Ginsenoside Rb3 is extracted from the plant Panax ginseng and plays important roles in cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. NF-κB is an important transcription factor involved in I/R injury. However, the underlying mechanism of ginsenoside Rb3 in myocardial I/R injury remains poorly understood. In the current study, a model of myocardial I/R injury wa...

In this paper, we propose a new notion of rep-cube which is a net of a cube, and it can be divided into some polygons such that each of them can be folded to a cube. This notion is inspired by polyomino and rep-tile; both are introduced by Solomon W. Golomb, and well investigated in the recreational mathematics society. We prove that there are infintely many distinct rep-cubes. We also extend t...

K-Rep is an object-oriented knowledge representation system based on description logic [Woods and Schmolze, 1992]. K-Rep provides a language to express descriptions (e.g., of medical concepts such as drugs, treatments, and diseases), inference mechanisms for reasoning about descriptions and their relationship to one another, and considerable supporting infrastructure. This paper presents an ove...

Learning a better representation with neural networks is a challenging problem, which has been tackled from different perspectives in the past few years. In this work, we focus on learning a representation that would be useful in a clustering task. We introduce two novel loss components that substantially improve the quality of produced clusters, are simple to apply to arbitrary models and cost...

In Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis, antibiotics that kill the bacteria in vitro fail to eradicate them in the patient, while treatment with antibiotics to which the bacteria are apparently resistant in vitro can be associated with clinical improvement. In P. aeruginosa infections in other patients, both rifampicin and chloramphenicol, to which the organisms we...

The long wavelength edge of the major chlorophyll absorption feature in the spectrum of a vegetation canopy moves to longer wavelengths with an increase in chlorophyll content. The position of this red-edge has been used successfully to estimate, by remote sensing, the chlorophyll content of vegetation canopies. Techniques used to estimate this red-edge position (REP) have been designed for use...

The complete nucleotide sequence of the blackgram isolate of mungbean yellow mosaic virus, IMYMV-Bg, which infects legumes in India, was determined and compared at the amino acid level with those of other whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses. The genome organization of IMYMV-Bg was similar to that of the begomoviruses. A unique feature of the genome organization was the sequence divergence of the...

Repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) has been recognized as an effective method for bacterial strain typing. Recently, rep-PCR has been commercially adapted to an automated format known as the DiversiLab system to provide a reliable PCR-based typing system for clinical laboratories. We describe the adaptations made to automate rep-PCR and explore the performance and reproducibility of the sy...

The magnitude of repetition suppression (RS) in the Fusiform Face Area is influenced by the probability of repetitions of faces (Summerfield et al., 2008), implying that perceptual expectations affect repetition-related processes. Surprisingly, however, macaque single-cell (Kaliukhovich and Vogels, 2011) and human fMRI (Kovács et al., 2013) studies have failed to find repetition probability [P(...

In this paper I compare two well studied approaches to topological semantics— the domain-theoretic approach, exemplified by the category of countably based equilogical spaces, Equ, and Type Two Effectivity, exemplified by the category of Baire space representations, Rep(B). These two categories are both locally cartesian closed extensions of countably based T0-spaces. A natural question to ask ...