Introduction Morphea and lichen sclerosus (LS) are chronic inflammatory diseases that may pose a diagnostic challenge for a physician. High-frequency ultrasonography (HFUS) is a versatile diagnostic method utilized in dermatologic practice, allowing monitoring the course of the disease, treatment response and differentiation between certain skin disorders. Aim To prove the usefulness of HFUS ...

The multi-objective, multi-armed bandits (MOMABs) problem is a Markov decision process with stochastic rewards. Each arm generates a vector of rewards instead of a single reward and these multiple rewards might be conflicting. The agent has a set of optimal arms and the agent’s goal is not only finding the optimal arms, but also playing them fairly. To find the optimal arm set, the agent uses a...

The extended amygdala has dominated research on the neural circuitry of fear and anxiety, but the septohippocampal axis also plays an important role. The lateral septum (LS) is thought to suppress fear and anxiety through its outputs to the hypothalamus. However, this structure has not yet been dissected using modern tools. The type 2 CRF receptor (Crfr2) marks a subset of LS neurons whose func...

AIM To implement molecular analysis in the clinical diagnosis and management of Lynch syndrome (LS). METHODS We analyzed the mutations in MLH1 and MSH2 in the selected LS families from the Republic of Macedonia. RESULTS We performed the very first genetic identification of LS families and characterized a novel mutation. The novel nonsense germline point mutation c.392C>G in the codon 131 of...

In the present study, the effect of different concentrations of cell-free supernatant (CFS; 10.00 and 35.00 mg g-1) of Lactobacillus salivarius (Ls-BU2) on chemical, microbial and sensorial specifications of ground beef stored under the refrigerated condition was investigated. The antibacterial activity of CFS on Escherichia coli was also assessed. According to agar...

Loosely speaking, a stationary time series is one whose statistical properties remain constant over time, whereas the statistical properties of locally stationary (LS) time series change slowly over time. As a consequence, LS series can appear stationary when examined close up, but appear nonstationary when examined on a larger scale. Priestley (1983) and Nason and von Sachs (1999) review local...

We prove that from categoricity in λ we can get categoricity in all cardinals ≥ λ in a χ-tame abstract elementary classe K which has arbitrarily large models and satisfies the amalgamation and joint embedding properties, provided λ > LS(K) and λ ≥ χ. For the missing case when λ = LS(K), we prove that K is totally categorical provided that K is categorical in LS(K) and LS(K).

The Least-Squares (LS) acoustic source location estimation technique is reported for the application in a wireless sensor network. The technique uses acoustic signal energy measurements taken at individual sensors of a wireless sensor network to estimate an acoustic source location. In this paper, an improved formulation of this localization problem, which clarifies the LS estimation errors, is...

Using data from 17 years of a large and nationally representative panel study from Germany, the authors examined whether there is a set point for life satisfaction (LS)--stability across time, even though it can be perturbed for short periods by life events. The authors found that 24% of respondents changed significantly in LS from the first 5 years to the last 5 years and that stability declin...