PURPOSE Inflammation generates changes in the protein constituents of the aqueous humor. Proteins that change in multiple models of uveitis may be good biomarkers of disease or targets for therapeutic intervention. The present study was conducted to identify differentially-expressed proteins in the inflamed aqueous humor. METHODS Two models of uveitis were induced in Lewis rats: experimental ...

Nowadays, about 12% of the European and 20% of the US population are tattooed. Rising concerns regarding consumer safety, led to legal restrictions on tattoo and permanent make-up (PMU) inks. Restrictions also include bans on certain colourants. Both ink types use organic pigments for colour-giving, plus inorganic pigments for white and black and colour tones. Pigments are only sparingly solubl...

BACKGROUND Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most lethal form of brain tumor. Efficient DNA repair and anti-apoptotic mechanisms are making glioma treatment difficult. Proteases such as MMP9, cathepsin B and urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) are over expressed in gliomas and contribute to enhanced cancer cell proliferation. Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) repair mechanism pla...

The power domination problem is to find a minimum placement of phase measurement units (PMUs) for observing the whole electric power system, which is closely related to the classical domination problem in graphs. For a graph G = (V , E), the power domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a set S ⊆ V such that PMUs placed on every vertex of S results in all of V being observed. A ver...

Widespread placement and high data sampling rate of current generation of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) in Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) result in huge amount of data to be analyzed and stored, making efficient storage of such data a priority. This paper presents a generalized compression technique that utilizes the inherent correlation within PMU data by exploiting both spatial and tem...