five forest areas 150 115 120 286 281 282 316 316 342 first discovery 154 last discovery 284 last control 292 166 202 222 23 40 52 1 0 0 season length 138 mean burn time 6 years with no fire 0 Northern Rockies first discovery 210 190 196 183 last discovery 250 260 256 263 last control 258 298 310 317 season length 49 107 114 134 mean burn time 7 27 48 59 years with no fire 1 1 2 0 Northwest fir...

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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate whether the miR-198 expression level is related to clinicopathological factors and prognosis of esophageal cancer. METHODS MicroRNA was extracted from esophageal cancer patients who underwent surgery for assessment using the Taqman@ MicroRNA assay. The correlation between miR-198 expression and clinicopathological features was analyzed, and the signif...

BACKGROUND One postulated cause of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is upper airway obstruction during sleep. Several studies have suggested that SIDS may be more common in families with obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS), but were limited by uncertainty as to whether the deaths were due to SIDS. We have tested the hypothesis that parents of true SIDS cases have an incre...

Laparoscopic vascular surgery has not been widely embraced by vascular surgeons because of the specific technical skills needed in performing vascular anastomosis. Robot assisted vascular surgery has shown the possibility to overcome several limitations of laparoscopic vascular surgery in previous studies. We report two cases of robot assisted aortofemoral bypass grafting for aortoiliac occlusi...

We previously showed that the solution to the primal problem is equivalent to the solution to the dual problem if they satisfy the following primal-dual equivalence conditions. First, we need a convex objective function and in our case, it is 1 2 ||~ w||2. Second, we need convex inequality constraints gi, which are 1−yi(~ w · ~xi + b) for i = 1, ...,m. The last condition states that for each in...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes diarrhea of pigs age-independently and death of young piglets, resulting in economic loss of porcine industry. We have screened 333 natural oriental herbal medicines to search for new antiviral candidates against PEDV. We found that two herbal extracts, KIOM 198 and KIOM 124, contain significant anti-PED viral effect. KIOM 198 and KIOM 124 were iden...

PURPOSE The majority of pancreatic cancers overexpress mesothelin (MSLN), which contributes to enhanced proliferation, invasion, and migration. However, the MSLN regulatory network is still unclear. Here, we investigated the regulation of a panel of tumorigenic factors and explored the potential of MSLN-regulated miR-198 treatment in vivo. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The expression and functional reg...

Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon spp. are microsporidian pathogens with zoonotic potential that pose significant public health concerns. To ascertain the occurrence genotypes of E. spp., we used nested PCR to amplify internal transcribed spacer (ITS) gene DNA sequencing analyze 198 fecal samples from red pandas 6 zoos in China. The total rate microsporidial infection was 15.7% (31/19...