BACKGROUND Through differentiation processes, keratinocytes provide a physical barrier to our bodies and control skin features such as moisturization, wrinkles and pigmentation. Keratinocyte differentiation is disturbed in several skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the keratinocyte differentiation-enhancing effect of rose abso...

There is globally increasing prevalence and incidence in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). These patients are frequently reported to have retinal abnormalities and both diseases share some systemic risk factors. Hence, it is clinically relevant to determine whether ESRD is a predictor of retinal artery occlusion (RAO).To investigate the risk of RAO in ESRD patients.A retrospective, nationwide, ma...

Electronic government (e-government) is a worldwide process which for instance includes service renewal and is intended to achieve a much higher effectiveness of the public sector. Many governments around the world have the goal to deliver 100 % of their services electronically. As a result, the public sector is investing considerably large sums of money in new government services to provide th...

BACKGROUND Lower expression of secretoglobin and transferrin has been found in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of a small number of horses with experimentally induced signs of recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) compared to healthy controls. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Secretoglobin and transferrin BALF expression will be similarly decreased in horses with naturally occurring clinical signs ...

This paper proposes an efficient joint secret key encryption-channel coding cryptosystem, based on regular Extended Difference Family Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check codes. The key length of the proposed cryptosystem decreases up to 85 percent using a new efficient compression algorithm. Cryptanalytic methods show that the improved cryptosystem has a significant security advantage over Ra...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE RAO is caused by various etiologies and subsequent vascular events may be associated with underlying etiologies. Our aim is to investigate the etiologies of RAO, the occurrence of subsequent vascular events and their association in patients with RAO. METHODS We analyzed data from 151 consecutive patients presenting with acute non-arteritic RAO between 2003 and 2013 in a...

Rao–Blackwellisation is a notion often occurring in the MCMC literature, with possibly different meanings and connections original Rao–Blackwell theorem as established by C.R. Rao 1945 D. Blackwell 1947, including reduction of variance resulting Monte Carlo approximations. This survey reviews some term.