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Combined RF ablation and external-beam radiation therapy increased animal survival compared with that with either of the treatments alone or with no treatment.Resveratrol causes COX‐2‐ and p53‐dependent apoptosis in head and neck squamous cell cancer cells |
Cyclooxygenase‐2 (COX‐2) content is increased in many types of tumor cells. We have investigated the mechanism by which resveratrol, a stilbene that is pro‐apoptotic in many tumor cell lines, causes apoptosis in human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma UMSCC‐22B cells by a mechanism involving cellular COX‐2. UMSCC‐2... |
Enterprise models are artifacts and tools that can be used in various kinds of discussions about work and work in an enterprise. This paper introduce a work oriented approach to modelling that treats enterprise models as information products that can be created by experts or professional modelers. The work oriented app... |
Arterial hypertension represents one of the most common diseases in developed countries and the rennin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is among the major factors in the regulation of blood pressure and sodium balance. With the exception of rare monogenetic diseases, however, inheritance of aldosterone secretion is widel... |
Enhanced central sympathetic outflow worsens left ventricular (LV) remodeling and prognosis in heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI). Previous studies suggested that activation of brain angiotensin II type 1 receptors (AT₁R) in the brain stem leads to sympathoexcitation due to neuronal AT₁R upregulation. Recen... |
Five patients undergoing routine total knee replacement received standard antibiotic prophylaxis of 1000 mg of iv cefamandole and also regional administration of 750 mg of cefuroxime. Regional dosing was carried out at the start of the operation, following the application of a mid-thigh tourniquet, by administration in... |
Philosophers often distinguish in some way between two (or more) senses of life's meaning. Paul Edwards terms these a ‘cosmic’ and ‘terrestrial’ sense. The cosmic sense is that of an overall purpose of which our lives are a part and in terms of which our lives must be understood and our purposes and interests arranged.... |
A system that can deliver tactile sensation despite an object existing between an actuator and human was developed. This system composed of a control part, power part, output part, and coil. The control part controls the overall system using a microcontroller. The power part generates electric current to create a magne... |
Android phones are one of the most common accessories used all over the world. Although once a luxury, it has now become a basic need for all generations. It is a multipurpose tool that can be used for all sorts of necessities and entertainment. Through our android app corona care, a mobile phone can be a helping hand ... |
Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is an uncommon, acquired disorder of blood cells caused by mutation of the phosphatidylinositol glycan class A (PIG‐A) gene. The disease often manifests with haemoglobinuria, peripheral blood cytopenias, and venous thrombosis. The natural history of PNH has been documented in ... |
Grayanotoxin (GTX) exerts selective effects on voltage-dependent sodium channels by eliminating fast sodium inactivation and causing a hyperpolarizing shift in voltage dependence of channel activation. In this study, we adopted a newly developed protocol that provides independent estimates of the binding and unbinding ... |
As U.S. trauma surgery evolves to embrace the concept and practice of acute care surgery, the organization and management structure of the intensive care unit must also grow to reflect new challenges and imperatives faced by trauma surgeons. Key issues to be explored in light of acute care surgery include the role of t... |
The molecular genetics of endocrine tumours is an area of great interest, due to the heterogeneity of endocrine tumour types, the association of hormone over-production in some cases, and the wide variation in tumour behaviour. Genes implicated fall into functional categories such as oncogenes, in which mutations tend ... |
To address the problem of a large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signaling, which mitigates the detrimental effects caused by a multi-path environment, we propose a sequential search method that employs different thresholds for clipped power for a partial transmi... |
It is well established that CD4+ CD8+ thymocytes are more sensitive to myriad death stimuli than CD4+ or CD8+ single positive (SP) thymocytes. The mechanism behind this hypersensitivity to apoptosis of CD4+ CD8+ thymocytes is not understood. To test whether the difference lay in the apoptotic preset of mitochondria, es... |
Since knowledge bases (KBs) are usually incomplete, they should be able to provide information not only about the domain in question but also regarding their own incompleteness, which requires them to introspect on what they know and do not know. One of the challenges is to devise computationally adequate models of int... |
Conceptually, introspective reasoning can be formalized very elegantly in terms of a model of belief. In this sense, the corresponding reasoning task is completely characterized as a decision problem of the form: which beliefs follow from believing only the sentences in the KB? Current approaches, the so-called autoepi... |
This thesis develops a logic of belief, which can be used to specify a decidable, and in many cases efficient, form of introspective reasoning in first-order KBs. Decidability is achieved by choosing a model of belief that limits only the deductive component of the reasoner while keeping the full introspective power of... |
Referring to the rules for agricultural seed testing (GB/T 3543-1995) issued by China, the test of sampling, purity, thousand seed weight, moisture, viability, relative conductivity and germination rate had been studied for seed quality test methods of Lonicera macranthoides. The seed quality from 38 different collecti... |
Sixteen months after resection of a painful neuroma and fascicle ligation of the proximal nerve segments, the fascicle ligated neural tissue was examined by light and electron microscopy. No significant neuroma formation was found in the fascicle-ligated regions. The distal portion consisted mainly of connective tissue... |
Adaptive modulation selection plays an important role in wireless communication and wireless sensor network since the wireless channel condition is time-varying due to some factors e.g. path-loss and multipath propagation. Therefore, using one modulation type cannot fulfill all the channel conditions and receivers. Con... |
The author presents an individual reading of James Joyce's short story. 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners'. Language evokes subjective responses and associations that become part of the depth of experience one finds in a book. The author describes how uses of language give the reader a sense of sharing the main character's ex... |
Frequently soil-plant relationships and responses are complex combinations of increases-level-decreases consisting of linear segments of differing slope. Segmented regression is very useful to express and quantify such relationships and responses. Fitting segmented regression models to such data, however, remains a cha... |
The layout of the volume (order of chapters) allows readers to follow behavior disorders in very logical and thoughtful processes from legal issues, identification and. If you work in a human resources department, you have a greatopportunity to display leadership by thinking like a businessperson, shaping the company c... |
In this paper, a planning method of transportation-power coupled system based on road expansion model is proposed. First of all, based on the Wardrop equilibrium state, the traffic flow is distributed, to build the road expansion model and complete the traffic network modeling. It is assumed that the road charging dema... |
Low-temperature electron spin relaxation is studied by the optical orientation method in bulk n-GaAs with donor concentrations from 10cm to 5·1017 cm. A peculiarity related to the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) is observed in the dependence of the spin lifetime on doping near nD = 2·1016cm−3. In the metallic phase... |
Product design case databases contain a lot potential knowledge, which can tell us the relations among parameters and some interesting experience patterns. While designing product, it is supposed to support the designers to make decisions better. Therefore many researchers are trying to find an effective approach to di... |
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) are known to be caused by HTLV-I infection. However, current methods used to determine HTLV-I infection do not differentiate between HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers (ACs) and ATL and... |
A key contribution of robots to a manufacturing system is flexibility and automation. The robots can handle part batches of varying size and mix and can adapt to process variations and uncertainties in the working environment. This paper proposes a method for the collision-free motion coordination of multiple robots in... |
This study investigated utilization of electronic resources by the users in the Kwara State University Library, Nigeria. Cross-sectional survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of 3,670 registered users with the library and a sample of 367 was selected using simple random... |
BACKGROUND |
With the advent of anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy, hospital admissions for peptic ulcer disease (PUD) have declined significantly since the 1990s. Despite this, operative treatment of PUD still is common. Although previous papers suggest that Candida in peritoneal fluid cultures may be associated with worse outcomes ... |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
A prospectively maintained Acute and Critical Care Surgery (ACCS) database spanning 2008-2015 and including more than 7,000 patients was queried for patients with PPUs. Demographics and clinical outcomes were abstracted. Pre-operative anti-fungal use, intra-operative peritoneal fluid cultures, and infectious outcomes w... |
RESULTS |
There were 107 patients with PPUs who received operative management; 27 (25.2%) received pre-operative anti-fungal therapy; 33 (30.8%) received peritoneal fluid culture, and 17 cultures (51.5%) were positive for fungus. The presence of fungus in the cultures did not affect the outcomes. There were no differences in len... |
CONCLUSION |
Candida has been recovered in 29%-57% of peritoneal fluid cultures in patients with PPUs. However, no studies have evaluated pre-operative anti-fungal therapy in PPUs. Our data suggest that pre-operative anti-fungal drugs are unnecessary in patients undergoing operative management for PPU.Embolization of Cerebral Arter... |
The experience with embolization of intracerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) with bucrylate (isobutyl-2-cyanoacrylate) in 29 patients is reported. In 9 cases (31%) less than 1/3 of the AVM nidus was occluded, in 12 (41%) 1/3 to 2/3, in 4 (14%) more than 2/3, and total occlusion was only seen in 3 cases (10%). O... |
The use of pressure (including legal mandates) to encourage individuals with alcohol and other drug (AOD) use issues to enter treatment is widespread. The aims of this study were to examine how legal mandates to enter residential AOD treatment, perceived coercion across sources, and motivation impact upon treatment eng... |
This work outlines the design and construction of a single-photon emission computed tomography imaging system based on the concept of synthetic collimation. A focused multi-pinhole collimator is constructed using rapid-prototyping and casting techniques. The collimator projects the centre of the field of view (FOV) thr... |
Neural networks have a proven usefulness at predicting, denoising or classifying time series. However, the performance of deep learning models is bound to the size of the input window. Yet, no common method has emerged to determine the optimal window size. In this paper, we compare two heuristics and three event detect... |
The dynamics of photofragments produced in ordered molecular layers adsorbed on surfaces are intimately connected to the electronic properties of the surface and the physical structure of the layer. These dynamics have been most often studied by examining the gaseous fragments expelled into the vacuum by using angularl... |
This study investigates the pattern of use of traditional and alternative healers among psychiatric patients in Nelson Mandela Metropole. An interview schedule was applied to 254 subjects at six sites, enquiring about consultations with traditional and alternative healers in the past year. Multivariate analysis was per... |
We report unprecedented Friedel-Crafts arylation of chlorofullerenes C60Cl6 and C70Cl8 with unprotected carboxylic acids as an efficient single-step synthesis of the inherently stable water-soluble fullerene derivatives. Using this method, a series of previously unaccessible compounds was obtained without chromatograph... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the change of neurobehavioral functions of workers with long term exposure to vanadium. |
METHODS |
A total of 106 workers with exposure to vanadium were paired with workers without exposure to vanadium. The WHO-NCTB was employed to assess the neurobehavioral functions. |
RESULTS |
The exposure group had lower scores in the domains measuring positive moods and higher scores in the domains measuring negative moods. The exposure group had poorer performance in Santa Ana dexterity, Benton visual retention and pursuit aiming II than the control group. |
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