Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by severe aggressive and antisocial behavior. Initial evidence suggests neural deficits aberrant eye gaze pattern during emotion processing in CD; both concepts, however, have not yet been studied simultaneously. The present study assessed the functional brain correlates of emotional face with without consideration concurrent behavior adolescents CD compar...

AIM To determine the genetic predisposition to celiac disease (CeD) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients by quantifying the frequency of CeD-related human leucocyte antigen (HLA) (HLA-CeD: HLA-DQ2 and -DQ8) in IBD patients globally, by type of IBD and gender, and by calculating the protective/risk contribution of these haplotypes in the development of the IBD disease. METHODS We condu...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The incidences of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are increasing, indicating gene-environment interactions. Migrants from low-IBD-prevalence countries to a high-prevalence country may help identify the relative contribution of environmental risk factors compared with native Caucasians. METHODS This prospective case-cont...

Directed transport of interacting active (self-propelled)Brownian particles is numerically investigated in confined geometries (entropic barriers). The self-propelled velocity can break thermodynamical equilibrium and induce the directed transport. It is found that the interaction between active particles can greatly affect the ratchet transport. For attractive particles, on increasing the inte...

2:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. OF MICE, MEN AND PIGS: LOSS OF CFTR PRODUCES ABNORMAL TRACHEAL DEVELOPMENT D.K. Meyerholz, S. Ramachandran, D.A. Stoltz, M.J. Welsh, and P.B. McCray, Jr. Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Roy Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Keyword: Respiratory Syste...

BACKGROUND The onset of coeliac disease (CD) in the first year of life is uncommon and the diagnosis can be challenging due to the suboptimal sensitivity of tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTG) at this age and the many other possible causes of malabsorption in infants. Antibodies to deamidated gliadin peptides (anti-DGPs), especially IgG, may appear earlier than IgA anti-tTG in very young c...

In the present study, quality of surface water from five different locations on banks river Sutlej in Ropar wetland was determined by estimation physico-chemical parameters; indices; contents arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, lead and zinc; determination genotoxic potential samples using Allium cepa root chromosomal aberration assay plasmid pBR322 DNA nicking assay; a...

Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is based on cell-mediated immunity, most importantly involving CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell subsets. The aim of this study was to evaluate CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell profiles and CD19(+) and CD3(+)CD(16 + 56)(+) populations in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, B-lymphocytes, and natural killer (NK) cells were evaluated in 75...

Gluten-specific T cells in the small intestinal mucosa are thought to play a central role in the pathogenesis of celiac disease (CD). The vast majority of these T cells recognize gluten peptides when presented by HLA-DQ2 (DQA1*05/DQB1*02), a molecule which immunogenetic studies have identified as conferring susceptibility to CD. We have previously identified and characterized three DQ2-restrict...

1.はじめに CGで現実感のある画像を生成する技術は、いかにして物体を 忠実に表現するかの技術である。物体を特徴付ける要素として は、大きく分けて、物体の形状と、物体表面の色情報や光学属 性などの表面属性がある。物体の表面属性を表現する場合、一 般的には、バンプマッピングなどのさまざまなマッピング手法 がとられている。CGデザイナがマッピングに利用できる素材と しては、市販の CD-ROM やインターネット経由で入手できる素 材集、およびテクスチャ生成のプログラムから出力されるデー タなどがある。 本報告で取り扱う石畳を表現する場合、CGデザイナが路面の 敷石を1つ1つモデリングして表現することが理想ではある が、大変な労力を要するため現実的ではない。一方、石畳の写 真素材を路面にマッピングして表現することも可能であるが、 以下のような問題が生ずる。 ・テクスチャ全体として凹凸が激し...