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From 8 o'clock AM to 6 o'clock PM every two hours in 22 healthy volunteers the following examinations were done: 1. lymphocyte transformation test using the mitogens PHA, Con A and PWM, 2. immunosuppressive activity of the serum on the mitogen-induced lymphocyte transformation, 3. determination of the serum levels of c... |
It is shown that, for rectangular-core directional couplers, Marcatili's widely used analysis [Bell Syst. Tech. J. 48, 2071 (1969)] predicts almost the same value of coupling length as that obtained by the simple slab-waveguide approximation. A more accurate analysis, which takes the effect of corner regions into accou... |
Mean 2-hour area under the curve (AUC) C-peptide levels at 1 year remain the primary endpoint for most intervention trials in subjects with new onset T1D. Comparisons of efficacy across T1D intervention trials with positive outcomes remain limited. We performed a cross-trial comparison of the NIH TrialNet sponsored new... |
The objective of the present study was to perform a quantitative-descriptive pilot study, which would provide the support for a further construct validation of a data collection instrument to assess the perception of third-year secondary-level students about nursing. The data collection instrument was founded on Nursin... |
The UDS efficiency in lymphocytes of professionals chronically exposed to gamma/neutron radiation, as well as for a control cohort was estimated. A credible reduction of UV-induced UDS (KUV) index as compared to the control was demonstrated. This shows an invalid repair state of blood cells in professionals. As for the... |
We build a New Keynesian model of the business cycle with sticky prices and real wage rigidities motivated by efficiency wages of the gift exchange variety. Compared to a standard sticky price model, our Fair Wage model provides an explanation for structural unemployment and generates more plausible labor market dynami... |
The Philadelphia Orchestra performed the world premiere of Tchaikovsky's Seventh Symphony Thursday at Philadelphia's historic Academy of Music. The computer-generated composition received a wild ovation that lasted twenty-five minutes. Henrietta QueUes was the conductor. Tchaikovsky died in 1893 shortly after the perfo... |
This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between crash rates and shoulder width and lane width for two-lane rural state highways in Idaho. Crash Modification Factors (CMFs) for shoulder width and lane width were developed using Idaho crash data covering the period from 1993 to 2010. The CMFs d... |
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS, MIM 194050) is a rare condition, with striking physical and behavioural features,1–3 which occurs in 1/20 000-1/50 000 live births. Cases are generally sporadic; however, familial cases with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance have been reported. It results in a complex phenotype wi... |
Relations between genotype and phenotype in WBS are mainly studied at the group level with rather gross measures of …Growing Older with Learning Disabilities |
How many of us are looking forward to old age? This editorial explores what people with learning disabilities can look forward to in the future based on what is happening to their older peers now. It is informed by the Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) Programme at the Foundation for People with Learning ... |
he attachment system has now been researched quite extensively and continues to thrive. The observations of infants T during the course of their first year and then their testing in the Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’ have provided generative predictions about later behaviour. This has made attachment research a salien... |
Recently, solid state lighting has begun to play an important role in colorimetric instrumentation. LEDs are being evaluated as one of the possible standard light sources for such devices. In this study, an innovative tunable daylight simulator is developed, which mainly consists of only a few LEDs and a specially desi... |
A practical and highly para-selective C-H difluoromethylation of aromatic ketones has been developed by employing tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) as the catalyst and triphenylphosphine as the ligand. In addition to general aromatic ketones, this transformation was compatible with bioactive compounds and well-k... |
Little is known about pain in dreams. Some studies indicate that it is rare and that it may be beyond the representational capability of dreaming. However, the present study describes experiences of dreamed pain that were reported incidentally in experiments on the effects of somatosensory stimulation administered duri... |
ABSTRACT Plasmodium falciparum MSP6 is a merozoite surface antigen that shows organization and sequence homologies similar to those of MSP3. Within its C-terminus conserved region, it presents some epitopes that are cross-reactive with MSP3 and others that are not, both being targets of naturally occurring antibodies t... |
Changes in smoking and drinking behavior during pregnancy and factors influencing these changes were studied in a typical rural county. Using birth certificates and mailed questionnaires, information was obtained from 255 married women residents of Callaway County, Missouri, who gave birth in a one-year period. The wom... |
A transient energy impairment with resultant release and subsequent reuptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and NMDA receptor activation with consequent cytoplasmic superoxide (O(2)(-)(*)), nitric oxide (NO(*)), and peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) generation have all been implicated in a neurotoxic cascade which ultimately lead... |
This paper is focused on the problem of achieving post-operative hemostasis in patients undergoing endonasal surgical intervention. Analysis of 156 tamponades of the nasal cavity with three types of silicone hydrotampons gives evidence that the use of two separate balloons within a single block of an original sectional... |
Coal as the source of critical elements has attracted much attention and the enrichment mechanisms are of significant importance. This paper has an opportunity to investigate the mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of the Permian and Jurassic bituminous coals and associated non-coals from two underground coal... |
Abstract Ancient authors from Plato to Pausanias have left descriptions of Delphi’s oracle and its mantic sessions. The latter were interpreted as events in which the Pythia (priestess) placed herself on a tripod over a cleft (fissure) in the ground below the Apollo temple. Here she inhaled a vapour rising from the cle... |
Abstract The idea of limited government is the key to constitutionalism in the traditional understanding of the relationship between the constitution and political power. In contrast to the traditionalist view that the constitution is aimed to constrain political power, this essay aims to explore a new understanding of... |
Background Endoscopic skull base reconstruction (ESBR) has been widely accepted in the management of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks. However, it is not the CSF leak itselfbut the potential for life-threatening intracranial complications (ICCs) that is of primary clinical concern. The risk of developing complications, ... |
This paper models the effect that physical activity such as sports participation and active travel, through walking and cycling, has on self-reported health and well-being. The results show that physical activity and active travel mainly have a positive effect on both individual health and well-being. Although, cycling... |
The photoconductive (PC) antenna fabricated on arsenic-ion-implanted GaAs (GaAs:As+) and proton-bombarded InP (InP:H+) substrates are shown to have a useful detection bandwidths beyond 30 THz. This is comparable to that of the reference LT-GaAs PC antenna. The signal-to-noise ratio of these ion-implanted III-V PC anten... |
This research used raw kaolinite (RK), thermally activated Kaolinite (TAK), hydroxyiron (iii) kaolinite- composite (HKC), as adsorbent for the adsorption of phenol and cadmium from aqueous solutions over a concentration range of 5–25 mg/l and 10-50 mg/l respectively. Effect of initial pH on the adsorbates was carried o... |
the economist’s perspective, the conservationist’s perspective, the project developer’s perspective, the nongovernmental organisation’s perspective, the retailer’s perspective, the credit originator’s perspective, the investor’s perspective, the buyer’s perspective and even the bank’s perspective. This chapter in fact ... |
In this paper we solve the following open problem: we prove that equivalence in the logic of Temporal Here-and-There (THT) is not only a sufficient, but also a necessary condition for strong equivalence of two Temporal Equilibrium Logic (TEL) theories. This result has allowed constructing a tool, ABSTEM, that can be us... |
The recent recognition that hyperphosphatemia is a strong predictor of survival on dialysis has rekindled interest in the regulation and control of serum phosphate. In incipient renal failure hyperphosphatemia is prevented by increased fractional renal phosphate excretion mediated via an increase in parathyroid hormone... |
The author shares his ideas and experience of approbation of educational model “child – play – climate literacy (competence)” in 6 – 7 year old children in the process of management and guidance of games for the formation of smart growth; proposes the design of pedagogical situations on topics that form climate compete... |
The mechanism of unidirectional transport of ornithine (i.e. in the absence of a counter-metabolite) has been investigated in proteoliposomes reconstituted with the ornithine carrier purified from rat liver mitochondria. The efflux of [(3)H]ornithine from proteoliposomes was stimulated by the addition of H(+) (but not ... |
Motivation: Li and Barron [6, 7] give a greedy method for estimating densities by a finite mixture. The trade-off between approximation and estimation error is present in their risk bound in terms of the optimal number of components used for density estimation. Using techniques from Empirical Process theory [11] and re... |
The 15 October 2013 magnitude (MW) 7.2 Bohol earthquake produced an ~50‐km‐long, ~12‐km‐wide northeast trending zone of uplift with an ~8‐km‐long discontinuous ground rupture indicating predominantly reverse‐slip movement on a southeast dipping fault. Documentation of the nearly continuous northern terminus of the 2013... |
ABSTRACT The reiterations of narratives of enslavement may be, to invoke Jacque Derrida's term, the hauntological, in which “the thing that represents the demise of something also signals its continuation in a different form.” Ian Baucom argues that repetition and accumulation, not progress, defines a modern philosophy... |
While the literature on emotional labour has concentrated on worker feelings, this article assesses the capacity of an occupational role to deal with the feelings of the service user and, in particular, whether this capacity constitutes a skill. It focuses on the healthcare assistant, an unregulated role increasingly i... |
Spatial data mining, i.e., mining knowledge from large amounts of spatial data, is a demanding field since huge amounts of spatial data have been collected in various applications, ranging from remote sensing to geographical information systems (GIS), computer cartography, environmental assessment and planning. The col... |
In this paper, we use the theory of L2 disturbance attenuation for linear (H1) and nonlinear systems to obtain solutions to the Nonlinear Benchmark Problem (NLBP) proposed in the paper by Bupp et. al.1. By considering a series expansion solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs Equation associated with the nonlinear distu... |
Today, PDF is one of the widely used applications for sharing documents. Some of the important factors for the popular use of the PDF application are due to its platform independency and rich digital offerings such as ability to include multimedia files, direct URL access and HTTP communication. However its wider accep... |
OBJECTIVE |
The importance of circular RNAs in malignant tumors causes more attention in researchers. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most ordinary malignant tumors. Hsa_circ_0000285 was explored to identify how it functions in the metastasis of HCC. |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
Real Time-quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) was utilized to detect hsa_circ_0000285 expression in HCC patients' tissues. Hsa_circ_0000285 lentivirus and shRNA was constructed for the transfection of HCC cells. Wound healing assay, transwell assay, and Matrigel assay were conducted to identify the functio... |
RESULTS |
Hsa_circ_0000285 was significantly higher-expressed in HCC samples compared to that in adjacent samples. The migrated length of HCC cells was reduced after hsa_circ_0000285 was silenced, while the migrated length of HCC cells was increased after hsa_circ_0000285 was overexpressed. Moreover, the number of migrated and i... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Hsa_circ_0000285 could enhance cell metastasis of HCC by targeting miR-599 and might be a potential therapeutic target in HCC.Research on Grid Parity Predictions of Centralized Photovoltaic Electricity |
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the photovoltaic (PV) industry in China has made great progress. However, this progress benefited from a series of subsidy policies, and with the continuous enlargement of the scale of centralized PV (CPV), the large subsidies have created great pressure on government finance, so achievin... |
This paper describes two types of miniaturized thermal lens optical systems that use optical fibers, SELFOC microlenses and light sources. The first system consists of a compact diode pumped solid-state laser (532 nm) as an excitation light source, a laser diode (635 nm) as a probe light source, an acoustoptic modulato... |
Rate of convergence to the desired pose to grasp an object using visual information may be important in some applications, such as a pick and place routine in assembly where the time between two stops of the conveyor is very short. The visually guided robot is required to move fast if vision is to bring the sought bene... |
The present study was planned to determine the nutritional status and menopausal symptoms o f women under the age of 40-60 years and to feed the develop food multi mix product for them. A survey was undertaken with a 80 respondents under the age group o f40-60 years and the data was collected from Imphal East District ... |
The optimized power performance and the spectral tunability modeling of Erbium-doped fiber ring lasers are presented together with the measurement of the relative intensity noise. A Figure of Merit and an optimization procedure are defined in order to obtain maximum output power for a given pump power aiming the projec... |
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