Background Tumor-induced angiogenesis is an imperative event in pledging new vasculature for tumor metastasis. Since overexpression of neuronal proteins gamma-synuclein (γ-Syn) and cellular prion protein (PrPC) is always detected in advanced stages of cancer diseases which involve metastasis, this study aimed to investigate whether γ-Syn or PrPC overexpression in colorectal adenocarcinoma, LS 1...

A method based on Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) and an improved Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) is proposed for void fraction measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow. In the modeling stage, to solve the two problems in LS-SVM, pruning skills are employed to make LS-SVM sparse and robust; then the Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm is introduced to solve the difficult problem...

LS 5039 is a high-mass gamma-ray binary hosting compact object of unknown type. NuSTAR observed during its entire 3.9 day period. We performed periodic signal search up to 1000 Hz which did not produce credible period candidates. do see the 9.05 s candidate, originally reported by Yoneda et al. 2020 using same data, in Fourier power spectrum, but we find that statistical significance this featu...

Fast-starts associated with escape responses were studied in short-horn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius L.), ranging from 5.5 to 32 cm in total length (L). Electromyography and sonomicrometry were used simultaneously to measure muscle activation and length changes, respectively, in the superficial layers of fast muscle in rostral myotomes. Escape responses consisted of a half tailbeat to bend t...

Fin ray structure in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) largely defines fin function. Fin rays convert the muscle activity at the base of the fin to shape changes throughout the external fin web. Despite their critical functional significance, very little is known about the relationship between form and function in this key vertebrate structure. In this study we demonstrate that morphological s...

Lovász and Schrijver [17] introduced several lift and project methods for 0-1 integer programs, now collectively known as Lovász-Schrijver (LS) hierarchies. Several lower bounds have since been proven for the rank of various linear programming relaxations in the LS and LS+ hierarchies. In this paper we investigate rank bounds in the more general LS∗ hierarchy, which allows lifts by any derived ...