BACKGROUND Endometrial cancer, the most common gynecological cancer, is closely associated with endometrial hyperplasia, unopposed estrogen exposure, and genetic alterations. Phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) is a tumor suppressor genes completely lost or mutated in >50% of primary endometrioid endometrial cancers. Estrogen-dependent endometrioid carcinoma is the most common type of endom...

served in Japan. PR has been developed industrially in order to enhance the nutritional functions of its source material, brown rice (BR). PR is produced by soaking BR in water for slight germination. Amounts of some constituents including g-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are remarkably increased in PR. GABA is also known to potentiate the insulin secretion in pancreas. Thus PR is thought to ameliora...

It has been noticed that all the known binary sequences having the asymptotic merit factor ≥ 6 are the modifications to the real primitive characters. In this paper, we give a new modification of the character sequences at length N = p1p2 . . . pr, where pi’s are distinct odd primes and r is finite. Based on these new modifications, for N = p1p2 . . . pr with pi’s distinct odd primes, we can co...

A simple method is presented for the inclusion of melting layer microwave radiative properties into cloud model simulations. These can be used for sensitivity studies of passive and active microwave signatures of rainclouds as well as for the generation of retrieval databases for aircraft and satellite radarrradiometer applications. Tables of bulk cloud cell microwave radiative Ž parameters ext...

OBJECTIVES The present study evaluated the effects of sa-am acupuncture (SAA) simpo-jeongkyeok (SPJK) treatment on the blood pressure (BP), pulse rate (PR), and body temperature (BT) of patients with hwa byung (HB). METHODS This patient assessor blind, randomized, placebo controlled trial included 50 volunteers, divided randomly into two groups. The treatment group underwent SPJK (PC9, LR1, P...

This paper presents the experimental performance analysis of a window air conditioner using two refrigerants R22 and R410A.The effect of the different parameters of performance analysis (refrigeration capacity, COP, compressor power ,pressure ratio ) were investigated for various evaporating temperature and ambient temperature. .The result shows that refrigerant R22 is better than R410A in case...

A linear stability analysis is applied to determine the onset of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in cylindrical liquid bridges of large Prandtl numbers (4 6 Pr 6 50). We focus on the relationships between the critical Reynolds number Rec, the azimuthal wave number m, the aspect ratio Γ and the Prandtl number Pr. A detailed Rec-Pr stability diagram is given for liquid bridges with various...

In this study, the performance of permeation tube (PT) devices for the generation of VOC calibration gas was examined by successively generating BTX gas at five temperatures (30, 50, 70, 80, and 100 °C) and two flow rates (400 and 800 mL min⁻¹). A distinct relationship was observed between temperatures and permeation rates (PR) (or generated BTX concentrations). We examined the reliability of t...

BACKGROUND Although pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been reported to improve exercise capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, it is unknown which exercise measurement is the most responsive for evaluation of PR efficacy. The purpose of this study was to compare the responsiveness of 5 exercise measurements by evaluating the efficacy of PR in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary...