Loosely speaking, a stationary time series is one whose statistical properties remain constant over time, whereas the statistical properties of locally stationary (LS) time series change slowly over time. As a consequence, LS series can appear stationary when examined close up, but appear nonstationary when examined on a larger scale. Priestley (1983) and Nason and von Sachs (1999) review local...

A single interface for accessing life sciences (LS) data is a natural need to master the data deluge in this domain. The data in the LS requires integration and current integrative solutions increasingly rely on the federation of queries for distributed resources. This paper demonstrates BioFed, a federated SPARQL query processing system customised for LS-LOD. BioFed enables user to formulate a...

We experimentally demonstrate the broad tunability of the main features of optical localized structures (LS's) in a nonlinear interferometer. By discussing how a single LS depends on the system spatial frequency bandwidth, we show that a modification of its tail leads to the possibility of tuning the interactions between LS pairs, and thus the equilibrium distances at which LS bound states form...

BACKGROUND Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is the preferred option of postremission therapy for high-risk patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Therefore, monitoring life satisfaction (LS) of long-term survivors following alloSCT is becoming increasingly important for oncologists. The aim of the study was to evaluate individual survivor priority of various general...

Low-salt (LS) diet has been considered to be beneficial in the prevention and treatment of hypertension; however, it also increases plasma angiotensin (ANG) II and may cause adverse cardiovascular effects, such as endothelial dysfunction. We assessed endothelial function of coronary arterioles and vascular superoxide production, as a function of LS diet. Dogs were fed with LS (0.05% NaCl) or a ...

This study was performed to examine whether there is an inappropriate regulation of intrarenal angiotensinogen in Dahl-salt sensitive rats (DS) fed a high salt diet (HS). Dahl salt-resistant rats (DR) and DS were maintained on HS (8% NaCl) or low salt diet (LS, 0.3% NaCl) for 4 weeks. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), measured by tail-cuff plethysmography, was unaltered in DR (DR+HS, 127+/-3 mm Hg...

Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by accumulation of activated CD4+ T cells in the lungs. Disease phenotypes Löfgren's syndrome (LS) and "non-LS" differ in terms of clinical manifestations, genetic background, HLA association, and prognosis, but the underlying inflammatory mechanisms largely remain unknown. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cells from four HL...

BACKGROUND This was a retrospective study that evaluated the surgical outcomes of laparoscopic surgery (LS) for rectal cancer, in comparison with a case control series of open surgery (OS), during an 8-year period. METHODOLOGY Between October 1998 and December 2006, 203 patients with rectal malignancies underwent colectomy; 146 of them had colectomy with the traditional technique (OS), while ...

Lynch syndrome (LS), an autosomal dominant inherited cancer susceptibility syndrome, also known as hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC), is caused by a germline mutation in one of several DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. LS is the most common presentation of hereditary colorectal cancer (CRC), accounting for about 2-5% of all CRC cases. More recently, it is found that a similar number ...

The need to deduce interesting and valuable information from large, complex, information-rich data sets is common to many research fields. Rule discovery or rule mining uses a set of IF-THEN rules to classify a class or category in a comprehensible way. Besides the classical approaches, many rule mining approaches use biologicallyinspired algorithms such as evolutionary algorithms and swarm int...