BACKGROUND Improving life satisfaction (LS) and mental wellbeing (MWB) is important for better public health. Like other health issues, LS and MWB are closely related to deprivation (i.e. lack of resources). Developing public health measures that reduce inequalities in wellbeing requires an understanding of how factors associated with high and low LS and MWB vary with deprivation. Here, we exam...

We consider the lateral shift (LS) of a light beam reflecting from a dielectric slab backed by a metal. It is found that the LS of the reflected beam can be negative while the intensity of reflected beam is almost equal to the incident one under a certain condition. The explanation for the negativity of the LS is given in terms of the interference of the reflected waves from the two interfaces....

Despite the great advances that have occurred in the century following the first description of a Lynch syndrome (LS) family and more especially, in more than 20 years since the discovery of causal mutations in the mismatch repair genes (MMR), long-standing clinical questions remain unanswered. Moreover, as a result of novel technologies, new questions have arisen. With this commentary, we aim ...

BACKGROUND Liposarcoma (LS) is the second-most common type of soft-tissue sarcoma. Despite advances in knowledge and treatment of this disease, there remains a need for more effective LS therapy. Steroid hormone receptors regulate metabolism in adipocytes. Estrogen receptor alpha (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and androgen receptor (AR) have been implicated in the pathophysiology of other ca...

Self-assembled multilayers of lignosulfonates (LS) were built up on both quartz slides and cellulose fibers using a Cu-mediated layer-by-layer (LBL) technique. The growth of LS multilayers on quartz slides was monitored by UV-Vis spectroscopy, and the absorbance at 205 nm as well as at 280 nm was found to linearly increase with the number of layers. The formation of LS multilayers on fibers sur...

Losar-beta is available for the treatment of hypertension. It contains losartan potassium (LS; 50mg) and atenolol (AT; 50mg). In the present study, simple, rapid, precise and accurate method for the simultaneous estimation of these drugs have been developed and validated by UV spectrophotometry. The method was validated with respect to its linearity, limit of quantitation (LOQ), limit of detect...

The dynamic of chromatin degradation was studied in thymocytes and LS/BL tumour cells. In permeabilised LS/BL cells, the rate of DNA degradation induced by endogenous calcium and magnesium-dependent endonuclease was approx. 25 times slower than in thymocytes. In LS/BL cells irradiation does not induce chromatin degradation. The alkylating agent TS 160 induced chromatin degradation in both LS/BL...

The aim of this study is to develop the Bayesian Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) classifiers, for preoperatively predicting the malignancy of ovarian tumors. We describe how to perform parameter estimation, input variable selection for LS-SVM within the evidence framework. The issue of computing the posterior class probability for risk minimization decision making is addressed. Th...

Extensive anthropogenic terrestrial sedimentary deposits are well recognized in the geologic literature and are increasingly being referred to as legacy sediment (LS). Definitions of LS are reviewed and a broad but explicit definition is recommended based on episodically produced anthropogenic sediment. The phrase is being used in a variety of ways, but primarily in North America to describe po...