OBJECTIVES To evaluate the predictive characteristics of KL-6 and CC16 for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants, either independently or in combination. STUDY DESIGN This prospective cohort study was performed from 2011 to 2013 with preterm neonates of gestational age ≤32 weeks and birth weight ≤1500 g. Serum KL-6 and CC16 levels were determined 7 and 14 days after birth. RES...

The combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) was reported first in 1990, but it has been comparatively underestimated until recently. Although the diagnostic findings of both emphysematous and fibrotic regions are detectable by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest, the degree of progressive fibrosis, which increases with emphysematous lesions, is difficult to evaluate...

The Kl-positive strains of Escherichia coli are a group with considerable clinical importance, serum resistance being a common virulence factor of these strains. In the present paper, the influences of cephaloridine, iminpenem, and ceftazidime on the serum resistance of eight serum-resistant Kl-positive E. coli blood culture isolates with smooth-type lipopolysaccharide were studied. Al strains ...

Erythropoiesis in response to erythropoietin (Epo) in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in vitro and in vivo is severely impaired. We investigated the stimulative effect of c-kit ligand (KL) on the erythroid colony-forming abilities of bone marrow cells from 17 patients with MDS. The effects of normal donor-derived marrow were examined in comparison. Suppression of erythroid colony formation in MD...

Krebs von den Lungen (KL)-6 offers a new perspective as a disease marker in pulmonary diseases. The aim of this study was to analyze whether serum KL-6 levels are dependent on the functional adenosine to guanine mucin-1 (MUC1) gene polymorphism at nucleotide position 568 in a well-characterized white population. Polymorphisms were determined in 327 healthy, white individuals and 74 patients wit...

Neutral Kaons were the place where CP violation was discovered for the first time [1]. Forty years after that discovery, kaons are still a privileged system where quarks coupling can be studied. The CKM quark mixing matrix [2] structure is usually addressed through the so-called unitarity triangle [3]. The very popular picture of this triangle based on measurements coming from B mesons decays a...

This paper focuses on the automatic segmentation of inflectional affixes of the Kazakh Language (KL) on the basis of studying the corpus of KL. Kazakh is an agglutinative language with word structures formed by productive affixation of derivational and inflectional suffixes to stems. Based on the analysis of the configuration of inflectional affixes, it firstly constructs the Finite-State Autom...

We consider model-based reinforcement learning in finite Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), focussing on so-called optimistic strategies. Optimism is usually implemented by carrying out extended value iterations, under a constraint of consistency with the estimated model transition probabilities. In this paper, we strongly argue in favor of using the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence for this pur...

A true estimation of gestational age (GA) plays an important role in quality maternity care and scheduling the labor date. This study aimed to evaluate the normal fetal kidney length (KL) and its correlation with GA. A cross-sectional study on 92 pregnant women between 8th and 10th week of gestation with normal singleton pregnancy underwent standard ultrasound fetal biometry and kidney length m...

Kernel logistic PLS” (KL-PLS) is a new tool for supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction and binary classification. The principles of KL-PLS are based on both PLS latent variables construction and learning with kernels. The KL-PLS algorithm can be seen as a supervised dimensionality reduction (complexity control step) followed by a classification based on logistic regression. The algorithm...