We investigated the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) in the serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 21 cystic fibrosis (CF), 7 idiopathic bronchiectasis (IBR), and 11 control children and the relation between ANCA and any bacteria grown in BALF. Six of the CFs, but none of the IBRs or controls had positive serum cytoplasmic or perinuclear-ANCA (c-ANCA, p-ANCA)....

Humans are characterized by an especially highly developed ability to use instructions to prepare toward upcoming events; yet, it is unclear just how powerful instructions can be. Although prior work provides evidence that instructions can be sufficiently powerful to proactively program working memory to execute stimulus-response (S-R) translations, in a reflexlike fashion (intention-based refl...

Multisensor applications have recently inspired important research projects to utilize existing infrastructure and exploit spatiotemporal information. This dissertation focuses on two multisensor applications: image-based rendering and multichannel sampling. Although many image-based rendering (IBR) algorithms have been proposed, few of them possess rigorous interpolation processes. We propose ...

The surgical option which should be reserved for patients with BRCA1/2 mutation and breast cancer diagnosis is still debated. Several aspects should be considered before the surgical decision-making: the risk of ipsilateral breast recurrence (IBR), the risk of contralateral breast cancer (CBC), the potential survival benefit of prophylactic mastectomy, and the possible risk factors that could e...

A Binary Volumetric Octree (BVO) is a volume array with binary opacity voxels, represented as octree. The BVO structure allows to stores not the complete object volume, but only the surface voxels. The new approach to Image Based Rendering (IBR), using this representation, makes it possible to use single data structure for fast, occlusion-compatible hierarchical warping, splattingbased renderin...

The recent advances in Image Based Rendering (IBR) has pioneered a new technology, free view point television, in which TV-viewers select freely the viewing position and angle by the application of IBR on the transmitted multi-view video. In this paper, exhaustive tests were carried out to conclude to the best possible free-view point TV watermarking evaluated on arbitrary views. The watermark ...

To analyze physiological and biochemical marker responses of brackish water clam Corbicula japonica under global warming conditions, different temperatures (20°C 25°C), salinity (5 20 psu), food availability (0.5 2.0 mg SS ind−1 d−1) levels were tested. Appropriate biomarkers selected based on the sensitivity biomarker responses, condition index (CI), energy reserves, superoxide dismutase (SOD)...

This study described the performance of carbon nanofiber modified chitosan (CNF@CS) composite microspheres for controlled release Ibrutinib (IBR) drug. The surface morphology, particle sizes, and functional group contents were characterized by attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), scanning electron, optical microscopy measurements. obtained data demonst...

Ibrutinib (IBR) metabolism (primarily by CYP3A enzyme) is the main route of excretion for IBR, which could lead to drug–drug/herb–drug interactions with herbal medicines, nutritional supplements, and other foods. Sinapic acid (SA) a bioactive phytonutrient that used as dietary supplement treat variety illnesses. Pharmacokinetic may occur when IBR interacts SA, influences pharmacokinetic process...