Through a two-step solvothermal method, different molar ratios of BiPO4 were grown in situ on the surface oxygen-vacancy-rich BiOBr (Ov-BiOBr), successfully constructing BiPO4/Ov-BiOBr heterojunction composite material. By novel type I high-low junction between semiconductor and Ov-BiOBr, stronger oxidative holes or reductive electrons retained, thereby improving redox performance photocatalyst...

Multivariate probability distributions with given marginals are considered, along with linear functionals, to be minimized or maximized, acting on them. The functionals are supposed to satisfy the Monge or inverse Monge or some higher order convexity property and they may be only partially known. Existing results in connection with Monge arrays are reformulated and extended in terms of LP dual ...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate whether leptin modulates reproduction by a direct effect within the ovary. DESIGN Animal model. SETTING National Key Laboratory of Infertility. ANIMAL(S) Adult female db/db mice. INTERVENTION(S) Adult littermate wild-type (WT) and diabetic (db) leptin receptor (LR) mutant female mice were matched for the allograft of the ovary to construct new genotypic models, ...

Ovarian cancer (OV) ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women, yet there remain few informative biomarkers for this disease. Microsatellites are repetitive genomic regions which we hypothesize could be a source of novel biomarkers for OV and have traditionally been under-appreciated relative to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). In this study, we explore microsatellite variation as a potent...

We present a simplex-type algorithm for linear programming that works with primal-feasible and dual-feasible points associated with bases that di er by only one column.

BACKGROUND In some regions in Africa, elimination of onchocerciasis may be possible with mass drug administration, although there is concern based on several factors that onchocerciasis cannot be eliminated solely through this approach. A vaccine against Onchocerca volvulus would provide a critical tool for the ultimate elimination of this infection. Previous studies have demonstrated that immu...

This data paper contains information about the in vivo model for peritoneal implants used in the paper "Tumor-environment biomimetics delay peritoneal metastasis formation by deceiving and redirecting disseminated cancer cells" (De Vlieghere et al., 2015) [1]. A double in vivo selection of SK-OV-3 Luc human ovarian cancer cell line was used to create SK-OV-3 Luc IP1 and SK-OV-3 Luc IP2 cell lin...

Let Fqn be an extension of the field Fq of degree n = mpl , l ≥ 1 where p is the characteristic of the field Fq . It is proved that the number of self-dual normal bases generators of Fqn over Fq in (TrFqn |Fqm ) −1(β), for any self-dual normal basis generator β of Fqm over Fq , is independent of the choice of β.