BACKGROUND AND AIM Desmoplasia is a characteristic feature and a suspected mechanism of tumor progression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Main constituents of the stroma involve cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and extracellular matrix (ECM). The aim of this study was to dissect the interaction of CAFs, ECM, and PDAC cells in both an in vitro setting and a large-scale clinical c...

We report on 8.7 and 7.6 yr of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) RXS J170849.0−400910 and 1E 1841−045, respectively. These observations, part of a larger RXTE AXP monitoring program, have allowed us to study the long-term timing, pulsed flux, and pulse profile evolution of these objects. We report on four new glitches, one from RXS J170849.0−4...

PURPOSE: Shot-put is a complex ballistic movement that involves segments’ translational and rotational motions. Its goal to release the shot at maximum forward velocity (strength) an angle of approximately 40º (rotation). Considering adapted shot-put, those two components could be more limited in action. Therefore, present study aimed examine correlations among one-repetition (1RM) test bench p...

This note gives a closed form expression for the linear transform computed by an optimally trained linear heteroencoder network of arbitrary topology trained to minimize squared error. The transform can be thought of as a restricted rank version of the basic linear least-squares regression (discrete Wiener filter) between input and output. The rank restriction is set by the “bottleneck” size of...

We present precise localizations of AXP 1E1841−045 and SGR 1627−41 with Chandra. We obtained new infrared observations of SGR 1627−41 and reanalyzed archival observations of AXP 1E1841−045 in order to refine their positions and search for infrared counterparts. A faint source is detected inside the error circle of AXP 1E1841−045. In the case of SGR 1627−41, several sources are located within th...