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Jourard's 21-item questionnaire was analyzed as an instrument for measuring the self-disclosure of 331 undergraduates at three universities. Alpha coefficients of internal consistency indicated that the SDQ-21 was acceptably reliable. Jourard's identification of the items as highly, lowly or moderately "intimate" was o... |
Cells live in constantly changing environments and employ dynamic signaling pathways to transduce information about the signals they encounter. However, the mechanisms by which dynamic signals are decoded into appropriate gene expression patterns remain poorly understood. Here, we devise networked optogenetic pathways ... |
Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics along with its companion volume, The IntrareJigious Dialogue, according to Ewert H. Cousins, "may well provide the catalyst that will break Western hermeneutics out of its cultural entrapment, freeing it to function scientifically within a global matrix" (Cross Currents 29/2 [Summer 1979], ... |
INTRODUCTION |
The use of bowel segments to perform bladder augmentation is associated with several metabolic and surgical complications. A great variety of synthetic materials, biodegradable or not, have been tested. Collagen-based biomaterials have shown effectiveness for the regeneration and obtainment of a functional bladder. |
OBJECTIVE |
Assess the functional and histological response of the rabbit bladder to anionic collagen membrane (ACM), either when it is anastomosed to the bladder or it is placed onto bladder after vesicomyectomy. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
In 15 male rabbit a partial cystectomy was performed. After 4 weeks they were divided in 3 groups. Group 1 (G1) - bladder augmentation with ACM. Group 2 (G2) ACM is placed onto bladder after vesicomyectomy. Group 3 (G3) control group. Maximal bladder capacity (MBC) and weight were assessed with 4 (M1), 8 (M2) and 12 (M... |
RESULTS |
There were neither bladder stones, nor implant extrusion in M3. There was a significant increase in MBC in G1 and G2 (p<0.05), but no statistical differences in G3 (p=0.35). There is no significant difference comparing G1 and G2. In M3, both groups have shown a bigger MBC than G3 (p<0.05). The microscopic assessment sh... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The ACM was effective for the increase of MBC. The bladders with preservation of the urothelium have shown an extensive inflammatory process.Phase II trial of nivolumab with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment in inflammatory breast cancer. |
TPS604 Background: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer with poor prognosis and is often resistant to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with risk of early recurrence and systemic spread of disease. PD-L1 expression in IBC is frequent (Bertucci et al. Oncotarget 2015), and blockade of the... |
Abstract This paper presents the design and experimentation of a variable stiffness index finger exoskeleton consisting of four-bar mechanisms actuated by a linear actuator. The lengths of the four-bar mechanism were optimized so that it can follow a recorded index fingertip trajectory. The mechanism has a fixed compli... |
Our principle goal of this study is to develop a CFD based analysis procedure that could be used to analyze the geometric tradeoffs in scroll geometry when space is limited. In the study, a full centrifugal compressor stage at four different operating points from near surge to near choke is analyzed using Computationa... |
The numerical results show good agreement with test data in scroll circumferential pressure distribution at different ΛAR, total pressure loss coefficient, and pressure distortion at the tongue. The CFD analysis also predicts a reasonable choke point of the stage. The numerical results provide overall flow field in th... |
INTRODUCTION |
Polymorphism of human leucocyte antigens (HLA) is important in transplantation medicine, anthropological studies and paternity testing. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
We investigated polymorphisms of HLA class II in population of Vojvodina by means of serologic typing using microlymphocitotoxicity test. We calculated the HLA-DR and HLA-DQ gene frequencies in 174 subjects. Haplotype frequencies, coefficient of linkage disequilibrium (delta values) and their statistical significant le... |
RESULTS |
The most frequent HLA-DR and HLA-DQ alleles were: DR5(11) (gene frequency 0.138), DR4 (gene frequency 0.083), DR1 (gene frequency 0.077), DQ1 (gene frequency 0.388), DQ3 (gene frequency 0.197), and DQ2 (gene frequency 0.09). The highest positive values of coefficient of linkage disequilibrium (delta) were calculated fo... |
CONCLUSION |
This study indicates distinctiveness and specificity of the population of Vojvodina and highlights the importance of determining HLA frequencies in endogamic groups of Serbia.Fault Diagnosis of Distribution Network Based on Artificial Intelligence |
In order to improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis in distribution network, an new fault diagnosis method of distribution network based on neural network is proposed in this paper. We analyze the theoretical basis and limitations of artificial neural network, and then add rough local for small attribute reduction to r... |
Recent advances in magnet design and magnetic resonance (MR) system technology coupled with the development of fast gradient-echo pulse sequences have contributed to the increasing interest in interventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic image-based intervention can now... |
Heat-induced modifications in the tertiary and quaternary structure of beta-lactoglobulin were followed at neutral pH for the protein at high temperature and for the protein that was heated and cooled. Fast changes in the environment of aromatic amino acids were apparent from near-ultraviolet-CD spectra of the heated p... |
This paper presents a planar compact microstrip interdigital-coupled notch-band ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF). The proposed five high-impedance interdigital lines are employed to not only realize strong coupling as feed lines, but also create a controllable notched band in the UWB passband. A prototype of ... |
Vision systems within vehicles offer new opportunities in the automobile industry. The detection and classification of passenger and driver seat occupancy open up new ways to improve the safety and comfort of the passengers. We present results of a stereo system designed for the observation of the cockpit scene in orde... |
Steganography is the art of hiding information within a file like an image or a video. The embedded message can then be used either to transmit some secret information or to protect the content of the file. Due to the increase of the resolutions to provide higher quality in videos, it is critical to comply with the lat... |
Four hundred and sixty patients with various severe disease processes were admitted to the intensive‐therapy unit of a general hospital under the care of the anaesthetic and surgical staff in the 5‐year period 1965‐9 inclusive. The problems presented by these cases, their prognosis, and the lessons learnt in their mana... |
Manuka honey against Helicobacter pylori All varieties of honey have antibacterial properties due to the osmotic effects of their high sugar content. Manuka honey (from New Zealand) has particularly potent antibacterial activity. This remains the case even when the honey is diluted, thus negating its osmotic effects, a... |
Sir The condition of menstrual psychosis has recently been reviewed by Professor Brockington (2005) and his view is that widespread ignorance of the condition contributes to its low reported incidence. We report the case of a patient, previously diagnosed as suffering treatment-resistant bipolar affective disorder, who... |
Cotton defoliation is an important management practice associated with high-yielding, high-quality cotton. The impacts of two commonly-used defoliants (tribufos and thidiazuron) individually and in combination with two commonly-used insecticides (lambda-cyhalothrin and azinphosmethyl) on the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemis... |
: In recent years, with the continuous development of social economy, the tourism industry has also been developed. This kind of development poses the demand for high-quality professional and technical personnel. To strengthen the discipline construction of tourism management major and to construct a practical teaching... |
Traditionally, the major driver in IGBT and diode development is to minimize the static and dynamic losses. A significant reduction of the n-base thickness would yield this, however it can also jeopardize the switching characteristic leading to high overshoot voltages during diode reverse recovery. In this paper, we pr... |
The promise of Web services is to enable the composition of new distributed applications/solutions: when no available service can satisfy a client request, (parts of) available services can be composed and orchestrated in order to satisfy such a request. Service composition involves two different issues: the synthesis,... |
Recently the cornea has become of increasing interest to glaucoma subspecialists. Indeed, the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study demonstrated that central corneal thickness is among the risk factors for development of primary open-angle glaucoma. 1 As it seems unfair to ‘blame the cornea’ one might advocate that, theo... |
Over the past two years the Ubicomp vision of ambient voice assistants, in the form of smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, has been integrated into tens of millions of homes. However, the use of these systems over time in the home has not been studied in depth. We set out to understand exactly what ... |
The activation of the vanadate-sensitive ATPase from maize (Zea mays L.) root microsomes by phospholipids was assessed by two different methods. First, the vanadate-sensitive ATPase was partially purified and substantially delipidated by treating microsomes with 0.6% deoxycholate (DOC) at a protein concentration of 1 m... |
Pulmonary embolism is still the largest single cause of postoperative mortality (1%-3%) from major reconstructive lower extremity joint surgery. It is imperative that the surgeon who deals with trauma and musculoskeletal disorders be informed about the prevention of venous thromboembolic disease, recognize the magnitud... |
Intrinsic predictability is imperative to quantify inherent information contained in a time series and assists in evaluating the performance of different forecasting methods to get the best possible prediction. Model forecasting performance is the measure of the probability of success. Nevertheless, model performance o... |
Although on average only 3 patients died in the community hospital each year, this was a particularly useful option for those without a family able to care for them at home. It also made an important contribution to our aim of keeping as many patients as possible, when this was desired and appropriate, under our care a... |
Control of single-phase two-level grid connected inverters are easy with conventional controllers. Whereas, the conventional control of multilevel inverters is a challenging problem and hard to implement in digital signal processors (DSP). Model predictive control (MPC) is a sophisticated control system that is highly ... |
Though interactions could be considered a key entity in the design and implementation of coordination in a multi-agent system (MAS), interactions alone do not suffice to capture the coordination view of a MAS. They are related with the evolution of agent mental states, through the execution of tasks, and determined by ... |
HS Dengler, X Wu, I Peng. Sci Transl Med. 2018;10(468):eaao2151 |
Multiple type 2 cytokines, including interleukin-4, interleukin-5, interleukin-9, interleukin-13, and thymic stromal lymphopoietin, drive the pathophysiology of an important subset of asthma. These and other cytokines, such as interleukin-6 and type I and type II interferons, depend on Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) for signal ... |
The superficial venous system was dissected in 60 legs. A possible function is ascribed to the long saphenous vein and an argument against its stripping in varicose veins presented. Abnormality of the long saphenous vein and its association with varicose veins is described. Particular features of the saphenous tributar... |
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has a small but growing database of support. One hundred and one heterogeneous outpatients reporting moderate to severe levels of anxiety or depression were randomly assigned to traditional cognitive therapy (CT) or to ACT. To maximize external validity, the authors utilized very... |
Many statistical signal processing algorithms operating on real data are based on rotations on two-dimensional (2-D) real vectors. The original, 2-D CORDIC algorithms are well suited to parallel implementations of these algorithms. However they are not as well suited to the operations on 2-D complex vectors that arise ... |
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