Autoinflammation has recently been suggested in the pathogenesis of neutrophilic dermatoses but systematic studies on their cytokine profile are lacking. Notably, amicrobial pustulosis of the folds (APF), classified among neutrophilic dermatoses, has been studied only in small case series. In our University Hospital, we conducted an observational study on 15 APF patients, analyzing their clinic...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the usefulness of the routine sonographic evaluation of the pattern of fluctuate portal velocity tracings and the hepatic veins for the diagnosis of arterioportal fistula (APF) and cardiogenic trans-sinusoidal shunting (CTS). MATERIALS AND METHODS.: Color Doppler flow imaging and pulsed-wave Doppler (PW) examinations of the portal vein were performed in 282 subjects. The...

The antigenic substrate of the antiperinuclear factor (APF) in human buccal mucosa cells was studied by light microscopy, cytochemistry, and the immunofluorescence technique (IFT). The cytoplasmic granules against which the APF is directed stained basophilic in light-microscopical staining techniques. The granules did not show a positive reaction product by techniques in which special chemical ...

Model based methods to marker-free motion capture have a very high computational overhead that make them unattractive. In this paper we describe a method that improves on existing global optimization techniques to tracking articulated objects. Our method improves on the stateof-the-art Annealed Particle Filter (APF) by reusing samples across annealing layers and by using an adaptive parametric ...

Alignment or superposition of multiple flexible ligands in 3D is a key step in rational ligand-based drug design, pharmacophore elucidation and 3D QSAR analysis. We have recently introduced Atomic Property Fields methodology, which utilizes continuous Gaussian-based multicomponent potentials to represent the distributions of physico-chemical atomic properties. Calculation of APF pseudo-energy p...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of low power red laser associated with acidulated phosphate fluoride on the development of induced-dental caries in rats. DESIGN Dental caries were induced in molars of 40 rats divided into five groups: control group (CG), the teeth were not submitted to any treatment; laser group (LG), teeth were irradiated with a low power r...

This paper presents novel Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) system based on seven-level Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) inverter using combined PD-SPWM and fuzzy control scheme. The proposed UPQC is adopted to mitigate source current harmonics compensate all voltage disturbances simultaneously. It designed by the combination of series shunt Active Filters (AFs) connected a common DC link cap...

A sliding mode control (SMC) strategy with a fractional-order scheme is developed to provide an effective way compensate for the harmonic current and strengthen performance of active power filter (APF). The formulation controller (FOSMC) incorporated in APF system, obtaining extra degree freedom over integer-order ones improve dynamic property. simulation results utilizing designed confirm sati...

background: some studies have shown that casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (cpp-acp) and acidulated phosphate fluoride (apf) gel can protect teeth against erosion. the aim of this study was to assess whether cpp-acp and fluoride could reduce enamel wear rates under erosive conditions simulating abrasion and acidic diet regimen. materials and methods: enamel specimens consisted o...