Sickle red cells bind significant amounts of soluble laminin, whereas normal red cells do not. Solid phase assays demonstrate that B-CAM/LU binds laminin on intact sickle red cells and that red cell B-CAM/LU binds immobilized laminin, whereas another putative laminin binding protein, CD44, does not. Ligand blots also identify B-CAM/LU as the only erythrocyte membrane protein(s) that binds lamin...

The magnetic polarization of the Lu 5d states through the Ho(1-x)Lu(x)(Fe(1-y)Al(y))(2) series has been studied by means of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. A combined study of the dichroic signals performed at the Fe K-, Ho L(2)- and Lu L(2,3)-edges gives a complete picture of the polarization scheme at the conduction band. The results show that in the presence of competing localized magneti...

Semantic transfer is an important problem of the language understanding (LU), which is about how the recognition pattern of a semantic concept benefits other associated concepts. In this paper, we propose a new semantic representation based on combinatory concepts. Semantic slot is represented as a composition of different atomic concepts in different semantic dimensions. Specifically, we propo...

Objective(s): The objectives of this work was to assess the benefits of the application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models in patients with different neuroendocrine tumours (NET) who were treatedwith Lu-177 DOTATATE. The model utilises clinical data on biodistribution of radiolabeled peptides (RLPs) obtained by whole body scintigraphy (WBS) of the patients.Methods: The blood...

Dust events of Iran mainly originate from Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and inland territories which are influenced by droughts and Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) degradation in regional scale. The aim of this research was to investigate the impact of Regional Vegetation Cover Degradation (RVCD), particularly Regional Rangeland Cover Degradation (RRCD) on frequency of dusty days in western pro...

This paper mainly designed a new method of using the Parallel LU Decomposition Algorithm for solving large-scale dense linear equations on the basis of the strategy of divide and rule,and analyzed the speedup and efficiency of the Parallel LU Decomposition Algorithm. In theory, it could improve the efficiency of problem-solving. In addition, the extension of Parallel LU Decomposition Algorithm,...

In forthcoming personal communication systems (PCSs), small cells are deployed to achieve high spectral efficiency. This has significant impacts on location tracking of mobile users. The increase in location update (LU) load leads to more contention on the reverse control channel. Thus, many algorithms are designed to distribute the LU load to a larger number of cells. This avoids the inefficie...

Dan Shen and Lu-Shen-Wan, traditional Chinese medicines used as remedies for heart diseases, demonstrate digoxin-like immunoreactivity. The digoxin-like immunoreactive components of Lu-Shen-Wan show approximately 55% protein binding, while Dan Shen demonstrates concentration-dependent protein binding (68% bound at lower concentrations but only 25% bound at higher concentrations). Because Dan Sh...

Previous reports showed that Lutzomyia longipalpis saliva exacerbate Leishmania braziliensis infection in mice. The sand fly Lu. whitmani is one of the vectors of L. (Viannia) braziliensis (LVb), a causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the State of Ceará, Brazil. To determine whether saliva of Lu. whitmani could increase the infectivity of LVb in mice, we inoculated groups of BALB/c mic...