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Flavonoids are phytochemical compounds found in a variety of plants, fruits, vegetables, leaves, and barks, it offers a wide range of |
health benefits. Quercetin is a polyphenolic flavonoid that is found in onions, apples, berries, broccoli, grapes, nuts, cherries and many |
other food products. Pharmacologically, quercetin has been examined for various disorders and is reported to possess the ability to prevent as well as treat them. It possesses anti-oxidant, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti-cancer activity as well. Developing suitable formulation for the delivery of... |
Vissim: A Multi-Parameter Sensitivity Analysis |
Traffic microsimulation is increasingly a preferred method of traffic analysis for today's transportation professionals. The importance of properly calibrating these traffic simulations is evidenced by the adoption of microsimulation calibration standards by several state and federal transportation authorities. A compo... |
The issue of migration and development became in the last years highly relevant on the global policy agenda. Countries and international organisations increasingly perceive migration as a phenomenon that can positively impact development in both migrant receiving and sending countries, provided that appropriate policie... |
Anxiety and depression among university students were reported to be increased during the outbreak of CoVid-19. Various studies indicated that the phenomenon was triggered by the sudden enforcement of the studying-from-home (SFH) policy. Accordingly, we hypothesized that the students’ online learning efficacy (OLE) pre... |
Output-pulse shaping capability of a linear transformer driver (LTD) module under different conditions is studied, by conducting the whole circuit model simulation by using the PSPICE code. Results indicate that a higher impedance profile of the internal transmission line would lead to a wider adjustment range for the ... |
OBJECTIVE |
To assess the results of standardised total mesorectal excision of rectal cancer with particular reference to local recurrence and survival. |
DESIGN |
Prospective open study. |
SETTING |
Central hospital, Norway. |
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES |
Local recurrence, survival. |
RESULTS |
The resectability rate was 90% (107/118), of whom 81 (76%) underwent curative resection. The overall local recurrence rate in patients who underwent primary resection was 9% with an overall five-year survival rate of 53%. In patients who had had curative operations the local recurrence rate was 4% (3/81), with an overa... |
CONCLUSION |
Total mesorectal excision and strict adherence to the surgical principles of anatomical dissection in the pelvis and washing out of the rectal stump before anastomosis reduce local recurrences to a minimum. In patients with locally advanced, fixed cancers, preoperative irradiation with more than 46 Gy must precede oper... |
Aging is a multi-facetted process, but the deterioration of the immune function seems to play a central role in this context. Paradoxically, immune reactivity against exogenous antigens declines during aging while autoimmune reactivity increases. One of the aims of our investigations on the function of the senescent im... |
Objective: To demonstrate the use of cost-effectiveness analysis to assess the economic impact of donepezil in the treatment of mild or moderate AD. Background: Cost-effectiveness analyses show the relationship between resources used (costs) and health benefits achieved (effects) for an intervention compared with an al... |
Background: When exploring audio-tactile nautical charts without vision, users could trigger vocal announcements of a seamark’s name thanks to video tracking. In a first condition they could simply use a green sticker fastened at the tip of a finger and in a second condition they could handle a small handy green object... |
West Tennessee’s supplemental irrigation management at a field level is profoundly affected by the spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture and the temporal variability of weather. The introduction of precision farming techniques has enabled farmers to collect site-specific data that provide valuable quantitative informa... |
Chelation-controlled reduction of chiral beta-alkoxy ketones containing a competing beta'-oxygen functionality has been investigated. Various syn-1,3-diols were prepared conveniently by reduction of beta-alkoxy ketones with LiI/LiAlH(4) (syn:anti selectivity up to >99:1). The corresponding beta-alkoxy ketones were deri... |
A Sn-doped Ga 2 O 3 thin film was deposited on a n + -Si substrate by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The Ga 2 O 3 film was found to be amorphous-like and exhibited n-type conduction with Sn doping. Room-temperature electroluminescence was clearly observed from the Sn:Ga 2 O 3 /n + -Si diode, including an ultr... |
The squeezing properties in the squeezed thermal states are discussed via the measurement phase operators introduced by Barnett S M and Pegg D T. The results show that there is only a kind of CS squeezing. The squeezing properties are dependent on θ、 the average photon number and the field coefficients and the squeezin... |
As the semiconductor device architecture develops, from planar field-effect transistor (FET) to FinFET and toward gate all around (GAA), it is more needed to measure 3D structure sidewall precisely. Here, we present a 3D-atomic force microscopy (3D-AFM) by Park Systems Corp., a powerful 3D metrology tool to measure SW... |
Hearing loss in healthy older adults is associated with accelerated brain volume loss; however, little is known about this association in those with or at risk for dementia. Using data from the COMPASS-ND study we investigated associations between hearing loss and hippocampal volume as well as cortical thickness in old... |
Mutations in α‐synuclein cause some cases of familial Parkinson's disease (PD), but the mechanism by which α‐synuclein promotes degeneration of dopamine‐producing neurons is unknown. We report that human neural cells expressing mutant α‐synuclein (A30P and A53T) have higher plasma membrane ion permeability. The higher ... |
Fruits of cocos nucifera have long been used in the traditional medicine for the treatment of metabolic disorders. Endocarp of cocos nucifera was supposed to be the hardest part of the its fruit, but ironically r ichest source of phenol ic and f lavanoid content.Scientific data has been found as evident for a n t i o x... |
Participation of the author in the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense sponsored nutrition surveys of Burma and northeast Brazil is described. These surveys not only collected important data on nutritional status but also guided the subsequent research interests of the author. The Brazil surve... |
The concept of chemical space provides a convenient framework to analyze large collections of molecules by placing them in property spaces where distances represent similarities. Here we report webMolCS, a new type of web-based interface visualizing up to 5000 user-defined molecules in six different three-dimensional (... |
Artistic contacts between the east and west Mediterranean and areas further north have been studied at the stylistic and iconographic levels. The present paper explores an additional means of documenting connections that operate in channels sometimes independent of the other two criteria. Investigation of a particular ... |
The growing popularity of hosted storage services and shared storage infrastructure in data centers is driving the recent interest in resource management and QoS in storage systems. The bursty nature of storage workloads raises significant performance and provisioning challenges, leading to increased resource requireme... |
Optoelectronic properties, supramolecular assemblies, and morphology variation of polymeric semiconductors are governed by six fundamental chemical features. These features are molecular weight, bond length alternation (BLA), planarity, aromatic resonance energy, substituents, and intermolecular interactions. Of these ... |
In order to facilitate the broilers feed mixture production, it is tends to replace corn component, with a new, cheaper but high quality component. As an alternative, it is possible to use the old bread, which would enable its remediation. Its use in broiler feeding is possible only after thermal treatment. Following t... |
As exposure to different types of traumatic stressors increases, the prevalence of PTSD increases. However, little is known about the effects of cumulative exposure to traumatic stress on the maintenance and remission from PTSD. In 2006/2007, we investigated 444 refugees from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, assessing exposu... |
Non-contiguous OFDM technique can be used for the cognitive radio systems. The sidelobes of the OFDM-modulated tones cause the out-of-band power which can induce large interference to the incumbent communication systems. Another major drawback of OFDM-based systems is the high peak-to-average power ratio. In this paper... |
Feline parvovirus (FPV) was detected in the intestinal tract contents of 13 pedigree kittens which were fading or died suddenly by the use of a new chromatographic test strip for canine parvovirus (cpv) and FPV. The test appeared to be sensitive and specific for the detection of FPV and was a useful diagnostic aid. In ... |
The paper presents the parallelization process of a wave propagation application using the PANDORE environment. The PANDORE environment has been designed to facilitate the programming of data distributed applications for distributed memory computers or clusters of workstations. The compilation schemes are described and... |
Perovskite solar cells based on organometal halide light absorbers have been considered a promising photovoltaic technology due to their superb power conversion efficiency (PCE) along with very low material costs. Since the first report on a long-term durable solid-state perovskite solar cell with a PCE of 9.7% in 2012... |
Low angle x-ray diffraction patterns were obtained from resting and activated frog sartorius muscles by means of a position-sensitive detector. Although the intensity ratio I10/I11 decreased many-fold upon activation, it was nearly the same during isometric and isotonic contraction. Thus, motion has a much smaller effe... |
OBJECTIVE |
To assess the association of five types of fucosyltransferase gene (Fuc-T), the important biosynthesis gene of sialylated carbohydrate antigens (Sialyl Lewis A, Sialyl Lewis X), with metastasis and prognosis of breast cancer. |
METHODS |
The real-time quantitative PCR of five-type Fuc-T III, IV, V, VI, VII genes was performed in 80 patients with breast cancer. |
RESULTS |
The result showed that Fuc-TVII gene had higher gene copy compared to other type of Fuc-T in breast cancer. The grading of Fuc-TVII gene was related to lymph node metastasis and poor disease-free survival. Statistically difference was significant (P < 0.01). Fuc-T III, IV, V, VI gene were not significant relation to th... |
CONCLUSIONS |
These findings suggest that Fuc-TVII gene is a prognostic indicator of breast cancer, and it may be play an important role in the biosynthesis of sialylated carbohydrate antigens in breast cancer.Single-mode 1.34-microm Nd:YVO(4) microchip laser with cw Ti:sapphire and diode-laser pumping. |
We report cw single-mode output at 1.34 microm in a Nd:YVO(4) microchip laser pumped separately with a Ti:sapphire laser and a diode laser in the region of 809 nm. The 0.5 mm x 1.0 mm x 1.0 mm Nd(3+)-doped YVO(4) crystal produced output powers as high as 60 mW with slope efficiencies as high as 40% and laser thresholds... |
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