BACKGROUND Superficial vein thrombophlebitis is the common vascular symptom in Behçet disease and is characterized as erythema nodosum-like eruptions. Some studies have reported the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (Abs) in patients with Behçet disease. OBSERVATIONS We measured lupus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin, anti-beta(2)-glycoprotein I, and antiphosphatidylserine-prothrombin com...

Human antibodies (Abs) elicited by influenza viruses often bind with a high affinity to past influenza virus strains, but paradoxically, do not bind to the viral strain actually eliciting the response. This phenomena is called 'original antigenic sin' (OAS) since this can occur at the expense of generating new de novo Abs. Here, we characterized the specificity and functionality of Abs elicited...

The ABS methods, introduced by Abaffy, Broyden and Spedicato, are direct iteration methods for solving a linear system where the ith iterate satisfies the first i equations, therefore a system of m equations is solved in at most m steps. Recently, we have presented a new approach to devise a class of ABS-type methods for solving full row rank systems [K. Amini, N. Mahdavi-Amiri, M. R. Peyghami,...

Major syntactic boundaries are often accompanied by a rise in the phrase component of the fundamental frequency (F0) contour. Detecting such rises, therefore, can be signi cantly helpful to the speech recognition process. We developed a method to detect syntactic boundaries with phrasecomponent rise (henceforth, phrase boundaries), based on the compression of the accent component of the F0 cont...

Context-specific independence representations, such as treestructured CPTs, reduce the number of parameters in Bayesian networks by capturing local independence relationships. We previously presented Abstraction-Based Search (ABS), a technique for using attribute value hierarchies during Bayesian network learning to remove unimportant dis-ion-Based Search (ABS), a technique for using attribute ...

Mobile telephone service was first introduced to Japanese market in the mid-1980s and from then on, this area of business has shown a rapid growth of the number of the subscribers. However, recently, the mobile telephone market in Japan has become saturated. Most of the adult populations have at least one mobile phone set nowadays. Moreover, there are hardly any distinct differences in the qual...

We investigate local and nonlocal signatures of hybridization between a quantum dot state an extended Andreev bound (ABS) in gate-defined InAs nanowire with multiple side probes. When one the probes was hybridized ABS nanowire, characteristic spectroscopic pattern observed both locally, i.e., probe dot, nonlocally, tunnel conductance remote probe. Nonlocal reveal nature ABS.

Ankaferd BloodStopper® (ABS) is an herbal extract which has been used historically as a haemostatic agent in traditional Turkish medicine. ABS comprises of standardized mixture of herbs Thymus vulgaris, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Vitis vinifera, Alpinia officinarum and Urtica dioica. Basic effect mechanism of ABS is the formation of an encapsulated protein web which represents the focus points for the...

Upper respiratory infections are the most common illnesses evaluated by the primary care pediatrician. Observational studies have shown that 5% to 10% of upper respiratory infections are complicated by acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS). It has been estimated that ABS and its complications are responsible for 23 million visits to the healthcare provider annually and result in over 20 million presc...

Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis are the etiologic agents of acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS). Staphylococcus aureus has been an uncommon cause of ABS despite its frequent occupancy within the anterior nares. A quantitative culture of a maxillary sinus aspirate is the gold standard for determining etiology of ABS. Cultures of the middle meatus cannot be...