INTRODUCTION Serial echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the gold standard in screening for chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity (CIC). Measurement of myocardial deformation using speckle tracking enables more detailed assessment of myocardial contractility. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between global and regional longitudinal st...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The coexistence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) was reported with a heterogeneous incidence. The wide distribution of this association may be related to differences in the level of morphological examination, autoimmunity used criteria, patient selection, surgical indication, genetic background, geographical and environmental fact...

RNA synthesis by the genotype 1b hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase (NS5B) transiently expressed in Human embryonic kidney 293T cells or liver hepatocytes was found to robustly stimulate RIG-I-dependent luciferase production from the interferon β promoter in the absence of exogenously provided ligand. This cell-based assay, henceforth named the 5BR assay, could be used to examine HCV polymerase...

Cloud phase is an important factor affecting cloud contributions to the polar energy budget. Brightness temperature differences (BTDs) between two mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral channels are commonly used in satellite remote sensing determine phase, but mid-IR has limitations for determination regions. This study explores synergy far- and ice determinations over oceans. A far-IR BTD test (BTD44...

Follicular lymphoma (FL) is one of the most frequent subtypes non-Hodgkin lymphomas. This research predicted prognosis 184 untreated follicular patients (LLMPP GSE16131 series), using gene expression data and artificial intelligence (AI) neural networks. A new strategy based on random number generation was used to create 120 different independent multilayer perceptron (MLP) solutions, 22,215 pr...

Este estudo apresenta resultados de uma revisão da literatura, que teve como objetivo identificar publicações científicas realizadas sobre a Educação Jovens e Adultos suas Práticas Pedagógicas. A realização literatura busca contribuir com novos debates o tema pesquisado, compreendendo estes compõem um contexto histórico conhecimento já produzido acumulado para construção novas análises necessár...

With a view on improving user perceived performance on networks supporting elastic flows, e.g., multimedia/data file transfers, we identify the key properties that an online bandwidth allocation policy should have. We then propose a family of bandwidth allocation criteria which depends on the network state, namely, the residual work of on-going transfers. Analysis and simulations show that allo...

Local consistency properties and algorithms for enforcing them are central to the success of Constraint Processing. Recently, we have demonstrated the importance of higher levels of consistency and the effectiveness of their algorithms for solving difficult problems (Karakashian et al. 2010; Woodward et al. 2011). In this paper, we introduce two reformulation techniques for improving the effect...

LIS-1 is a gene whose hemi-deletion causes the human neuronal migration disorder Miller-Dieker lissencephaly. It encodes a subunit of a brain platelet-activating factor (PAF) acetylhydrolase, an enzyme that inactivates PAF by hydrolyzing the acetyl moiety in the sn2 position of this phospholipid. Because PAF receptor activation has been shown to affect the developing neuronal cytoskeleton, we h...

The National Meteorological Satellite Center in Korea retrieves land surface temperature (LST) by applying the split-window LST algorithm (CSW_v1.0) to Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) data. Considerable errors were detected under conditions of high water vapor content or temperature lapse rates during validation with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS...