OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation of fatigue with pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients and with disability in osteoarthritis patients. METHODS Twenty patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 20 patients with osteoarthritis were evaluated. The degree of fatigue was evaluated with a visual analogue scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue. Pain was evaluated with a visual anal...

Aggregative and solitary behaviors are universal phenomena in animals. Interestingly, locusts (Locusta migratoria) can reversibly transit their behavior between gregarious and solitary phase through conspecific attraction and repulsion. However, the regulatory mechanism of neurotransmitters underlying attraction and repulsion among locusts remains unknown. In this study, we found gregarious and...

The mammalian nucleolar proteins nucleostemin and GNL3-like (GNL3L) are encoded by paralogous genes that arose from an ancestral invertebrate gene, GNL3. Invertebrate GNL3 has been implicated in ribosome biosynthesis, as has its mammalian descendent, GNL3L. The paralogous mammalian nucleostemin protein has, instead, been implicated in cell renewal. Here, we found that depletion of nucleostemin ...

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), also called as Query By Image Content (QBIC). Content Based Image Retrieval is the method to retrieve stored image from database by supplying query image instead of text. This is achieved using proper feature extraction and matching process. Here we have implemented two methods of content based image retrieval using color and texture. In feature extraction ...

As an E-learning provider, before offering such a product it needs to carry out a thorough analysis in order to understand the customers and trends, and evaluate external environmental forces which include market demand, political and legal forces, social and ethical influences, technology and competition. Through conducting a thorough analysis, a clear strategy can be developed that identifies...

A receptor-ligand interaction can evoke a broad range of biological activities in different cell types depending on receptor identity and cell type-specific post-receptor signaling intermediates. Here, we show that the TNF family member LIGHT, known to act as a death-triggering factor in motoneurons through LT-βR, can also promote axon outgrowth and branching in motoneurons through the same rec...

In this paper, we attempts to learn a single metric across two heterogeneous domains where source domain is fully labeled and has many samples while target domain has only a few labeled samples but abundant unlabeled samples. To the best of our knowledge, this task is seldom touched. The proposed learning model has a simple underlying motivation: all the samples in both the source and the targe...

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this work was to reduce the time needed for whole brain resting-state functional connectivity imaging (R-fMRI) using an EPI sequence with sufficiently thin slices that signal dropout from intravoxel dephasing no longer occurs. Functional connectivity across the whole brain requires acquisition of each whole-brain dataset within a TR value that is approximately the s...

OBJECTIVE Perceived stress; emotional eating; anhedonia; depression and dietary restraint, hunger, and disinhibition have been studied as risk factors for obesity. However, the majority of studies have been cross-sectional and the directionality of these relationships remains unclear. In this longitudinal study, we assess their impact on future weight change. METHODS Psychological predictors ...