Keloids are disfiguring, inflammatory fibroproliferative growths that expand beyond the borders of cutaneous insults. To elucidate regulatory mechanisms in keloid pathogenesis, we performed transcriptional profiling biopsies from keloids as well adjacent non-lesional (NL) skin on African-American participants (n=3). We identified 344 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between and normal -- 2...

Summary: The combination of 1320-nm laser lipolysis with lipoaspiration was observed to improve the appearance and contour of the infrachin neck, doubling the improvement seen with prior lipoaspiration performed by identical technique but without the addition of laser lipolysis. This is a preliminary report as to safety of the use of 1320-nm laser lipolysis. No adverse effects were observed in ...

This paper describes a speech coder for low bit rates using a parametric representation of voiced excitation waveforms (Glottal ARX) and standard LPC for unvoiced. For efficient compression purposes the excitation and spectrum parameters are quantized with vector quantization (VQ). This has resulted in a glottal vocoder operating at 1320 bits/s and sounding more natural than a standard LPC voco...

INTRODUCTION........................................................................1299 I. THE QUEST FOR “CURES” ......................................................1303 II. FAILED EFFORTS TO MAKE “HOMOSEXUALS” SICK......1311 A. WHAT MAKES A PERSON MENTALLY ILL .............................1313 B. THE DEPATHOLOGIZATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY.................1316 C. CAUSAL THEORIES OF DISORDER........

Endo- β -1, 4-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) is a key enzyme in the degradation of Arabinoxylan (AX). AX and its products are substances that affect viscosity, turbidity, filtration speed, alcohol, foam performance, health care function wheat beer. A malt-derived endo- was isolated purified by our group previous stage. The aim this study to investigate effects addition on quality composition hopped wort...

Two WDM channels at 1320 nm and 1312 nm carrying RF signals are simultaneously up/down converted by a fiber-based optoelectronic oscillator. The conversion efficiency are found (obe-8 dB and the incoming signals has no effects on the local oscillator spectral purity.