We study codes over GF (q) that can correct t channel errors assuming the error values are known. This is a counterpart to the well-known problem of erasure correction, where error values are found assuming the locations are known. The correction capabilities of these so called t-location correcting codes (t-LCCs) are characterized by a new metric, the decomposability distance, which plays a ro...

Laser surface treatment is a very useful technology for the fabrication of functional surfaces. In this study, novel antifouling surfaces are fabricated by laser cladding TC4 and Ni60 mixed materials in various mass ratios on 316L stainless steel substrates. Parametric studies carried out to investigate effects powder parameters performance clad coatings (LCCs). The mechanism LCCs investigated ...

In this work, we construct the first locally-correctable codes (LCCs), and locally-testable codes (LTCs) with constant rate, constant relative distance, and sub-polynomial query complexity. Specifically, we show that there exist binary LCCs and LTCs with block length n, constant rate (which can even be taken arbitrarily close to 1), constant relative distance, and query complexity exp(Õ( √ logn...

Pulmonary large cell carcinoma (LCC) was re-defined under the 2015 WHO classification criteria. However, the clinicopathological features and genetic mutation statuses of Chinese LCC patients based on the new classification have rarely been investigated. Twenty-four Chinese surgically resected LCC patients previously diagnosed under the 2004 WHO criteria were re-classified under the 2015 WHO cr...

abstract p u rpose: this study aimed to correlation between the grading stenosis and the start back screening tool (sbst) in patients diagnosed with lumbar central canal stenosis (lccs). methods: in a prospective clinical study, a total of 269 patients with lccs were asked to respond to the questionnaire at their first visits. grading of lccs on mri was determined and also the severities of the...

Lignin-carbohydrate complexes (LCCs) are recognised as key structures in forage degradability. Apart from ester bonds involving phenolic acids, which seem to play a major role in grasses, little is known about the other types of linkages that must exist but have proved difficult to demonstrate. The chemical nature of possible LCC linkages is presented and the various mechanisms through which LC...

BACKGROUND Recently, a prominent antiviral and macrophage stimulatory activity of cacao lignin-carbohydrate complex (LCC) has been reported. However, the solubility and sterility of LCC have not been considered yet. In the present study, complete solubilisation and sterilisation was achieved by autoclaving under mild alkaline conditions and the previously reported biological activities were re-...

Recent works revealed that the energy required to control a complex network depends on the number of driving signals and the energy distribution follows an algebraic scaling law. If one implements control using a small number of drivers, e.g. as determined by the structural controllability theory, there is a high probability that the energy will diverge. We develop a physical theory to explain ...

Caffeine-activated, large-conductance, nonselective cation channels (LCCs) have been found in the plasma membrane of isolated cardiac myocytes in several species. However, little is known about the effects of opening these channels. To examine such effects and to further understand the caffeine-activation mechanism, we carried out studies using whole-cell patch-clamp techniques with freshly iso...

Dendritic cells (DCs) have a central role in the development of adaptive immune responses, including antitumor immunity. Factors present in the tumor milieu can alter the maturation of DCs and inhibit their capacity to activate T cells. Using gene expression analysis, we found that human DCs increased the expression of TGF-beta1 transcripts following culture with human lung carcinoma cells (LCC...