Chlamydiae growing in target mucosal human epithelial cells in vitro can transition from their normal developmental cycle progression, alternating between infectious but metabolically inactive elementary bodies to metabolically active but noninfectious reticulate bodies (RBs) and back to elementary bodies, into a state of persistence. Persistence in vitro is defined as viable but noncultivable ...

This study evaluates the energy efficiency of pressure shock damping in a hydraulic lifting and leveling (HLL) module mobile robotic bricklaying system (RBS). The HLL includes servohydraulic actuator (SHA) damper (HSD). proposed adjustable HSD consists accumulator circuit (HAC) proportional valve. frequency characteristics impedance indices were used to evaluate effectiveness damping. dynamic r...

BACKGROUND In patients with A(H1N1)pdm09 infection, severe lung involvement requiring admission to intensive care units (ICU) has been reported. Mutations at the hemagglutinin (HA) receptor binding site (RBS) have been associated with increased virulence and disease severity, representing a potential marker of critical illness. OBJECTIVES To assess the contribution of HA-RBS variability in cr...

BACKGROUND SLC25A12 was previously identified by a linkage-directed association analysis in autism. In this study, we investigated the relationship between three SLC25A12 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs2056202, rs908670 and rs2292813) and restricted repetitive behavior (RRB) traits in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), based on a positive correlation between the G allele of rs2056202 ...

The aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical characteristics of intraoperative retinal breaks (RBs) and postoperative retinal detachment (RRD) in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for macular disorders, who were treated preoperatively with prophylactic peripheral laser retinopexy.This observational cohort study comprised of 254 patients who underwent macular surgery and were p...

Regenerative braking is an effective approach for electric vehicles (EVs) to extend their driving range. A fuzzy-logic-based regenerative braking strategy (RBS) integrated with series regenerative braking is developed in this paper to advance the level of energy-savings. From the viewpoint of securing car stability in braking operations, the braking force distribution between the front and rear...

In this paper, we study the links between RELIEF, a well-known feature re-weighting algorithm and SiLA, a similarity learning algorithm. On one hand, SiLA is interested in directly reducing the leave-one-out error or 0− 1 loss by reducing the number of mistakes on unseen examples. On the other hand, it has been shown that RELIEF could be seen as a distance learning algorithm in which a linear u...

The slow execution speed of current rule-based systems (RBS's) has restricted their application areas. To improve the speed of RBS's, researchers have proposed various electronic multiprocessor systems as well as optical systems. However, the electronic systems still suffer in performance from the large amount of required time-consuming pattern-matching and comparison operations at the core of ...

OBJECTIVES CmeABC is a resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND)-type multidrug efflux pump conferring resistance to clinically important antibiotics in Campylobacter. This study aimed to identify the optimal target sites for the inhibition of CmeABC with antisense peptide nucleic acid (PNA). METHODS Eighteen PNAs were designed to bind to the translational initiation regions of cmeABC, spanni...