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Curiosity to predict personality, behavior and need for this is not as new as invent of social media. Personality prediction to better accuracy could be very useful for society. There are many papers and researches conducted on usefulness of the data for various purposes like in marketing, dating suggestions, organizat... |
Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) treatment decreases nitric oxide (NO) synthesis and ameliorates the hyperdynamic circulation in portal hypertensive rats. We have recently demonstrated that nitric oxide synthase isoform 3 (NOS3) is overexpressed in portal hypertensive gastric mucosa and that resultant NO ov... |
When breathlessness is described in conventional clinical indexes-such as the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit score or the Medical Research Council index-the ratings depend only on the magnitude of the most taxing task that the patient can perform. No attention is given to the patient's effort in performing tasks or to th... |
Visual Abstract Our purpose was to determine and compare the interobserver variability of 3 clinically frequently used radiotracers targeting the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), namely 18F-DCFPyL, 18F-PSMA-1007, and 68Ga-PSMA-11, in primary prostate cancer (PCa) staging. Methods: Patients with newly diagnose... |
When the guide planes are formed on the proximal surfaces of abutment teeth the part of enamel is removed. Thickness of enamel and inclination of tooth are the factors that limit the possible tooth reduction. In this report anatomical and histological characteristics of proximal surfaces of the abutment teeth are analy... |
Doublecortin-like kinase (DCLK) shares sequence similarity to Doublecortin (DCX) in its N-terminal region. It contains the evolutionary conserved DC repeat motif as well a C-terminal kinase domain. Ectopic expression of DCLK in COS cells results in colocalization with microtubules, and phosphorylated DCLK copurifies wi... |
Abstract Individuals typically believe that they are less likely than the average person to experience negative events, a phenomenon termed “unrealistic optimism”. The direct method of assessing unrealistic optimism employs a question of the form, “Compared with the average person, what is the chance that X will occur ... |
The history of cannabis introduction and use in Costa Rica is not well documented. It seems likely, however, that cannabis was introduced into the country about 100 years ago. Groups of railroad construction laborers were brought from Panama in the 1880s after de Lesseps had abandoned the French plans for the isthmus c... |
Nine new pamamycin homologues were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces alboniger IFO 12738 using a combination of ODS and NH2 HPLCs, and their structures determined by GC-MS. The structural differences in these homologues are in the numbers and positions of methyl and ethyl groups. The aerial mycelium-induc... |
Studies of residential segregation typically focus on its degree without questioning its scale and configuration. The authors study southern cities in 1880 to emphasize the salience of these spatial dimensions. Distance-based and sequence indices can reflect spatial patterns but with some limitations, while geocoded 10... |
Objective—Obese adipose tissue shows hallmarks of chronic inflammation, which promotes the development of metabolic disorders. The mechanisms by which immune cells interact with each other or with metabolism-associated cell types, and the players involved, are still unclear. The CD40-CD40L costimulatory dyad plays a pi... |
Identification of nonpoint sources of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in urban systems is imperative to improving water quality and better managing eutrophication. Winter contributions and sources of annual N and P loads from urban watersheds are poorly characterized in northern cities because monitoring is often limit... |
This paper is based on data from interviews with a number of mostly Western Cape based companies and employees with the objective of understanding the barriers to the achievement of employment equity for African people. The research was initiated by businesses that have head offices in the Western Cape, or large region... |
The concept of CIMOSFET (Central Implant MOSFET) on SiC has experimentally shown significant improvements in both on resistance and gate charge over the conventional SiC MOSFET. In this paper, the latest results on 1200 V rated, 20 A SiC CIMOSFETs are described. The specific on-resistance (R<sub>sp, on</sub>) values ar... |
Organ procurement, selection, donation, distribution, funding, and transplantation (generically, organ substitution technology) is at the core of a central debate in biomedical ethics, namely the allocation of scarce resources. (Body organs, of course, are not "scarce" in the usual sense. There are as many organs of al... |
A time-dependent lattice method is used to calculate state selective charge transfer cross sections in O8+ collisions with H and He atoms at incident energies of 1.00, 4.00, and 8.18 keV amu−1. Using standard radiative transitions, Lyman (β/α), Lyman (γ/α), and Lyman (δ/α) line ratios are calculated using time-dependen... |
An article on the shoes of the radical transformations that are joining them in Ukraine as they move towards a democratic, legal and social state, which sets the agenda on the risks and dangers of such reforms. In these conditions, the study of the Soviet experience becomes an identical example of the fact that any rec... |
Pachyonychia congenita (PC) is a group of autosomal dominant ectodermal dysplasias in which the main phenotypic characteristic is hypertrophic nail dystrophy. In the Jackson-Lawler form (PC-2), pachyonychia is accompanied by multiple pilosebaceous cysts, natal teeth, and hair abnormalities. By direct sequencing of geno... |
This paper provides a comprehensive view of household responses to insecurity by examining chances along the extensive and intensive margins of livelihoods during a conflict. In particular, it examines how insecurity affects both the choice of activities and the composition of associated livestock and crop portfolios. ... |
Somatic cell hybrids between mouse cells and cells derived directly from NPC biopsies were produced in order to study the association of the Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV) genome and the expression of Epstein‐Barr nuclear antigen (EBNA) with the human chromosome(s). All attempts to correlate the presence of EBV‐DNA and the e... |
The pulse current electrodeposition (PCE) technique was employed to successfully deposit Ni/W–TiN coatings on X52 steel. The effect of frequency and duty cycle on coating parameters like surface morphological characteristics, grain orientation, micro-hardness, crystal size, the number of deposited TiN CNPs, and corrosi... |
In order to the fiber linear birefringence compensation a promising method was chosen for pulsed current sensor design. The method employs orthogonal polarization conjugation by the back direction propagation of the light wave in the fiber. The Jones calculus analysis presents its propriety. An experimental fiber optic... |
In photogrammetry system, the Base-Distance Ratio, the Image Scale, and the Image Standard Error, which construct the network strength of the system, are the main accuracy factors. In this paper, the normal and convergent network configurations of the photogrammetry are studied and the Network Strength, which presents ... |
Total heart-lung bypass (TBP) for open-heart surgery is often accompanied by a progressive reduction of systemic blood pressure. Since the lung is the main site of elimination of prostaglandins (PGs) from venous blood, TBP may lead to an increase in blood content of vasodilator PGs. TBP was performed in dogs and blood ... |
Milk supply elasticities were estimated for 70 farms who participated in the New York Dairy Farm Business Summary Program from 1985 through 1993. Technology was modeled as a single output, single composite input Cobb-Douglas function. The resultant supply function is the natural log of milk quantity as a function of th... |
Self-objectification theory posits and past research has found that Caucasian women’s body image is negatively affected by a stigma of obesity and sociocultural norm of thinness that leads women to self-focus from a critical external perspective. However, research in this area is limited by its methodology and the rest... |
Nucleotide sequence analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA gene (rRNA), internal transcribed spacer, and 5.8S rRNA was used for taxonomic identification of ctenophores collected in the northern Baltic Sea, where invasive Mnemiopsis leidyi and native Pleurobrachia pileus have been reported to occur. Contrary to previous reports,... |
Charge mode stimulation (ChMS) is a relatively new method in the field of electrical stimulation that presents the advantages of both voltage-mode stimulation (VMS) and current-mode stimulation (CMS). In this paper, a novel compact size charge-mode stimulator is presented in which a new method for balancing the injecte... |
Self-sustainable energy harvesting for Internet of Things devices is challenging since ambient energy may be sporadic and unpredictable. This situation leads to frequent power failures that lead to intermittent operations, which prevent the reliability of data communications. This article presents fundamental hardware ... |
This is m y third paper on the topic of Wabanaki peoples in white literature. The first (Morrison 1979) discussed ten books about frontier warfare, in the children's literature category. The second (Morrison 1981) treated selected works of 19th-century N e w England writers Longfellow, Whittier, and Hawthorne. This tim... |
Objective: To describe a public-private collaborative and present results from the administration of a baseline health risk assessment (HRA). Methods: A custom-designed HRA was made available to 31,535 New York workers, and 5539 (17.6%) completed the survey. Data from the HRA were used to present a business case to emp... |
Conceptual frameworks in health care do not address mechanisms whereby teamwork processes affect quality of care. We seek to fill this gap by applying a framework of teamwork processes to compare different patterns of primary care performance over time. We thematically analyzed 114 primary care staff interviews across ... |
Sinell is a primitive sense ; it emerged long before vision. Even the s i r plest of animals such as the protozoa and coelenterates have soiiie sort of chemical sensibility. As the scale of animal life rises, this chemical sensibility differentiates into a common chemical sense, into taste, and into smell. Smell served... |
Over the last quarter of a century, Australian historiography and political analysis has witnessed a significant shift in the dominant terms of reference for thinking about the past, and about its relationship to the present and future. By the early 1980s an influential body of thought had coalesced around the proposit... |
Clear cell Bowen's disease (BD) is a rare histopathological subtype of BD, characterized by epidermal atypical keratinocytes with clear‐cell changes exceeding 80% of the tumor population. Warty and clear cell Bowen's disease (WCCBD) is a recently described variant of clear cell BD, with verrucous and hyperkeratotic sur... |
Transmission system experiments using surface emitting lasers (SEL) and integrated photoreceivers have been carried out. The surface emitting laser utilizes proton implantation for current confinement and has a small signal bandwidth of 10 GHz. The p-i-n/MODFET photoreceiver has a bandwidth of 11 GHz. Bit error rates o... |
In this study the potentialities of ERS/ENVISAT-SAR multitemporal data for the analysis of the reforestation process over burned areas are investigated. The summer 2000 fire devastating a large part of the Castel Fusano pinewood (near Rome) is the selected test case. A first objective is to evaluate the capability of d... |
Ninety five HIV seropositive and 32 seronegative homosexual men were recruited to a prospective study of the early features and natural history of the neurological manifestations of HIV infection. There was no evidence from the initial neurological examination, a neuropsychological test battery, nerve conduction studie... |
Auditory feedback is an important element in the perception of one's surroundings. Vocal intonation betrays emotion, step frequency determines urgency, and volume gives way to proximity. While it is widely understood that sound is an important element in game design and film, research on how auditory feedback affects i... |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) are worldwide public health issues. The spread of HIV-AIDS in high-risk groupshas been very rapid. This paper reports on a small-scale project which investigated attitudes to prevent ion and treatment programs for HIV-AIDS in Indonesia. Th... |
A component purified from Strongylocentrotus nudus eggs on a diethylaminoethyl cellulose-52 chromatography column and eluted using a NaCl solution gradient (SEP-S), is a homogeneous polysaccharide of α-D-glucan with a reduced molecular weight of 9.33×105 Da, compared with that of S. nudus egg polysaccharide (SEP). In a... |
SLA-based job scheduling and resource allocation are based on the concept of agreement between supplier and consumer, and negotiation is the first step in establishing a service level agreement (SLA) between two participants. This article presents a bilateral negotiation protocol using the alternate offers model for sc... |
Background: Short-chain fatty acids produced by bacterial fermentation in the colon enhance the local absorption of cations, such as calcium, that could be used to improve the bioavailability of iron if a significant colonic absorption of iron were to occur. Methods: Iron (iron gluconate, 100 μM) absorption by the caec... |
1. The use of animal models has been immensely important for the advancement of our knowledge of the aetiology and pathogenesis of human diseases, including neoplasia. 2. Viruses, as oncogenic agents, were first described in the early 1900s when cell-free filtrates were used experimentally to transmit leukemias and sar... |
DNA microarray analysis represents one of the major advances leading to the development of functional genomics and proteomics. It involves the fabrication of DNA either by in situ or on‐chip photolithographic synthesis or by inkjet or microjet deposition, as microspots immobilized on the surface of miniaturized substra... |
For MPEG encoding applications, data transfers in the memory hierarchy of current PC workstations is one of the main bottlenecks. In this paper we propose to model such transfers using Petri nets and to simulate the execution of MPEG encoding using a computer aided Petri Net based simulation tool. This model makes it p... |
We describe a facile method to prepare porous manganese oxides (Mn2O3) embedded in reduced graphene oxide (rGO). First, the porous Mn2O3 nanospheres were generated from the coordination self-assembled aggregations (referred to as Mn(OAc)2-C-8), serving as precursors via calcination treatment, followed by a graphene-coa... |
Our first observation pertains to risk of vitamin D toxicity likely to be associated with use of bolus doses of vitamin D for treatment of rickets in infants. The authors recommend 60,000 IU vitamin D weekly for 6 weeks as treatment for rickets in all infants >3 months of age. They have quoted Endocrine Society USA gui... |
The total baroreflex arc – the open‐loop system relating carotid sinus pressure (CSP) to arterial pressure (AP) – exhibits nonlinear behaviors such as saturation, thresholding, and steady‐state responses to pulsatile changes. However, few studies have quantitatively characterized the nonlinear system dynamics. The aim ... |
A fermentation process has been developed for the production of a biodegradable plastic, poly-/spl beta/-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB). The process involves progressive and independent addition of four groups of nutrients in a multi-fed-batch mode. Control strategies used for the addition of these nutrients varied accordin... |
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