The aeolian desertification in Mu Us Sandy Land (MUSL) northern China have been paid much attention, but the relative contributions of climate change and human activities to dynamics are still not clear. Based on Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+ OLI images 1975, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 2015, we developed a database land distribution, discussed spatial temporal variation desertification, discovered re...

Maximum aerobic power (VO2 max), maximum anaerobic power (AP max), submaximal exercise heart rate (HRsub), and performance times for distances of 15m, 600 m, 3.22 km, and 10 km were evaluated in 12 male runners prior to and after 7 weeks of a running programme at each individual's maximum steady-state (MSS) pace. MSS pace, a running speed at which blood lactate is believed to equal 2.2 mmol . l...

Successful drug therapies for treating ocular diseases require effective concentrations of neuroprotective compounds maintained over time at the site of action. The purpose of this work was to assess the efficacy of intravitreal controlled delivery of tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) encapsulated in poly(D,L-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres for the treatment of the retina in a rat ...

BACKGROUND The gut microbiota is associated with the modulation of mucosal immunity and the etiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Previous studies focused on the impact of bacterial species on IBD but seldom suspected archaea, which can be a major constituent of intestinal microbiota, to be implicated in the diseases. Recent evidence supports that two main archaeal species found in the...

The generalized linear moving sampling scheme (MSS) exploiting the second-order statistics and also high-order cumulants is studied, where set of MSS defined as shifted distance offsets involved in estimation based on a platform. Then, sparse physical arrays (SPAs) with nonuniform schemes (NL-MSS), referred to SPA-NL-MSS, are proposed optimize consecutive difference co-arrays. For same number s...

Differences in the pathogenesis of microsatellite stable (MSS) sporadic colorectal cancers (CRCs) between left-sided CRC (LC) and right-sided CRC (RC) have not been clarified. To identify pathogenesis-related genomic differences between MSS CRCs within the two locations, we performed a comprehensive molecular analysis using crypt isolation with samples from 92 sporadic CRCs. Microsatellite inst...

The lack of consistence and convergence is often considered as a major drawback of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Here, we analysis two errors introduced by typical conservative SPH approximations of the gradient of a scalar field: one (smoothing error) is due to smoothing of the gradient by an integration associated with a kernel function; the other (integration error) is due to approx...

Management support systems (MSS) help managers to perform their jobs more efficiently. With in-memory technology, a new IT enabler promises to support managers by benefits ranging from reducing time for MSS data entry and analysis to completing even new topics of analysis. Hence, the present situation is favorable for an MSS redesign applying in-memory apps. Such apps are fieldtested and ready-...