Overview One of the mysterious properties of the so-called Swiping construction ([1,2,3]) is that adjunct PPs, but not complement PPs, can license Swiping ([1]). Contrary to this observation, we show that complement PPs can, in fact, license swiping, but only when they have undergone Heavy Shift (HS). Based on this novel observation, we make the following two claims. First, following [4,5,6], w...

Targeted Drug Delivery As shown in the cover picture, after brain injury, two groups of engineers (representing Np and PPS) are quickly sent to injury area under targeted transportation a vehicle (CL-PPS/Np), effectively prevent by blocking Ca2+ influx decreasing ROS level through combination properties PPS. This work is found article number 2102256 Shanshan Li, Rutong Yu, Hongmei Liu, co-worke...

Purpose: To compare the accuracy of plusoptiX A08 photoscreener (PPS) and iScreen 3000 photoscreener (IPS) in objectively screening for amblyopic risk factors in children age 5 months to 13 years old. Methods: Cross-sectional study of 148 children who received photoscreenings via PPS and IPS and a comprehensive pediatric ophthalmic examination in our office. Patients were considered to have amb...

Purpose Although collagen microstructural crimp is a major determinant of ocular biomechanics, no direct measurements of optic nerve head (ONH) crimp have been reported. Our goal was to characterize the crimp period of the lamina cribrosa (LC) and peripapillary sclera (PPS) at low and normal IOPs. Methods ONHs from 11 sheep eyes were fixed at 10-, 5-, or 0-mm Hg IOP and crimp periods measured...

BACKGROUND The effects of first-line chemotherapy on overall survival (OS) might be confounded by subsequent therapies in patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Therefore, the objective of our study was to determine the relationships between progression-free survival (PFS) or post-progression survival (PPS) and OS after first-line chemotherapy in elderly patients with extensive disease-SC...

Orofacial clefts (OFC) are complex genetic traits that are often classified as syndromic or nonsyndromic clefts. Currently, there are over 500 types of syndromic clefts in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database, of which Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) is one of the most common (accounting for 2% of all OFC). Popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS) is considered to be a more severe for...

A packet switch with parallel switching planes is a parallel packet switch (PPS). A PPS can scale-up to larger aggregate capacity and faster line speeds than can a single plane. It is an open problem to design a PPS that is feasible to implement using multiple lower speed packet switches. Many solutions proposed previously are essentially impractical because of high communication complexity. In...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and pericyte progenitors (PPs) are both perivascular cells with similar multipotential properties regardless of tissue of origin. We compared the phenotype and function of the 2 cell types derived from the same bone-marrow samples but expanded in their respective media - pericyte conditions (endothelial cell growth medium 2 [EGM-2]) for PPs and standard medium (mes...

In response to rapidly rising home health spending from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the Congress enacted major changes to Medicares home health payments in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA).1 These and subsequent changes culminated in the implementation of a prospective payment system (PPS) on October 1, 2000, which provides incentives to home health agencies (HHAs) to operate eff...

Alternative splicing controls the expression of many genes, including the Drosophila sex determination gene Sex-lethal (Sxl). Sxl expression is controlled via a negative regulatory mechanism where inclusion of the translation-terminating male exon is blocked in females. Previous studies have shown that the mechanism leading to exon skipping is autoregulatory and requires the SXL protein to anta...