HGF/c-Met system has covered, in the past two decades, multiple areas of research, from basic cell biology to clinical trials. This research topic witnessed a good deal of scientific interest and progress. [...].

This study investigated the effect of muscular endurance training on O2-cost and performance in double poling (DP) on a rollerski treadmill. Twenty-two well-trained cross-country skiers (31 ± 4 years, 77 ± 9 kg, 181 ± 8 cm, VO2max running: 64 ± 5 mL·kg-1·min-1) were counter-balanced to either a combined muscular endurance and running interval training group [MET; n = 11 (♂ = 9, ♀ = 2)], or an e...

BACKGROUND The Valine158Methionine (Val158Met) polymorphism of the COMT gene leads to lower enzymatic activity and higher dopamine availability in Met carriers. The Met allele is associated with better performance and reduced prefrontal cortex activation during working memory (WM) tasks in adults. Dopaminergic system changes during adolescence may lead to a reduction of basal dopamine levels, p...

This paper proposes a new mechanism called the Priority Token Bank for admission control, scheduling, and policing in integrated-services networks. In such networks, both arrival processes and performance objectives can vary greatly from one packet stream to another. There are two principal components to the Priority Token Bank: accepting or rejecting requests to admit entire packet streams, wh...

This paper proposes a new mechanism called the Priority Token Bank for admission control, scheduling, and policing in integrated-services networks. In such networks, both arrival processes and performance objectives can vary greatly from one packet stream to another. There are two principal components to the Priority Token Bank: accepting or rejecting requests to admit entire packet streams, wh...

two experiments were conducted to evaluate the different levels of selenium supplements on performance, blood metabolites and nutrient digestibility in mehraban male lambs. the first experiment consisted of 18 lambs, 4-5 months of age and 35.9±2.7 kg average in weight randomly allotted to 3 treatments. treatments were: 1) control diet (a diet without selenium, containing 0.06 ppm of selenium), ...

Embedded systems sometimes experience transient overloads due to workload bursts. Such systems have to be designed to take timely reactions at the occurrences of unexpected situations. The development of smart techniques that focus the available computing power on these urgent events and at the same time, slow down the processing frequency during inactive periods could be the key for preserving...

C-based cycle-accurate simulations are used to evaluate the performance of a Network-On-Chip (NoC) based on an improved version of the modified Fat Tree topology. The modification simplifies routing further and guarantee orderly reception of packets without any loss of performance. Several traffic models have been used in these simulations; Bursty and non-bursty traffic with uniformlydistribute...

OBJECTIVE The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different methionine (Met) sources on production performance, reproduction performance, egg quality and serum biochemical indices in broiler breeders. METHODS After receiving a basal diet (containing 0.25% Met) for a 2-wk pretreatment period, a total of 360 39-wk-old Lingnan yellow broiler breeders were randomly allocated to four tr...