High dose steroids (HDS) are used in the treatment of haematological malignancies. The reported risk of steroid-induced diabetes (SID) is high. However, screening is not consistently performed. We implemented a protocol for detection and management of SID and steroid-induced hyperglycamia (SIH) in haematology outpatients receiving HDS. Eighty-three people were diagnosed with a lymphoproliferati...

This article provides a perspective on collisions of ions with surfaces, including surface-induced dissociation (SID) and reactive ion scattering spectrometry (RISS). The content is organized into sections on surface-induced dissociation of small ions, surface characterization of organic thin films by collision of well-characterized ions into surfaces, the use of SID to probe peptide fragmentat...

Linghui Rao (SID Student Member) Jin Yan (SID Student Member) Shin-Tson Wu (SID Fellow) Abstract — The prospects of emerging polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid-crystal displays, or more generally, Kerr-effect-induced isotropic-to-anisotropic transition, are analyzed with special emphases on the temperature effects. As the temperature increases, both the Kerr constant, induced birefringence, a...

This communication reports the identification of gas phase isomers in monolayer-protected silver clusters. Two different isomers of Ag11(SG)7(-) (SG-gulathione thiolate) with different drift times have been detected using combined electrospray ionization (ESI) and ion mobility (IM) mass spectrometry (MS). Surface induced dissociation (SID) of the 3(-) charge state of such clusters shows charge ...

This paper introduces a metric to measure the degree to which two computer programs are similar for plagiarism detection. This similarity metric is based on Kolmogorov complexity 8] and measures the amount of shared information between two programs. The measure is universal hence in theory not cheatable. Although the metric is not computable, we have designed and implemented a system SID (Softw...

Double-stranded RNA-mediated gene interference (RNAi) in Caenorhabditis elegans systemically inhibits gene expression throughout the organism. To investigate how gene-specific silencing information is transmitted between cells, we constructed a strain that permits visualization of systemic RNAi. We used this strain to identify systemic RNA interference-deficient (sid) loci required to spread ge...

This paper studies the aggregate dynamics of durable and nondurable consumption under slow information diffusion (SID) due to noisy observations and learning within the permanent income framework. We show that SID can significantly improve the model’s predictions on the joint behavior of income, durable consumption, and nondurable consumption at the aggregate level. Specifically, we find that S...

A Boolean network (BN) with n components is a discrete dynamical system described by the successive iterations of function f:{0,1}n?{0,1}n. This model finds applications in biology, where fixed points play central role. For example, genetic regulations, they correspond to cell phenotypes. In this context, experiments reveal existence positive or negative influences among components. The digraph...

High-throughput screening of 201,368 compounds revealed that 1-(3-(5-ethyl-5H-[1,2,4]triazino[5,6-b]indol-3-ylthio)propyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2(3H)-one (SID 7975595) inhibited RmlC a TB cell wall biosynthetic enzyme. SID 7975595 acts as a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme's substrate and inhibits RmlC as a fast-on rate, fully reversible inhibitor. An analog of SID 7975595 had a K(i) of 62nM....

Let G be an IFG. Then V D  is said to bae a strong (weak) dominating set if every D V v   is strongly (weakly) dominated by some vertex in D. We denote the strong (weak) intuitionistic fuzzy dominating set by sid-set (wid-set). The minimum vertex cardinality over all the sid-set (wid-set) is called the strong (weak) dominating number of an IFG and is denoted by )] ( [ ) ( G G wid sid   In ...