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). However, KNO3 did not have a significant effect on time for 50% germination (T50) and mean germination time (MGT). Variety Mersa showed better performance in germination percent (G%) and SL than Tekeze-1; while Tekeze-1 had shorter days for MGT and reached T50 faster than the Mersa variety. Potassium concentrations... |
—This paper presents a new approach for image denoising based on compressed sensing. In this method, an unknown noisy image of interest is observed (sensed) through a limited number linear functional in random projection, then original image is reconstructed using the observation vector and the existed recovery algorit... |
Tooth flank form deviation of micrometers influences vibration and noise characteristics of gears and therefore strict quality control of tooth flank form is demanded. However, since gear checker is structurally-complex, it is difficult to analyze how error factors of gear checkers influence the measurement result. In ... |
PURPOSE |
Although hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation is widely performed in children with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the influence of donor types is poorly understood. Thus, transplantation outcomes were compared in the prospective multinational Berlin-Frankfurt-Muenster (BFM) study group trial: ALL-SCT-... |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
After conditioning with total-body irradiation and etoposide, 411 children with high-risk ALL received highly standardized stem-cell transplantations during the first or later remissions. Depending on donor availability, grafts originated from HLA-genoidentical siblings or from HLA-matched unrelated donors who were ide... |
RESULTS |
Four-year event-free survival (± standard deviation [SD]) did not differ between patients with transplantations from unrelated or sibling donors (0.67 ± 0.03 v 0.71 ± 0.05; P = .405), with cumulative incidences of nonrelapse mortality (± SD) of 0.10 ± 0.02 and 0.03 ± 0.02 (P = .017) and relapse rates (± SD) of 0.22 ± 0... |
CONCLUSION |
Outcome among high-risk pediatric patients with ALL after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation was not affected by donor type. Standardized myeloablative conditioning produced a low incidence of treatment-related mortality and effective control of leukemia.The Reality of Using the Electronic Activity Book among Arab... |
book in the primary stage in the upper grades in Riyadh, and to identify the obstacles of activating the electronic activity book, and identifying teacher’s suggestions. The researcher visualizes a proposal for these activities by contemplating the results of this study and other similar studies. The study followed the... |
Understanding how castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) cells survive the androgen-deprivation condition is crucial for treatment of this advanced prostate cancer (PCa). Here, we reported for the first time the up-regulation of protein S (PROS), an anticoagulant plasma glycoprotein with multiple biological functi... |
Electron microscopical analysis of semi-serial sections through larval stages of the dendronotid nudi-branch Melibe leonina (Gould, 1852) revealed paired placodes of neurogenic ectoderm at the base of the foot. The location of these laterocephalic placodes corresponds to descriptions of the ectodermal site generating p... |
Sida has during 1998 elaborated on a strategy for HIV, AIDS and development – Investing for Future Generations, Sweden's International Response to HIV/AIDS. The strategy was approved by the Cabinet in February 1999. It was during this process that Sida commissioned a series of Swedish experts to formulate background pa... |
Standard hematologic and serum chemistry parameters were determined from 28 harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) and 20 hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) sampled from 6 March 2001 to 13 March 2001 during the breeding season. Whole blood was collected immediately postmortem from harp seal mother–pup pairs and from six hoode... |
This paper presents the analysis of DRAM-related EMI dependence on DQ/GIO data patterns and power delivery design. The EMI levels of two types of DDR2 667 memories are tested and the near- and far-field emission levels are measured at 1 GHz frequency (the 3rd harmonic of the clock). Five types of DQ patterns, which hav... |
The effects of exogenous phospholipids upon steroid hormone synthesis by rat luteal mitochondria and mitochondrial acetone powders were studied. Cardiolipin, added as a dispersion, to intact mitochondria prepared from ovaries of PMS gonadotropin-hCG-primed immature rats produced a significant (up to 4-fold) stimulation... |
The conventional Hamiltonian H = p2 + VN (x), where the potential VN (x) is a polynomial of degree N , has been studied intensively since the birth of Quantum Mechanics. In some cases, its spectrum can be determined by combining the WKB method with resummation techniques. In this paper we point out that the deformed Ha... |
INTRODUCTION |
According to current guidelines, tip location of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) should be verified during insertion, preferably using non-invasive methods such as intracavitary ECG (IC-ECG) or echocardiography. An interesting new option is represented by a new pressure-based device, the CatFinder Syste... |
METHODS |
We planned a single-center, prospective, non-randomized trial on adult patients requiring PICC insertion, using simultaneously CFS and IC-ECG, with the purpose of verifying the applicability, feasibility, safety, and accuracy of CFS for intra-procedural tip location. Patients with known ECG abnormalities or cardiac dis... |
RESULTS |
Out of 136 enrolled adult patients, CFS was found to be applicable in 131 cases (five cases were excluded because of ECG abnormalities) and feasible in 111 cases (in 20 cases, tip location by CFS could not be carried out because of technical issues). There were no complications directly or indirectly related to the CFS... |
CONCLUSION |
Applicability of CFS in patients with sinus rhythm was 96.3%, feasibility was 84.7%, and safety was 100%. If compared to IC-ECG, accuracy was 83.6% (accepting an error <2 cm) and 96.1% (for an error <3 cm). Unacceptable tip positions (>3 cm) were 3.8% (the tip was too high inside the SVC). This study confirms a possibl... |
Some species are expanding their ranges polewards during current climate warming. However, anthropogenic fragmentation of suitable habitat is affecting expansion rates and here we investigate interactions between range expansion, habitat fragmentation and genetic diversity. We examined three closely related Satyrinae b... |
The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of Staphylococcal enterotoxins (se) a through e, exfoliative toxin (et) a and b, toxin and toxic shock syndrome toxin (tst) and mecA with psoriasis. We also investigated the distribution of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in the skin and nares. Fifty consecutive p... |
The objective of this researsh is to study the effects of Eminium Regelii phytopreparation (ERP) on immune status and free radical oxidation in the tissues of the adrenal glands and immunocompetent organs after combined exposure to 6 Gy dose of gamma irradiation and coal dust (remote period). The study was realized on ... |
The diurnal rhythm of plasma melatonin was studied in 46 Chinese patients with acute cerebral hemorrhage. The state of consciousness of each patient was assessed clinically. The individual sites of lesion were determined by computerized tomography scanning. One to five days after stroke, blood samples were collected by... |
In a previous study, human beings were vaccinated with a P. falciparum malaria vaccine candidate consisting of tetanus toxoid coupled to linear (Asn-Ala-Asn-Pro)3 ((NANP)3). The vaccine initiated protection in some people, but some individuals mainly produced anti-peptide antibodies that did not react with the pathogen... |
Background: We examined the influence of rectal distention on the spinal micturition reflex and the mechanism underlying its inhibition of bladder contraction. Methods: Fourteen conscious female Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study after transection of the lower thoracic cord. Isovolumetric cystometry was perfor... |
For the frequency measurement used digital methods, which are based on counting the number of periods of the measured frequency that occur within a predetermined reference time interval (the total number of reference frequency periods). The application of such methods is characterized by a high value of the discretizat... |
For vowels excited by vigorous glottal vibrations, the instant of glottal closure is tentatively identified with the moment of strongest excitation (at not too low frequencies) and worst linear predictability. Some predictor methods for its determination are reviewed, which do not always yield reliable and unequivocal ... |
Purpose Several surgeons have documented outcomes following the Nuss operation. Most reports have described the use of thoracoscopy to avoid cardiac injury. Since 1999, our group has utilized a subxiphoid incision, allowing insertion of the surgeon's finger into the substernal space to help guide the bar across the med... |
The organocatalyzed photo-atom transfer radical polymerization (photoATRP) using 10-phenylphenothiazine as catalyst is studied toward its use in methacrylic acid (MAA) polymerization and surface grafting. The organocatalyzed photoATRP of methyl methacrylate (MMA) is first optimized for continuous flow synthesis in orde... |
Water stress is one of the vitally essential environmental stresses that directly affect agricultural production, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions that are considered to be a consequence of worldwide of climate change and decreased water availability for crop production (Carrizo et al., 2020 and Rafie & El-Bo... |
Abstract : The goal of this project is to produce an open-source model that couples hydrodynamics (circulation and waves), sediment transport, and morphodynamics. The need and value for such a model has been well established by previous NOPP-supported planning efforts (Sherwood et al., 2000; 2002) and the feasibility o... |
Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are used to estimate features of interest of a distribution. The Monte Carlo error in estimation has an asymptotic normal distribution whose multivariate nature has so far been ignored in the MCMC community. We present a class of multivariate spectral variance estimators for t... |
In order to facilitate improved returns to research and development in African agriculture, the innovation systems approach which engenders the involvement of multiple stakeholders in its innovation pathway, has been proposed. Despite the potential of this approach, the understanding of its implementation and particula... |
BACKGROUND |
Autoimmune disorders such as vitiligo and alopecia areata have been reported in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). |
OBSERVATIONS |
Three HIV-infected men had anetoderma develop early in the course of their HIV infection. In two patients this preceded other features of HIV disease, and in the third it occurred while the helper T-cell count exceeded 200/mm3. |
CONCLUSIONS |
These findings suggest that anetoderma may be an early manifestation of HIV disease, perhaps autoimmune in its pathogenesis.Up-regulation and localization of asparagine synthetase in tomato leaves infected by the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. |
Nitrogen metabolism is one aspect of basic metabolism, which is still quite unknown in the field of plant-pathogen interactions. Evidence derived from previous studies conducted in our laboratory strongly suggests that during microbial pathogenesis an important nitrogen mobilization process takes place in diseased tiss... |
Volume 6 The late Western Han painted tomb in Yintun 尹屯, Luoyang 洛阳, was excavated in 2003. On the domed ceiling of the central tomb chamber is a celestial painting with star orbs (Figs. 1 and 2), human figures, animals, and buildings. It is an intuitive expression of the astronomical significance of various constellat... |
Tucker prefers to see Delany’s identity as “at once multiple and locatable” (3). As Tucker points out, Delany’s quote above suggests a degree of race consciousness and awareness of the history and politics attached to race in America (14). Like Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and M... |
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are among the most important information technology (IT) development efforts to accommodate the operation of an organization into a single IT platform. Before the advent of ERP technology, a significant number of proprietary systems were employed in order to cover the IT needs... |
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