Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is a group of relatively rare tumors with a poor prognosis. The current standard of care consists of doublet chemotherapy (platinum plus gemcitabine); however, even with cytotoxic therapy, the median overall survival is less than 1 year. The genetic basis of BTC is now more clearly understood, allowing for the investigation of targeted therapy. Combinations of doublet...

Hydro-thermal reaction involving zinc nitrate hexa-hydrate, tris-odium benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxyl-ate (Na(3)BTC) and 2-methyl-imidazole (2-MeImH) yielded the title compound, [Zn(2)(C(9)H(3)O(6))(C(4)H(5)N(2))(C(4)H(6)N(2))(3)]. In this mixed-ligand metal-organic compound, Zn(2+) ions are coordinated by N atoms from 2-MeImH mol-ecules and (2-MeIm)(-) ions, as well as by O atoms from (BTC)(3-) ion...

The results of empirical analyses confirm that analysed unsystematic factors, the Stock-to-Flow index (S2F), and information on Bitcoin (BTC) are directly correlated with BTC values. These expected in line economic theory; however, this research paper aimed to investigate impact factors value decentralised virtual cryptocurrency BTC. Its aim was also analyse reasons for significant oscillations...

In this paper we have proposed three and two stage still gray scale image compressor based on BTC. In our schemes, we have employed a combination of four techniques to reduce the bit rate. They are quad tree segmentation, bit plane omission, bit plane coding using 32 visual patterns and interpolative bit plane coding. The experimental results show that the proposed schemes achieve an average bi...

—This article presents an FPGA implementation of an ultra-high-speed Reed-Solomon (RS) turbo decoder. A performance analysis is performed showing that RS Block Turbo Codes (RS-BTC) have decoding performance equivalent to Bose Ray-Chaudhuri Hocquenghem-Block Turbo Codes (BCH-BTC). A ratio between the decoder throughput and the decoder area is used to show the higher ef ciency of the RS full para...

copper oxide nanostructures have been successfully synthesized via one-step solid-state thermolysis of two metal-organic frameworks, [cu3(btc)2] (1) and [cu(tpa).(dmf)] (2), (btc = benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate, tpa = therephtalic acid = 1,4-benzendicarboxylic acid and dmf = dimethyl formamide) under air atmosphere at 400,  500, and 600°c. it has also been found that the reaction temperature pla...

We previously provided evidence that glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) induces pancreatic beta-cell growth nonadditively with glucose in a phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase- and protein kinase C zeta-dependent manner. However, the exact mechanism by which the GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R), a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, activates the PI 3-kinase signaling pathway to pro...

The aim of the study investigates return and volatility spillovers conditional correlations between Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange 100 Index (BIST100) Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTH) using daily data for period August 07, 2015 May 20, 2021 with VAR-DCC-GARCH model. We find no bidirectional BIST100 cryptocurrencies. In line spillover results study, it has been determin...

INTRODUCTION UK military research suggests that there is a significant link between current psychological symptoms, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Few studies have explored the construct of stigma/BTC in depth amongst deployed UK military personnel. METHOD Three survey datasets containing a stigma/BTC scale obtained during UK deployments to Iraq and ...

Block truncation coding (BTC) [1] is an efficient image coding method that has been adopted to obtain the statistical properties of a block in image compression. Low computational complexity and superior channel error resisting ability make it attractive in real-time image compression. The BTC output data set includes a binary bit plane, which defines the quantization level of each pixel, and t...