Whole genome association studies of complex human diseases represent a new paradigm in the postgenomic era. In this study, we report application of the Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array containing 11,555 SNPs in a pilot case-control study of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) that included the analysis of germ line samples from 50 ...

Observed spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and luminous X-ray binaries in our Galaxy suggest that both hot (∼ 10K) and cold (∼ 10K) plasma components exist close to the central accreting black hole. Hard X-ray component of the spectra is usually explained by Compton upscattering of optical/UV photons from optically thick cold plasma by hot electrons. Observations also indicate that some o...

Abstract: Single feature is inefficient to describe content of an image, which is a shortcoming in traditional image retrieval task. We know that one image can be described by different features. Multi-feature fusion ranking can be utilized to improve the ranking list of query. In this paper, we first analyze graph structure and multi-feature fusion re-ranking from manifold aspect. Then, Three ...

ddPCR is getting more and popular in the field of eDNA-based aquatic monitoring. Even if emulsion PCR used confers a partial resistance to inhibition due high number reactions for same sample (between 10K 20K), it not impervious it. Inhibition impacts fluorescence amplitude positive droplets, affecting both their dispersion position relatively negative droplets cloud. This fluctuation could jeo...

Sign languages are independent of deaf communities. The translation from normal (i.e., Vietnamese Language - VL) as long other sign to language (VSL) is a meaningful task that breaks down communication barriers and improves the quality life for community. In this paper, we experimented with proposed several methods building improving models VL VSL task. We presented data augmentation method imp...

Device simulation was employed to investigate the effect of metal back contact electrodes on performance n-type CdS/p-CIGS thin film solar cells using varying thicknesses absorber layer at operating temperature 300K. The working temperatures also studied from 300K 400K in steps 10K. simulations were carried out standard cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS) 3.3.03 version software. results showed ...

In the absence of H2 molecules, the primordial gas in early dark matter halos with virial temperatures just above Tvir > ∼ 10K cools by collisional excitation of atomic H. Although it cools efficiently, this gas remains relatively hot, at a temperature near T ∼ 8000 K, and consequently might be able to avoid fragmentation and collapse directly into a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In order for...

The interactions between a series of poly(ethylene oxide)s covalently labeled at both ends with pyrene pendants (PEO(X)-Py2, where X represents the number-average molecular weight of the PEO chains and equals 2K, 5K, 10K, and 16.5K) and an ionic surfactant, namely, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), in water were investigated at a fixed pyrene concentration of 2.5 μM corresponding to polymer concent...

This work reports on a pioneering study of the electron transport in nanometer-thick Ir film supported by a DNA fiber, and the phonon transport sustained by the DNA itself. By evaluating the electrical resistivity (re)~temperature relation based on the Block-Grüneisen theory, we find the Ir film has weak phonon softening indicated by 7e15% Debye temperature reduction. The Ir film's intrinsic re...