PURPOSE To determine if early post-treatment central choroidal thickness (CCT) changes can predict sunset glow fundus (SGF) development in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease treated using systemic corticosteroids. METHODS This retrospective case series included 39 eyes of 21 treatment-naïve patients with acute VKH disease who could be followed up for more than 12 months after sy...

Three protein binding sites have been identified in the upstream region of the sericin-1 gene. Two of them, SA and SC sites, have been known as putative cis-acting elements. Using synthetic oligonucleotides of these binding sites, it was found that silk gland factor-1 (SGF-1) binds to the SA site, and silk gland factor-3 (SGF-3) binds to the SC site but not to a mutated SC site, SCM. Tissue dis...

Information on the comparative digestibility of food allergens and non-allergenic proteins is crucial when stability to digestion is to be used as a criterion to assess the allergenic potential of novel proteins. Preheating effect on in vitro digestibility has not been fully examined. In this study we investigated the preheating effect of in vitro digestibility of several proteins and their pro...

This study uses the melt compounding method to produce polypropylene (PP)/short glass fibers (SGF) composites. PP serves as matrix while SGF serves as reinforcement. Two coupling agents, maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene, (PP-g-MA) and maleic anhydride grafted styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer (SEBS-g-MA) are incorporated in the PP/SGF composites during the compounding proc...

Bisphosphonates are established as supportive therapy to reduce the frequency and severity of cancer-related skeletal complications. Oral formulations are preferred over intravenous if the patients are not hospitalized. The maximum absorption of oral bisphosphonates takes place in stomach. The adverse events with oral dosing are seen in buccal mucosa and gastrointestinal tract, which lead to po...

Statistical Geometric Features (SGF) have recently been proposed for the classification of image textures. The SGF method is easily extended to use other geometric properties of connected regions. Following a brief review of the method, we propose such an extension to the set of SGF features for the purpose of classifying cervical cell textures. The resulting method proves to be as powerful as ...

We describe a Slot Grammar (SG) parser for Arabic, ASG, and new features of SG designed to accommodate Arabic as well as the European languages for which SGs have been built. We focus on the integration of BAMA with ASG, and on a new, expressive SG grammar formalism, SGF, and illustrate how SGF is used to advantage in ASG.

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission has recently received significant research attention due to its outstanding ability of serving grant-free (GF) users with grant-based (GB) users’ spectrum, which greatly improves the spectrum efficiency and effectively relieves massive problem 5G beyond networks. In this paper, we first study outage performance gr...

Presented here is an extension of the spectral Green’s function-constant nodal (SGF-CN) method for numerical solution energy multigroup, fixed-source, discrete ordinates (SN) problems in X, Y-geometry with arbitrary L’th-order scattering anisotropy, provided L<N. This analytical coarse-mesh uses multigroup SGF numerically solving one-dimensional transverse-integrated SN equations constant ap...

In this paper, we analyze the outage performance of a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-aided semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission system, in which grant-based user (GBU) and grant-free users (GFUs) base station by sharing same resource blocks. RSMA-aided SGF (RSMA-SGF) GBU admitted GFU are respectively treated as primary secondary using cognitive radio principle. With aid RSMA, GFU’s transmi...