SIXTY SAMPLES OF TISSUE FRAGMENTS WITH LESIONS SUGGESTIVE OF TUBERCULOSIS FROM BOVINE ABATTOIRS, KEPT IN SATURATED SOLUTION OF SODIUM BORATE, WERE SUBJECTED TO FOUR TREATMENTS: 4% NaOH (Petroff Method), 12 % H2SO4 and 1.5% HPC (1-Hexadecylpyridinium Chloride) decontamination, and physiological saline solution (control). The HPC method showed the lowest contamination rate (3%) when compared to c...

In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) have age-inappropriate telomeric shortening suggesting premature senescence and possible restriction of proliferative capacity. In response to hematopoietic growth factors RA-derived CD34(+) HPC expanded significantly less than age-matched controls. Cell surface receptors for stem cell factor (SCF), Flt 3-Ligand, IL-3 and IL-6 w...

This paper presents the Interval Categorizer Tessellationbased Model (ICTM) for the simultaneous categorization of geographic regions considering several characteristics (e.g., relief, vegetation, land use etc.). Interval techniques are used for the modelling of uncertain data and the control of discretization errors. HPC-ICTM is an implementation of the model for clusters. We analyze the perfo...

The HPC Challenge benchmark suite (HPCC) was released to analyze the performance of high-performance computing architectures using several kernels to measure different memory and hardware access patterns comprising latency based measurements, memory streaming, inter-process communication and floating point computation. HPCC defines a set of benchmarks augmenting the High Performance Linpack use...

The resolution of an approach-avoidance conflict induced by ambivalent information involves the appraisal of the incentive value of the outcomes and associated stimuli to orchestrate an appropriate behavioral response. Much research has been directed at delineating the neural circuitry underlying approach motivation and avoidance motivation separately. Very little research, however, has examine...

The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program is focused on providing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and for the industrial user community. The value of a High Performance Computing (HPC) system to a user includes many factors, such as execution time on a particular problem, software development time, direct hardw...

Hypoxic preconditioning (HPC) is well‑known to exert a protective effect against hypoxic injury; however, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. The present study utilized a serum metabolomics approach to detect the alterations associated with HPC. In the present study, an animal model of HPC was established by exposing adult BALB/c mice to acute repetitive hypoxia four times. The ...

Earlier in vivo studies conducted on freely moving and anesthetized rats demonstrated that the posterior hypothalamus (PH) comprises pathways critical for producing the synchronous hippocampal formation (HPC) theta rhythm. In addition, these findings suggested that the frequency of the HPC theta was encoded in the PH and then was fed via the medial forebrain bundle to the medial septum and HPC....

AIM HI (hypoxic-ischemic) brain injury is a major cause of neonatal mortality and longterm neurological morbidity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of HPC (hypoxic preconditioning) on the oxidative-antioxidative status in the neonatal HI brain model. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty five 7-day-old rats were placed into; Control, HPC, HPC+HI insult, and HI insult groups. H...

GVHD and relapse are two major causes of death after HPC transplantation.1 The most efficient method for prevention of GVHD consists of Tcell depletion of the graft.2-5 However, this usually leads to greatly increased risks of leukemia relapse,3,6,7 due to the loss of the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect that has been recognized as an important component of the anti-leukemic efficacy of allog...