Redox-sensitive micelles are designed by using block copolymers of different architectures composed of a hydrophilic block of poly(ethylene oxide), and hydrophobic blocks of poly(ϵ-caprolactone) and poly(α-azide-ϵ-caprolactone). Stability of these micelles is insured in diluted media by cross-linking their core via the addition of a bifunctional cross-linker, while redox sensitivity is provided...

Aims. We carry out a statistical study of the inferred coronal loop cross-sectional density profiles using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Methods. We analysed 233 coronal loops observed during 2015/2016. We consider three models for the density profile; the step function (model S ), the linear tra...

heart failure (hf) is a common disease with high health care costs and high mortality rate knowledge of the health-related quality of life (qol) outcomes of hf may guide decision making and be useful in assessing new therapies for population. yet little is known about qol of hf patients in iran. objectives: to assess health related qol of patients with hf with two different instrument and to co...

OBJECTIVES Since sex hormone markers are metabolically linked, examining sex steroid hormones singly may account for inconsistent findings by age, race/ethnicity and body mass index (BMI) across studies. First, these markers were statistically combined into profiles to account for the metabolic relationship between markers. Then, the relationships between sex steroid hormone profiles and age, r...

Compared with solid media, broth-based mycobacterial culture systems have increased sensitivity but also have higher false-positive rates due to cross-contamination. Systematic strain typing is rarely undertaken because the techniques are technically demanding and the data are difficult to organize. Variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis by PCR is rapid and reproducible. The digital prof...

background: one of the main laboratory tests for evaluation of infertility is semen analysis (sa). however additional tests may be suggested for further diagnosis of male fertility potentials. the seminal fluid contains sperms non-sperm cells and various types of lipids and glucose. objective: the objective of this cross-sectional study was to correlate the sperm parameters with concentrations ...

KeBABS provides a powerful, flexible and easy to use framework for KE: rnel- B: ased A: nalysis of B: iological S: equences in R. It includes efficient implementations of the most important sequence kernels, also including variants that allow for taking sequence annotations and positional information into account. KeBABS seamlessly integrates three common support vector machine (SVM) implementa...

Prognostic markers that can predict the relapse of localized non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have yet to be defined. We surveyed expression profiles of microRNA (miRNA) in stage I NSCLC to identify patterns that might predict recurrence after surgical resection of this common deadly cancer. Small RNAs extracted from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues were hybridized to locked nucle...

This report to outlines the work done by the Eta Carinae HST Treasury Project to determine the properties of the cross-dispersion point spread function for the HST Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) CCD. In this document we will refer to the cross-dispersion point spread function by the abbreviation: XSF. The goal of this work is to give a model for the STIS/CCD XSF which can be calcul...