Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) C-Sarma (or FSC) is a prototype of subgroup C FeLVs, which induce fatal aplastic anemia in outbred specific-pathogen-free (SPF) cats. FeLV C isolates also possess an extended host range in vitro, including an ability, unique among FeLVs, to replicate in guinea pig cells. To identify the viral determinants responsible for the pathogenicity and host range of FSC we co...

Purpose: To compare, in commercially-insured individuals ≥40 years old, the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations and COPD-related health care utilization and costs in patients initiating maintenance treatment with fluticasone propionate/salmeterol xinafoate 250 μg/50 μg (FSC) with those in patients initiating treatment with tiotropium bromide (TIO) Design: Retrospe...

In fuzzy clustering algorithms each object has a fuzzy membership associated with each cluster indicating the degree of association of the object to the cluster. Here we present a fuzzy subspace clustering algorithm, FSC, in which each dimension has a weight associated with each cluster indicating the degree of importance of the dimension to the cluster. Using fuzzy techniques for subspace clus...

We discuss the role of the dynamic glass-forming fragile-to-strong crossover (FSC) in supercooled liquids. In the FSC, significant dynamic changes such as the decoupling (the violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation) of homologous transport parameters, e.g., the density relaxation time τ and the viscosity η, occur at a characteristic temperature T(c). We study the FSC using a scaling law appro...

This is the rst time that Fitchburg State College has entered the competition and the rst project that the students had worked on of this sort. We decided that we would split our time between building an infrastructure and on speci c techniques for information processing, and to use the project to help us understand the problem better for subsequent years. Because of the time we needed to resea...

Solid fetal spinal cord (FSC) tissue, seeded into semipermeable mini-guidance channels, was tested for the ability to promote axonal growth across the gap created by a midthoracic (T8) hemisection in adult rats. Fetal thoracic spinal cords, at embryonic days 13 to 15, were harvested and gently aspirated into mini-guidance channels (1.25 mm in diameter and 3.0 mm in length). Care was taken to ma...

We present a ≈ 20 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of the strongly lensed z = 2.285 ultra-luminous infrared galaxy FSC 10214+4724. Although this observation achieves the equivalent sensitivity of an up-to ≈ 4 Ms Chandra exposure (when corrected for gravitational lensing), the rest-frame 1.6–26.3 keV emission from FSC 10214+4724 is weak (LX ≈ 2×10 erg s for a lensing boost of ≈ 100); a significant ...

In this paper, a new family of shape descriptors called Free Shape Contexts (FSC) is introduced to generalize the existing 3D Shape Contexts. The FSC introduces more degrees of freedom than its predecessor by allowing the level of complexity to vary between its parts. Also, each part of the FSC has an associated activity state which controls whether the part can contribute a feature value. We d...

It is essential to define the mechanisms by which external signals regulate adult stem cell numbers, stem cell maintenance, and stem cell proliferation to guide regenerative stem cell therapies and to understand better how cancers originate in stem cells. In this paper, we show that Hedgehog (Hh) signaling in Drosophila melanogaster ovarian follicle stem cells (FSCs) induces the activity of Yor...

Functional data, where samples are random functions, are increasingly common and important in a variety of applications, such as health care and traffic analysis. They are naturally high dimensional and lie along complex manifolds. These properties warrant use of the subspace assumption, but most state-of-the-art subspace learning algorithms are limited to linear or other simple settings. To ad...