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The availability of numerous, possibly heterogeneous, processing resources in multi-core systems allows one to exploit them to optimize performance and/or power/energy consumption. In particular, strategies have been defined to map and schedule tasks on the system resources, with the aim of optimizing the adopted figur... |
Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE-1s or L1s) are the most abundant retrotransposons in the human genome, and they serve as major sources of reverse transcriptase activity. Engineered L1s retrotranspose at high frequency in cultured human cells. Here it is shown that L1s insert into transcribed genes and retrotra... |
Teacher education is facing a number of challenges such as policy changes, funding issues, and teacher recruitment and retention. These challenges, whether on the national, state, district or school level, contribute to continued teacher shortages. Many school districts are faced with the conundrum of hiring under qual... |
Self-organized, stable or dynamic, filamentary structures are known to form in dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) operating in a glow regime. The common ‘classical’ understanding of stable filamentary structures in DBDs is that a glow-discharge filament forms at each half cycle of the sinusoidal applied voltage at th... |
‘Realising the potential of new technology’ was one of the central educational themes of New Labour’s 1997 election manifesto, with ‘information and communications technology’ (ICT) established subsequently as a prominent feature of the Blair administration policy portfolio. As such New Labour can claim rightly to have... |
We draw on findings from a mixed-method study of specialised red-nosed elder-clowns in a long-term care facility to advance a model of 'relational citizenship' for individuals with dementia. Relational citizenship foregrounds the reciprocal nature of engagement and the centrality of capacities, senses, and experiences ... |
Nocturnal riceland mosquito populations in southern Louisiana were monitored using nonbaited CDC miniature light traps. A mixed population of Anopheles quadrimaculatus, An. crucians, Psorophora columbiae and Culex salinarius adults was collected in a livestock occupied barn. Highly variable numbers of all 4 species wer... |
The poet – speaker of Book 1 of The Ring and the Book believed that the first two monologues of his grand poem balanced one another. In his preview of the monologues, he writes that Half-Rome and Other Half-Rome are equally unsuccessful in their efforts to find the truth of the murder story. The speakers possess an “op... |
T HIS ISSUE OF BLOOD features a report by Atweh et al[1][1] on the induction of fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) by pulse butyrate. This study is a solid addition to the recent and gratifying momentum in the development of effective therapy for sickle cell disease. Underlying this report is a series of novelConsiderations in ma... |
Dipl. ABVP a continuing challenge for clinicians. Comparative Medical and Vetennary Services Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, Downey, California 90242 and clinical decision-making are “new” tools that help practitioners make diagnoses.’ Biostatistics and epidemiolog... |
BACKGROUND |
Assessment of Children's Hand Skills (ACHS) and Children's Hand-Skills Ability Questionnaire (CHSQ) are interconnected hand skills assessment tools which together contain parent questionnaire and observational assessment. With this quality, ACHS and CHSQ, enables the therapist to obtain information about the child's re... |
METHODS |
112 children with HCP between 2 and 12 years of age were included. All participants were subjected to ACHS, CHSQ, Shriners Hospital Upper Extremity Evaluation (SHUEE) and ABILHAND-Kids. Convergent construct validity was investigated through analyzing the relationship between ACHS and SHUEE, and between CHSQ and ABILHAN... |
RESULTS |
ACHS showed very strong relationships with SHUEE's Spontaneous Functional Analysis (r=0.86) and Grip-Release Function (r=0.86) parameters with a strong relationship with positional dynamic analysis (r=0.78). CHSQ's Leisure (r=0.80), School/Education (r=0.75) and Activities of Daily Living (r=0.76) domains showed strong... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Turkish versions of ACHS (ACHS-TR) and CHSQ (CHSQ-TR) are valid and reliable hand skills assessment tools in children with HCP.Holographic 3D intensity shaping of evanescent waves |
This paper investigates the use of holographic algorithms to create more complex evanescent-wave fields. The authors have written a direct-search/simulated-annealing algorithm for shaping the 3D intensity pattern of evanescent wave fields. This direct-search algorithm includes a forward model that calculates the 3D int... |
ABSTRACT We have developed a reverse line blot (RLB) hybridization assay to detect and identify the commonest mollicutes causing cell line contamination (Mycoplasma arginini, Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasma hyorhinis, Mycoplasma orale, and Acholeplasma laidlawii) and human infection (Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma... |
Linearized stiffness diminution, which is correlated with material damage characteristic, is the major parameters due to modeling of granular material behavior such as plain concrete subjected to cyclic loading. Many damage equations in tension and compression states are proposed in the literatures, however, they produ... |
This study investigated the pozzolanic reactions and engineering properties of waste brick-blended cements in relation to various replacement ratios (0—50%). The waste brick consisted of SiO2 (63.21%), Al2O3 (16.41%), Fe2O3 (6.05%), Na2O (1.19%), K2O (2.83%) and MgO (1.11%), and had a pozzolanic activity index of 107%.... |
In municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) process, combustion line is one of the key controlled variables to characterize the combustion stability and operation safety. Realizing the quantification of combustion line can replace “manual fire monitoring”, which can improve the intelligent degree of MSWI process throu... |
Abstract Objective: Ellipticine (5,11-dimethyl-6H-pyrido[4,3-b]carbazole) is an alkaloid isolated from Apocyanaceae plants. This study was designed to investigate the effects of ellipticine on the proliferation and apoptosis of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: R... |
Providing care to patients with an infectious disease can result in the exposure of healthcare workers (HCWs) to pathogen-containing bodily fluids. We performed a series of experiments to characterize the magnitude of environmental contamination-in air, on surfaces and on participants-associated with seven common healt... |
In manufacturing processes curriculums, the injecting molding process has been an integral part since their practical adaption in industry. It is beneficial to combine continuous improvement scenarios with hands-on experience through innovative approaches to engage students to develop critical thinking during the learn... |
Personal freedom and individualism are highly valued in Anglo-American culture and consequently in healthcare. However, not all cultures recognize the value of these principles. Healthcare can be compromised when the patient's cultural context differs from that of the clinician. Culture and its influences on the disclo... |
subsequently aborted, had an abnormally low level of cestrogen excretion in the urine. How the results from these three lines of llipproacb should be integrated is not clear. Carr found a normal chromosome constitution in 50% of "blighted ova" examined by him. While the other 50% were chromosomally abnormal, this figur... |
A non-linear hedonic model is used to estimate the implicit marginal prices of 17 local public goods in a Paris suburban area on an original data set of some 8200 housing units. The results reveal a robust effect of local public school quality (measured both by the fraction of junior high school students that are at le... |
This paper presents a single-stage electronic ballast with emergency lighting features. The ballast can function as a regular ballast, emergency ballast, battery charger or discharger and power failure detector, achieving regular and emergency lighting features. The single-stage converter used in the ballast is an inte... |
The peculiarities of protein, lipid metabolism and sexual hormones concentration in adult male rats due to the impact of emotional stress in period of milk feeding have been studied. It has been revealed that stress in this period functions according to imprinting type that result in feminization of the parameters of s... |
We previously described on -state freezing of gait ( on -FOG) as a rare gait phenotype in Parkinson ’ s disease (PD). 1 In on -FOG cases, levodopa dosage increases were associated with corres-ponding increases of freezing of gait (FOG), whereas FOG dis-appeared in the off state. Two of 4 cases we described in 2012 1 we... |
Slang words can contain particular meanings that cannot be interpreted directly. To know and understand the meaning behind the utterances, EFL learners can employ illocutionary force by analyzing the native speakers' daily communication of slang words. Therefore, this qualitative research aimed to explore the types of ... |
Brucella abortus British strain 19 transported glucose with an apparent Km of 0.16 mM and an apparent Vmax of 250 nmol per min per mg of N. The only common glucose analogue transported was 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG), with an apparent Ki of 0.73 mM. Alpha- or beta-methyl glucosides and 3-O-methylglucose were not transported... |
The modification of current density on the dawn‐dusk cross section of the magnetotail with the earthward approach of a dipolarization front (DF) is examined through the recently published results of a three‐dimensional (3‐D) particle‐in‐cell (PIC) simulation. It is found that the current density intensifies by ~37% abr... |
Osteoclast precursors are chemotactically attracted to sites of bone resorption via migration pathways that include transendothelial crossing in blood capillaries. Transendothelial migration involves poorly understood interactions with basal lamina molecules, including laminins. To investigate osteoclast-laminin intera... |
PURPOSE OF REVIEW |
Vocal fold scarring still remains a therapeutic challenge, with the most problematic issue being the histologic changes that are primarily responsible for altering the viscoelasticity of the vocal fold mucosa. Optimal treatment for vocal fold scarring has not yet been established. To restore or regenerate damaged vocal... |
RECENT FINDINGS |
Histologic studies have revealed that hyaluronic acid, fibronectin, decorin, and various other extracellular matrix components, as well as collagen, may contribute to determining the vibratory properties of the vocal fold mucosa. Changes of these molecules are thought to affect the viscoelasticity of the scarred vocal ... |
SUMMARY |
Recent research has revealed the detailed histologic and rheologic changes related to vocal fold scarring. Based on these findings, various new therapeutic strategies have been developed in animal models using tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, no clinical trials have been performed, and more studie... |
In 1903, there were 36,893 lascar sailors out of the 247,448 seamen working on British merchant ships. Lascars were non-white workers mostly recruited from Asia. As a result of changes to the British maritime industry in the second half of the nineteenth century, notably the shift from sail to steam, lascar numbers inc... |
Deep ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is shown to modify organosilane self-assembled monolayer (SAM) films by a photocleavage mechanism, which renders the surface amenable to further SAM modification. Patterned UV exposure creates alternating regions of intact SAM film and hydrophilic, reactive sites. The exposed regions c... |
In this paper, we therefore propose an integrated delivery and caching system for streaming media, where each stream is divided into segments and these segments are distributed among hierarchically distributed cache servers. Abstract—The emergence of the Internet as a pervasive communication medium has led to the rise ... |
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of severe malaria have identified several association variants. However, much about the underlying biological functions are yet to be discovered. Here, we systematically predicted plausible candidate genes and pathways from functional analysis of severe malaria resistance ... |
This article scrutinizes the compatibility of the interest limitation rule the European Union (EU) legislature included in its anti-tax avoidance directive adopted on 12 July 2016 with the proportionality principle. Under its settled case law concerning domestic interest limitation rules restricting a fundamental freed... |
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a heterogeneous population of immature myeloid cells that promote tumor progression. In this study, we demonstrated that activation of a C-type lectin receptor, dectin-1, in MDSC differentially modulates the function of different MDSC subsets. Yeast-derived whole β-glucan par... |
Introduction: Regenerative medicine involves research in a number of fields and disciplines such as stem cell research, tissue engineering and biological therapy in general. As research in these areas advances rapidly, it is critical to keep abreast of emerging trends and critical turns of the development of the collec... |
A system (program) using a rigid body spring model was employed, in which computer simulation would be able to analyze the stress distributions of the midtarsal joint, the cuneionavicular joint and the tarsometatarsal joint which form the medial arch of the foot. Measurements were taken using Yokokura's method, with Hi... |
The development of bioinformatics has depended on the contributions of many experts in the various disciplines, such as biologists, chemist, computer scientists, and mathematicians. One of the most widely discussed cases in bioinformatics is the protein grouping. Proteins work together each other to regulate a biologic... |
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