Inappropriate land use has caused a series of environmental disasters such as floods and sand storms, and some of them involved unused land changes with highly localized distributions in arid and semi-arid regions with fragile ecosystems. As the third-rank category of first-level land use/cover in China, unused land (UL) is now playing an increasingly important role in protection of the natural...

BACKGROUND: Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) can precede the onset of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by months to years. CASE PRESENTATION: A 12-year-old girl weighing 46 kg came hospital with complaint 12 days-menstrual bleeding. The patient is weak, pale. Eyes, ENT, heart, lungs, abdomen: within normal limits, no petechiae. Laboratorium: Hemoglobin (Hb) 4.6 g/dL, leukocytes 12,930/uL, platel...

Uterine leiomyomata (UL), also known as fibroids, are the most common pelvic tumors in women of reproductive age and are the primary indication for hysterectomy in the USA. Many lines of evidence indicate a strong genetic component to the development of these tumors. In fact, approximately 40% of UL have non-random, tumor-specific chromosome abnormalities which have allowed classification into ...

In this paper, we develop a tractable model for joint downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmission of K-tier heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for efficient spectrum and energy utilization. In the DL, the mobile users (MUs) with power splitting receiver architecture decode information and harvest energy based on SWIPT. While i...

Uterine leiomyomata (ULs) represent the most common tumor in women and can cause abnormal uterine bleeding, large pelvic masses, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Although the dependency of UL growth on ovarian steroids is well established, the relative contributions of 17beta-estradiol and progesterone are yet to be clarified. Conventionally, estradiol has been considered the primary stimulus for ...

Proper development of each component of the reproductive tract is imperative for successful natural reproduction. The aim was to investigate some morphological features of the fetal uterus in early phases of its development. The uteruses of 65 fetuses of different gestational age were included and each of them was measured in three dimensions: uterine length (UL), uterine width (BC) and the ant...

In this paper, by means of simulations, we evaluate the uplink (UL) performance of an Internet of Things (IoT) capable ultra-dense network (UDN) in terms of the coverage probability and the density of reliably working user equipments (UEs). From our study, we show the benefits and challenges that UL IoT UDNs will bring about in the future. In more detail, for a low-reliability criterion, such a...

Vestibular compensation, which is the behavioral recovery from vestibular dysfunction produced by unilateral labyrinthectomy (UL), is attributed to functional and structural reorganization of neural networks in the central vestibular system. To assess the possible contribution of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) to this recovery process, we investigated changes in mRNA expression levels...

PURPOSE To evaluate dose reduction and image quality of abdominopelvic computed tomography (CT) reconstructed with model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) compared to adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, 85 patients underwent referential-, low-, and ultralow-dose unenhanced abdominopelvic CT. Images were reconstructed with ...