BACKGROUND Understanding the interaction of graphene-related materials (GRM) with human cells is a key to the assessment of their potential risks for human health. There is a knowledge gap regarding the potential uptake of GRM by human intestinal cells after unintended ingestion. Therefore the aim of our study was to investigate the interaction of label-free graphene oxide (GO) with the intesti...

Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a pro-hemostatic multimeric plasma protein that promotes platelet aggregation and stabilizes coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) in plasma. The metalloproteinase ADAMTS13 regulates the platelet aggregation function of VWF via proteolysis. Severe deficiency of ADAMTS13 is associated with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, but does not always correlate with its clinic...

The antigenicity of Photobacterium damselae (Ph. d.) subsp. piscicida, cultured in four different growth media [tryptone soya broth (TSB), glucose-rich medium (GRM), iron-depleted TSB (TSB + IR(-)), and iron-depleted GRM (GRM + IR(-))] was compared by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot analysis using sera obtained from sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) raised against live ...

The programmability has long been used as a tool to prove security of schemes in the random oracle model (ROM) even in the cases where schemes do not seem to have a security proof in the standard model [3, 8, 10]. On the other hand, it seems that a similar property has never been studied in the generic models, i.e., the generic ring and group models, respectively the GRM and the GGM. This work ...

The authors apply the Generalized Rectangular Model (GRM) for assessing students’ critical thinking skills. GRM is a variation of the center of gravity (COG) defuzzification technique, which was properly adapted and used by them several times in the past as an assessment method, called here the Rectangular Model (RM). The central idea of the GRM is the “movement” to the left of the rectangles a...

INTRODUCTION This study first aimed to determine the adequacy of the Diagnosis Related Grouping (DRG) model's ability to explain (1) the variance in the actual length of stay (LOS) of elderly medical inpatients and (2) the LOS difference in the same cohort between the departments of Geriatric Medicine (GRM) and General Medicine (GM). We then looked at how these explanatory abilities of the DRG ...

Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) has been used to estimate the fixed effects and random effects of complex traits. Traditionally, genomic relationship matrix-based (GRM) and random marker-based BLUP analyses are prevalent to estimate the genetic values of complex traits. We used three methods: GRM-based prediction (G-BLUP), random marker-based prediction using an identity matrix (so-calle...

Applying the modeling method of grey system and accumulated generating operation of reciprocal number for the problem of lower precision as well as lower adaptability in non-equidistant GM(1,1) model, a non-equidistant GRM(1,1) model generated by accumulated generating operation of reciprocal number was put forward. Based on index characteristic of grey model and the definition of integral meth...

Within recent years glucose tolerance has been used as a means of investigating disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism, especially when following disorders of the endocrine system. In such tests it has generally been accepted that a normal adult, of about 60 kgrm. weight, can ingest and metabolize 100 grm. of glucose without the appearance of glycosuria. The ability to deal with more than this...

| A generalized Reed-Muller expression (GRM) is a type of AND-EXOR expressions. In a GRM, each variable may appear both complemented and uncomplemented. Networks realized using GRMs are easily tested. This paper presents GRMIN, a heuristic simpli cation algorithm for GRMs of multiple-output functions. GRMIN uses eight rules. As the primary objective, it reduces the number of products, and as th...