We aimed to explore the associations of polymorphisms in three microRNAs (miRNAs) (let-7e rs8111742, miR-365b rs121224 and miR-4795 rs1002765) that target PGC with the risk and prognosis of gastric cancer/atrophic gastritis. Sequenom's MassArray was used to genotype the miRNA polymorphisms in 724 gastric cancer cases, 862 atrophic gastritis cases and 862 controls in a Chinese population. We fou...

Abstract Background As countries move to malaria elimination, detecting and targeting asymptomatic infections might be needed. Here, the epidemiology detectability of Plasmodium falciparum vivax were investigated in different transmission settings Ethiopia. Method: A total 1093 dried blood spot (DBS) samples collected from afebrile apparently healthy individuals across ten study sites Ethiopia ...

A prospective survey was conducted on 862 Enterobacteriaceae isolates with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems. The Carba NP test, UV spectrophotometry, and a DNA microarray were used to detect carbapenemase producers, and the results were compared to those from PCR and sequencing. The 172 carbapenemase producers were detected using the Carba NP test and UV spectrophotometry, whereas the DNA ...

AACP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committee. American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine. Chest 101:1644, 1992 11. Laszik Z, Carson CW, Nadasdy T, Johnson LD, Lerner MR, Brackett DJ, Esmon CT, Silva FG: Lack of suppressed renal thrombomodulin expression in a septic rat model with glomerular thrombotic microangiopathy. Lab Invest 70:862, 1994 12. Laszik Z, Mitro A, Taylor...

The usage of a large amount of CdTe(CdZnTe) semiconductor detectors for solar neutrino spectroscopy in the low energy region is investigated. Several different coincidence signals can be formed on five different isotopes to measure the Be neutrino line at 862 keV in real-time. The most promising one is the usage of Cd resulting in 89 SNU. The presence of Te permits even the real-time detection ...

This paper examines enhancement to ITU-T Recommendation G.711.1 PCM wideband extension speech coder. To further improve the core lower-band coding performance the use of vector quantization and delayed decision coding is studied. A particular case of delayed decision coding, tree encoding, is implemented in the above standard. The bitstream is compatible with both the legacy G.711 and the G.711...

This Paper presents the results of spectral observations in the UHF TV Bands IV and V from 470 MHz up to 862 MHz with focus on the TV-Channels 61 to 63 and 67 to 69. Concerning the discussions on WRC (2007) this frequency range is in great demand of several applications and is usually treated as a ”white space” in the TV-Bands. According to typical scenarios, two different spectral loads will b...

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1–14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852–8521, Japan, Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, 1–1–1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113– 8657, Japan, Fish-feed Section, Taiyo Shiryo Co., Ltd., 14–1 Kitahama-machi, Chita 478–0046, Japan, Okazaki National Research Institutes Center for...

Nanocrystalline Bi2S3 shells were conformally deposited on ZnO nanowire arrays via a successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction approach. Microstructure, optical, electric properties of the as-prepared ZnO/Bi2S3 core/shell heterostructures thoroughly investigated using various characterization electrochemical methods. Compared with pristine photoanode (?734 mV 0.57 mA·cm?2), type-II heteroj...