Strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries is one of the most effective ways of advancing their health and development but the complexity and heterogeneity of health research capacity strengthening (RCS) initiatives means it is difficult to evaluate their effectiveness. Our study aimed to enhance understanding about these difficulties and to make recommendations about h...

Previous studies have revealed that the reticulum cell sarcoma (RCS) of SJL/J (H-2s, IE-) mice express an "IE-like" stimulatory tumor-associated antigen, the expression of which is requisite for stimulating host T cells necessary for tumor growth. Herein, we present evidence that the predominant T cells raised in the syngeneic response to both spontaneous and transplantable RCS tumors are of th...

The results of studies on the reticulum cell sarcoma (RCS) tumors of SJL/J mice presented here, indicate that spontaneous tumors, which arise in older mice, also possess the capacity to induce the vigorous proliferative response in syngenetic T lymphocytes that are characteristic of the transplantable RCS lines. Analysis of cell surface antigens revealed the presence of Ia determinats on gradie...

This paper discusses in-house designed and developed scale-down DVB-RCS hub along with the performance of the realized hub. This development is intended to support the Satellite Based e-Learning initiative in India. The scale-down DVB-RCS HUB is implemented around a single PC with other subsystems making it very cost effective and unique of its kind. This realization will drastically reduce the...

INTRODUCTION: Versican is a large chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG). It is one of extracellular proteoglycans that bind to hyaluronan (HA) of which aggrecan, the cartilage-specific proteoglycan is the prototype. Previous studies reported that versican expression is correlated with tumor progression in several types of cancer.(1) Our preliminary study indicated that versican did not expres...

This paper describes a new generation of MorphoSys, a s ystem-on-chip that incorporates hardware, supports to achieve interactive ray tracing. It has a matrix of 8x8 SIMD reconfigurable cells (RCs) to facilitate different mapping schemes. We have identified the ray tracing mapping scheme with a good trade-off between speed, power, and bandwidth requirement. A pseudo branch mechanism and local R...

The Swarm rat chondrosarcoma (RCS) cell lines derived from a spontaneous neoplasm in a rat spine several decades ago have provided excellent models of chondrosarcoma tumor development. In addition the robust chondrocyte phenotype (expression of a large panel of genes identical to that seen in normal rat cartilage) and the ability to generate cell clones have facilitated their extensive use in t...

Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) rats are a well established animal model of inherited retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Using RCS rats we examined the distribution of nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the visual cortex, geniculate nucleus and retina at three different postnatal ages. It was found that the retina of rats with RP expresses low amounts of NGF and B...

Polyunsaturated fats have been linked to occurrences of sporadic colon cancer. One possible cause may be degradation of polyunsaturated fats during cooking, resulting in multiple reactive carbonyl species (RCS) that can damage nuclear DNA and proteins, particularly in rapidly dividing colon crypt cells. This study describes a novel antiserum against RCS-modified DNA, with apparent order of reac...

The temporal jerkiness removal for the H.263/H.263+ video conferencing system is the main object of this research. We proposed a fast block-based motion-compensated frame interpolation (FMCI) scheme which does not require any motion search in the decoder end, and therefore the complexity is low enough for achieving the real-time frame rate increase. In order to further improve the visual qualit...