OBJECTIVE To investigate the optimal glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) cut off points and evaluate the impact of HbA1c on diabetes and pre-diabetes in middle-aged and elderly population. METHODS Subjects were recruited from Shanghai Changfeng Study. A total of 1973 community-based participants (age ⋝45) without known diabetes underwent oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) by using a 75-g oral glucos...

Fifteen pig farms were affected by African swine fever (ASF) in South Korea during the outbreaks between 2022 and April 2023. The ASF virus (ASFV) genome was directly extracted from blood tissue samples of 15 ASFV-positive to analyze genetic characteristics. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that strains belonged p72 genotype II CD2v serogroup 8, which central variable region (CVR) I variants B602...

Inverse Gaussian Regression (IGR) is a suitable model for modeling positively skewed response data, which follows the inverse distribution. The IGR was formed from Generalized Linear Models (GLM). This study aims to with applied factors influencing infant mortality cases of provinces in Indonesia. Estimation parameters employed by Maximum Likelihood (MLE) and Fisher scoring methods. Ratio Test ...

Aims. IGR J19405-3016 is reported in the 3rd IBIS catalog as one of its lowest significance sources (∼ 4.6 σ under an exposure of about 371 ks). This leads to a caveat in multi-wavelength studies, although the source was identified in the optical as a Seyfert 1. The currently available INTEGRAL data on the source have increased to an exposure time of ∼ 1400 ks, which stimulates us to investigat...

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, businesses, economy and governments has become a focus attention in recent times by scholars, administrators policy makers. Many researches have been conducted with less its Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) Local Governments (LGs). impaired the economies activities informal sector (IS) which form nucleus rate/taxpayers LGs. This affects LGs fin...

Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements found in the 5' untranslated region of mRNAs enable translation initiation in a cap-independent manner, thereby representing an alternative to cap-dependent translation in cell-free protein expression systems. However, IRES function is largely species-dependent so their utility in cell-free systems from different species is rather limited. A promisin...

Aberrant expression of sialic acids or altered linkage types is closely associated with malignant phenotype and metastatic potential, and can have prognostic significance in human cancer. The present study was undertaken to evaluate whether expression of sialylated derivatives on melanoma cell surface is associated with tumour progression. Four cell lines (WM1552C, WM115, IGR-39 and WM266-4) we...

The European γ-ray observatory INTEGRAL has found a group of hard X-ray sources which are highly absorbed, i.e., with column densities higher than about 1023 cm−2. Here I give an overview of this class of INTEGRAL sources. The X-ray, as well as the optical/IR, properties of these sources and their location in the sky suggest that they belong to the class of high-mass Xray binaries, some of them...