Myeloid angiogenic cells (MACs) play a key role in endothelial repairing processes and functionality but their activity may be impaired by the lipotoxic effects of some molecules like stearic acid (SA). Among the dietary components potentially able to modulate endothelial function in vivo, (poly)phenolic compounds represent serious candidates. Here, we apply a comprehensive multidisciplinary ap...

Context. Hierarchical models of structure formation predict that galaxy clusters grow via mergers of smaller clusters and galaxy groups, as well as through continuous accretion of gas. MACS J0717.5+3745 is an X-ray luminous and complex merging cluster, located at a redshift of 0.5548. The cluster is suspected to host a bright radio relic, but up until now no detailed radio observations have bee...

Bacterial surface peptide display has gained popularity as a method of affinity reagent generation for a wide variety of applications ranging from drug discovery to pathogen detection. In order to isolate the bacterial clones that express peptides with high affinities to the target molecule, multiple rounds of manual magnetic activated cell sorting (MACS) followed by multiple rounds of fluoresc...

This paper proposes a variation of the Multiple Ant Colony System for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (MACS-VRPTW) algorithm, which is based on an Ant Colony System approach, using two ant colonies to minimize first the number of vehicles and then the total traveled distance. As an improvement, the present work proposes to use a modified version specialized for a multiobjective contex...

Introduction Sperm DNA integrity is a crucial paternal factor affecting fertilization and pregnancy rates, as well as embryo development. Case The present case report describes the successful pregnancy after testicular sperm aspiration (TESA) combined with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) (TESA-ICSI) in a couple where the male presented high sperm DNA fragmentation. In order to sort dama...

In recent years, the security of encryption and signature schemes in the presence of key-dependent plaintexts received attention, and progress in understanding such scenarios has been made. In this paper we motivate and discuss a setting where an adversary can access tags of a message authentication code (MAC) on key-dependent message inputs, and we propose a way to formalize the security of MA...

The in vivo studies of myocardial infarct using c-ki⁺/Lin⁻ cardiac stem cells (CSCs) are still in the early stage with margin or no beneficial effects for cardiac function. One of the potential reasons may be related to the absence of fully understanding the properties of these cells both in vitro and in vivo. In the present study, we aimed to systematically examine how CSCs adapted to in vitro...

In this thesis, we explore a topic within cryptography called Message Authentication Codes (MACs). A MAC is a collection of algorithms which allows A to send a message to B in such a way that B can be certain (with very high probability) that A did in fact originate the message. Let’s say A wants to send a message (string) M to B using a MAC. First A will run the “tag generation” algorithm on M...

This study investigated whether basic mathematics skills are associated with undergraduate psychology statistics course performance while simultaneously considering self-reported psychological/behavioral and demographic variables. Participants (n = 460) completed a Math Assessment for College Students (MACS), which included questions ranging from calculating percentages to graphical interpretat...