BACKGROUND The rank correlation test introduced by Begg and Mazumdar is extensively used in meta-analysis to test for publication bias in clinical and epidemiological studies. It is based on correlating the standardized treatment effect with the variance of the treatment effect using Kendall's tau as the measure of association. To our knowledge, the operational characteristics regarding the sig...

PURPOSE The clinical outcome for patients with breast cancer is influenced by the metastatic competence of the cancer and its sensitivity to endocrine therapy and chemotherapy. A molecular marker may be prognostic of outcome or predictive of response to therapy, or a combination of both. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We examined separately the prognostic and predictive values of tau mRNA expression in ...

This article presents a unified approach to the abstract notions of partial convolution and involution in $L^p$-function spaces over semi-direct product of locally compact groups. Let $H$ and $K$ be locally compact groups and $tau:Hto Aut(K)$ be a continuous homomorphism.  Let $G_tau=Hltimes_tau K$ be the semi-direct product of $H$ and $K$ with respect to $tau$. We define left and right $tau$-c...

‎let $r$ be a $*$-prime ring with center‎ ‎$z(r)$‎, ‎$d$ a non-zero $(sigma,tau)$-derivation of $r$ with associated‎ ‎automorphisms $sigma$ and $tau$ of $r$‎, ‎such that $sigma$‎, ‎$tau$‎ ‎and $d$ commute with $'*'$‎. ‎suppose that $u$ is an ideal of $r$ such that $u^*=u$‎, ‎and $c_{sigma,tau}={cin‎ ‎r~|~csigma(x)=tau(x)c~mbox{for~all}~xin r}.$ in the present paper‎, ‎it is shown that...

objective(s):alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disorder. one of the hallmarks of ad is an abnormal accumulation of fibril forms of tau protein which is known as a microtubule associated protein. in this regard, inhibition of tau aggregation has been documented to be a potent therapeutic approach in ad and tauopathies. unfortunately, the available syn...

objective(s):breast cancer is an important leading cause of death from cancer. stathmin and tau proteins are regulators of cell motility, and their overexpression is associated with the progression and bad prognosis of breast cancer. memantine, an n-methyl-d-aspartate (nmda) receptor antagonist, is the potential inhibitor of tau protein in neurons. this study determines the effect of memantine ...

tau is one of several types of microtubule-associated proteins (maps), responsible for the assembly and stability of microtubule networks that is present only in neurons and predominantly localized in axons which its functions are tightly regulated by phosphorylation. via as yet unknown mechanisms, tau becomes hyperphosphorylated and accompanies with neuronal degeneration, loss of synapses, abe...

We have studied the effects of range and distribution of data on product moment and rank correlation coefficients when deviation from a linear relationship was due solely to experimentally produced random error. All correlation coefficients (Pearson r, Spearman rho, and Kendall tau) were markedly influenced by the range of the data, and, for the rank correlation coefficients, the effect of rang...

a topoframe, denoted by $l_{ tau}$,  is a pair $(l, tau)$ consisting of a frame $l$ and a subframe $ tau $ all of whose elements are complementary elements in$l$. in this paper, we define and study the notions of a$tau $-real-continuous function on a frame $l$ and the set of realcontinuous functions $mathcal{r}l_tau $ as an $f$-ring.we show that $mathcal{r}l_{ tau}$is actually a generalization ...