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Abstract. We give a general expression for the normally ordered form of a function F [ŵ(a, a)] where ŵ is a function of boson creation and annihilation operators satisfying [a, a] = 1. The expectation value of this expression in a coherent state becomes an exact generating function of Feynman-type graphs associated wit... |
INTRODUCTION |
Soluble CD163 (sCD163) and soluble CD14 (sCD14) levels, monocyte/macrophage activation markers, are elevated in patient serum during Brucella infection. The aim of this study was to measure serum sCD163 and sCD14 levels during treatment for acute brucellosis to determine whether they can be used to monitor treatment ef... |
METHODOLOGY |
Blood samples were collected from 30 patients with acute brucellosis (disease duration < 8 weeks) before and after 6 weeks of antibiotic therapy as well as from a comparison group of 28 healthy control individuals. Serum sCD163 and sCD14 levels were measured with specific, sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. T... |
RESULTS |
Both serum sCD163 and sCD14 levels were significantly higher in patients with acute brucellosis than in healthy controls (p < 0.0001). A significant decline was observed in patients after cessation of treatment (p < 0.001), which still be significantly higher than that in healthy controls (p < 0.001). In additional, se... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The decline in sCD163 and sCD14 levels following antibiotic therapy may be used as a marker to assess therapeutic efficacy following treatment of acute brucellosis.INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT COOPERATION OF THE VISEGRAD FOUR COUNTRIES |
Introduction. One of the challenges of the globalized world economic system to national economies is the need to optimize their participation in the international division of labour. In this regard, increases the importance of the investment segment of foreign economic activity in achieving economic growth in competiti... |
The purpose of the article is to review the investment relations of the Visegrad four countries in dynamics, to determine their investment priorities in attracting foreign direct investment in the national economy and in making direct capital investments abroad, to summarize their practice of supporting investment in t... |
Results. There are considered the financial component of foreign economic activity of the Visegrad four countries in the investment segment, the dynamics of bilateral investment flows, and the features and priorities of investment cooperation between the countries in foreign markets. There is drawn attention to the sys... |
Conclusions. The dynamics of the investment segment of the Visegrad four countries in foreign economic activity demonstrates the priority of countries in expanding their investment presence in foreign markets. At the same time, the national interests of each of the states, taking into account EU membership, are differe... |
Global production has become a new trend in the today?s competitive business environment in pursuit of lower cost, shorter time-to-market, and better quality. This forces manufacturing enterprises to separate design houses and manufacturing facilities. The design houses are located at the forefront of customers to resp... |
The use of inter-space and intra-space transformations are considered for improving the transient performance of the LMS processor and reducing the dimension of the weight vector, respectively. Within the context of sensor array processing, a subband LMS algorithm is described for inter-space processing and a cross-spe... |
Although 13cRA is involved in the regulation of cellular proliferation and differentiation, its physiological roles in chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation still remain unknown. Here, we showed that 13cRA could induce the proliferation of sika deer antler chondrocytes and expression of Ccnd3 and Cdk6. Administ... |
Corticomuscular coupling analysis based on multiple datasets such as electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) signals provides a useful tool for understanding human motor control systems. A popular conventional method to assess corticomuscular coupling has been the pair-wise magnitude-squared coherence (... |
Although distributed middleware technologies such as UPnP, Jini, HAVi and DPWS generally feature the same goals, many different factors are also isolated from each other. This paper outlines a self-organizing two-way DPWS adaptor which aims to provide the adaptive interoperability of multiple heterogeneous services in ... |
OBJECTIVES |
Diffuse isolated liver metastases are the dominant mode of tumor progression in a number of cancers and present a major treatment challenge for oncologists. An experimental treatment, percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP), utilizes partial venovenous cardiopulmonary bypass to allow administration of high-dose chemothera... |
DESIGN |
A single-center experience from a national multi-center random-assignment trial comparing PHP to best alternative care (BAC) in patients with diffuse melanoma liver metastases. |
SETTING |
A tertiary care hospital. |
PARTICIPANTS |
Five patients with metastatic melanoma to the liver. |
INTERVENTION |
Five patients underwent a total of fifteen PHPs using a venovenous bypass circuit with hemofiltration, receiving hepatic intra-arterial melphalan, 3 mg/kg of ideal body weight, for 30 minutes with a total of 60 minutes of hemofiltration. |
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS |
Five patients tolerated the procedure well with transient hemodynamic and metabolic changes. |
CONCLUSIONS |
In patients with diffuse isolated liver metastases, PHP is a safe and well-tolerated procedure that can be performed more than once and is associated with marked anti-tumor activity in some patients.Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Communication Networks with Dependent Failures |
This paper presents a new model to study the reliability of communication networks in which link failures are statistically dependent. The approach tries to identify and model explicitly the events that cause communication link failures. No conditional probabilities are needed, and so two major difficulties inherent to... |
Because standard urinary protein test paper reacts more strongly to albumin than to globulin, we attempted to develop a test paper sensitive to globulin by applying chromatic analysis principles used in quantitative analysis of urinary protein. We developed a new urinary protein test paper (URINE-TP) containing a reage... |
Aging is associated with a reduction in appetite and food intake, predisposing to protein-energy malnutrition. The causes of this "anorexia of aging" are largely unknown. To investigate possible contributions of enhanced satiating effects of cholecystokinin (CCK) and reduced stimulation of food intake by ghrelin, eight... |
The rapid growth of the digital communications market has prompted several large semiconductor manufacturers, including Intel Corporation, to begin the design and manufacture of communication ICs. The communications ICs are currently produced in much lower volumes than products such as microprocessors and memory. These... |
Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) skin is dry and readily colonized by Staphylococcus aureus (SA). Coconut and olive oils are traditionally used to moisturize and treat skin infections. Objective: To compare virgin coconut oil (VCO) and virgin olive oil (VOO) in moisturizing dryness and removing SA from colonized AD s... |
Antonio de Fuenmayor's Vida y Hechos de Pío V (1595) is one of the earliest hagiographic texts written about Pius V, the most famous of Counter‐Reformation popes and the victor of the Battle of Lepanto (1571). But, because Fuenmayor wrote in Spanish rather than Italian, his text has never received much attention. This ... |
This paper describes an approach for handling structural divergences and recovering dropped arguments in an implemented Korean to English machine translation system. The approach relies on canonical predicate-argument structures (or dependency structures), which provide a suitable pivot representation for the handling ... |
Objective:To explore thecomplication and clinical effects of treatment for benign lesions in maxillary sinusby endoscopic prelacrimal duct recess approach. Method:A retrospective analysis of 82 patients with benign lesions in maxillary sinus.Among them there were 37 cases of inverted papilloma，45 cases of maxillary cys... |
Abstract A novel method based on high performance liquid chromatography with variable wavelength detection was developed for quantitative analysis of the bioactive ingredients in a Chinese herbal preparation called Kangnaoshuai capsule (KNS). Seven bioactive ingredients, namely puerarin, albiflorin, stilbene glucoside,... |
Background In the Netherlands, since 1996, a national cervical cancer (CC) screening program has been implemented for women aged 30 to 60 years. Regional screening organizations send an invitation letter and information brochure in Dutch to the home addresses of targeted women every 5 years. Although this screening is ... |
The discovery of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules and their role in allorecognition has facilitated the initiation of allogeneic stem cell transplantation in human beings. HLA mismatch to a large extent explains the phenomenon of graft rejection and graft versus host disease (GvHD). Incidence of GvHD even in syn... |
Preservation of Endangered Cultural Assets of Swahili, Taita, Miji, Kenda, Pokomo, Waata, Dahalo and Boni Peoples on the Kenya Coast UNESCO and its office in Nairobi are working with the Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA, formerly the Programme for Museum Development in Africa–PMDA) in collaboration with ... |
Orientation: This article explores employees’ subjective experiences of employment equity (EE) within South African organisational contexts, adding diverse and in-depth insights to the post-apartheid EE discourse.Research purpose: The purpose is to hear the voices of employees of different social-cultural, racial and g... |
After the classical end of colonialism and its overall value, using their knowledge of Western powers in the Third World discourse plays a dominant role. China's current landscape design is the product of a strong culture and weak culture in the context of unequal power differentials dialogue. In a period of cultural g... |
This report describes a method for the preoperative determination of radioactive interstitial source placement within computed tomography (CT)-defined tumor boundaries. The method utilizes CT data obtained under stereotactic conditions. Tumor boundaries are digitized from CT slices and are retained in a three-dimension... |
After tooth loss, alveolar bone resorption occurs and causes soft tissue collapse. In the anterior maxilla, this situation becomes a great challenge. Bone volume must be reestablished to allow for proper implant placement. Another challenge is achieving primary closure and improving soft tissue esthetics. Nine patients... |
The intracellular mechanism by which sepsis lowers vascular reactivity and the subsequent reversal by dexamethasone or nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors remain unclear. We measured the sensitivity of contraction of the rat tail artery to intracellular Ca2+ in a model of polymicrobial septic shock. At 22 h after ce... |
A quasi-static approach for the analysis of microstrip bondwire interconnects is presented. The bondwire has been modelled as a cascade of inhomogeneous and nonuniform transmission lines, using the conformal-mapping method to determine the line characteristics and the theory of nonuniform transmission lines to evaluate... |
This empirical study based on 517,000 observations from 17 dark pools used by ITG trading systems over a one-month period shows the value in predicting execution quality by fill type rather than simply by dark pool. Using the granular approach in this study, one can better identify low-quality trading situations to avo... |
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