An important cytokine role in dengue fever pathogenesis has been described. These molecules can be associated with haemorrhagic manifestations, coagulation disorders, hypotension and shock, all symptoms implicated in vascular permeability and disease worsening conditions. Several immunological diseases have been treated by cytokine modulation and dexamethasone is utilized clinically to treat pa...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a method to measure relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units (dmus) which uses multiple inputs and produces multiple outputs. in the conventional dea, crisp inputs and outputs are fundamentally necessary. but the observed values of inputs and outputs in real-world problems are sometimes imprecise. thus, performance measurement often needs to be do...

In this paper, we propose to combine the advantages of semantic wikis and P2P wikis in order to design a peer-to-peer semantic wiki. The main challenge is how to merge wiki pages that embed semantic annotations. Merging algorithms used in P2P wiki systems have been designed for linear text and not for semantic data. In this paper, we evaluate two optimistic replication algorithms to build a P2P...

Overview • The Object Space Approach: object-oriented essentials and decoupled communication. • Example: a distributed time service. • A distributed protoypical implementation of Object Space. • Employing replication and optimistic asynchrony: a more efficient implementation.

This article applies Q methodology to examine citizens’ motivations engage in Chinese city governance, more specifically participate the City Governance Committee Nanjing. We identify three orientations underlying coproduction: optimistic believer, active expresser, and commissioned influencer. Our data show that expressive values, self-efficacy, normative values are important reasons engagemen...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

We have investigated the values of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling constant alpha in In(0.52)Al(0.48)As/In(0.53)Ga(0.47)As/In(0.52)Al(0.48)As quantum wells using the weak antilocalization (WAL) analysis as a function of the structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) of the quantum wells. We have found that the deduced alpha values have a strong correlation with the degree of SIA of the quantum wells a...