Background: The variations of the circle of Willis (CW) are clinically important as patients with efficient effective collateral circulations have a lower risk of transient ischemic attack and stroke than those with ineffective collaterals. The aim of the present cadaveric study was to investigate the anatomical variations of the CW and to compare the frequency of occurrence of the different va...

INTRODUCTION The association of guttate psoriasis with a streptococcal throat infection and HLA-Cw*06 allele is well established in different populations. Nevertheless, only few studies on this form of disease have been performed in the Polish population. AIM To analyze the frequencies of streptococcal-induced guttate psoriasis and HLA-Cw*06 allele in 70 patients with guttate psoriasis origin...

Aspergillus fumigatus is the most important airborne fungal pathogen, causing severe infections with invasive growth in immunocompromised patients. The fungal cell wall (CW) prevents the cell from lysing and protects the fungus against environmental stress conditions. Because it is absent in humans and because of its essentiality, the fungal CW is a promising target for antifungal drugs. Nowada...

Complex wavelet structural similarity (CW-SSIM) index has been recognized as a novel image similarity measure of broad potential applications due to its robustness to small geometric distortions such as translation, scaling and rotation of images. Nevertheless, how to make the best use of it in image classification problems has not been deeply investigated. In this study, we introduce a series ...

Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) in the Picornaviridae family causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease, aseptic meningitis, severe central nervous system disease, even death. EV-A71 2A protease cleaves Type I interferon (IFN)-α/β receptor 1 (IFNAR1) to block IFN-induced Jak/STAT signaling. This study investigated anti-EV-A7l activity and synergistic mechanism(s) of a novel furoquinoline alkaloid compound CW-...

Constructed wetland–microbial fuel cell coupling systems (CW–MFCs) have received significant academic interest in the last decade mainly due to promotion of MFCs relation pollutants’ degradation CWs. Firstly, we investigated effect hydraulic retention time (HRT) and electrode configuration on flow field characteristics CW–MFCs using graphite rods plates as electrodes, well optimization computat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The circle of Willis (CW) is considered an important collateral pathway in maintaining adequate cerebral blood flow in patients with internal carotid artery (ICA) obstruction. We aimed to investigate the anatomic variation of the CW in patients with severe symptomatic carotid obstructive disease and to analyze diameter changes of its components in relation to varying grad...

This evaluation compared the efficiency and effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare (FFT-CW®, n=1625) to Usual Care (UC: n=2250) in reducing child maltreatment. FFT-CW® is a continuum of care model based on the family's risk status. In a child welfare setting, families received either UC or FFT-CW® in a quasi-experimental, stepped wedge design across all five boroughs of New Yo...

To study the possibility of utilizing mixed construction waste and ultrafine tailings (CW&UT) as a backfilling aggregate that can be placed underground in a mine, physicochemical evaluation, proportioning strength tests, and pumpability experiments were conducted. It was revealed that mixed CW&UT can be used as a backfilling aggregate due to the complementarities of their physicochemical proper...

High rate algal ponding (HRAP) and constructed wetland (CW) technology was used to remove nutrients from brewery effluent, thus recovering water and producing algal biomass. The HRAP/CW system was effective in reducing chemical oxygen demand (COD) from ca. 150 mg/L to below 75 mg/L, and ammonia from 30 mg/L to below 1 mg/L. The HRAP was initially inconsistent in phosphate removal, but phosphate...