Add Another Killer for Interfered Vascular Function

Fatty liver: yet another silent killer.

Do natural killer cells participate in a killer vascular disease?

The article reporting on the exacerbated atherosclerosis in the double mutant, Lyst, LDL receptor (LDLR) knockout is important in drawing attention to the possible involvement of natural killer (NK) cells in atherogenesis.1 It is appropriate that NK cells come into focus: a recent review on immune mechanisms in atherosclerosis made scant mention of NK cells,2 and they are important cytolytic ce...

Another potential carp killer?: Carp Edema Virus disease in Germany

BACKGROUND Infections with carp edema virus, a pox virus, are known from Japanese koi populations since 1974. A characteristic clinical sign associated with this infection is lethargy and therefore the disease is called "koi sleepy disease". Diseased koi also show swollen gills, enophthalmus, and skin lesions. Mortality rates up to 80 % are described. For a long period of time, disease outbreak...

Another Look at Function Domains

Bove and Capretta have presented a method to deal with partial and general recursive functions in constructive type theory which relies on an inductive characterisation of the domains of the functions. The method separates the logical and the computational aspects of an algorithm, and facilitates the formal verification of the functions being defined. For nested recursive functions, the method ...

Interfered Users Protection Algorithm for Self-Organizing Networks

Small cells are generally used by telecom operators to effectively share the loading of conventional macrocells and backbone networks, because they cost considerably less to deploy and are also capable of improving communication quality and capacity. However, radio frequency spectrum resources are limited and expensive, so using the same frequency band to deploy small cells in densely populated...