The role of cells expressing stem cell markers deltaNp63 and CD44v has not yet been elucidated in peripheral-type lung squamous cell carcinoma (pLSCC) carcinogenesis. Female A/J mice were painted topically with N-nitroso-tris-chloroethylurea (NTCU) for induction of pLSCC, and the histopathological and molecular characteristics of NTCU-induced lung lesions were examined. Histopathologically, we ...

There is still controversy regarding the role of circulating endothelial and progenitor cells (CECs/CEPs) in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Using a sequential Boolean gating strategy based on a 4-color flow cytometric protocol, an increased number of CD31(pos)/CD184(pos)(CXCR4)/CD34(pos)/CD45(pos) and CD31(pos)/CD117(pos) (c-kit-R) /CD34(pos)/ CD45(pos) hematopoietic circulating ...

/*@ public normal_behavior @ requires !isEmpty(); @ ensures \old(queue).has(\result) && @ queue.equals(\old(queue).remove(\result)) && @ (\forall Comparable o; queue.has(o); @ \result.compareTo(o) <= 0); @ modifies queue; @*/ public Comparable removeFirst() { Comparable first = elems[0]; Comparable last = elems[--numElems]; int pos = 0; int child = 1; while (child < numElems) { if (child + 1 < ...

Part of Speech (POS) tagging is the task of labeling each word in a sentence with its appropriate syntactic category called part of speech. POS tagging is a very important preprocessing task for language processing activities. In this paper, we report about our work on POS tagging for Bengali by combining different POS tagging systems using three weighted voting techniques. The individual POS t...

In this article, four Part-of-Speech (PoS) taggers for Spanish are compared. The evaluation has been carried out without prior training or tuning of the PoS taggers. To allow for a comparison across PoS taggers, their tagsets have been mapped to the universal PoS tagset (Petrov, Das, and McDonald, 2012). The PoS taggers have also been compared as regards the information they provide and how the...

We examined a multidimensional measure of perceived organizational support (adjustment POS, career POS, and financial POS) within an integtrative stress model of expatriate success. Expatriate success was defined in terms of multiple criteria and the predictors included role stressors, situational stressors, supervisor support, and POS. Hypotheses were tested with 230 expatriate–supervisor dyad...

This paper presents a joint model for learning morphology and part-of-speech (PoS) tags simultaneously. The proposed method adopts a finite mixture model that groups words having similar contextual features thereby assigning the same PoS tag to those words. While learning PoS tags, words are analysed morphologically by exploiting similar morphological features of the learned PoS tags. The resul...

To investigate the effect of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) on the phagocytic activity in iris pigment epithelial (IPE) cells, purified porcine photoreceptor outer segments (POS) were applied to cultured IPE cells for three hours. To measure phagocytic activities, bound and total POS were differentially stained using a double immunofluorescence staining method. BDNF increased the bind...

INTRODUCTION Cytokines and their receptor genes are very polymorphic. SNPs in the promotor region of the gene may influence the rate of cytokine secretion and may affect the biological activity of the encoded cytokine. A number of cytokines and cytokine receptors have been directly linked to the development of human cancers. The aim of our study was to determine the cytokine gene polymorphism i...