Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and its receptors are widely expressed in several tissues in the stage of cellular growth and development. In adulthood, PDGF beta-receptor (PDGFbetaR) is mainly detected in pathological conditions such as atherosclerotic lesions and injured vascular wall. The purpose of the present study was to elucidate the underlying mechanism of PDGFbetaR gene expressio...

Hierarchical text categorization (HTC) approaches have recently attracted a lot of interest on the part of researchers in human language technology and machine learning, since they have been shown to bring about equal, if not better, classification accuracy with respect to their “flat” counterparts while allowing exponential time savings at both learning and classification time. A typical compo...

INTRODUCTION/AIM Haemophilia is caused by deficiency in coagulation factor VIII or IX. Treatment with the missing coagulation factors has been available in most developed countries for several decades. The aim was to explore the experiences of adults living with severe or moderate haemophilia and their coping strategies at a single centre in Sweden. METHOD The interview study had a qualitativ...

Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a novel thermal conversion process that can be used to convert municipal waste streams into sterilized, value-added hydrochar. HTC has been mostly applied and studied on a limited number of feedstocks, ranging from pure substances to slightly more complex biomass such as wood, with an emphasis on nanostructure generation. There has been little work exploring ...

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) approaches have recently attracted a lot of interest on the part of researchers in human language technology andmachine learning, since they have been shown to bring about equal, if not better, classification accuracywith respect to their “flat” counterparts while allowing exponential time savings at both learning and classification time. A typical compone...

The cooking time of common beans is influenced by genotype and storage conditions. This study aimed to use near-infrared (NIR) spectra milled, freshly harvested (fresh) predict their times susceptibility develop the storage-induced, hard-to-cook (HTC) defect. physical characteristics bean accessions, from two different seasons, were evaluated. HTC (determined aging under standard adverse condit...

This study investigates the potential of hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) for fractionating anaerobic digestate sewage sludge into carbon-rich hydrochar and nutrient-rich aqueous phase (AP). AP is subsequently used to supplement cultures alkali halophilic microalgae D. tertiolecta (CCAP 19/30), convert sodium bicarbonate carbonate solution as part an integrated biogas purification system. HTC a...

BACKGROUND HIV self-testing (HIVST) has been found to be highly effective, but no cost analysis has been undertaken to guide the design of affordable and scalable implementation strategies. METHODS Consecutive HIV self-testers and facility-based testers were recruited from participants in a community cluster-randomised trial ( ISRCTN02004005 ) investigating the impact of offering HIVST in add...

Microalgae have tremendous potential as a feedstock for production of liquid biofuels, particularly biodiesel fuel via transesterification of algal lipids. However, biodiesel production results in significant amounts of algal residues, or “lipid extracted algae” (LEA). Suitable utilization of the LEA residue will improve the economics of algal biodiesel. In the present study, we evaluate the hy...

The forces felt by different transduction channels in a bundle depend critically on how well stereocilia remain cohesive during deflection. In the bullfrog saccule, sliding adhesion mediated by horizontal top connectors (HTC) confers coherent motion to hair cell stereocilia and parallel gating to all transduction channels. In cochlear inner and outer hair cells (IHCs and OHCs), the mature compl...