1 School of Management, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Manufacturing Systems Engineering and The Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Process Control and Efficiency Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi Province, Xi’an 710049, China 2 Institut Charles Delaunay, Université de Technologie de Troyes and FRE CNRS 2848, Laboratoire d’Optimisation des Systémes Industriels (L...

Weighted distributions have great practical importance in mathematics, probability and statistics. In this study a new discrete distribution which is weighted version of Discretized Fréchet-Weibull (DFWD), known as (WDFWD), proposed. It has been shown that the unimodal, positively skewed suitable for modelling with overdispersed count data sets. This bathtub shape decreasing hazard rate functio...

Abstract E/e′ allows for the non-invasive estimation of left ventricular (LV) filling pressure; however, Doppler malalignment can make unreliable, especially in dilated systolic failing hearts. The ratio peak early diastolic rate to global strain (FRe/SRe), which is a parameter derived from 3-D speckle-tracking echocardiography estimate pressure, may be better applied hea...

The Flp and Cre recombinases are members of the integrase family of tyrosine recombinases. Each protein consists of a 13 kDa NH(2)-terminal domain and a larger COOH-terminal domain that contains the active site of the enzyme. The COOH-terminal domain also contains the major determinants for the binding specificity of the recombinase to its cognate DNA binding site. All family members cleave the...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP), an early marker of osteoblast differentiation, has been implicated in the nucleation of hydroxyapatite during de novo bone formation. Low-power laser irradiation has a stimulating effect on cells and tissues. Although the carbon dioxide (CO(2)) laser is a hard surgical laser, we have attempted to use it at low energy density to achieve biological alterations. To investi...

Introduction: Patient health education through information leaflets plays a very important role in the understanding about diseases, drugs and lifestyle modifications in diabetes mellitus. Aim: To develop and assess the quality and readability of patient information leaflet for diabetes mellitus. Methods: patient information leaflet for diabetes mellitus was developed by referring to various on...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a mineralized tissue-specific protein expressed in differentiated osteoblasts that appears to function in the initial mineralization of bone. Calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)(2)) is a basic salt that has been widely used for a variety of applications in dentistry, due to its antimicrobial effects and its capability of inducing hard tissue formation. However, details of the m...

Immunization of C57BL/6 (B6) mice with FBL, a Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV), induces both tumor-specific cytolytic CD8+ (CTL) and lymphokine-producing CD4+ Th that are effective in adoptive therapy of B6 mice bearing disseminated FBL leukemia. The current study evaluated the F-MuLV antigenic determinants expressed on FBL that are recognized by FBL-reactive CD8+ and CD4+ T cells. To iden...

SVM Approximation for Real-time Image Segmentation by Using an Improved Hyperrectangles-based Method J. Mitéran, S. Bouillant, E. Bourennane Le2i FRE CNRS 2309 Aile des Sciences de l’ingénieur Université de Bourgogne BP 4787

RecAX53 is a chimeric variant of the Escherichia coli RecA protein (RecAEc) that contains a part of the central domain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa RecA (RecAPa), encompassing a region that differs from RecAEc at 12 amino acid positions. Like RecAPa, this chimera exhibits hyperrecombination activity in E. coli cells, increasing the frequency of recombination exchanges per DNA unit length (FRE). Re...