Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) images have been used to investigate the mechanism of optical clearing in flowing blood using dextrans. The depth reflectivity profiles from SDOCT indicate that dextrans become increasingly more effective in reducing scattering in flowing blood, except for 5 mgdl(-1) of Dx500, with increasing molecular weights (MW 70,000 and 500,000) and conc...

fauna of ichneumonidae of isfahan province was studied in 2012. specimens were collected using sweep net and malaise trap on various plants from different places in isfahan. totally, 18 species belong to 16 genera and 7 subfamilies were collected and identified as: anomalon cruentatum (geoffroy, 1785) (anomaloninae); exetastes syriacus schmiedeknecht, 1910 (banchinae); diplazon laetatorius (fab...

in order to study the fauna of ichneumonid wasps (hym., ichneumonidae), a survey was carried out during 2010-2013 in various localities in khorasan razavi province. samples were collected using sweeping net by irregular patterns on the common field crops and in the orchards. 234 specimens, in total were collected and identified. they were consisting 26 species belong 25 genera of 12 subfamilies...

In this study, our objective is to evaluate the potential of a novel Sorafenib derivative, named HLC-080, as a new anticancer agent for colon cancer. We firstly carried out MTT assay, colony formation assay, flow cytometry analysis and transwell invasion assay to determine effect of our compound HLC-080 on cell viability, anti-proliferation activity, cell cycle arrest and the intervention on ce...

Species tree estimation from multiple markers is complicated by the fact that gene trees can differ from each other (and from the true species tree) due to several biological processes, one of which is gene duplication and loss. Local search heuristics for two NP-hard optimization problems - minimize gene duplications (MGD) and minimize gene duplications and losses (MGDL) - are popular techniqu...

Quality of General Game Playing (GGP) matches suffers from slow state-switching and weak knowledge modules. Instantiation and Propositional Networks offer great performance gains over Prolog-based reasoning, but do not scale well. In this publication mGDL, a variant of GDL stripped of function constants, has been defined as a basis for simple reasoning machines. mGDL allows to easily map rules ...

BACKGROUND Treating symptoms and preventing exacerbations are key components of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) long-term management. Recently, a more tailored treatment approach has been proposed, in particular for two well-established clinical phenotypes, frequent exacerbators and chronic bronchitis-dominant COPD. ELOM-080 has demonstrated clinical efficacy in treating symptoms a...