Introduction Selecting an appropriate biomaterial for bone tissue engineering is critical for a successful outcome. Small intestine submucosa (SIS) is an acellular, naturally occurring collagenous extracellular matrix material derived from the submucosa of porcine small intestine, which contains bioactive molecules such as TGF-β and bFGF (1). While SIS has primarily been used for the repair of ...

Since the introduction of the ‘Strategic Information Systems’ (SIS) concept by Wiseman in 1985, there have been numerous efforts in incorporation of such systems by businesses for the very main reason of gaining competitive advantage. Considering the broad categorization of Strategic Management into emergent and prescriptive types, integration of SIS into business processes seems to be dissimil...

Infantile spasms are characterized by age-specific expression of epileptic spasms and hypsarrhythmia and often result in significant cognitive impairment. Other epilepsies or autism often ensue especially in symptomatic IS (SIS). Cortical or subcortical damage, including white matter, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of SIS. To generate a model of SIS, we recreated this pathology by inj...

Stormwater infiltration systems (SIS) have been set up to collect and infiltrate urban stormwater runoff in order reduce flooding artificially recharge aquifers. Such practices produce environmental changes shallow groundwater ecosystems like an increase organic matter concentrations that could drive structure functions of microbial communities. Previous works suggested SIS influence physico-ch...

Alveolar macrophages from normal individuals and patients with interstitial lung diseases spontaneously expressed a 4.2-kilobase mRNA complementary to the c-sis gene, a proto-oncogene coding for one of the chains of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). Concomitantly, these cells released a mediator with the properties of PDGF, including: chemotactic factor for smooth muscle cells whose activi...

Opsariichthys pachycephalus and Candidia barbatus are two phylogenetically related freshwater cyprinids that both exhibit colorful, yet quite different nuptial coloration. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that differences in nuptial coloration between two species could reflect differences in color perception ability and the opsin genes that coded for it. Genes encoding the visual ...

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vazquez et al. [1] demonstrate in a well-conceived and well-conducted multicenter trial that posaconazole is equivalent in efficacy to fluconazole in the treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV-infected patients. Patients given posaconazole also experienced fewer clinical relapses of oro-pharyngeal candidiasis than did patients given fluconaz...

Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and their co-occurrence is unknown. We determined the prevalence of SIS in a large group of 254 autistic individuals and searched for PP in 46 of these autistic individuals and 46 intelligence and age-matched typically d...

An increase in geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) is an inevitable result of geomagnetic field disturbances, and harmful to the power grid, particular, at high latitudes. At mid low latitudes, amplitude GICs is, general, small, but large-amplitude are often observed during magnetic storms. It importance understand major characteristics extreme values For geoelectric disturbances ΔE Kakioka...

SIS is a Satellite controller Integrated with Star sensors, which has been developed as a prototype model of a compact, low-cost satellite controller. SIS integrates attitude sensors into a star sensor and integrates several electronics for star identification, attitude determination, attitude control, and data handling into a single processing unit. SIS meets high reliability requirements by a...