoids may decrease number and activity of inflammatory cells, enhance effect of beta-adrenergic drugs on cyclic AMP production, inhibit bronchoconstrictor mechanisms, or produce direct smooth muscle relaxation. Inhaler use provides effective local steroid activity with minimal systemic effect. 

It is very difficult to separate the two enhancement effects but this has been attempted by measuring the chemical enhancement from smooth metal surfaces where it was found that the chemical enhancement effect was small [16, 17]. This enhancement process is wholly adsorbate dependent and requires an analyte with a functionality capable of chemi- or physisorption to the metal surface. There is evidence for both these effects and it is widely believed that the enhancement may occur from a combination of these two effects. 

Portnoy and Goren immobilized M-alkylated imidazoles on polystyrene-bound polyether dendrons via three different synthetic routes (Scheme 15.43). All these systems catalyzed the Baylis-Hillman addition of methyl vinyl ketones to aromatic aldehydes, displaying a very strong positive dendritic effect and a significant enhancement effect of water as a cosolvent. Remarkably, substrates that did not undergo the reaction with the nondendritic immobilized or soluble M-alkyl imidazole catalysts underwent a smooth reaction with one of the catalytic second-generation dendrons. 

The Smooth/Enhance plug-in is a very special case of an equalization plug-in. It is carefully tuned to eliminate (smooth) some of the artifacts caused by other processes and effects or by problems with the source audio. 

The other use is to quickly brighten up a track (enhance), especially one that has been softened with any number of other effects. One example might be a track that has been compressed to make it a bit louder in a mix. This can sometimes result in a flatter, less lively sound. Another notable example is when down sampling. Down sampling is the process of changing the sample rate from, say, an audio CD at 44,100 Hz to 11,025 Hz for distribution over the Internet. The Smooth Enhance plug-in has one simple Operation slider that is used to control the effect. 

As the surface smoothing and levelling effects are somewhat limited, the use of acid cleaners prior to anodising or electropainting, where surface defects can be enhanced, is not common. 

It can be seen that k in Eq. (10) replaces the system-describing parameters L and Ah in Eq. (1). A direct test of the hypothesis is therefore to plot (j> against k for fixed values of P, G, and d, with L and Ah varying. For the hypothesis to be correct, the data points must all lie on a smooth curve. Experience shows, however, that plotting (f> against k often produces an undue amount of scatter which may obscure and distort any true relationship existing. This enhanced scatter is caused by the cumulative effect of experimental errors in the various terms in the heat-balance equation from which the quality k is derived. 

In the present experiments, MTX markedly increased the tissue Ca content, Ca uptake, and intracellular free Ca concentration of smooth or cardiac mus cles. These Ca -mobilizing effects of MTX as well as its vasoconstrictive, cardio tonic, and cardiotoxic effects were profoundly suppressed or abolished by Ca entry blockers, polwalent cations, or Ca -free medium. It has been reported that MTX produces Ca -dependent excitatory effects on neuronal (10,11,18) or pituitary (26) cells and smooth (12,13), cardiac (14,15,17), or skeletal (16) muscles, and that all these actions of MTX were antagonized by Ca antagonists or polyvalent cations. These observations suggest that the enhanced Ca influx and the subsequent increase in cytoplasmic free Ca concentration play a dominant role in the excitatory effects of MTX. 

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