Perceived stigma and organizational barriers to care (stigma/BTC) can influence the decision to seek help for military personnel when they are suffering from mental health problems. We examined the relationship between stigmatizing beliefs, perceived BTC, and probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 23,101 UK military personnel deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq both during and after dep...

Gemcitabine‑based chemotherapy is one of the most effective and commonly used chemotherapeutic regimens for biliary tract cancer (BTC). However, development of resistance to this drug limits its efficacy. The present study aimed to explore the effects of midkine (MDK) on the resistance of BTC cells to gemcitabine. Cell viability and proliferation were measured by a Cell Counting Kit‑8 assay and...

The title compound, {(C(2)H(10)N(2))[Tl(2)(C(10)H(2)O(8))(H(2)O)(2))]}(n), was prepared using (enH(2))(2)(btc)·2H(2)O and thallium(I) nitrate (en = ethyl-enediamine and btcH(4) = benzene-1,2,4,5-tetra-carboxylic acid). The enH(2) cation and btc ligand are each located on an inversion centre. The Tl(I) atom is seven-coordinated by three btc ligands and two water mol-ecules in an irregular geomet...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) for image compression [ 11 is a simple and effective coding technique which processes non-overlapping sub-image blocks of an image independently. In its original form, BTC is designed in such a manner that the first and second moments of the original blocks are preserved in the reconstructed blocks. BTC has the advantage of being easy to implement compared with oth...

Silver sulfadiazine (SSD) as an antibacterial agent is widely used in the topical treatment of wound infections. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have also been considered field drug delivery recent years due to their attractive properties. In this work, order increase efficiency, Cu-BTC MOF was a platform for incorporation SSD. Physical characterization compounds performed using FT-IR, PXRD, SE...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a simple and fast image compression algorithm wich achieves constant bit rate of 2.0 bits per pixel. The method is however suboptimal. In the present paper we propose a modification of BTC in which the compression ratio will be improved by coding the quantization data and the bit plane by arithmetic coding with an adaptive modelling scheme. The results compare f...

Biliary tract carcinoma (BTC) has a poor prognosis due to limited treatment options. There is, therefore, an urgent need to identify new targets and to design innovative therapeutic approaches. Among potential candidate molecules, we evaluated the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase Src, observing promising antitumor effects of its small-molecule inhibitor saracatinib in BTC preclinical models. The pre...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a streamlined and competent application for image compression. An improved BTC algorithm, namely Enhanced Block Truncation Coding (EBTC), is presented in this research study. Several gray scale images are used to appraise the coding efficiency and performance of this proposed algorithm with existing image compression algorithm. It is habitually shown that propos...