The thymus contains many apoptotic cells that arise from the process of positive and negative selection. Both thymic macrophages and thymic nurse cells/nursing thymic epithelial cells (nursing TECs), non-professional phagocytes, recognize and ingest apoptotic cells without inflammation or tissue damage. Previously we reported that human scavenger receptor class B (SR-B1) is involved in recognit...

The rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1846−0258 in the supernova remnant Kes 75 was recently shown to have exhibited magnetar-like X-ray bursts in mid2006. Radio emission has not yet been observed from this source, but other magnetar-like sources have exhibited transient radio emission following X-ray bursts. We report on a deep 1.9 GHz radio observation of PSR J1846−0258 with the 100-m Green Bank T...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Acne scarring is a common and difficult to treat condition. The plasma skin regeneration (PSR) system is a novel device that causes delayed ablation of the epidermis and controlled thermal modification to the underlying dermis. PSR has previously been shown to be a safe and effective treatment for facial rhytides and benign skin lesions. In this study, we investigated ...

It is widely recognized that classical transaction concepts do not su ciently support software engineering applications. Traditional transactions are expected to have short duration while software engineering transactions may last for a long time, and concurrently access a large number of objects. If software engineering transactions are executed in a serializable manner, they will block each o...

The Theory of Self- vs. Externally-Regulated Learning™ (SRL vs. ERL) proposed different types of relationships among levels of variables in Personal Self-Regulation (PSR) and Regulatory Teaching (RT) to predict the meta-cognitive, meta-motivational and -emotional variables of learning, and of Academic Achievement in Higher Education. The aim of this investigation was empirical in order to valid...

We have searched for microsecond-timescale broadband emission from a sample of eighteen millisecond pulsars. Our study places strong limits on such emission from several millisecond pulsars and shows that it is only present in a small subset of millisecond pulsars. Giant pulses of up to 64 times the mean pulse energy were detected from PSR J1823−3021A in the globular cluster NGC 6624. In contra...

With DSC-MRI, contrast agent leakage effects in brain tumors can either be leveraged for percent signal recovery (PSR) measurements or be adequately resolved for accurate relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) measurements. Leakage effects can be dimished by administration of a preload dose before imaging and/or specific postprocessing steps. This study compares the consistency of both PSR and r...

Applications of Two-dimensional Parameter-induced Stochastic Resonance in Nonlinear Image Processing Bohou Xu1 Summary Stochastic resonance is a mechanical concept and may be used to image processing. This paper aims to develop an elementary theory of two-dimensional parameter-induced stochastic resonance (PSR) in order to contribute a new approach to nonlinear image processing. For tackling ap...

We report the B band optical observations of an old (τ ∼ 17.5 Myr) radiopulsar PSR B0950+08 obtained with the Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope. We detected a faint object, B=27. 07±0.16. Within our astrometrical accuracy it coincides with the radio position of the pulsar and with the object detected earlier by Pavlov et al. (1996) in UV with the HST/FOC/F130LP. The positional coincidence and...

Aims. We investigate whether there may be one or many companions orbiting at close distance to the light cylinder around the extremely intermittent pulsars PSR B1931+24 and PSR J1841-0500. These pulsars, behaving in a standard way when they are active, also “switch off” for durations of several days, during which their magnetospheric activity is interrupted or reduced. Methods. We constrained o...