Because of the great interest in using multiagent systems (MAS) in a wide variety of applications in recent years, agentoriented methodologies and related modeling techniques have become a priority for the development of large scale agentbased systems. The work we present here belongs to the disciplines of Software Engineering and Distributed Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, we are i...

ferent alternatives for defining a strategy. The screened population size has been reported in simulation studies Designing a highly efficient backcross (BC) marker-assisted selecas the most important factor affecting the efficiency of tion (MAS) experiment is not a straightforward exercise, efficiency being defined here as the ratio between the resources that need to MAS (Zhang and Smith, 1992...

MAS is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) implicated in multiple physiological processes. Several physiological peptide ligands such as angiotensin-(1-7), angiotensin fragments and neuropeptide FF (NPFF) are reported to act on MAS. Studies of conventional G protein signaling and receptor desensitization upon stimulation of MAS with the peptide ligands are limited so far. Therefore, we systemat...

The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is one of the major cultivated crops among economically important species. It mainly for its edible oil. For a perennial crop like palm, use Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) techniques helps to reduce breeding cycle and improve economic products. Genetic physical maps are sequencing experiments since they show exact positions genes other distinctive feature...

Background MAS is a life-threatening complication seen predominantly in children with SoJIA, often difficult to recognize because specific diagnostic criteria for MAS have not yet been devised. MAS is characterized by an overwhelming inflammatory reaction driven by excessive T cell expansion and hemophagocytic macrophages. Preliminary studies suggest that high sIL-2R α serum levels and sCD163 m...

We present diffraction-limited (30 mas) bispectrum speckle interferometry observations of the Mira star R Cas with the Russian 6 m SAO telescope. The speckle interferograms were recorded through narrow-band interference filters with centre wavelength/bandwidth of 671 nm/6 nm and 714 nm/6 nm (strong TiO absorption band), 700 nm/6 nm (moderate TiO absorption), and 1045 nm/9 nm (continuum). The re...

Arsenite [As(III)] and methylarsenite [MAs(III)] are the most toxic inorganic and methylated arsenicals, respectively. As(III) and MAs(III) can be interconverted in the unicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 (Nostoc), which has both the arsM gene (NsarsM), which is responsible for arsenic methylation, and the arsI gene (NsarsI), which is responsible for MAs(III) demethylation. It is not...

The aim of the study was to evaluate splenic glucose metabolism in macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), characterized by overwhelming systemic inflammation. Splenic F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake was compared in patients with MAS and sepsis using positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT).Clinical and FDG-PET/CT findings from patients with MAS and those with culture-proven se...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the epidemiological and reporting characteristics as well as the methodological quality of meta-analyses (MAs) of observational studies published in Chinese journals. METHODS 5 Chinese databases were searched for MAs of observational studies published from January 1978 to May 2014. Data were extracted into Excel spreadsheets, and Meta-analysis of...