Abstract In this analysis, corrosion efficiency and mechanical properties of duplex stainless steel castings (DSS-4A DSS-5A) were compared to their wrought counterparts. Cast DSS-4A DSS-5A are characterized in two separate solution treated settings, while counterparts both solutions forged form. Optical microscopy X-ray diffractometry employed perform the metallurgical characterization. Electro...

Difference Systems of Sets (DSS) are combinatorial configurations that arise in connection with code synchronization. This paper gives new constructions of DSS obtained from partitions of hyperplanes in a finite projective space, as well as DSS obtained from balanced generalized weighing matrices and partitions of the complement of a hyperplane in a finite projective space. ∗Research supported ...

Dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis is widely used to study pathological mechanisms and potential treatments of inflammatory bowel disease. Because temporal changes in genome expression profiles remain unknown in this model, we performed whole genome expression profile analysis during the development of DSS colitis in comparison with ulcerative colitis (UC) specimens to identify novel ...

BACKGROUND Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an inflammatory bowel disease of preterm human newborns with yet unresolved etiology. An established neonatal murine model for NEC employs oral administration of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) combined with hypoxia/hypothermia. In adult mice, feeding dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) represents a well-established model for experimental inflammatory bowel dise...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of dengue shock syndrome (DSS, grade 3 and 4) is not yet completely understood. Several factors are reportedly associated with DSS, a more severe form of dengue infection that reportedly causes 50 times higher mortality compared to that of dengue patients without DSS. However, the results from these reports remain inconclusive. To better understand the epidemiology, ...

Selenium (Se) is known to prevent several cancers while the relationship between high iron and the risk of colorectal cancer is controversial. To investigate the effects of Se in colon carcinogenesis, we subjected three different levels of Se and high-iron diet to a mouse model of colon cancer in which animals were treated with three azoxymethane (AOM) injections followed by dextran sodium sulf...

Figure S1. Caspase-11-/-mice show increased morbidity to colitis induced with 4% DSS (a) The percentage of body weight and (b) the clinical score of C57BL/6J, C11-/-and C1-/-/11-/-mice induced with 4% DSS (n = 10 per group). Data depict the mean ± SEM. Statistical significance between DSS-treated C57BL/6J and C11-/-mice is indicated.

Decision support is a crucial function for decision makers in many industries. Typically, decision support systems help decision-makers to gather and interpret information and build a foundation for decision-making. Medical Decision Support Systems (DSS) play an increasingly important role in medical practice. By assisting physicians with making clinical decisions, DSS are expected to improve t...

This paper presents an integrated method to help design and implement a Web-based Decision Support Systems (DSS) in a distributed environment. First, a layered software architecture is presented to assist in the design of a Web-based DSS. The layered software architecture can provide a formal and hierarchical view of the Web-based DSS at the design stage. Next, a component-based framework is pr...

As the web platform continues to mature, we see an increasing number of amazing technologies that take DSS (Decision Support Systems) to new levels of power and usability. By integrating new powerful technologies into DSS, we get higher performance results with additional functionalities. The most recent development capturing the attention of the browser based application developers are Web Ser...