In this study, data mining and knowledge discovery techniques were employed to acquire new information about the viscoelastic, flexural, compression, and tension properties for vapor-grown carbon nanofiber (VGCNF)/vinyl ester (VE) nanocomposites. These properties were used to design a unified VGCNF/VE framework solely from data derived from a designed experimental study. Formulation and process...

BACKGROUND Influenza is a serious worldwide disease that captures global attention in the past few years after outbreaks. The recent discoveries of microRNA (miRNA) and its unique expression profile in influenza patients have offered a new method for early influenza diagnosis. The aim of this study was to examine the utility of miRNAs for the diagnosis of influenza. METHODS Thirteen selected ...

As a common anticancer drug, cisplatin has been widely used for treating tumors in the clinic. However, its side effects, especially its nephrotoxicity, noticeably restrict the application of cisplatin. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate the mechanism of renal injury and explore the corresponding remedies. In this study, we showed the phenotypes of the renal tubules and epithelial cell ...

The High-mobility group AT-hook 2 protein (HMGA2) is involved in different processes during tumorigenesis. High expression levels of HMGA2 are found in various types of cancer, with recent studies highlighting the important role of miRNAs in the regulation of HMGA2 expression. We report a study of 155 ovarian tumors (30 sex-cord stromal tumors, 22 borderline tumors, and 103 carcinomas) analyzed...

Power is rapidly becoming the primary design constrain for systems ranging from server computers to handhelds. In this paper we study microarchitecture-level power modeling and management with temperature and voltage scaling. We develop an accurate temperature-dependent leakage power model and efficient temperature calculation, and show that leakage energy and total energy can be different by u...

Experiments were carried out on the survival and growth of Rasbora daniconius, Puntius ticto and Puntius conchonius. The motivation of the study was to obtain information for growing the fish on a commercial scale for their use as biological control agents against mosquito larvae. The effects of temperature, total hardness, DO, pH and feed on the growth of fish were also investigated. Excessive...

of a thesis at the University of Miami. Thesis supervised by Professor Andrew Baker. No. of pages in text. (46) The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout of 2010 exposed many coastal and marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to the acute and chronic effects of crude oil. To date, no studies have investigated the toxicity of DWH oil on shallow reef-building corals despite the relative proximit...

Background: Use of ultra-high diluted remedies in homeopathy and their claimed efficacy curing diseases has been challenged time again by non-believers despite many evidence-based positive results published favor curing/ameliorating disease symptoms. Aims: To test the ability homeopathic beyond Avogadro’s limit, if any, manifesting gene modulating effects controlled vitro experimental model. ...

BACKGROUND Vascular calcification resembles bone formation and involves vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) transition to an osteoblast-like phenotype to express Runx2, a master osteoblast transcription factor. One possible mechanism by which Runx2 protein expression is induced is downregulation of inhibitory microRNAs (miR). METHODS AND RESULTS Human coronary artery SMCs (CASMCs) treated with ...