Objectives. Restraint of patients on a spine board has been used in the past to prevent further spinal cord injury after rescue of patients from the scene of an accident. Removal from the spine board is a routine protocol in many hospitals once the patient has been cleared of spinal injury. However, the benefit of using a spine board, in light-weight motorcycle-related accident victims, has nev...

The LIN-1 ETS transcription factor plays a pivotal role in controlling cell fate decisions during development of the Caenorhabditis elegans vulva. Prior to activation of the RTK/Ras/ERK-signaling pathway, LIN-1 functions as a SUMOylated transcriptional repressor that inhibits vulval cell fate. Here we demonstrate using the yeast two-hybrid system that SUMOylation of LIN-1 mediates interactions ...

lin-26, which encodes a unique Zn-finger protein, is required for differentiation of nonneuronal ectodermal cells in Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we show that the two genes located immediately upstream of lin-26 encode LIN-26-like Zn-finger proteins; hence their names are lir-1 and lir-2 (lin-26 related). lir-2, lir-1, and lin-26 generate several isoforms by alternative splicing and/or trans-s...

Lin-28 is a highly conserved, RNA-binding, microRNA-regulated protein that is involved in regulation of developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans. In mammals, Lin-28 is stage-specifically expressed in embryonic muscle, neurons, and epithelia, as well as in embryonic carcinoma cells, but is suppressed in most adult tissues, with the notable exception of skeletal and cardiac muscle. The spec...

Murine bone marrow cells were fractionated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting into Rh123lo Lin- c-kit+ Ly6A+, Rh123hi Lin-c-kit+ Ly6A+, and Lin- c-kit+ Ly6A- populations within which most, if not all, of the hematopoietic activities of the marrow resided. The Rh123lo Lin- c-kit+Ly6A+ cells, which consist exclusively of small- or medium-sized lymphocyte-like cells, are highly enriched for lo...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an optimizing compiler for CLP(< Lin), a constraint logic programming language over linear real constraints. The compiler performs a number of source to source optimizations which aim at replacing constraint solving, the basic operation of the language, by assignments (when, at runtime, all but one variables have a xed value) and tests (when...

Graph partitioning has become an important facet of computer science with its applications in many disciplines. Graph partitioning is NPcomplete and has given rise to many heuristic algorithms in order to achieve the best estimate in a decent amount of time. ParMETIS is an MPI-based parallel library that implements the heuristic multilevel Kerninghan/Lin algorithm to partition and repartition u...

This study aims to compare 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25(OH)D3), adiponectin (ADPN) and apolipoprotein A5 (apoA5) levels among subjects with different glucose tolerance and to explore their correlation with lipid metabolism. Subjects were divided into 98 cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM group), 87 cases of impaired glucose regulation (IGR group) and 100 cases of normal glucose tolerance (NGT...

As we have entered the information age and developed a digital economy, with the rapid development of satellite communications, the universal penetration of the internet, and the emergence of intelligent industries, ‘speed’ and ‘innovation’ have become the main factors spurring industrial development. Taiwan, with its universal education, highly educated citizenry, high-quality workforce, and f...