Nutrients and other bioactive constituents of foods may interact with each other and the surrounding food matrix in complex ways. Therefore, associations between single nutrients and chronic disease may be difficult to identify and interpret, but when dietary patterns (DPs) are examined the combination of many food factors will be considered. An explorative literature search of published review...

Intradermal adipose tissue plays an essential role for hair follicles (HFs) regeneration by regulating hair cycles. However, the effect of reconstruction of HFs and the involvement of adipose-related cells are poorly understood. We investigated assembly strategies for the interactions of dermal papilla (DP) cells with adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) in promoting hair formation. DP cells lose ...

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a unique period during which lifelong dietary habits are shaped. Dietary patterns (DPs) among young adults attending college have not been adequately described, and associations between DPs and indicators of disease risk are not well understood in this age group. Dietary data were collected from undergraduates participating in the Tufts Longitudin...

We develop a stochastic mean-value method for the derivation of delay asymptotics in Processor-Sharing (PS) type systems with heavy-tailed service requirements. In order to demonstrate the strength of the approach, we apply the method to obtain the sojourn time asymptotics for a multi-class G/G/1 queue operating under the Discriminatory Processor-Sharing (DPS) discipline. Besides interesting fr...

Genitive of negation (GN) in Russian is a phenomenon in which an argument that bears structural Case in an affirmative sentence can surface bearing Genitive Case (GEN) in the corresponding negative sentence, as shown in (1). GN occurs only on Theme arguments, as shown in (2-4), and GN marked DPs refer to non-presupposed entities, whereas their structural Case-marked counterparts refer to presup...

Genetic studies and differing population trends support the separation of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) into a western distinct population segment (WDPS) and an eastern DPS (EDPS) with the dividing line between populations at 144° W. Despite little exchange for thousands of years, the gap between the breeding ranges narrowed during the past 15-30 years with the formation of new rookeri...

Medulloblastoma (MB) is a malignant primary brain tumor with poor prognosis. MB-derived CD133/Nestin double-positive cells (MB-DPs) exhibit cancer stem-like cell (CSC)-like properties that may contribute to chemoradioresistance, tumorigenesis and recurrence. In various tumors, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) upregulation including MB which can regulate the expression ...

3 End-to-end CAC mechanisms in QoS architectures 6 3.1 RSVP based CAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2 CAC in Bandwidth Broker architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 DPS based CAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.4 Monitoring based CAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

There is a well known tradition in the literature on definite Determiner Phrases (DPs) that concentrates on the asymmetries in the distribution and the anaphoric properties of determiners such as articles and demonstratives. A huge amount of work on the topic has been done on French by linguists like Kleiber, Corblin, Marandin, Maes, Apothéloz, Reichler-Béguelin or De Mulder, and on English by ...

In all organisms, DNA molecules are tightly compacted into a dynamic 3D nucleoprotein complex. In bacteria, this compaction is governed by the family of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs). Under conditions of stress and starvation, an NAP called Dps (DNA-binding protein from starved cells) becomes highly up-regulated and can massively reorganize the bacterial chromosome. Although static struct...