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Although osteopontin (OPN) is induced in alcoholic patients, its role in the pathophysiology of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains unclear. Increased translocation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the gut is key for the onset of ALD because it promotes macrophage infiltration and activation, tumor necrosis factor‐α ... |
INTRODUCTION Lateralization of the middle turbinate is a possible complication of functional endoscopic sinus surgery that can lead to iatrogenic sinusitis or mucocele formation. To avoid these sequelae, turbinate resection has been advocated, but many rhinologists are hesitant to resect the middle turbinate. The middl... |
Green Entrepreneurship is a type of social entrepreneurship, where the entrepreneur is passionate to promote environment. This study is an exploratory study based on interviews of 10 Green entrepreneurs from Rajasthan India. The author summarizes the findings in the form of 7Cs or 7C the model of Green entrepreneurship... |
Researchers agree that household equivalence scales are intended to measure the variation in income needed to bring households of different composition to the same welfare level. Researchers do not agree, however, about how the term "household welfare" is to be defined. This article traces the historical and philosophi... |
The German Health Update (GEDA) study is one component of the recently established nationwide health monitoring system administered by the Robert Koch Institute. The repeated cross-sectional GEDA surveys aim to provide current data on health and disease, health determinants and time trends in health and morbidity in th... |
This research is aimed to find out the target and learning needs of Nautical students at PIP Semarang and designing the appropriate material for Nautical students at PIP Semarang. This is a Research and Development project. The steps of doing this research are (1) need analysis (2) make syllabus (3) designing material... |
Because of the limited processing ability of wireless distributed network devices, most of the equipment are using symmetric encryption algorithm to encrypt the data, both communications need a shared secret key and it should be changed regularly in the service. But the key agreement process is vulnerable to eavesdropp... |
In this paper we introduce a camera identification method using WLBP texture descriptor. This descriptor has previously been used for texture and face classifiers. In the proposed method, we proposed to use WLBP operator in camera classification application to identify the imaging camera. In our method, the two-dimensi... |
For fading broadcast channels, different capacity regions such as the ergodic, outage, minimum rate, or limited-jitter capacity region can be represented by a triplet of rate constraint parameters from each user: a maximum rate, a minimum rate, and a shortage probability over which the minimum rate needs not be guarant... |
In this paper, we study the performance of integrated services ATM multiplexers in terms of their loss performance. We model voice sources as ON-OFF processes, video sources with uniform activity level as a birth-death process and the arrival process from the aggregation of data sources as a Poisson process with a gene... |
In the crystalline phase, porphyrin derivatives based on two 4-pyridyl units at the 5 and 15 meso positions and two 4-aryl moieties bearing various groups (CN, OMe, OH and CF(3)) at the 10 and 20 meso positions lead, in the presence of a zinc dication, to the formation of robust 3-D networks presenting hexagonal channe... |
type="main" xml:id="ecin12284-abs-0001"> This paper studies how comparative advantage and the political elites' endowments shape long-run performance in economies with imperfect political institutions. The trade regime interacts with industrial policy and regulations on capital mobility in governing capital accumulatio... |
ABSTRACT Percentage is widely used to describe different results in food microbiology, e.g., probability of microbial growth, percent inactivated, and percent of positive samples. Four sets of percentage data, percent-growth-positive, germination extent, probability for one cell to grow, and maximum fraction of positiv... |
Investigators have suggested a link between birth weight and both hand and lumbar spine osteoarthritis (OA). In this study, we sought to extend these observations by investigating relationships between growth in early life, and clinical and radiological diagnoses of OA at the hand, knee and hip, among participants from... |
Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that the availability of the contraceptive Pill to unmarried minors was instrumental for women's professional advancements, by allowing marriage to be postponed, they argued. However, with low cost and effective birth control, it is not clear why early marriage wo... |
Edited by Brownson RC, Petitti DB. 384: Published by Oxford University Press, 2006, $59.95 (05) (hardback). 13: 978-0-19-518741-0, 10: 0-19-518741-5 |
Applied epidemiology is not a classical book on epidemiology. This text focuses on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiological methods can have a large and positive impact. It describes how best to apply traditional epidemiological methods for determining disease aetiology to ... |
Each chapter includes a summary and one or more case studies intended to illustrate major points from the chapter and to provide a basis …The Centrality of Electricity to ICT use in Low-Income Countries |
A growing body of literature that extols the ability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance well-being in developing countries tends to focus on long run institutional and socio-economic changes as key to driving Internet uptake. The literature, however, too often ignores one factor in discussi... |
It is as well known that nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equations arising in transport theory can be translated to vector equations. In this paper, we propose six predictor–corrector‐type iterative schemes to solve the vector equations. And we give the convergence of these schemes. Unlike the previous work, we prove th... |
Our researchers were devoted to the development of a suitable procedure to determine the internal stress and the Young's module in the polysilicon layers useful for micromachining applications. We used for the stress measurements the pull-in voltage method, but we elaborated a new set of the relations able to extract p... |
OBJECTIVE |
To examine the association between polymorphism of vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF)1498 C/T,936 C/T and colorectal adenoma genetic susceptibility. |
METHODS |
A case-control study of 224 colorectal adenomas and 200 controls was conducted and VEGF genotypes were determined based on TaqMan-probe assay. The epidemiological factors were collected through questionnaire. Accordingly, the clinicopathological data of each sample were also investigated. |
RESULTS |
The carriage of 936 CT and CT+TT genotypes had significantly higher risk of colorectal adenoma (CT vs. CC, OR=2.00, 95% CI: 1.23-3.25, P=0.006; CT+TT vs. CC, OR=2.04, 95% CI:1.28-3.26, P=0.003). 936-T allele carriage had increased risk of colorectal adenoma (OR=1.91, 95% CI:1.25-2.91, P=0.003). The genotypes of 1498 C/... |
CONCLUSION |
VEGF 936 C/T polymorphism can influence susceptibility to colorectal adenoma.A comparison of three strategies for teaching object names. |
Researchers in applied behavior analysis have been charged to provide large-scale demonstration of the outcomes of evaluations. In this research, three experiences were conducted to examine the relative efficacy of three methods of presenting stimuli in object naming tasks. Stimuli were introduced successively, simulta... |
ABSTRACT Numerous microorganisms, including bacteria, yeasts, and molds, are present in cheeses, forming a complex ecosystem. Among these organisms, bacteria are responsible for most of the physicochemical and aromatic transformations that are intrinsic to the cheesemaking process. Identification of the bacteria that c... |
Modern information systems require a flexible, scalable, and upgradable infrastructure that allows communication, and subsequently collaboration, between heterogeneous information processing and computing environments. Heterogeneous systems often use different data representations for the same data items, limiting coll... |
We present the applications of time-resolved spectrometer for soft X-ray (SXR) excited luminescence measurements. We use the spectrometer to monitor the delayed recombination phenomena in the scintillation response of ZnO:Ga nanoparticles, SrHfO3 microcrystalline powder, and rare-earth doped LiCaAlF6 single crystals in... |
Understanding dispersal and gene flow is an important focus of evolutionary biology, conservation biology and pest management. The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, is a worldwide pest of Brassica vegetable and oilseed cropping systems. This insect has high dispersal ability, which has important consequences for p... |
Physical Distribution is a bottleneck in E-commerce and reverse logistics has become a bottleneck restricting the development of e-commerce. This paper constructs the distribution system in E-commerce logistics based on gridding management, via the comparison analysis between grid and non-grid distribution system in E-... |
ABSTRACT Swine are susceptible to infection by both avian and human influenza viruses, and this feature is thought to contribute to novel reassortant influenza viruses. In this study, the influenza virus reassortment rate in swine and human cells was determined. Coinfection of swine cells with 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus ... |
Chronic global amnesia is a clinically significant deficit in new learning of verbal and nonverbal material irrespective of stimulus modality; the deficit is disproportionate to other cognitive impairment and should be distinguished from the preservation of skill learning and repetition priming effects in global amnesi... |
BACKGROUND |
Strabismus is a common disorder of largely unknown cause reported to occur more frequently in children with neurodevelopmental conditions and in children born prematurely or of low birth weight. Population-based investigation of other potential early-life influences has been limited. |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the prevalence of and the early-life risk factors associated with childhood strabismus. |
DESIGN |
Cross-sectional analytical study of a nationally representative sample of children participating in the Millennium Cohort Study. |
SETTING |
United Kingdom. |
PARTICIPANTS |
A population-based sample of 14 980 children aged 3 years. |
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES |
Parental report of "isolated" strabismus and "neurodevelopmental" strabismus (ie, in the context of neurologic disorders), considered separately. |
RESULTS |
Three hundred forty-three children had strabismus (of whom 20 [5.8%] had neurodevelopmental/neurologic disorders), giving a total weighted prevalence of 2.1% (95% confidence interval, 1.8%-2.4%). In multivariable analysis, the risk of isolated strabismus was reduced in children of nonwhite maternal ethnicity and was in... |
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