BACKGROUND HLA-DM gene, which is related to antigen processing and presentation and located in the non-classical class-II region of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, may play a crucial role in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection treatment outcomes. The study was conducted to evaluate the role of the variant of several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in HLA-DM gene in HCV treatm...

Variable-temperature emission data over the range 90-298 K have been collected for a series of bipyridyl complexes of RuII. Spectra obtained for [Ru(dmb)3] (dmb ) 4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine), [Ru(dpb)3] (dpb ) 4,4′diphenyl-2,2′-bipyridine), [Ru(dotb)3] (dotb ) 4,4′-di-o-tolyl-2,2′-bipyridine), and [Ru(dmesb)3] (dmesb ) 4,4′-dimesityl-2,2′-bipyridine) in 4:1 EtOH/MeOH show similar trends in t...

We report the synthesis and the photophysical properties of UV light-harvesting arrays constructed around a [Ru(bpy)3] core (bpy ) 2,2′-bipyridine) bearing one and three pyrenyl units in the periphery. The free ligand containing the pyrenyl unit, 4-methyl-4′-(2-hydroxyethylpyrenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine, displays an intense emission band centered near 400 nm with a lifetime of 264 ns, characteristic ...

BACKGROUND Simulcheck evaluates Colour Simulation Tools (CSTs, they transform colours to mimic those seen by colour vision deficients). Two CSTs (Variantor and Coblis) were used to know if the standard Simulcheck version (direct measurement based, DMB) can be substituted by another (RGB values based) not requiring sophisticated measurement instruments. METHOD Ten normal trichromats performed ...

We report the results of a series of experiments designed to determine the effects of ibandronate (Ibn) and risedronate (Ris) on a number of bone quality parameters in aged osteopenic rats to explain how bone material and bone mass may be affected by the dose of bisphosphonates (BP) and contribute to their anti-fracture efficacy. Eighteen-month old female rats underwent either ovariectomy or sh...

Now that the number of cellular phone subscribers is over 1.6 billion in the world and over 180 million in the United States, it is an appropriate time to consider Asia, the “new” wireless economy, with respect to mobile telephony. Several major cellular phone service providers chose Korea as a testing ground to assess the effects of third generation (3G) technology and deployment. Several Kore...

In this letter, a unified hardware architecture that can be reconfigured to calculate 2, 3, 4, 5, or 7-point DFTs is presented. The architecture is based on the Winograd Fourier transform algorithm (WFTA) and the complexity is equal to a 7-point DFT in terms of adders/subtracters and multipliers plus only seven multiplexers introduced to enable reconfigurability. The processing element finds po...