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Video conferencing plays vital role in communication which can be point-to-point or multipoint real-time communication between two or more student located at different geographical locations. However, it is very difficult to adjust a video capturing device to focus on faculty, especially in distance education classroom... |
��� In late imperial Chinese ghost tales, the victims of certain kinds of untimely death, including some methods of suicide, become ghosts who seek out mortals to take their places. If such a ghost can incite another to die by the same means that she died, then she will be freed from suffering as a ghost and can be reb... |
We have found that, in chylomicrons from intestinal lymph fistulas in the rat, the sole molecular species of apolipoprotein B (apo B) is B-48. This protein is analogous to the B-48 apoprotein of human chylomicrons. In contrast, preparations of chylomicrons from blood serum are known to contain species of B apolipoprote... |
Objective To identify factors that may predict discharge to intermediate-care facilities following total laryngectomy and may promote earlier discharge planning and optimize resource utilization. Study Design Retrospective review of large national data set. Setting Academic and nonacademic health care facilities in Uni... |
Testicular biopsy specimens from infertile men (sperm count, less than 10(6)/ml) were evaluated on 1-micron thick sections, and counts of stem cells and differentiated spermatogonia, primary spermatocytes, early and late spermatids, and Sertoli cells were compared to counts in six fertile men. Biopsy specimens were als... |
Equine theileriosis, an OIE listed disease caused by Theileria equi is an economically important haemoprotozoan disease of horses in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. The aim of the present study was to monitor the biochemical |
alterations in order to find out the severity of the disease. Standard assay kits were used to study the biochemical parameters of horses positive for theileriosis in comparison with healthy ones. Out of 75 serum samples, 25 samples were collected |
from horses positive for theileriosis and 50 from healthy horses. The serum levels of GPT (32.00±2.30 U/L), GOT (350.84±27.87 U/L), GGT (20.95±0.92 U/L), LDH (823.74±102.93 U/L), total protein (8.11±0.37 g/dl), globulin (3.84±0.40 g/dl), BUN |
(46.26±5.27 mg/dl) and creatinine (1.33±0.18 mg/dl) were found to be significantly increased (p less than 0.01) in infected horses compared to the healthy group. Non- significant elevation (p greater than 0.05) in total bilirubin (1.08±0.14 mg/dl), |
unconjugated bilirubin (0.57±0.11 mg/dl) and glucose (102.57±30.41 mg/dl) as well as non-significant reduction (p>0.05) in conjugated bilirubin (0.42±0.04 mg/dl), albumin (4.26±0.24 g/ dl) and A/G ratio (1.55±0.30) were also observed in infected |
group. There was no significant alteration (p>0.05) in the level of serum calcium (12.32±0.36 mg/dl) and phosphorus (4.53±0.33 mg/dl), as compared to the healthy group. Significant elevation of GOT, GPT, GGT, BUN and creatinine revealed the |
involvement of liver and kidney functions in T. equi infected horses.Size dependence of carrier dynamics and carrier multiplication in PbS quantum dots |
The time dynamics of the photoexcited carriers and carrier-multiplication efficiencies in PbS quantum dots (QDs) are investigated. In particular, we report on the carrier dynamics, including carrier multiplication, as a function of QD size and compare them to the bulk value. We show that the intraband 1P→1S decay becom... |
PURPOSE |
To report the clinical and functional characteristics of patients affected with autosomal-dominant transmitted retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) from a large Italian pedigree in which a point mutation predicting the Arg-135-Trp change of rhodopsin was identified by polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymor... |
METHODS |
Seven patients, ranging in age from 6 to 41 years, underwent a full clinical ophthalmologic evaluation, kinetic visual field testing, and electroretinographic testing. |
RESULTS |
In agreement with previous reports, this rhodopsin mutation yielded a particularly severe phenotype, both clinically and functionally. The evaluation of patients from this pedigree in the first and second decade of life demonstrated that retinal function is still electroretinographically measurable at least until 18 ye... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The phenotype associated with mutations in codon 135 of the rhodopsin molecule appears to have an unusually high progression rate and yields an extremely poor prognosis. These distinctive features make the Arg-135-Trp phenotype substantially different from the general RP population, and also from many of the other adRP... |
Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos S.A. (AySA) delivers essential services as drinking water production and wastewater treatment for more than 14.5 million inhabitants of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), Argentina, and collects residual liquids of 8.5 million through 16,178 km network. Since the very moment the World... |
Although some of the resources or services listed may seem expensive, it is cheaper to use these than to face a malpractice suit for failure to provide patients with limited English access to services equal to those provided to English speakers. The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), one of the top three... |
Endurance limit is essential for intermittent physical operations, as physical task designs with inappropriate endurance estimation could potentially lead to work‐related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Here, we propose a general approach to estimate the endurance limits of the duration and workload in intermittent ... |
This article represents the fourth and fifth reported cases of GCRG that involve the ethmoid sinus. The problems encountered in establishing the diagnosis are emphasized, as are the features that differentiate it from the giant cell tumor, aneurysmal bone cyst, and hyperparathyroidism, the conditions with which it is m... |
This paper presents a wavelet Galerkin scheme for the fast solution of boundary integral equations. Wavelet Galerkin schemes employ appropriate wavelet bases for the discretization of boundary integral operators which yields quasi-sparse system matrices. These matrices can be compressed such that the complexity for sol... |
This book discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). MDSE practices have proved to increase efficiency and effectiveness in software development, as demonstrated by v... |
Thirty Holstein bull calves were used to investigate the use of an injectable solution of purified Ig to increase Ig in serum of neonatal calves. The Ig were from abbatoir blood purified by column chromatography. Calves were blocked by date of birth and assigned randomly to treatment within block. Treatments were s.c. ... |
Evidence is growing that phosphatidylglycerol (PG) plays a key role in modulating keratinocyte proliferation, as we have previously shown that liposomes derived from egg PG inhibit the proliferation of rapidly dividing cells and stimulate the growth of slowly proliferating keratinocytes. To determine the species of PG ... |
Crystalline silica has been shown to trigger pulmonary inflammation both in vivo and in vitro, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study we focus on the intracellular signaling pathways regulating chemokine release from lung epithelial cells after crystalline silica exposure. Our resu... |
Occupational asthma continues to be one of the most common occupational lung diseases in industrialized areas. Primary and secondary preventive measures have been well described, but there are relatively few studies to support the effectiveness of such measures, although the benefits of tertiary measures such as early ... |
In this paper, a new approach for bandwidth enhancement of slot array antenna is presented. The idea is to use fractal-shaped slots to increase bandwidth for return loss less than -10dB up to 12.1% which is about 2.5 times that of the conventional one. The proposed antenna is designed at the operating frequency range o... |
Aiming to represent user characteristics and personal interests, the task of user profiling is playing an increasingly important role for many real-world applications, e.g., e-commerce and social networks platforms. By exploiting the data like texts and user behaviors, most existing solutions address user profiling as ... |
Through such a learning scheme, HGAT can leverage both unsupervised information and limited labels of users to build the predictor. Extensive experiments on a real-world e-commerce dataset verify the effectiveness and rationality of our HGAT for user profiling.A computational investigation of iceberg capsize as a drive... |
Abstract Potential energy released from the capsize of ice-shelf fragments (icebergs) is the immediate driver of the brief explosive phase of ice-shelf disintegration along the Antarctic Peninsula (e.g. the Larsen A, Larsen B and Wilkins ice shelves). The majority of this energy powers the rapidly expanding plume of ic... |
Visible Past proposes a cross platform, scalable environment (Exploratorium) for collaborative social, geographic, and historical education and research. The Exploratorium will be deployed in a variety of settings, from Web to fully immersive virtual reality environments. Educational activities can be formal (classroom... |
Modeling human operator's dynamics plays a very important role in the manual closed-loop control system, and it is an active research area for several decades. Based on the characteristics of human brain and behavior, a new kind of fractional order mathematical model for human operator in single-input single-output (SI... |
The aim was to study the germination of microorganisms in the mesenteric lymph nodes, liver, spleen, lungs, peripheral and portal blood, peritoneal exudate to assess the intensity of bacterial translocation (BT). It was established that in experimental acute obstruction of the small and large intestines, the intensity ... |
All-digital approaches for the adjustment of timing offset in digital modems have attracted increasing attention. We recently announced a novel interpolation method which, instead of approximating the continuous-time signal with a conventional polynomial and computing the synchronized samples using a Farrow structure, ... |
Porous LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO) micro-cubes have been synthesized via oxalic acid co-precipitation and sintering process. The sintering temperature has significant influence on the morphology and electrochemical performance of LNMO samples. The LNMO porous micro-cubes prepared by sintering at 770 C are composed of the pri... |
In cognitive radio, it is crucial to control the interference from secondary users (SUs) to primary users (PUs). This paper studies the use of transmit beamforming in the cognitive secondary network for enhancing the performance of a SU while controlling the interference to the PUs. In particular, we propose to maximiz... |
The present article tackles the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the educational field, from the perspective of the projects achieved in collaboration with the educational institutions and companies and projects focused on the improvement and updating the background of the school units. The necessity... |
European citizenship celebrated its twentieth anniversary during the most difficult and uncertain moment of the Union's crisis. The real economy has now been fully saturated by the financial crisis far beyond the borders of the Euro-Mediterranean area, with devastating social effects in those countries most affected. T... |
The problem of estimating the model parameters of a discrete-index reciprocal Gaussian random process from a limited number of noisy observations is addressed. The general case of a first-order multivariate process is analyzed, stating its basic properties and deriving a linear equation set that relates the model param... |
The extant theory on price discrimination in input markets takes the structure of the downstream industry as exogenously given. This paper endogenizes the structure of the downstream industry and examines the effects of permitting third-degree price discrimination on market structure and welfare. We identify situations... |
A novel coding scheme (DmB1M) proposed by Japanese researchers is analysed and compared with other coding techniques commonly adopted for optical communications. An experimental realization of the new code (D1OB1M m 10) using discrete components has been performed and the circuit test results for an information rate of... |
Most pre-clinical therapy studies use the change in tumor volume as a measure for disease response. However, tumor size measurements alone may not reflect early changes in tumor physiology that occur as a response to treatment. Ultrasonic molecular imaging (USMI) and Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Perfusion Imaging (DCE-PI)... |
The Two Point Angular Correlation Function (TPACF) is a mathematical equation that has applications in many areas. In our project, the Two Point Angular Correlation Function is used as a way to measure the probability of finding an astronomical body at a given angular distance from another astronomical body. We were gi... |
Forestry policy and practice changes during the 20th Century led to major effects in the composition and structure of Shabbington Woods, southern England. Coppice-with-standards stands were clear-felled during the Second World War and replanted with conifer/conifer-broadleaved mixtures in which the conifer was dominant... |
High-resolution atmospheric-pressure scanning microprobe matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (AP-SMALDI MSI) has been employed to study the molecular anatomical structure of rodent malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. A dedicated sample preparation method was developed which ... |
Prenatal and perinatal risk factors associated with intellectual disability (ID) were studied in 8-year-old Utah children from a 1994 birth cohort (N = 26,108) using broad ascertainment methods and birth records following the most current recording guidelines. Risk factor analyses were performed inclusive and exclusi... |
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is a plant pathogen responsible for causing bacterial blight in rice. It is responsible for blight outbreaks in most rice-producing countries and can reduce the rice yield by 50% due to the lack of an effective pesticide. The immediate alterations in Xoo upon initial contact with ric... |
Healthcare professionals frequently advise patients with simple infective illness to drink more fluids. Here, a 59-year-old woman with a urinary tract infection followed such advice resulting in hospital admission with symptomatic acute hyponatraemia. Water intoxication is well recognised as a cause of symptomatic hypo... |
All known bone‐derived osteoinductive factors have been isolated from endochondral (EC) bones and all initiate bone induction via EC ossification. However, to date no attempt has been made to isolate comparable factors from bones which form initially and completely via intramembranous (IM) ossification. The purpose of ... |
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