BACkgROUnD: no randomized controlled trial has tried to compare treatment outcomes between the sliding en-masse retraction of upper anterior teeth supported by mini-implants and the two-step sliding retraction technique employing conventional anchorage devices. OBjECTIvE: To evaluate skeletal, dental, and soft tissue changes following anterior teeth retraction. DESIgn AnD SETTIng: Parallel-grou...

The data outsourcing services provided by cloud storage have greatly reduced the headache of management for users, but issue remote integrity poses further security concerns and computing burdens. introduction a third-party auditor (TPA) frees owners from auditing burden alleviates disputes over audit results between providers. However, malicious servers may collude with TPAs to deceive users f...

In this issue of the journal, Liu et al. described how they developed gelatin-coated Dacron to locally deliver the tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) plasmid for preventing thrombosis. In the traditional clinical treatment for thrombotic diseases, tPAs are widely used to induce plasmin formation, which degrades fibrin in blood clots and restores vascular flow. 1-3 Vascular flow is restored...

Recent advances in VLSI technology have created an increasing interest within the computer architecture community to build a new kind of “general purpose” processor that is able to run a broad class of applications including primarily those from the domain of embedded systems—graphics, wireless processing, networking, and various forms of signal processing. The interest in new architectures is ...

We read the article by Wu et al.1Wu K. Lin C. Lam A.K. al.Wide-field trend-based progression analysis of combined retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell inner plexiform thickness: a new paradigm to improve glaucoma detection.Ophthalmology. 2020; 127: 1322-1330Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (5) Google Scholar Attempts use wide-field OCT data for evaluating structural are interesting n...

Conditioned medium from cultures of human umbilical vein endothelial cells was analyzed for the presence of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and urokinase. Immunoprecipitation studies using metabolically labeled conditioned medium and anti-tPA IgG revealed a single band on autoradiographs corresponding to a Mr of 100,000. No bands were observed after immunoprecipitation with anti-urokinase Ig...