After the Internet Revolution, people have started to spend most of their everyday time online carrying out virtual activities. A limited number of studies tried to answer whether virtual activities match our real-world (RW) activities. Moreover, to our knowledge, there was no study that dealt with these interrelations between virtual and RW activities among the pathological and nonpathological...

Previous human and animal studies demonstrated that voluntary exercise may improve cognitive function and facilitate neuronal plasticity in ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) models. However, the possible underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. Metastasis‑associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), may be associated with the functions and dysfunctions of ...

The characteristic parameters Kw and Rw of a word w over a finite alphabet are defined as follows: Kw is the minimal natural number such that w has no repeated suffix of length Kw and Rw is the minimal natural number such that w has no right special factor of length Rw. In a previous paper, published on this journal, we have studied the distributions of these parameters, as well as the distribu...

22 Purpose: To clarify the possible involvements of type 2 initiating cytokines, interleukin 23 (IL)-25, IL-33, thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) for the pathophysiology of 24 allergic conjunctivitis, we evaluated ragweed (RW)-induced experimental allergic 25 conjunctivitis (EAC) models using IL-25 knockout (KO), IL-33 KO, TSLP receptor 26 (TSLPR) KO mice. 27 Methods: IL-25 KO, IL-33 KO, TSLP...

BACKGROUND Common acute viral respiratory infections (colds) are the most frequent cause of exacerbations in infants with recurrent wheezing (RW). However, there is no quantitative information about the effect of colds on the lung function of infants with RW. This study was undertaken to determine the effect of common cold on forced expiratory parameters measured from raised lung volume in infa...

In this study, Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) K tzing from the Nan River in northern Thailand was selected for investigation. The dried macroalga was extracted by water and 95% (v/v) ethanol to obtain an aqueous extract (RW) and ethanolic extract (RE), respectively. Each extract was examined for antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, methicillin resistant S. au...

The random walker (RW) algorithm is used for both image segmentation and registration, and possesses several useful properties that make it popular in medical imaging, such as being globally optimizable, allowing user interaction, and providing uncertainty information. The RW algorithm defines a weighted graph over an image and uses the graph’s Laplacian matrix to regularize its solutions. This...

Estimating distributions of labels associated with nodes (e.g., number of connections or citizenship of users in a social network) in large graphs via sampling is a vital part of the study of complex networks. Due to their low cost, sampling via random walks (RWs) has been proposed as an attractive solution to this task. Most RW methods assume either that the network is undirected or that walke...

IL-33, a member of the IL-1 family of cytokines, is the ligand for ST2 (IL-33Ralpha chain). IL-33 has the capacity to induce T(h)2 cytokine production from T(h)2 cells, mast cells and basophils, indicating that IL-33 has the potential to induce T(h)2 cytokine-mediated allergic inflammation of the eye. Thus, we tested the pathological role of IL-33 in allergic conjunctivitis (AC). As reported el...

BACKGROUND An accurate potential function is essential to attack protein folding and structure prediction problems. The key to developing efficient knowledge-based potential functions is to design reference states that can appropriately counteract generic interactions. The reference states of many knowledge-based distance-dependent atomic potential functions were derived from non-interacting pa...