The influence of rhizosphere/rhizoplane culture conditions on the ability of various rhizobia to bind soybean seed lectin (SBL) was examined. Eleven strains of the soybean symbiont, Rhizobium japonicun4 and six strains of various heterologous Rhizobium species were cultured in root exudate of soybean ( Glycine max IL.I Merr.) and in association with roots of soybean seedlings which were growing...

Introduction T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) is a widely disseminated disease worldwide. Triptolide (TPL) is purified from Chinese herb and displays anti-inflammatory, anti-fertility, anti-tumor and immunosuppressive effects. Materials and methods Here, in vitro and in vivo experiments were conducted to investigate the anti-tumor effect of TPL treatment in T-LBL and the potential mechan...

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) encounters severe performance degradation with insufficient training samples in inhomogeneous environments. Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) algorithms have attracted extensive attention because of their robust and self-regularizing nature. In this study, a computationally efficient SBL STAP algorithm Laplace prior is developed. Firstly, hierarchical model fo...

This paper presents an efficient sparse representation approach to direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using uniform linear arrays. The proposed approach constructs the jointly sparse model in real domain by exploiting the properties of centro-Hermitian matrices. Subsequently, DOA estimation is realized via the sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) algorithm. Further, the pruning threshold of SBL is...

We have synthesized a set of double-labeled fluorescent probes and evaluated the performance of these fluorescent probes in sequencing by ligation (SBL). The results indicated that the ligation efficiency and specificity of double-labeled fluorescent probes was as higher as that of singe-labeled fluorescent probes. Moreover, double-labeled f luorescent p robes y ielded a r emarkable i ncrease i...

A 7-year-old Japanese girl who had undergone living-donor liver transplantation (LT) at the age of 10 months for decompensated liver cirrhosis caused by biliary atresia presented with recurrent episodes of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) with anemia. Over the following 6 years, she experienced five episodes of GIB requiring hospitalization. Subsequent evaluations including repeat esopha...

OBJECTIVE To compare students' test scores and perceptions of problem-based learning (PBL) and lecture-based learning (LBL) by applying a PBL-variant. METHOD For the transition from LBL to PBL, PBL was varied for one discipline only and for a large group of students. Two hundred forty nine second year medical students were taught a topic of Biochemistry by the LBL method and then 141 of these...

Background: Prognostic biomarkers for cancer have the power to change the course of disease if they add value beyond known prognostic factors, if they can help shape treatment protocols, and if they are reliable. The aim of this study was to identify such biomarkers for colon cancer and to understand the molecular mechanisms leading to prognostic stratifications based on these biomarkers. Metho...

DEDICATION To my parents, thank you for always encouraging me to explore the world. v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would to thank my advisor, Julie M. Goddard, for her guidance and support throughout my degree. Thanks are also due to the entire Bioengineering group, especially Luis Bastarrachea for his mentorship and advice. I would also like to extend my gratitude to my committee members, Amanda Kinchla...

Abstract The navigation and positioning subsystem offers important position information for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) system. It plays a crucial role during the exploration operations of AUV. Many scholars research positioning. Various improved methods systems were presented. However, as diversity ocean environment, random drift gyroscope, error accumulation, variety tasks, other n...