Podium Session 3: All Oncology

Podium for the opposition?

This is quite a paradoxical era. Scientific research is in its most productive phase and it continues to produce many beneficial technologies for mankind. For example, we rapidly progress towards a better understanding of many diseases and come up with multiple new approaches to cure them. At the same time, however, the voices against science and technology have never been more shrill. But unsu...

psycho-oncology: a common discipline for all!

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A Jazz Session System for Interplay Among All Players - VirJa Session (Virtual Jazz Session System)

This paper presents a jazz session system in which each player is independent and can interplay with all other players. In most previous systems, computer players only reacted to human player’s performance with a fixed leader-follower relationship. Our system enables computer players to listen to other computer players’ performances as well as human’s performance and to interact with each other...

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Session 3 : Infectious diseases

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) entry into target cells appears to be triggered when two heptad repeat regions in the ectodomain of gp41 associate, converting the prefusogenic form of gp41 to a fusogenic form. Peptides from these two heptad repeat regions, designated N51 and C43, form a coiled coil consisting of an ƒÁ-helical trimer of heterodimers which approximates the core of the...