in this study the programmed cell death (apoptosis) of human neutrophilic granulocytes was investigated in the presence and absence of fetal calf serum (fcs), cycloheximide and actinomycin-d. the results show that when fcs is omitted from cultures, apart from a decrease in viability, the percentage of apoptotic cells and dna fragmentation increases. apoptosis is accelerated in serum withdrawal ...

Geometric algebra is an optimal frame work for calculating with vectors. The geometric algebra of a space includes elements that represent all the its subspaces (lines, planes, volumes, ...). Conformal geometric algebra expands this approach to elementary representations of arbitrary points, point pairs, lines, circles, planes and spheres. Apart from including curved objects, conformal geometri...

Ameloblastoma is a benign odontogenic neoplasm which frequently affects the mandible. The term ameloblastoma includes several clinico-radiological and histological types. Apart from the most commonly encountered clinicopathologic models there are few variants, whose biological profile is unknown or not elicited. The reason for lack of understanding is the scarcity of case report published in th...

Rather than presenting a speciic trick, this paper aims at providing a methodology for large scale, real-world classiication tasks involving thousands of classes and millions of training patterns. Such problems arise in speech recognition, handwriting recognition and speaker or writer identiication, just to name a few. Given the typically very large number of classes to be distinguished, many a...

Valence changing lexical rules are a problematic component of constraint-based grammar formalisms. Lexical rules of this type are procedural, require defaults, and may easily lead to spurious ambiguity. Relational constraints can be used to eliminate such rules. The relational approach does not require defaults, is declarative, avoids spurious ambiguity, and can be an integrated part of a hiera...

A majority of pancreatic cancer patients present with pain at the time of diagnosis. Pain management can be challenging in light of the aggressive nature of this cancer. Apart from conventional pharmacotherapy, timely treatment with neurolytic celiac plexus block (NCPB) has been shown to be of benefit. NCPB has demonstrated efficacious pain control in high quality studies with analgesic effects...

This paper introduces a novel idea of Binary Pattern observation of column wise and Row wise Walsh transformed color images for feature vector generation. The density distribution of Sal, Cal components of Binary Pattern and its mean values are considered as two different approaches for the same. The proposed method experimented with and without augmentation of average of zeroth Cal and average...

dar al-islam's population consists of muslims (majority), the people of the dhimma (non-muslim citizens of an islamic state known as the minority) and al-musta'min (an islamic classification for a non-muslim foreigner that enters muslim lands for less than a year and is legally protected by the muslim authority). the fact that public courts of islamic states have the jurisdiction to d...

in this study, we focused on the gait of parkinson’s disease (pd) and presented a gray box model for it. we tried to present a model for basal ganglia structure in order to generate stride time interval signal in model output for healthy and pd states. because of feedback role of dopamine neurotransmitter in basal ganglia, this part is modelled by “elman network”, which is a neural network stru...