All basophils, mucosal-type mast cells (MMC) and connective tissue-type mast cells (CTMC) are derived from the multipotential hematopoietic stem cell. Mutations at the c-kit locus resulted in deficiency of MMC and CTMC in both mice and rats. To investigate the role of the c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase for production of basophils, we used white spotting/white spotting (Ws/Ws) mutant rats that h...

In recent years, there has been an ever increasing acceptance of WS-BPEL as a standard language for orchestration of web services. However, there are still some well-known difficulties that make programming in WS-BPEL a tricky task. In this paper, we firstly point out major loose points of the WS-BPEL specification by means of many examples, some of which are also exploited to test and compare ...

By investigating the vacancy and substitutional defects in monolayer ${\mathrm{WS}}_{2}$ with hybrid functionals, we find that there is no unique amount of Fock exchange concurrently satisfies generalized Koopmans' condition reproduces band-gap band-edge positions. Fixing mixing parameter based on band gap can lead to qualitatively incorrect defect physics two-dimensional materials. Instead, ex...

BACKGROUND Weight suppression (WS), which is the difference between a patient's highest and current weight, has been associated with bulimic symptom severity in adults with bulimia nervosa (BN). However, the impact of WS on eating disorder psychopathology in youth with BN is unknown. METHODS Participants included 85 youth with DSM-5 BN who presented for outpatient treatment. Current WS was ca...

In this paper, the dynamics of elementary cellular automaton rule 41 is investigated in the bi-infinite symbolic sequence space. In spite of rule 41 is not surjective, but it possess of rich and complex dynamical behaviors. The existence of attractors and subshifts of finite type of the rule’s global map is strictly proved, some interesting dynamical properties on these subshifts, such as posit...

Williams syndrome (WS) is a unique genetic developmental disorder characterized by excessive social behaviour accompanied by exaggerated prosody. While past studies with off-line assessment of prosodic skills report significant delays in prosodic skills in individuals with WS as compared to typically developing controls, reports typically lack speech analysis. The current study, using a speech ...

Several languages for specification of various aspects of semantics, such as quality of service (QoS), of XML Web services have appeared recently. However, none of them is widely accepted by industry. On the other hand, WS-Policy (a general framework for the specification of policies for Web services) has strong industry support, but currently lacks detailed specification of ontological meaning...

Beginning with SOAP, Web Services (WS) have now been around for about five years. They have reached the point where mainstream customers are beginning to use them or at least seriously consider doing so. Based on my own experience, most successful WS applications reside inside the enterprise, where they help integrate disparate systems. Typically, these integrations are based on fairly simple u...