Cardiac side-effects of chemotherapy are old dogs for cancer patient at the beginning of cancer treatment. The deleterious side-effects of chemotherapy on the cardiovascular system have been deemed as a serious clinical issue for a long term, especially sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to QT prolongation. Since induced pluripotent stem cells has been firstly reported by Takahashi and Yamanaka in ...

A large sheep dataset including ewe and progeny records from 1982 through to 2006 was used in the present study. The data included the variables: sex of lamb, birth rank, weaning weight, year born and dam and sire. The aim was to firstly, determine if the age of the ewe’s dam, or the birth rank of the ewe affected her lifetime performance and secondly, to determine in twin-born lambs if the sex...

The method based on Bag-of-visual-Words (BoW) deriving from local keypoints has recently appeared promising for video annotation. Spatial partition scheme has critical impact to the performance of BoW method. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive annular spatial partition scheme. The proposed scheme firstly determines the centroid of partition according to the distribution of keypoints. And ...

The mermithid Agamermis unka, a parasite of the brown planthopper (BPH), was found in many rice paddies in Gyeongnam Province, Korea. Nematode parasitism of adult BPH varied from year to year, reaching as high as 50% in paddies not treated with an insecticide. Parasitism was lower in insecticide-treated paddies. Generally, mermithid parasitism was higher in BPH adults collected from the lower p...

Diasporic Arab writers substantially differ in how they represent aspects of contemporary Arabic culture(s) their literary works and diasporic women have represented Islam even more differently works. The study investigates is portrayed the fiction two writers, Leila Aboulela (b. 1964- ) Mohja Kahf. (1967- ). General research has been conducted on these writing; however, firstly, most literatur...

Nickel oxide (NiO) nanotubes have been produced for the first time via a template processing method. The synthesis involved a two step chemical eaction in which nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) nanotubes were firstly formed within the walls of an anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) template. The ◦ emplate was then dissolved away using concentrated NaOH, and the freed nanotubes were converted to NiO by heat ...

The axisymmetric flows with swirl or rotation were solved by a hybrid scheme with lattice Boltzmann method for the axial and radial velocities and finite-difference method for the azimuthal (or swirl) velocity and the temperature. An incompressible axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann D2Q9 model was proposed to solve the axial and radial velocities through inserting source terms into the two-dimensio...

The concept of jump system, introduced by Buchet and Cunningham (1995), is a set of integer points with a certain exchange property. In this paper, we discuss several linear and convex optimization problems on jump systems and show that these problems can be solved in polynomial time under the assumption that a membership oracle for a jump system is available. We firstly present a polynomial-ti...

Already two decades ago strategy literature started a discussion on weak signals (H.I. Ansoff, Implanting Strategic Management, Prentice-Hall International, Englewood-Cliffs, NJ, 1984). Currently the weak signals approach is experiencing a renaissance in strategic planning but now either in the context of strategic flexibility or peripheral vision. In this paper we aim, firstly, to present theo...

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the expected cost of locating a number of single product facilities and allocating uncertain customer demand to these facilities. The total costs consist of two components: firstly linear transportation cost of satisfying customer demand and secondly the costs of investing in a facility as well as maintaining and operating it. These facility costs ...