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Structural modifications of mitochondria-targeted chlorambucil alter cell death mechanism but preserve MDR evasion. Multidrug resistance (MDR) remains one of the major obstacles in chemotherapy, potentially rendering a multitude of drugs ineffective. Previously, we have demonstrated that mitochondrial targeting of DNA ... |
Planning of manipulator joint trajectories by an iterative method SUMMARY Manipulator joint trajectories are planned to make an arbitrary cost function as good as possible in consideration of physical constraints based on kinematics and dynamics of a manipulator system. An algorithm presented in this paper is an iterat... |
The cytopathology of middle ear effusions (a new technique). This article describes a simple technique for the dissolution of the mucus elements within middle ear effusions and the subsequent separation of the cells contained. After the mucus and mucopolysaccharides within middle ear effusions have been dissolved, the ... |
Correlation between bacterial population and axillary and plantar bromidrosis: study of 30 patients. Although studies on the chemistry of odors are expanding to identify the chemical structures of odorous substances, there are no universal standards as yet to measure odor and intensity of bromidrosis. Clinical evaluati... |
1,2-Diarylimidazoles as inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2: a quantitative structure-activity relationship study. The cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme inhibition activity of derivatives of 1,2-diarylimidazole is analysed through Fujita-Ban and Hansch approaches. The analyses have helped to ascertain the role of different su... |
Retraction: Chronic Intoxication with Cobalt following Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty Chronic intoxication with cobalt in a male implanted with an uncemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) with a ceramic-on-ceramic bearing. Three years postoperatively the acetabular ceramic liner fractured necessitating revision. The be... |
Circular Housing Retrofit Strategies and Solutions: Towards Modular, Mass-Customised and Cyclable Retrofit Products The building sector consumes 40 % of resources globally, produces 40 % of global waste and 33 % of CO2 emissions. Creating a circular built environment is therefore of paramount importance to a sustainabl... |
. The clinical course of HIV-infection was analysed in a group of homosexual patients (n = 76, 72%) compared to intravenous drug abusers (IVDA, n = 30, 28%) in a retrospective cross-sectional study. The mean age of homosexual patients was 37.5 years compared to 28 years for IVDA. The following diseases are found signif... |
Area functionals in plane grid generation II The area functional has played an important role in discrete variational grid generation. When minimized, it is expected to lead to a convex grid; however, this goal is achieved only for simple regions. In the rst part of this work a new area functional was introduced; it's ... |
Two Cases of Proximal Subungual Onychomycosis Caused by Trichophyton rubrum in HIV-negative Patients During Treatment with TNF- Inhibitors Combined with Methotrexate. Proximal subungual onychomycosis (PSO) is a rare subtype of onychomycosis with a clinical presentation characterized by proximal leukonychia in the lunul... |
Liver lipid content in broilers as affected by time without feed or feed and water. The purpose of this study was to determine if length of time of feed withdrawal of broilers prior to slaughter could affect the lipid content of their livers. Seven-week-old male broilers were allocated to three treatments: 1) no feed a... |
Pilates and dance to breast cancer patients undergoing treatment: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial MoveMama study Background: Breast cancer is a global public health issue and the side effects of the clinical treatment can decline the quality of life of these women. Therefore, a healthy lifestyle is essen... |
Hyperthermia: effect on exercise prescription. Ten healthy male university students pedaled a bicycle ergometer (Monark) for three sessions each lasting 30 minutes. Each subject worked at an individually predicted work load corresponding to approximately 40% of maximal aerobic capacity. The same predicted work load was... |
Interstitial cells of Cajal: is their role in gastrointestinal function in view of therapeutic perspectives underestimated or exaggerated? This manuscript reviews the current views on morphology and function of the distinct subpopulations of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) in the digestive tract and their interrelati... |
Three relapses after a haploidentical transplantation in a pediatric patient: Cure with no further transplantation Isolated extramedullary relapse (EMR) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a highly fatal condition that creates uncertainty regarding treatment options. Although certain approaches such... |
Wearable chemical sensors: Characterization of heart rate electrodes using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy A series of experiments was conducted in order to determine the reaction kinetics of various types of heart rate monitoring electrodes. In addition, nonmotion on-body measurements were performed in order to... |
INSAR-BASED DETECTION AND MAPPING OF SEISMICALLY INDUCED GROUND SURFACE DISPLACEMENT AND DAMAGE IN PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES On April 22, 2019, an earthquake with a magnitude MW 6.1 struck the municipality of Castillejos in Zambales, the Philippines, and severely affected the province of Pampanga, which caused damage to co... |
Enhanced H₂ Sensitivity in Ultraviolet-Activated Pt Nanoparticle/SWCNT/Graphene Nanohybrids A surface engineering approach is exploited to enhance the performance of H2 sensors consisting of a single-wall carbon nanotube film/graphene 3D electrode decorated with catalytic Pt nanoparticles using atomic layer deposition ... |
Ergodic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Wireless Communication and Networking Ergodic stochastic optimization (ESO) algorithms are proposed to solve resource allocation problems that involve a random state and where optimality criteria are expressed in terms of long term averages. A policy that observes the stat... |
Marriage Guidance, Women and the Problem(S) of Returning Soldiers in Finland, 19441946 When former military chaplains began to give marital guidance to troubled couples after the end of hostilities with the Soviet Union (19411944) in Finland, new information about the causes and experiences of marital problems and divo... |
Vertical Lip Position and Thickness in Facial Reconstruction: A Validation of Commonly Used Methods for Predicting the Position and Size of Lips This study examined several methods used to estimate oral fissure position, lip margin position, and lip thickness recommended by Angel, George, Lebedinskaya, Taylor, Wilkinso... |
Can You Test Me Now? Equivalence of GMA Tests on Mobile and NonMobile Devices As technology continues to evolve, organizations seek to use personal electronics like smartphones for selection and assessment. While this promises to increase access to a more diverse applicant pool, research is needed to examine whether co... |
Preparatory set associated with pro-saccades and anti-saccades in humans investigated with event-related FMRI. Previous studies have shown that the BOLD functional MRI (fMRI) signal is increased in several cortical areas when subjects perform anti-saccades compared with pro-saccades. It remains unknown, however, whethe... |
Evaluating rules for phonological reduction in In this paper, pronunciation variation in Swedish due to speaking style and speech rate is discussed. A tentative rule system for segment-level reduction is currently being evaluated by letting subjects assess the naturalness of synthetic speech generated from canonical tr... |
Group differential games for multiparameter singularly perturbed systems Abstract In this paper, a group differential game problem is formulated using the system model of multiparameter singularly perturbed systems (MSPS). The case that there exist two groups of players with a conflict interest in the game is considere... |
EEG-based Mental Workload Estimation using Encoder-Decoder Networks with Multilevel Feature Fusion In this paper, we propose a model that combines the multilevel feature fusion algorithm and encoder-decoder structure for evaluation of mental workload using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The encoder-decoder structu... |
Brain-to-Brain Interaction at a Distance: A Global or Differential Relationship? Background: The main objective of this exploratory study was a confirmation of the results obtained by Giroldini et al, 2016, relative to the possibility of identifying a long-distance connection between the EEG activities of two totally s... |
The Renin Academy Summit: advancing the understanding of renin science. s from the presentations given at the Renin Academy Summit were published in a supplement to the March issue of this journal (March 2008, Volume 9, Supplement 1). In the supplement, we raised a number of critical questions within renin science, suc... |
Investigation on the intense fringe formation phenomenon downstream hot-image plane. The propagation of a high-power flat-topped Gaussian beam, which is modulated by three parallel wirelike scatterers, passing through a downstream Kerr medium slab and free spaces is investigated. A new phenomenon is found that a kind o... |
Magnetite Versus Quartzite: Potential Candidates for Thermocline Energy Storage The objective of this work is to investigate magnetite storage performances using thermocline packed-bed single tank concept and confront it with the quartzite commonly used as TESM in this area. To achieve this purpose dual phase model for... |
Middle-Upper Miocene stratigraphy of the Velarde Graben, North-Central New Mexico: Tectonic and paleogeographic implications A BSTRACT. Geologic mapping and correlation of tephras in and near the Velarde graben supports the southward extension of the Cieneguilla member of Leininger into the graben, refines the stratigra... |
On the origin of the thermoluminescence of Al2O3:Cr,Ni The recently discovered high-intensity thermoluminescence (TL) emission in Al2O3 doped with Cr and Ni is analysed more deeply by measuring the effects of x-ray irradiation on the optical absorption in parallel with the TL process, together with the effect of optica... |
Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activities of Cyanobacteria. Present study screened ten Cyanobacterial extracts for antimicrobial activity, cytotoxicity (against human cervical carcinoma cells Hela and SiHa) & GC-MS for chemical composition. Cyanobacterial extracts were subjected to Agar Well Diffusion Assay at concentrati... |
Efficacy and safety of miconazole for oral candidiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of miconazole for treating oral candidiasis. Twelve electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled trials evaluating treatments for oral candidias... |
A preliminary estimate of the Stokes dissipation of wave energy in the global ocean The turbulent Reynolds stresses in the upper layers of the ocean interact with the vertical shear of the Stokes drift velocity of the wave field to extract energy from the surface waves. The resulting rate of dissipation of wind waves i... |
Endoparasitic diseases cause losses of cattle and lambs Coccidiosis in beef and dairy calves Ketosis and fatty liver syndrome causing a variety of clinical signs in dairy cattle Nematodirosis causing losses in lambs Pandemic H1N1/09 influenza virus in pigs predisposing to Streptococcus suis septicaemia Deaths of roseat... |
Electrostatic free energy of weakly charged macromolecules in solution and intermacromolecular complexes consisting of oppositely charged polymers. When oppositely charged polyelectrolytes are mixed in water, attraction between oppositely charged groups may lead to the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes (associativ... |
Extended Analysis of the Sn V Spectrum The spectrum of palladium-like Sn V excited in a vacuum spark has been studied in the 200500 wavelength region. More than 200 new spectral lines of the 4d95s - 4d96p, 4d95s - 4d85s5p, 4d95p - 4d97s and 4d95p - 4d96d transitions were identified and about 80 levels of the 4d97s, 4d9... |
Examples of semirings of endomorphisms of semigroups Semirings of endomorphisms of semigroups form an important class of semirings. All examples which can be found in the literature concern semigroups with a subcommutative operation. We show that there exists a non-subcommutative semigroup whose endomorphisms form a se... |
Where Economics Went Wrong Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. This book argues that it never will. Why? Because economic policy, when done correctly, is ... |
Interner Bericht Fb 10 Abteilung Semantik Modular, Changeable Requirements for Telephone Switching in Csp-oz Requirements documents for software need not only be written, but they also need to be maintained afterwards. In telephone switching, there arise particular problems due to the strong mutual dependences of telep... |
Efficient integrated weed management practices for higher productivity and profitability in vegetable pea ( Pisum sativum var. hortense ) A field experiment was conducted on vegetable pea ( Pisum sativum L. var. hortense ) at Vegetable Research Station, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kan... |
Localized delivery of ibuprofen via a bilayer delivery system (BiLDS) for supraspinatus tendon healing in a rat model The high prevalence of tendon retear following rotator cuff repair motivates the development of new therapeutics to promote improved tendon healing. Controlled delivery of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory ... |
Characteristic quasi-polynomials of ideals and signed graphs of classical root systems With a main tool is signed graphs, we give a full description of the characteristic quasi-polynomials of ideals of classical root systems ($ABCD$) with respect to the integer and root lattices. As a result, we obtain a full descripti... |
Transverse-momentum-dependent Multiplicities of Charged Hadrons in Muon-Deuteron Deep Inelastic Scattering A semi-inclusive measurement of charged hadron multiplicities in deep inelastic muon scattering off an isoscalar target was performed using data collected by the COMPASS Collaboration at CERN. The following kinema... |
Psychological Causes of Corruption: The Role of Worries This study is devoted to answering two questions: Do individuals worries and sufferings correlate with the acceptability of corruption from their perspectives? Does this correlation differ by country in terms of corruption levels? We focus on analyzing the correla... |
Low bone mineral density linked to colorectal adenomas: a cross-sectional study of a racially diverse population. BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies suggest that lower bone mineral density (BMD) is associated with an increased risk for colorectal adenoma/cancer, especially in postmenopausal women. The aim of this study i... |
Investigation of antibacterial and antifungal properties of tufting carpets containing metal composite yarns Abstract In this research, antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) properties of tufting carpets containing metal/texturized polyester composite yarns were investigated. Carpet contains different yarn group... |
Image interpolation via combining patches based on point-sampling and new edge-directed ideas This paper proposes a new algorithm for image interpolation via combining bi-quadratic patches based on point sampling and new edge-directed method (PSE). Usually, the traditional methods use the image data to construct fittin... |
Modeling Hand Trajectories during Sequential Reach Movements in a Pulley Threading Task Modeling of human motion is common in ergonomic analysis of industrial tasks and can help improve workplace design. We propose a method for modeling the trajectories of hand movements in the frontal plane during a sequential reach t... |
The clinical application of the upper extremity compound movements rehabilitation training robot In order to estimate the effect of neural rehabilitation robot for improving the upper extremity motor function, 23 hemiplegia patients who are BrunnstromTII at least receive clinical rehabilitation training by the upper ex... |
Media Access Scheme in Distributed Spectrum Sensing Spectrum sensing is a key component of cognitive radio (CR) system to understand its radio frequency (RF) environment. One critical challenge in spectrum sensing is detection of weak signals in particular in an indoor environment. Distributed spectrum sensing can addr... |
Molecular characterization of firefly nuptial gifts: a multi-omics approach sheds light on postcopulatory sexual selection Postcopulatory sexual selection is recognized as a key driver of reproductive trait evolution, including the machinery required to produce endogenous nuptial gifts. Despite the importance of such g... |
The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews. William W. Orbach. University of Massachusetts Press. $15 The author has had long servicc with Time-Life books. This book is impressionistic and idiosyncratic. It resembles in many respects T. Kiernans The Arabs (Little, Brown & Co., 1975). There are many vkcs of style, journal... |
Measurements of the Atmospheric Electric Field through a Triangular Array and the Long-range Saharan Dust Electrification in Southern Portugal Atmospheric electric field (AEF) measurements were carried out in three different sites forming a triangular array in Southern Portugal. The campaign was performed during the su... |
Acquisition of the body image in evolution -Role of actuators in realizing intelligent behavior- In conventional studies, it is considered that differences of actuators are not important for realizing controllers for robots, so, usually conventional robots employ motors as actuators. On the other hand, animals have mus... |
Towards a conceptual framework of place attractiveness: a migration perspective Abstract. The attractiveness of places is currently gaining a high policy salience in policymakers' efforts to draw mobile capital. Yet, while there are a growing number of empirical studies considering the migration of people and the attra... |
Mislocalization of DNAH5 and DNAH9 in respiratory cells from patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia. RATIONALE Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by recurrent infections of the airways and situs inversus in half of the affected offspring. The most frequent genetic d... |
On the presence of Alsodes coppingeri (Anura, Alsodidae) in Argentina, with comments on other southern Alsodes ABSTRACT The occurrence of Alsodes coppingeri is confirmed in Argentina for the first time, from Santa Cruz Province, close to the Lago del Desierto. Specimens of this species were identified according to exte... |
Physical Exercise and Selective Autophagy: Benefit and Risk on Cardiovascular Health Physical exercise promotes cardiorespiratory fitness, and is considered the mainstream of non-pharmacological therapies along with lifestyle modification for various chronic diseases, in particular cardiovascular diseases. Physical exe... |
Impact of the Hospital to Home Initiative on Readmissions in the VA Health Care System Background: Hospital to Home (H2H) is a national quality improvement initiative sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the American College of Cardiology, with the goal of reducing readmission for patients hospital... |
The current place of intragastric balloon in the treatment of obesity what should clinicians know? Endoscopic bariatric therapy (EBT), including intragastric balloon (IGB), seem to fill the gap between medical and surgical options of obesity treatment. Currently, there are three IGB systems approved by the FDA: OrberaT... |
The role of cannabinoids in shaping lifespan neurodevelopment Emerging research highlights the critical role of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in shaping neural and glial development throughout the life span. Indeed, research shows that the eCB system is present early during gestation and modulates synaptogenesis, ne... |
Performance of an efficient sleep mode operation for IEEE 802.16m Power saving is one of the important issues for battery-powered mobile station in mobile WiMAX. Both IEEE 802.16e and IEEE 802.16m standards define sleep mode operations for power saving of mobile stations. In IEEE 802.16e, sleep mode alternates the list... |
Self renewal of embryonic stem cells in the absence of feeder cells and exogenous leukaemia inhibitory factor. To evaluate the role of leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) for maintaining pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture, we established several exogenous LIF-independent ES cell lines by continuous passagin... |
Possibilities for m-Government in Latin America Mobile information technologies have revolutionized governments and society. Through them, people can communicate, have access to information, or make demands. Mobile government (m-Government) has begun to leverage these tools to improve services, create more opportunitie... |
A comparison of three techniques for rapid model development: an application in patient risk-stratification. Accurately risk-stratifying patients is a key component of health care outcomes assessment. And, many health care organizations increasingly are relying upon automated means for assistance in making patient risk... |
Isolation and Identification of Adenoviruses in Microplates A procedure for isolating and identifying adenoviruses in microplates is described. Comparison tests with standard tube methods show an agreement of 92%. Virus isolations are greatly facilitated by the microplate method. This method is sensitive, economical, a... |
Can things get worse when an invasive species hybridizes? The harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis in France as a case study So far, only a few studies have explicitly investigated the consequences of admixture for the adaptative potential of invasive populations. We addressed this question in the invasive ladybird Har... |
Quality Control of Sodium High-Pressure Lamps by the Singular Decomposition Method We created a mathematical model of a sodium high-pressure lamp. This model is used in production before sending lamps to the consumer. To develop the model, we used a mathematical model. An analytical method was used to describe the oper... |
Equity impacts of interventions to increase physical activity: A health impact assessment Behavioural interventions may increase social inequalities in health. This study aimed to project the equity impact of physical activity interventions that have differential effectiveness across education groups on the long-term h... |
Deep neural networks for anger detection from real life speech data There has been a lot of previous work on deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition, however, little emphasis has been placed on an investigation of effective deep learning architectures for anger detection from speech. In this paper, inspir... |
Characteristics of magnetorheological fluids under single and mixed modes Rheological properties of magnetorheological (MR) fluids can be changed by application of external magnetic fields. These dramatic and reversible field-induced rheological changes permit the construction of many novel electromechanical devices ha... |
Trigeminal evoked potentials in man: a new olfactory stimulation device. The recording of olfactory evoked potentials in healthy humans, using a continuous flow olfactory stimulator, is described. A stimulator pushed inert gas (N2) in a continuous flow through the nose at a rate of 4 l/min. At fixed 30-second intervals... |
. In the past years a considerable amount of primary and secondary prevention programs for eating disorders was developed in German speaking countries. However, up to now there has been no systematic review of contents and evaluation studies. The main objective of the present systematic review is to identify and outlin... |
A Long Thin Electrode Is Equivalent to a Short Thick Electrode for Defibrillation in the Right Ventricle We hypothesized that a long thin right ventricular (RV) electrode would have equivalent defibrillation threshold (DFT) performance to a short thick electrode with approximately the same surface area. This could lead... |
Ulnar sensory nerve impairment at the wrist in carpal tunnel syndrome In previous studies, changes in impulse transmission of ulnar motor axons have been documented in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). We examined ulnar sensory conduction in 144 CTS hands. In particular, conduction parameters of the dorsal ul... |
Why New Hybrid Organizations are Formed: Historical Perspectives on Epistemic and Academic Drift By comparing three types of hybrid organizations18th-century scientific academies, 19th-century institutions of higher vocational education, and 20th-century industrial research institutesit is the purpose here to answer th... |
Effect of tongue cleansing on morning oral malodour in periodontally healthy individuals. PURPOSE The aim of this randomised single-blind, cross-over trial was to assess the effect of tongue cleansing on morning oral malodour in periodontally healthy subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten systemically healthy non-smoker s... |
Outcome measurement of extensive implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in patients receiving intravenous antibiotics in a Japanese university hospital Background Antimicrobial stewardship has not always prevailed in a wide variety of medical institutions in Japan. Methods The infection control team was involved i... |
Integrated analysis identifies a novel lncRNA prognostic signature associated with aerobic glycolysis and hub pathways in breast cancer Abstract Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a crucial role in cancer aerobic glycolysis. However, glycolysisrelated lncRNAs are still underexplored in breast cancer. In this study, we ... |
Topologically protected vector edge states and polarization beam splitter by all-dielectric valley photonic crystal slabs The polarization beam splitter (PBS) is the essential optical component, which is widely used in various optical instruments. Its robustness against perturbation is very necessary to all-optical cla... |
Towards Assurance-Driven Architectural Decomposition of Software Systems Computer systems are so complex, so they are usually designed and analyzed in terms of layers of abstraction. Complexity is still a challenge facing logical reasoning tools that are used to find software design flaws and implementation bugs. Abstr... |
Outburst hazard of little-studied lakes assessment at the Mongun-Taiga massif There is a reduction in the area of glaciation of mountain massifs as a result of climate warming, which leads to the formation of lake-glacial complexes in areas of glaciation degradation. These complexes are dynamic systems that are rapidly... |
Complexity Around the Edges In todays higher education environment, the question of how to assess the value of what we as professors do should engage us all. Within this context, Donald R. Bacon and Kim A. Stewarts essay, Why Assessment Will Never Work at Many Business Schools, is a laudable effort with important insig... |
-Tocopheryl Succinate Inhibits Osteoclast Formation by Suppressing Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor-kappaB Ligand (RANKL) Expression and Bone Resorption Objective Osteoclasts are bone-resorbing multinucleated cells derived from the monocyte/macrophage lineage during normal and pathological bone turnover. Recently, ... |
Co-evaluation of IT value as an activity for effective project appraisal at ex-ante stage The business benefits of IT projects are becoming the main determining factor for selecting projects at the ex-ante justification stage. At this stage, the identification and measurement of benefits is usually abdicated to busines... |
Modeling of optical gain in quantum cascade laser subjected to strong magnetic field We present a comprehensive rate equations based model for calculating the optical gain in the active region of quantum cascade laser in magnetic field perpendicular to the structure layers, which takes into account all the relevant car... |
Shifting Conceptions of Gender Justice in EU Policy on Women Peace and Security United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was a landmark resolution passed in 2000 that, for the first time, recognised the differing impact of conflict on women and girls and called for greater participat... |
Virulence of geographically different Cryptosporidium parvum isolates in experimental animal model Cryptosporidium parvum is a coccidian parasite which causes gastrointestinal disease in humans and a variety of other mammalian species. Several studies have reported different degrees of pathogenicity and virulence among... |
Society for Social Medicine fifth annual meeting, 1961 I M LECK (Department of Social Medicine, University of Birmingham) In the United Kingdom the birth rate fluctuates between a peak in spring and a trough in autumn. From a study of data for England and Wales and for Birmingham, it is concluded that the amplitude of ... |
Robin Turner Donald Robin Turner Donald was born in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. He remained deeply attached to that part of the world all his life. A scholarship took him to Fettes College. At medical school in Aberdeen he was a key figure in his class and was chairman of the Medical Society. Later, his organisation of t... |
Reversible interactions between smooth domains of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria are regulated by physiological cytosolic Ca2+ levels The 3F3A monoclonal antibody to autocrine motility factor receptor (AMFR) labels mitochondria-associated smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER) tubules. siRNA down-regulation of A... |
Pathophysiology of ovarian steroid secretion in polycystic ovary syndrome. The ovary in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) produces markedly increased amounts of steroids in response to gonadotropin stimulation. Because FSH secretion is under tight long-loop negative-feedback control and LH is not, hyperandrogenism is th... |
. Synthetic biology of natural products is the design and construction of new biological systems by transferring a metabolic pathway of interest products into a chassis. Large-scale production of natural products is achieved by coordinate expression of multiple genes involved in genetic pathway of desired products. Pro... |
Speed control of switched reluctance motor using sliding mode control strategy A robust speed drive system for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) using a sliding mode control strategy (SLMC) is presented. After reviewing the operation of an SRM drive, a SLMC based scheme is formulated to control the drive speed. The sch... |
Influence of Local Incidence Angle Effects on Ground Cover Estimates An often neglected source of uncertainty on estimated cover percentage is caused by local view angle effects, where parts of bare soil patches are not visible due to vegetation blocking the sensor line-of-sight. When estimating the fractional cover of... |
Tips and tricks of durable cryoballoon based left atrial appendage isolation To the Editor, We have just read an interesting small sized study by Chen et al presenting the efficacy and safety of cryoballoon (CB) based left atrial appendage isolation (LAAi) in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (PsAF) who have... |
Copulatory behavior of Microstigmatidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): a study with Xenonemesia platensis from Argentina Abstract Microstigmatidae are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders. The present study reports on the copulatory behavior of Xenonemesia platensis Goloboff 1989, constituting the first report on s... |
Stationary-Wavelet-Based Despeckling of SAR Images Using Two-Sided Generalized Gamma Models In this letter, a stationary-wavelet-based despeckling algorithm based on the two-sided generalized gamma distribution (GD) model is proposed. We first introduce the two-sided GD as a flexible and efficient model for the wavelet... |