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Non-disclosure and poor attendance for follow-up make appropriate care difficult, and may contribute to poor health. Despite frequent service contacts, opportunities for care are being missed.Study of correlation between polymorphism of ST6GALNAC2 and susceptibility to IgA nephropathy. |
The aim of the present study was to explore the correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs3840858 and rs2304921 in a specific α-2,6 sialyltransferase gene, ST6GALNAC2, and the susceptibility to immunoglobulin (IgA) nephropathy (IgAN). The distributions of genotypes of SNPs rs3840858 and rs2304921 in ... |
Based on the analysis of spatial position of the working-rope for four-rope freight ropeway, a mechanical model of the interaction between the working-rope and running car is proposed, which comprehensively reflects the characteristics of the working-rope system. Based on the calculation method of elastic catenary, the... |
Accelerated formation and accumulation of advanced glycation end-products occur under circumstances of increased supply of substrates such as hyperglycaemic or oxidative stress and in age-related and chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, neurodegenerative diseases, osteoarthritis and also non-... |
Acids play a vital role in the controlled synthesis of parallel MnO2; the appropriate acid groups with highest oxidation state have no effect on the parallel structure, but acid groups with reducibility can promote its formation. Importantly, excess H+ also can serve as a medium for the transformation of parallel δ-MnO... |
Objective: To assess the effect on the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and APACHE III of two different approaches to scoring the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in sedated patients. The first approach was to assume that the GCS score was normal, and the second was to use the GCS value... |
In this paper, circularly polarized substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with slots in T-shape is presented. The main focus of this work is to achieve polarization diversity. The basic proposed PIFA antenna is linearly polarized with low gain. In order to obtain a low profile, compactne... |
Abstract Cardiac failure occurs when heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body’s needs. The aim of this work is to detect highly expressed genes: follistatin-related protein 1 (FSTL1) in heart failure within 30 minutes, using gold nanoparticles. Gold nanoparticles were prepared by cit... |
Rolling circle amplification (RCA) is a powerful tool for the construction of DNA nanomaterials such as hydrogels, high-performance scaffolds and DNA nanoflowers (DNFs), hybrid materials formed of DNA and magnesium pyrophosphate. Such DNA nanomaterials have great potential in therapeutics, imaging, protein immobilisati... |
College age males performed maximal two-legged isokinetic knee extensions three times per week for 6 wk at either 60 degrees/s (slow) or 300 degrees/s (fast) or both 60 and 300 degrees/s (mixed). The velocity specific and action specific (two-leg vs. one leg) improvements in peak torque (PT) were compared to a placebo ... |
Orientation analysis of the β-sheet structure within films of the established recombinant spider silk protein eADF4(C16) was performed using a concept based on dichroic transmission- and attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, lineshape analysis, assignment of amide I components to specific... |
This article probes the various stakes of the rise of classical studies as a discipline in contemporary China, taking as a case in point Liu Xiaofeng’s shifting intellectual and political allegiances in his transition from a scholar of liberalist persuasion during the 1990s to a much decried advocate of the Mao cult ov... |
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An investigation of polyol synthesis by monolayer cultures of monkey kidney epithelium cells was undertaken as a consequence of the observation that these cells accumulated high concentrations of acyclic hexitols (200–600 μmol/g protein) when incubated in media containing elevated glucose [590 mg-% (w/v)] concentration... |
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It was established that the acyclic hexitol which accumulated when monkey kidney epithelial cell cultures were incubated in high glucose medium was sorbitol. The involvement of the polyol pathway of metabolism in this phenomenon was implicated from radioactivity incorporation experiments using [U-14C]glucose substrate ... |
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The intracellular glucose concentration was found to be an important factor regulating the steady state concentrations of the pathway intermediates sorbitol and fructose in monkey kidney epithelial cell cultures. Changes in the oxygen tension in the incubation medium or the presence of the hormones vasopressin, insulin... |
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Cultures of HeLa Cells, goldfish testes fibroblasts, or ascites tumor cells did not exhibit the same capacity as monkey kidney epithelial cell cultures for sorbitol synthesis. To our knowledge, the present findings constitute the first reported example of polyol pathway activity in cells in monolayer culture.Adaptive t... |
Aiming at solving the problem that the performance of moving target tracking is not very well when the statistical characteristics of the process noise are unknown in addition to non — Gaussian observation noise, a method combining EM algorithm and particle filter are proposed. Such method applies EM algorithm to estim... |
Wireless self-organizing network including WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) mesh networks can provide effective communication in pervasive computing environment. To resolve the problem that WiMAX Mesh network lacks QoS (Quality of Service) guarantee mechanism, a novel resource reservation mechani... |
In this work we present a SiGe D-Band Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for radiometric applications near the water absorption line at 183 GHz. The LNA covers the frequency range near 188 GHz with a peak gain of 23 dB and a minimum noise figure of 10.5 dB. Space hardening techniques are also presented in order to mitigate the ... |
Intelligent Transport System (ITS) strategies can significantly reduce CO2 emissions of vehicles. Since the impact of ITS measures is highly dependent on driver acceptance and compliance rates, it is important to study the response of human drivers to new ITS strategies (the “human factor”). However, there is currently... |
In advanced periodontal diseases, where the root surface a longer time is exposed to the oral environment, retaining of teeth is only possible through de novo-attachment of the periodontal ligament on the diseased root surface. Even when surgical reconstruction of the alveolar bone is successful, connective tissue fibe... |
The article deals with the regulatory and jurisprudential evolution of medical criminal responsibility from the 70s to the Gelli-Bianco law of 2017. Subsequently it winds through the contribution of the last important judgments of the subject up to the decisions of the Supreme Court with United Sections of 2018, finall... |
Thermoplastic tape placement with in situ consolidation is a unique process, in which prepreg tape is precisely positioned, laid-up and immediately consolidated on the tool surface in a single step. This study addresses some of the remaining issues that restrict the industrialisation of the thermoplastic tape placement... |
Stable operation at elevated temperature is necessary for lithium metal anode. However, Li metal anode generally has poor performance and safety concerns at high temperature (> 55 8C) owing to the thermal instability of the electrolyte and solid electrolyte interphase in a routine liquid electrolyte. Herein a Li metal ... |
RSA type public key cryptosystems based on the Pell’s equation are proposed in the honor of an Indian mathematician Brahmgupta who studied Pell’s equation long before European mathematicians came to know about it. Three RSA type schemes are proposed, first two are not semantically secure where as the other two schemes ... |
Femtocell networks have been proposed for indoor communications as the extension of cellular networks for enhancing coverage performance. Because femtocells have small coverage radius (15 to 30 meters), femtocell users (FU) walking at low speed still make frequent femtocell-to-femtocell handover. When performing a femt... |
Electromagnetic blank holder (EBH) is a novel technology of deep drawing for sheet metal. The electromagnetic control of variable blank holder force (BHF) is studied in this paper. First, mathematical model of deep drawing process of cylindrical cup is established. The mathematical relationship between flange radius an... |
The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) deals with public transport systems in determining a set of efficient transit routes on existing road networks to meet transit demands. The UTRP is a complex combinatorial optimization problem characterized with a large search space, multi-constraint, and multiobjective nature w... |
Ultrasonic testing technique is an important nondestructive testing method, which has been widely used to the defect detection of CFST and is the preferred alternative for concrete close-grained degree and uniformity test. The test becomes difficult when the diameter of the concrete-filled steel tubular is less than 25... |
Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) contains inflammatory agents, including oxidatively fragmented phospholipids that activate the platelet-activating factor (PAF) receptor, but in vivo events caused by these pathologically generated agents are not well defined. Injection of PAF-like lipids derived from oxidized LDL... |
Using irrigation water with a salinity level of 0.8, 2, and 5 g L-1, the impact of saline water irrigation on the yield and quality of 2 Chinese Cucurbit species, melon (Cucumis melo cv. Huanghe) and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus. convar megulaspemus) were studied in Minqin Oasis, northwestern China. Our results show t... |
A survey was conducted to investigate the relationship between exogenous ochronosis and the use of skin lightening preparations amongst black individuals attending general outpatient departments in two South African hospitals. In the sample, 15% of males and 42% of females were found to have exogenous ochronosis. The p... |
Effects of temperature and 4 plant pollens on the development, survivorship, and reproduction of Amblyseius largoensis (Muma) were evaluated. The average egg incubation period at 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35°C was 6.02, 3.26, 2.01, 1.45, and 1.95 d, respectively. The combined larval and nymphal developmental time (mean ± SD)... |
The synthesis of large numbers of antibiotics over the past three decades has caused complacency about the threat of bacterial resistance. Bacteria have become resistant to antimicrobial agents as a result of chromosomal changes or the exchange of genetic material via plasmids and transposons. Streptococcus pneumoniae,... |
Axially symmetric telescopes produce well-known Seidel off-axis third-order aberration patterns: coma, astigmatism, curvature of field, and distortion. When axial symmetry is broken by the small misalignments of optical elements, additional third-order aberration patterns arise: one each for coma, astigmatism, and curv... |
In this paper we report on a unique and contextually-sensitive approach to sonification of a subset of climate data: urban air pollution for four Canadian cities. Similarly to other datadriven models for sonification and auditory display, this model details an approach to data parameter mappings, however we specificall... |
Collecting the RSS between all pair of nodes in the networks is very significant for wireless network optimization, localization, interference management and etc. Aside from its significances, the measurement process could be tedious, time consuming and involving human operations. The state-of-art works usually applied... |
Key words: Enteral feeding; enteral nutrition; uninter-rupted enteral nutrition; perioperative feeding; tubefeeding; perioperative complications; perioperativesepsis; infections, immune modulation; intestinal secre-tion; intestinal motility; micronutrients; antioxidants;polyunsaturated fatty acids; feeding tubes; auto-... |
Hypertension is a complex disease, the treatment of which should not only lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure but also attenuate the secondary consequences of the disease. These include vascular injury (including atherosclerosis), stroke, left ventricular hypertrophy, and renal damage. To establish whether the ... |
We show that superstitions—beliefs without scientific grounding—impact the investment and risk-taking of Chinese firms. We focus on widely held beliefs in bad luck during one’s “zodiac year,” which occurs on a 12-year cycle around a person’s birth year, to study superstitions and risk taking. We first show a direct cor... |
Most of my thoughts about clinical trials crystallised during 1971–1976, when I was writing and repeatedly rewriting what became the 69-page British Journal of Cancer paper, which was eventually published in two parts at the end of 1976 and the beginning of 1977. For several years before word processors had been invent... |
Exactly solving first-order constraints (i.e., first-order formulas over a certain predefined structure) can be a very hard, or even undecidable problem. In continuous structures like the real numbers it is promising to compute approximate solutions instead of exact ones. However, the quantifiers of the first-order pre... |
BACKGROUND: This study aims to evaluate the anxiety levels of employees by determining the working conditions and protective practices in the workplace of individuals who had to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was carried out with 801 employees from different sectors who continued ... |
In order to provide a theory algorithm for simulation and reconstruction analysis of automobile two-dimensional eccentric collision accidents, the applicability problems of the traditional dynamics model and trajectory model in this kind of accident were analyzed in theory respectively. Using PC-Crash software and the ... |
To achieve a high compression ratio when storing a large amount of Chinese characters is a problem in applications using Chinese characters. In this paper, we present a data compression software system which can reduce the storage requirement of Chinese characters and binary images. This system is composed of a Chinese... |
The galea aponeurotica has been used by various surgeons either as a supporting sheet or as a blood carrier for bringing flaps to various areas of the face. In this study, we first reviewed the anatomy of the scalp vascularization by means of cadaver injections. The arteries and veins are mainly located in the galea an... |
Most anaesthetics and sedatives affect breathing via several mechanisms, including effects on respiratory drive, wakefulness, and airway patency. Existing information about the effects of anaesthetic drugs on control of breathing has been obtained using techniques which focus on chemical control of breathing (i.e., the... |
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