A recently proposed paradigm suggests that, like their dietary counterparts, digestion of gastrointestinal endogenous proteins (GEP) may also produce bioactive peptides. With an aim to test this hypothesis, in vitro digests of four GEP namely; trypsin (TRYP), lysozyme (LYS), mucin (MUC), serum albumin (SA) and a dietary protein chicken albumin (CA) were screened for their angiotensin-I converti...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine tumors are a heterogeneous group of malignancies, characterised by production of hormones and vasoactive peptides. The incidence of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NET) is rising, and they have the highest prevalence amongst upper gastro-intestinal tumors. Diagnosis remains challenging due to wide variations in presentation and slow onset of sympto...

BACKGROUND Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NENs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors, and lack of data in Asian populations especially in China. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the clinical, pathological and prognostic characteristics of GEP-NENs in China. METHODS We collected clinical and pathological data of 168 patients diagnosed with GEP-NENs and treated ...

In the current paper we present the application of our Gene Expression Programming Environment in forecasting Euro-United States Dollar exchange rate. Specifically, using the GEP Environment we tried to forecast the value of the exchange rate using its previous values. The data for the EUROUSD exchange rate are online available from the European Central Bank (ECB). The environment was developed...

A neuroendocrine neoplasm (nen) is a tumor that originates in neuroendocrine cells capable of producing peptides or amines. neuroendocrine neoplasms of the digestive system are also referred to as gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GeP nen) and constitute a heterogeneous group of growths originating from at least 15 types of specialized cells spread throughout the stomach, small i...

Sketching is one of the most important processes in the conceptual stage of design. Previous studies have relied largely on the analyses of sketching process and outcomes; whereas surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals associated with sketching have received little attention. In this study, we propose a method in which 11 basic one-stroke sketching shapes are identified from the sEMG signals ...

OBJECTIVE Somatostatin (sst) are present in the majority of gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) tumours. Effects of somatostatin receptor (sst) analogues are partial and of limited duration. Cell lines derived from GEP express dopaminergic receptors D(2). New chimeric analogues simultaneously recognising sst(2) and sst(5) or sst(2) and D(2) have additive effects in inhibition of GH and prolactin sec...

The CERCHAR abrasivity test is very popular for determination of rock abrasivity. An accurate estimation of the CERCHAR abrasivity index (CAI) is useful for excavation operation costs. This paper presents a model to calculate CAI based on the gene expression programming (GEP) approach. This model is trained and tested based on a database collected from the experimental results available in the ...

Abstract In this paper, we study the existence of solution generalized equilibrium problem (GEP) in framework an Hadamard manifold. Using KKM lemma, prove GEP and give properties resolvent function associated with under consideration. Furthermore, introduce iterative algorithm for approximating a common fixed point problem. proposed method, obtain strong convergence theorem GEP, which is also n...