A series of 520 cases of non-Hodgkin‘s lymphoma (NHL; 374 of B-cell, 130 of T-cell, 5 of non-Blnon-T-cell, and 11 of undetermined phenotype) was analyzed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) using RNA in situ hybridization (RISH). The aims of the study were to assess the frequency of EBV-encoded small nuclear RNAs 1 and 2 (EBER), abundant immediate early RNAs (BHLF), and latent membrane...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been suggested to play a role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, reports on detailed EBV transcript analyses in HCCs are limited. It was shown recently that expression of the transforming BARF1 (BamHI A rightward open reading frame 1) gene of EBV is restricted to latently EBV-infected epithelial malignancies, i.e. nasopharyngeal carcinoma and gastric carcin...

BACKGROUND and objectives: In this study, we investigated how enteric plexuses protect themselves from complement mediated attack. For this purpose, the expression patterns of membrane bound complement regulatory proteins (mCRP) and their association with C3 deposition was determined. In addition, mCRP expression patterns of enteric plexuses were compared with those in the central nervous syste...

The original, resolution-based Davis-Putnam satisfiability algorithm (Davis & Putnam 1960) was recently revived by (Dechter & Rish 1994) under the name “directional resolution” (DR). We provide new positive complexity results for DR. First, we identify a class of theories (ACT, Acyclic Component Theories), which includes many real-world theories, for which DR takes polynomial time. Second, we p...

The paper addresses the problem of computing lower bounds on the optimal costs associated with each unary assignment of a value to a variable in combinatorial optimization problems. This task is instrumental in probabilistic reasoning and is also important for the development of admissible heuristic functions that can guide search algorithms for optimal solutions. The paper presents UD-MB, a ne...

S (PH D FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING) Study on Beam Forming and Direction-of-Arrival Measurement for Solar Power Satellite A. K. M. Baki Laboratory ofApplied Radio Engineering for Humanosphere, RISH, Kyoto University. Figure 1 Normalized radiation patterns for phased array antenna of uniform amplitude, -10 dB Gaussian tapering, -10 dB lTD and -10 dB ITDU. 33 elements from each side were t...

PURPOSE Molecular characterization of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) in the bone marrow (BM) of breast cancer (BC) patients has been hindered by their rarity. To enrich for these cells using an antigen-independent methodology, we have evaluated a size-based microfiltration device in combination with several downstream biomarker assays. METHODS BM aspirates were collected from healthy volunte...