In Human Erythroid Massive Amplification (HEMA) cultures, AB mononuclear cells (MNC) generate 1-log more erythroid cells (EBs) than the corresponding CD34(pos) cells, suggesting that MNC may also contain CD34(neg) HPC. To clarify the phenotype of AB HPC which generate EBs in these cultures, flow cytometric profiling for CD34/CD36 expression, followed by isolation and functional characterization...

OBJECTIVE A prospective evaluation of the effect of 2012 point-of-sale (PoS) display ban in supermarkets in England on perceived exposure to PoS displays, and on changes in susceptibility and smoking uptake among young people. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTINGS Seven schools in Nottinghamshire, England. PARTICIPANTS 1035 11-16-year-old school children. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES ...

We report the first definitive experimental observation of periodic orbits (POs) in the spectral properties of an elastodynamic system. The Fourier transform of the density of flexural modes show peaks that correspond to stable and unstable POs of a clover shaped quartz plate. We change the shape of the plate and find that the peaks corresponding to the POs that hit only the unperturbed sides a...

The accuracy of part-of-speech (POS) tagging for unknown words is substantially lower than that for known words. Considering the high accuracy rate of up-to-date statistical POS taggers, unknown words account for a non-negligible portion of the errors. This paper describes POS prediction for unknown words using Support Vector Machines. We achieve high accuracy in POS tag prediction using substr...

events. An abstract event represents all events with same program point, direction (write or read), and compatible memory location. An abstract event consists of first a unique identifier, then the direction specifier (W or R), and then the address specifier. In Figure 10(a), (a)Wx abstracts the events (a′)Wx1 and (a′′)Wx2 in the executions of Figure 10(b) and (c). Moreover, for example, a stat...

Part of Speech (POS) tagging can be described as a task of doing automatic annotation of syntactic categories for each word in a text document. This paper presents a POS tagger for Bengali using the statistical Maximum Entropy (ME) model. The system makes use of the different contextual information of the words along with the variety of features that are helpful in predicting the various POS cl...

OBJECTIVE Prediction of clinical outcome in diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) is unsatisfactory. This prospective study investigates if the abundance and migratory activity of a subpopulation of circulating mononuclear cells, namely, CD45(dim)CD34(pos)CXCR4(pos)KDR(pos) cells, predict major amputation and cardiovascular death in type 2 diabetic patients undergoing percutaneous...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the potential effects of perceived organizational support (POS) and psychological capital (PsyCap) on combating depressive and anxious symptoms among Chinese underground coal miners. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a coal-mining population in northeast China. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, the Zung Self-R...

Coors Brewing Company is the third largest company in the highly competitive U.S. beer industry. The primary target market for its products is young adults, who demand innovative approaches to marketing from brewers, including relevant and creative point of sale (POS) materials in retail outlets. Coors depends upon the cooperation of distributors and retailers to place Coors’ POS materials in w...