BACKGROUND Uterine leiomyoma (UL) is a benign tumor of uterine smooth muscle that affects women in reproductive ages. FAS has an important role in initial stages of apoptosis. Previous studies have shown an association between the FAS gene and tumorigenesis. In the present study, we evaluated the relationship between FAS A-670G (rs 1800682) and UL risk. METHODS The FAS gene polymorphism of 15...

BACKGROUND New mode-of-action insecticides are sought to provide continued control of pesticide resistant arthropod vectors of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). We previously identified antagonists of the AaDOP2 D1-like dopamine receptor (DAR) from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, with toxicity to Ae. aegypti larvae as leads for novel insecticides. To extend DAR-based insecticide dis...

Introduction: Recently, a lot of basaltic shergottites have been found from the desert areas in northern Africa and Middle East Asia. Most of them contain large olivine grains that are not present in the previously known basaltic shergottites (except for EETA79001). These olivine grains are mostly Mg-rich, but they show different mineralogical features in each meteorite. Dar al Gani 476 and its...

Chronic motor deficits in the upper limb (UL) are a major contributor to disability following stroke. This study investigated the effect of short-duration robot-assisted therapy on motor impairment, as measured by clinical scales and robot-derived performance measures in patients with chronic, severe UL impairments after stroke. As part of a larger study, 15 individuals with chronic, severe UL ...

We analyze a multiserver queue with a discrete autoregressive process of order 1 (DAR(1)) as an input. DAR(1) is a good mathematical model for VBR-coded teleconference traffic. Based on matrix analytic methods and the theory of Markov regenerative processes, we obtain the stationary distributions of the system size and the waiting time of an arbitrary packet. Numerical examples illustrate the q...

A strong decline is apparent in annual District Average Rainfall (DAR) for District 71, located in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales (Fig. 1). There has been some concern that this decline of about 200 mm, i.e. about 20 per cent, since 1913 could be the result of human interference with the environment, and that a continuing decline in rainfall could threaten ecosystems and irrigation. The...

Many large-scale scientific applications need to aggregate large amounts of data from multiple distributed sites to a centralized facility. We call such a request as a Data-Aggregation Request (DAR). In this study, we investigate the novel problem of on-demand DAR provisioning over a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) backbone network. We provide a mathematical formulation for our problem a...

the present paper studies the introduction of atlal in two imra’ ul-qais and zuhayr bin abī sūlmā works of art. selection of these two poets has some reasons; one of them is that each opposes the other; while imra’ ul-qais is a bon vivant man but zuhayr is a god – fearing one. they both experience different conditions of life. the importance of this issue is their interactions with women which ...

The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is an Institutional Repository developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to manage the full lifecycle of a digital asset: its creation and ingestion, its metadata management, storage and archival in addition to the necessary mechanisms for publishing and dissemination. DAR was designed with a focus on integrating DAR with different sources of digital objects a...

Karol Życzkowski,* Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland Instytut Fizyki im. Smoluchowskiego, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, ul. W” . Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland Wydział Fizyki Technicznej i Matematyki Stosowanej, Politechnika Gdańska, ul. G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland Instytut Fizyki ...