Little data is available on the bioaccumulation of Dechlorane Plus (DP) in terrestrial organisms. Three terrestrial passerine bird species, light-vented bulbul, long-tailed shrike, and oriental magpie-robin, were collected from rural and urban sites in the Pearl River Delta to analyze for the presence of DP and its dechlorinated products in muscle and liver tissues. The relationships between tr...

OBJECTIVE Dracorhodin perchlorate (DP) was a synthetic analogue of the antimicrobial anthocyanin red pigment dracorhodin. It was reported that DP could induce apoptosis in human prostate cancer, human gastric tumor cells and human melanoma, but the cytotoxic effect of DP on human breast cancer was not investigated. This study would investigate whether DP was a candidate chemical of anti-human b...

OBJECTIVES To develop and apply an immunochemical approach to the study of drug-plasma protein conjugates derived from the anti-arthritic drug D-penicillamine (DP). METHODS An antiserum with specificity for protein-conjugated DP was raised in a rabbit. Plasma samples from patients receiving DP or from incubations of isolated normal plasma with DP were analysed for DP-derived conjugates by Wes...

OBJECTIVES Infants and toddlers with deformational plagiocephaly (DP) have been shown to score lower on developmental measures than unaffected children. To determine whether these differences persist, we examined development in 36-month-old children with and without a history of DP. METHODS Participants included 224 children with DP and 231 children without diagnosed DP, all of who had been f...

We present several supergravity solutions corresponding to both Dp, as well as Dp−Dp′ systems, in NS-NS and R-R PP-wave background originating from AdS3×S×R. The Dp brane solutions, p = 1, .., 5 are fully localized, whereas Dp−Dp′ are localized along common transverse directions. We also discuss the supersymmetry properties of these solutions and the worldsheet construction for the p− p′ system.

In this paper, we study efficient differentially private alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) via gradient perturbation for many centralized machine learning problems. For smooth convex loss functions with (non)-smooth regularization, propose the first ADMM (DP-ADMM) algorithm performance guarantee (ϵ,δ)-differential privacy ((ϵ,δ)-DP). From viewpoint theoretical analysis, use Ga...

Dendritic cells (DC) present antigen and initiate T cell-mediated immune responses. To investigate the possible association of autoimmunity with DC function, we compared the accessory activity of splenic DC from Wistar/Furth (WF) and diabetes-prone (DP) BioBreeding (BB) rats. The latter develop autoimmune diabetes and thyroiditis. DC function was quantified in vitro by measuring T cell prolifer...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of novel Doppler indices of left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic function to predict survival in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND Congestive heart failure is associated with an increased risk of death or cardiac transplantation, yet techniques to predict survival are limited. METHODS Doppler-der...

BACKGROUND The complete continuous-wave Doppler mitral regurgitant velocity curve should allow reconstruction of the ventriculoatrial (VA) pressure gradient from mitral valve closure to opening, including left ventricular (LV) isovolumic contraction, ejection, and isovolumic relaxation. Assuming that the left atrial pressure fluctuation is relatively minor in comparison with the corresponding L...