The title compound, {(C(2)H(10)N(2))[Tl(2)(C(10)H(2)O(8))(H(2)O)(2))]}(n), was prepared using (enH(2))(2)(btc)·2H(2)O and thallium(I) nitrate (en = ethyl-enediamine and btcH(4) = benzene-1,2,4,5-tetra-carboxylic acid). The enH(2) cation and btc ligand are each located on an inversion centre. The Tl(I) atom is seven-coordinated by three btc ligands and two water mol-ecules in an irregular geomet...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) for image compression [ 11 is a simple and effective coding technique which processes non-overlapping sub-image blocks of an image independently. In its original form, BTC is designed in such a manner that the first and second moments of the original blocks are preserved in the reconstructed blocks. BTC has the advantage of being easy to implement compared with oth...

The purpose of this study was to determine the concentrations polycaprolactone (PCL) and anhydride maleic acid (AMA) produce a biothermoplastic composite (BtC) modified cassava starch–glucomannan–polyvinyl alcohol (MSGPvA) that meets Indonesian National Standard (SNI) International Bioplastic Standards such as ISO 527/1B, PCL from UK, ASTM 5336 for PLA plastic Japan. This measured tensile stren...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a simple and fast image compression algorithm wich achieves constant bit rate of 2.0 bits per pixel. The method is however suboptimal. In the present paper we propose a modification of BTC in which the compression ratio will be improved by coding the quantization data and the bit plane by arithmetic coding with an adaptive modelling scheme. The results compare f...

Biliary tract carcinoma (BTC) has a poor prognosis due to limited treatment options. There is, therefore, an urgent need to identify new targets and to design innovative therapeutic approaches. Among potential candidate molecules, we evaluated the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase Src, observing promising antitumor effects of its small-molecule inhibitor saracatinib in BTC preclinical models. The pre...

The initial value problem of an integrable system, such as the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation, is solved by subjecting the linear eigenvalue problem arising from its Lax pair to inverse scattering, and, thus, transforming it to a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem (RHP) in the spectral variable. In the semiclassical limit, the method of nonlinear steepest descent ([4], [5]), supplemented by the g-f...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a streamlined and competent application for image compression. An improved BTC algorithm, namely Enhanced Block Truncation Coding (EBTC), is presented in this research study. Several gray scale images are used to appraise the coding efficiency and performance of this proposed algorithm with existing image compression algorithm. It is habitually shown that propos...

The BRCA/Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway plays a key role in the repair of DNA double strand breaks. We focused on this pathway to clarify chemoresistance mechanisms in biliary tract cancer (BTC). We also investigated changes in the CD24(+)/44(+) population that may be involved in chemoresistance, as this population likely includes cancer stem cells. We used three BTC cell lines to establish gemcit...

We previously provided evidence that glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) induces pancreatic beta-cell growth nonadditively with glucose in a phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase- and protein kinase C zeta-dependent manner. However, the exact mechanism by which the GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R), a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, activates the PI 3-kinase signaling pathway to pro...

Seven new coordination polymers, [Co(3-bpcd)(1,3-BDC)(H(2)O)(3)]·H(2)O (1), [Co(3-bpcd)(1,2-BDC)(H(2)O)]·H(2)O (2), [Co(3)(3-bpcd)(1,2,4-BTC)(2)(H(2)O)(4)]·4H(2)O (3), [Co(3-bpcd)(NPH)]·2H(2)O (4), [Cu(3-bpcd)(1,3-BDC)] (5), [Cu(3-bpcd)(1,2-BDC)] (6), [Cu(3-bpcd)(1,3,5-HBTC)(H(2)O)](2)·2H(2)O (7) (3-bpcd = N,N'-bis(pyridin-3-yl)cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxamide, 1,3-H(2)BDC = 1,3-benzenedicarboxyli...