Abstract Introduction Female sexual dysfunction affects approximately 45% of women, and an even greater percentage those with overactive bladder (OAB). Sexual function, measured by the Function Index (FSFI), has been shown to improve treatment OAB. To date, no study compared effects percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) versus medication (anticholinergics (ACH) or beta-agonists (BAG)) on...

Multiwavelength variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be used to probe their inner regions which are not directly resolvable. Dust reverberation mapping (DRM) estimates the size dust emitting region by measuring delays between infrared (IR) response in optical light curves. We measure DRM lags Zw229-015 ground-based and Kepler curves concurrent IR Spitzer 3.6 4.5 $\mu$m from 2...

This report presents an approach to automation of a protein crystallography task called streak seeding. The approach is based on novel and unique custom-designed silicon microtools, which we experimentally verified to produce results similar to the results from traditionally used boar bristles. The advantage to using silicon is that it allows the employment of state-of-the-art micro-electro-mec...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is associated with variations in the MEFV gene resulting in proteolytic activation of IL-1b through the inflammasome complex. There is no established treatment available for those resistant or intolerant to standard of care colchicine treatment. Canakinumab, a fully human selective anti-IL-1b monoclonal antibody with a half-life of ~4-weeks binds ...

The study was conducted as part of the project entitled: Advanced materials and technologies for their production”, an Agreement with Ministry Science Higher Education No. POIG.01.01.02-00-015/09-00 30 December 2009, co-financed by European Regional Development Fund under Operational Programme Innovative Economy.

We report here the draft genome of Solibacillus kalamii ISSFR-015, isolated from a high-energy particulate arrestance filter aboard the International Space Station. The draft genome sequence of this strain contains 3,809,180 bp with an estimated G+C content of 38.61%.

Blind identification of code word length for non-binary error-correcting codes in noisy transmission EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Sample doi:10.1186/s13638-015-0294-5 Yasamine Zrelli ([email protected]) Roland Gautier ([email protected]) Eric Rannou ([email protected]) Mélanie Marazin ([email protected]) Emanuel Radoi (eman...

K. SRINIVASAN∗, D. V. SENTHILKUMAR†, R. SURESH, K. THAMILMARAN and M. LAKSHMANAN‡ Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli 620 024, India ‡[email protected] †Centre for Dynamics of Complex Systems and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany ∗Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappall...

Maria Eugénia Mata 1,† and Jose Tenreiro Machado 2,*,† 1 Faculdade de Economia, Nova School of Business and Economics, Campus de Campolide, Lisbon 1099-032, Portugal; [email protected] 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto 4249-015, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +351-22-8340500 † These authors contributed equa...