Remote sensing is a suitable tool for estimating the spatial variability of crop canopy characteristics, such as canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) and green ground cover (GGC%), which are often used for crop productivity analysis and site-specific crop management. Empirical relationships exist between different vegetation indices (VI) and CCC and GGC% that allow spatial estimation of canopy char...

BACKGROUND Chronic Chagas disease cardiomyopathy (CCC) is an inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy with a worse prognosis than other cardiomyopathies. CCC occurs in 30 % of individuals infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, endemic in Latin America. Heart failure is associated with impaired energy metabolism, which may be correlated to contractile dysfunction. We thus analyzed the myocardial gene and p...

OBJECTIVE Compared with serous adenocarcinoma (SAC), clear cell carcinoma (CCC) often shows chemo-resistance, which would potentially lead to a poor prognosis. On the other hand, there have been arguments over prognoses of CCC and SAC disease. In the present study, multivariate analysis to compare prognosis of CCC patients with that of SAC was aimed for the patients selected from central pathol...

OBJECTIVES To establish the accuracy and reliability of cardiac dual-source CT (DSCT) and two-dimensional contrast-enhanced echocardiography (CE-Echo) in estimating left ventricular (LV) parameters with respect to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) as the reference standard. METHODS Twenty-five consecutive heart transplant recipients (20 male, mean age 62.7±10.4 years, mean time since t...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to determine the role of AKT as a therapeutic target in ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC), an aggressive, chemoresistant histologic subtype of ovarian cancer. AKT activation was assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) using human tissue microarrays of primary ovarian cancers, composed of both CCC and serous adenocarcinoma (SAC). The growth-inhibitory effect ...

Angiogenesis in cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC) has rarely been investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the angiogenesis status of CCC and assess its relationship with angiogenic factors and clinicopathological characteristics. We examined 33 surgically resected CCC specimens. Tumor angiogenesis was assessed by microvessel density (MVD) using the anti-CD34 antibody, and the expre...

In this paper, a new genetic mating scheme called Controlled Content Crossover (CCC) is proposed and applied to solve the optical network component allocation problem. In order to solve the constrained optimization problem, CCC finds the selected set of the components with the minimum cost while it keeps the total dispersion value of the answer within a double-sided limit. The simulation result...

The Cryogenic Carbon CaptureTM (CCC) process is a retrofit, post-combustion technology that desublimates CO2 in the flue gas, separates the resulting solid from the remaining light gases, pressurizes the solid CO2, melts the CO2 and warms the light gas, and completes the CO2 pressurization with liquid CO2. This skid-scale CCC system has demonstrated successful carbon capture of 90–99% from simu...

In an experiment, six levels of benzyl adenine (0.2.5,5.0,7.5,lO.0,12.5 and 15.0 mg/I) in combination with three levels of (CCC) chloro choline chloride (0,125,250 and 500 mg/I) were evaluated against control treatment (0) in each case to find out their optimum levels for microtuberization in potato variety Diarnant. Microtuberization was the earliest by I 3 days at 10 mg/I BA. The number and a...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to report three cases of severe bilateral epithelial edema (central corneal clouding [CCC]) in association with ClearKone SynergEyes hybrid contact lenses for the vision rehabilitation of keratoconus. METHODS Retrospective case series of six eyes of three patients that developed CCC with ClearKone SynergEyes hybrid contact lens wear shortly after beginning to wear those ...