The need for meaningful activities that enhance engagement is very important among persons with dementia (PWDs), both for PWDs still living at home, as well as for PWDs admitted to a nursing home (NH). In this study, we systematically registered behaviours related to engagement in a group animal-assisted activity (AAA) intervention for 21 PWDs in NHs and among 28 home-dwelling PWDs attending a ...

The ultra wide band (UWB) Direct Chaotic Communication (DCC) technology is considered in application to low bit rate information transmission. Performances of low bit rate DCC are discussed. In particular we pay attention to the effect of multipath processing. The implementation and experimental verification of basic elements for low bit rates DCC are also presented. Index terms – Ultra wide ba...

The paper presents application of a direct current control (DCC) method in a three-phase parallel active power filter. The shunt active power filter is employed to compensate the fundamental reactive power and harmonic distortion of non-linear loads. Due to its inverter-like topology with known parameters in the filter branch, the predictive DCC method was implemented to reduce the filter commu...

BACKGROUND The C. elegans dosage compensation complex (DCC) associates with both X chromosomes of XX animals to reduce X-linked transcript levels. Five DCC members are homologous to subunits of the evolutionarily conserved condensin complex, and two noncondensin subunits are required for DCC recruitment to X. RESULTS We investigated the molecular mechanism of DCC recruitment and spreading alo...

Netrins are bifunctional: they attract some axons and repel others. Netrin receptors of the Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) family are implicated in attraction and those of the UNC5 family in repulsion, but genetic evidence also suggests involvement of the DCC protein UNC-40 in some cases of repulsion. To test whether these proteins form a receptor complex for repulsion, we studied the attra...

Dystrophic cardiac calcinosis (DCC) occurs among certain inbred strains of mice and involves necrosis and subsequent calcification as response of myocardial tissue to injury. Using a complete linkage map approach, we investigated the genetics of DCC in an F(2) intercross of resistant C57BL/6J and susceptible C3H/HeJ inbred strains and identified previously a major predisposing quantitative trai...

Tse and Zdancewic have formalized the notion of noninterference for Abadi et al.’s DCC in terms of logical relations and given a proof of noninterference by reduction to parametricity of System F. Unfortunately, their proof contains errors in a key lemma that their translation from DCC to System F preserves the logical relations defined for both calculi. In fact, we have found a counterexample ...

The Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) gene is a candidate tumor suppressor gene that is predicted to encode a transmembrane polypeptide with strong similarity to the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) family. Previous studies have suggested that several different N-CAMs, when expressed in non-neuronal cell types can stimulate neurite outgrowth from PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells. Based on ...

Draxin, a recently identified axon guidance protein, is essential for the formation of forebrain commissures, and can mediate repulsion of netrin-stimulated spinal commissural axons. Here, we report that draxin binds multiple netrin receptors: DCC (deleted in colorectal cancer), Neogenin, UNC5s (H1, H2, H3), and DSCAM (Down's syndrome cell adhesion molecule). Since draxin and Dcc knockouts show...