background Macrocephaly-cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita (M-CMTC) is a craniofacial defect secondary to macrosomia; a case is presented in order to increase knowledge of the related complications in particular with respect to craniofacial development. case report We report a case of M-CMTC evaluated from the genetic standpoint and that of craniofacial development. The aim was to analys...

The aim of this research was to study the structural and textural characteristics of maize bran arabinoxylan (MBAX) microspheres. The laccase-induced cross-linking process was monitored by storage (G') and loss (G'') moduli changes in a 4% (w/v) MBAX solution. The G' and G'' values at the plateau region were 215 and 4 Pa, respectively. After gelation, the content of ferulic acid dimers decrease...

The dependence of structural self-organization of granular materials on preparation and grain parameters is key to predictive modeling. We study 60 different mechanically equilibrated polydisperse disc packs, generated numerically by two protocols. We show that, for same-variance disc size distributions (DSDs), (1) the mean coordination number of rattler-free packs versus the packing fraction i...

This paper studies index coding with two senders. In this setup, source messages are distributed among the senders (possibly with overlapping of messages). In addition, there are multiple receivers, where each receiver having some messages a priori, known as side-information, is requesting one unique message such that each message is requested by only one receiver. Index coding in this setup is...

This paper investigates the sound power radiated from a cracked plate. The sound power is obtained by using a lumped parameters model-based acoustics theory and vibration responses obtained by using the finite element method. It is shown that the vibration mode shapes and crack angle are closely related to the sound radiation characteristics, which can be applied to detect damages such as the c...

Structural and environmental characteristics of multiple topographies of stereotypic behaviors shown by 8 individuals with developmental disabilities are described. Analysis of structural characteristics show that the parameters of stereotyped behavior (percentage of time, bout length, and bout length variability) were highly correlated. Analysis of the influence of environmental variables indi...

Systems with t,he capability of automatic knowledge discovery from dat.abases will play an increasingly important role in building/sharing large knowledgebases. Although many systems for knowledge discovery in databases have been proposed, few of t,hem have addressed the capabilities of refining/managing the discovered knowledge. In particular, t,he contents of most databases are ever changing;...

Folds are the basic building blocks of protein structures. Understanding the emergence of novel protein folds is an important step towards understanding the rules governing the evolution of protein structure and function and for developing tools for protein structure modeling and design. We explored the frequency of occurrences of an exhaustively classified library of supersecondary structural ...

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA; 1-acyl-3-phosphoglycerol) exerts its biological activity through both extracellular and intracellular targets. Receptor targets include the cell-surface G-protein-coupled receptors LPA(1-4) and the nuclear PPAR-gamma (peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor gamma). Enzyme targets include the secreted cancer cell motility factor, autotaxin, and the transmembrane ph...

The rapid development of new generation sequencing technology has deepened the understanding of genomes and functional products. RNA-sequencing studies in mammals show that approximately 85% of the DNA sequences have RNA products, for which the length greater than 200 nucleotides (nt) is called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA). LncRNAs now have been shown to play important epigenetic regulatory ro...