Presence and frequency of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in bloodstreams of cancer patients are pivotal to early cancer detection and treatment monitoring. Here, we use a spiral microchannel with inherent centrifugal forces for continuous, size-based separation of CTCs from blood (Dean Flow Fractionation (DFF)) which facilitates easy coupling with conventional downstream biological assays....

Studies have indicated that flavonoid luteolin is a potential inhibitor of tumor cell proliferation and may function as an anticarcinogenic agent. Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), a synthetic compound, may exhibit biphasic effects on apoptosis depending on the experimental context. Previously, we found that luteolin induced the activation of the proapoptotic proteins, such as Bad, Bid, and B...

Cell death-inducing DNA fragmentation factor 45 (DFF45)-like effector (CIDE) domains were initially identified as protein interaction modules in apoptotic nucleases and are now known to form a highly conserved family with diverse functions that range from cell death to lipid homeostasis. In the fly, four CIDE domain-containing proteins (DFF-related protein [DREP]-1-4) and their functions, inclu...

The surface of a quenched and tempered spring steel may have decarburized layer from which the carbon component has been reduced. fatigue strength is low compared to base metal, can easily develop cracks. Recently, failure was reported in tension clamp (SKL 15) DFF-300 rail fastening system during use on one urban transit route South Korea. As result measuring depth SKL 15 where occurred, thinn...

The optimal focus measure for a noisy camera in passive search based autofocusing (AF) and depth-from-focus (DFF) applications depends not only the camera characteristics but also the image of the object being focused or ranged. In the early stage of this research, a new metric named Autofocusing Uncertainty Measure (AUM) was deened which is useful in selecting the most accurate focus measure f...

We briefly review these low-energy effective theories for the quantum Hall effect, with emphasis and language familiar to field theorists. Two models have been proposed for describing the most stable Hall plateaus (the Jain series): the multi-component Abelian theories and the minimal W1+∞ models. They both lead to a-priori classifications of quantum Hall universality classes. Some experiments ...

The non-toxic biologic material of expanded corn starch (ECS)-supported nitric acid (ECS-HNO3 and ECS-NH2-HNO3) has been prepared via simple procedures. Both the materials are used as heterogeneous catalysts for selective aerobic oxidation 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF) with an up 98% yield in γ-butyrolactone (GBL, a bio-based green solvent) containing little 10% (v/v)...

Gas utilization ratio (GUR) is an important indicator used to measure the operating status and energy consumption of blast furnaces (BFs). In this paper, we present a soft-sensor approach, i.e., a novel online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM) named DU-OS-ELM, to establish a data-driven model for GUR prediction. In DU-OS-ELM, firstly, the old collected data are discarded gradually an...

/ SUl\'lMARY We studied the interaction of Bis~diethylaminosilane (SiH2[N(C1HShh. BDEAS) with a hydroxylized Si (001) surface for Si01 thin-film growth using density functional theory (DFf). BDEA5 was adsorbed on the 5i surface and reacted with the H atom of hydroxyl (-OH) to produce the di-ethylaminosilane (-SiHl[N(C2HShl. DEAS) group and di-ethylamine (NH(C2HSh. DEA). Then. DEAS was able to r...

3 Nash-equilibria in the three-player case 5 3.1 Pure strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.1 Case 1: everyone cheats (DDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.2 Case 2: two players cheat, one player plays fair (DDF) . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.3 Case 3: one player cheats, two play fair (DFF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1.4 ...