In Caenorhabditis elegans gonad morphogenesis, the final U-shapes of the two hermaphrodite gonad arms are determined by migration of the distal tip cells (DTCs). These somatic cells migrate in opposite directions on the ventral basement membrane until specific extracellular cues induce turning from ventral to dorsal and then centripetally toward the midbody region on the dorsal basement membran...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence has suggested that drug treatment courts (DTCs) reduce re-arrest rates. However, DTC program completion rates are low and little is known about the effectiveness of lower levels of program participation. OBJECTIVES We examined how DTC program referral, enrollment without completion, and completion, affected re-arrest rates during a two-year follow-up. RESEARCH ...

OBJECTIVE Preablative stimulated thyroglobulin (ps-Tg) has the potential to be used in identifying distant metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DM-DTC), but its single level can be affected by remnant thyroid tissue and thyrotropin (TSH). The objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate the value of serial ps-Tg measurements in identifying DM-DTC specifically. METHODS A total...

In recent years, the areas of industrial application of AC drives, especially Induction machine based on DTC technique has gradually increased due to its advantages over the other techniques of control. In conventional direct torque control, the selection of flux linkage & electromagnetic torque errors are made within the respective flux and torque hysteresis bands in order to obtain fast torqu...

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in Korea. Several susceptibility loci of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) were identified by previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in Europeans only. Here we conducted a GWAS and a replication study in Koreans using a total of 1,085 DTC cases and 8,884 controls, and validated these results using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) ana...

Direct Torque Control (DTC) is a control technique used in AC drive systems to obtain high performance torque control. The conventional DTC drive contains a pair of hysteresis comparators, a flux and torque estimator and a voltage vector selection table. The torque and flux are controlled simultaneously by applying suitable voltage vectors, and by limiting these quantities within their hysteres...

A new control problem called Disturbance Tracking Control (DTC), which arises in active control of variable speed horizontal axis wind turbines for electric power generation, was developed previously. Feedback control of a linear plant, which is persistently disturbed, must cause the plant output to track a linear function of the disturbance. This control theory is related to Tip Speed Ratio Tr...

BACKGROUND Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluor-18-deoxy-glucose (FDG) is widely used for diagnosing recurrent or metastatic disease in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). PURPOSE To assess the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET for DTC in patients after ablative therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS A systematic search was conducted in Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, ...

Less developed countries (LDCs) usually undertake technology-poor slices in the spatial hierarchy of global value chain (GVC). This paper proposes a measure for domestic technological contents (DTC) for LDCs in the GVC, and calculates the DTCs for China as a whole and Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces separately. Two findings emerge from the calculation: the DTC indexes of China and Jiangsu kept ...

The paper presents fuzzy logic based direct torque control (DTC) scheme of an induction motor (IM) and its comparative study using intelligent techniques under varying dynamic conditions are discussed. Direct torque control (DTC) of an induction motor fed by a voltage source inverter is a modest scheme that does not need lengthy computation time and can be implemented without pulse encoders but...