The feasibility and effectiveness of tandem high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDCT/autoSCT) were evaluated in children younger than 3 yr of age with atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors (ATRT). Tandem HDCT/autoSCT was administered following six cycles of induction chemotherapy. Radiotherapy (RT) was administered if the tumor relapsed or progressed, otherwise, it was ...

Motivation: Genomes are replete with short sequences repeated consecutively called tandem repeats. Reconstructing duplication histories for tandem repeats may yield valuable insights into their functions and the biological mechanisms of tandem repeat creation and extension. Results: We study the generalized neighbor-joining approaches for reconstructing tandem duplication history. We develop a ...

Tandem duplication is a wide-spread phenomenon in plant genomes and plays significant roles in evolution and adaptation to changing environments. Tandem duplicated genes related to certain functions will lead to the expansion of gene families and bring increase of gene dosage in the form of gene cluster arrays. Many tandem duplication events have been studied in plant genomes; yet, there is a s...

Optical melting was used to determine the stabilities of three series of RNA oligomers containing tandem XU base pairs, GGCXUGCC (5'XU3'), GGCUXGCC (5'UX3') and GGCXXGGC/CCGUUCCG (5'XX3'), where X is either A, G or I (inosine). The helices containing tandem AU base pairs were the most stable in the first two series (5'XU3' and 5'UX3'), with an average melting temperature approximately 11 degree...

This study is focused on the evaluation of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Tokyo, Japan from data collected by the recently launched TerraSAR add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements (TanDEM-X), satellite of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The aim of the TanDEM-X mission is to use Interferometric SAR techniques to generate a consistent high resolution global DEM dataset. In order to gen...

The one-pot, multi-component synthesis of 4,4′-(arylmethylene)bis(1H-pyrazol-5-ols) by tandem Knoevenagel-Michael reaction of phenylhydrazine, ethyl acetoacetate and aldehydes in the presence of silica-bonded N-propylpiperazine sulfamic acid (SBPPSA) as a recyclable solid acid catalyst was reported. SBPPSA showed much the same efficiency when used in consecutive reaction runs.

In this study, various analytical aspects of the determination of serum prostate-specific antigen are described as applied to the Abbott IMx PSA and the Hybritech Tandem-E PSA assays. We used mainly specimens from a prostate cancer screening study in progress. A very good comparability between the assays proved to exist in our hands. The long-run variation (16 months) was also rated as acceptab...

Motivation: Genomes are replete with short sequences repeated consecutively called tandem repeats. Reconstructing duplication histories for tandem repeats may yield valuable insights into their functions and the biological mechanisms of tandem repeat creation and extension. Results: we design and implement a set of heuristic algorithms for reconstructing tandem duplication history with neighbor...

Tandem queues with finite buffer capacity commonly exist in practical applications. By viewing a tandem queue as an integrated system, an innovative approach has been developed to analyze its performance through the insight from Friedman's reduction method. Fundamental properties of tandem queues with finite buffer capacity are examined. We show that in general system service rate of a dual tan...

Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells have the potential to considerably out-perform conventional solar cells. Under standard test conditions, perovskite/Si tandem solar cells already outperform the Si single junction. Under realistic conditions, however, as we show, tandem solar cells made from current record cells are hardly more efficient than the Si cell alone. We model the performance of realis...