DMSP/OLS images are widely used as data sources in various domains of study. However, these images have some deficiencies, one of which is digital number (DN) saturation in urban areas, which leads to significant underestimation of light intensity. We propose a new method to correct the saturation. With China as the study area, the threshold value of the saturation DN is screened out first. A s...

Background/aim: The purpose of this study was to observe whether islet transplantation could induce glomerular parietal epithelial cells to express podocyte proteins in a rat model of streptozotocin-induced diabetic nephropathy (DN).Materials and methods: A total of 18 rats were given single injections of streptozotocin to induce a DN model. Eight weeks after the modeling, successfully establis...

We give a complete classification of torsion pairs in the cluster category of Dynkin type Dn, via a bijection to new combinatorial objects called Ptolemy diagrams of type D. For the latter we give along the way different combinatorial descriptions. One of these allows us to count the number of torsion pairs in the cluster category of type Dn by providing their generating function explicitly.

PURPOSE To determine whether multiple repeated administrations of gadolinium-based macrocyclic ionic MR contrast agent (MICA) are associated with intracranial gadolinium deposition and identify the predisposing factors for deposition in various clinical situations. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this institutional review board-approved retrospective study, 385 consecutive patients who underwent MIC...

Aims. High prevalence of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) has been reported in patients with diabetes. However, whether diabetic neuropathy (DN) contributes to this high prevalence is controversial. Our aim of this study is to compare the prevalence of SAS between patients with and without DN. Methods. Systematic literature searches were conducted for cross-sectional studies that reported the number ...

Diabetic nephropathy (DN), the most serious complication of Type 1 diabetes (DM1), has a strong genetic component. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an inducible enzyme by a number of stimuli, has been implicated in pathophysiology of cardiovascular and renal disease, including DN. The allele -765C, of the -765G > C polymorphism (rs20417) in the COX-2 promoter has lower promoter activity compared with ...

For every fixed graph H, we determine the H-covering number of Kn, for all n > n0(H). We prove that if h is the number of edges of H, and gcd(H) = d is the greatest common divisor of the degrees of H, then there exists n0 = n0(H), such that for all n > n0, C(H,Kn) = d dn 2h dn− 1 d ee, unless d is even, n = 1 mod d and n(n− 1)/d+ 1 = 0 mod (2h/d), in which case C(H,Kn) = d ( n 2 ) h e+ 1. Our m...

Let Dn be the unit polydisc of Cn. The class of all holomorphic functions with domain Dn will be denoted by H(Dn). Let φ be a holomorphic self-map of Dn, the composition operator Cφ induced by φ is defined by (Cφ f )(z) = f (φ(z)) for z ∈Dn and f ∈H(Dn). If, in addition, ψ is a holomorphic function defined on Dn, the weighted composition operator ψCφ induced by ψ and φ is defined by ψCφ(z) = ψ(...