BACKGROUND The ability and behaviour of the capture-recapture method using a virtual three-source model for evaluation of the level of completeness of case ascertainment requires exploration. METHODS Cancer cases obtained from 9 population-based cancer registries in Thailand during 2003 to 2007 were applied for capture-recapture using a model based on clinical, pathological and mortality data...

The Arctic Ocean is considered a source of micronutrients to the Nordic Seas and North Atlantic through gateway Fram Strait (FS). However, there paucity trace element data from across gateways, so it remains unclear how exchange shapes micronutrient availability in two ocean basins. In 2015 2016, GEOTRACES cruises sampled Barents Sea Opening (GN04, 2015) FS (GN05, 2016) for dissolved iron (dFe)...

Two-strategy evolutionary games on graphs have been extensively studied in the literature. A variety of graph structures, degrees of graph dynamics, and behaviours of replicators have been explored. These models have primarily been studied in the framework of facilitation of cooperation, and much excellent work has shed light on this field of study. However, there has been little attention to t...

Mechanisms of neuronal mRNA localization and translation are of considerable biological interest. Spatially regulated mRNA translation contributes to cell-fate decisions and axon guidance during development, as well as to long-term synaptic plasticity in adulthood. The Fragile-X Mental Retardation protein (FMRP/dFMR1) is one of the best-studied neuronal translational control molecules and here ...

We performed a follow-up study of 61 patients who had an acute episode of farmer's lung (54 men and seven women). Twenty-four subjects had ceased all contact with the barn, while 37 had continued farming. Pulmonary function tests for all subjects showed an initial improvement after the acute episode: 92.4 +/- 36.9 percent of predicted for carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (Dco) after one year,...

The large atypical cadherin Fat is a receptor for both Hippo and planar cell polarity (PCP) pathways. Here we investigate the molecular basis for signal transduction downstream of Fat by creating targeted alterations within a genomic construct that contains the entire fat locus, and by monitoring and manipulating the membrane localization of the Fat pathway component Dachs. We establish that th...

We reviewed the pulmonary history, dyspnea ratings, and pulmonary function test results in 16 patients with L-tryptophan-induced eosinophilia myalgia syndrome to determine the correlation between reported pulmonary complaints and pulmonary function abnormalities. All patients reported pulmonary symptoms. Dyspnea, seen in 14 of 16 (87 percent) patients, was the most common symptom. The severity ...