BACKGROUND 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose-positron emission tomography ((18)F-FDG-PET) is applied in the clinic for infection assessment and is under consideration for investigating the inflammatory/immune response in lymphoid tissue in animal models of viral infection. Assessing changes in (18)F-FDG uptake of lymph nodes (LNs), primary lymphoid tissues targeted during viral infection, requi...

Background: 2-deoxy-2-[F]fluoro-D-glucose-positron emission tomography (F-FDG-PET) is applied in the clinic for infection assessment and is under consideration for investigating the inflammatory/immune response in lymphoid tissue in animal models of viral infection. Assessing changes in F-FDG uptake of lymph nodes (LNs), primary lymphoid tissues targeted during viral infection, requires suitabl...

in recent years, recombinant monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives have emerged as important targeted therapy agents. monoclonal antibodies are ex-tremely difficult to produce. so, the cost of production is very high and many people cannot afford these drugs. in this regard, choosing inexpensive and easy ways to manipulate production systems such as bacterial hosts to reduce the cost of m...

The most general form of a linear continuous functional operation on a function f(x) continuous on (a, b) has been expressed by F. Rieszf as a Stieltjes integral of f(x) with respect to a function of bounded variation. By virtue of the extension theorem of Hahn,$ this result can be extended to the case where f(x) has discontinuities of the first kind on (a, b). In establishing this more general...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue is a disruptive symptom that inhibits normal functional performance of COPD patients in daily activities. The availability of a short, simple, reliable and valid scale would improve assessment of the characteristics and influence of fatigue in COPD. METHODS At baseline, 2107 COPD patients from the ECLIPSE cohort completed the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Thera...

An efficient automatic quadrature procedure is developed for numerically computing the integrals 0 , where the function is smooth and nonoscillatory at infinity and is the Bessel functions of order ν =1,0 and 1/4. The procedure involves the use of an automatic integration scheme of modified FFT used for evaluating Fourier integrals and product type integration, and the modified W-transformation...

We study all four types of finite-time future singularities emerging in late-time accelerating (effective quintessence/phantom) era from F(R,G)-gravity, where R and G are the Ricci scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant, respectively. As an explicit example of F(R,G)-gravity, we also investigate modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity, so-called F (G)-gravity. In particular, we reconstruct the F (G)-gravi...

A mechanistic investigation of the Pd-catalyzed conversion of aryl triflates to fluorides is presented. Studies reveal that C-F reductive elimination from a LPd(II)(aryl)F complex (L = t-BuBrettPhos or RockPhos) does not occur when the aryl group is electron rich. Evidence is presented that a modified phosphine, generated in situ, serves as the actual supporting ligand during catalysis with suc...

This paper introduces a fast high-resolution imaging algorithm designed for ultra-wideband radar, and combines modified Kirchhoff migration and frequency-wavenumber (F-K) migration. The proposed algorithm also uses the texture method and inverse boundary scattering transform to calculate efficiently the integral arising in modified Kirchhoff migration, and thus enabling the integral in the F-K ...