BACKGROUND Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGFA) is the main mediator of angiogenesis. Angiogenesis plays important roles not only in many physiological processes, but also in the pathophysiology of many diseases. VEGFA is one of the therapeutic targets of treatment for ocular diseases with neovascularization. Therefore, elucidation of the regulatory mechanisms for VEGFA expression is im...

Palynomorphs extracted from the mud coffins and plant remains preserved at the archaeological site of Xiaohe Cemetery (Cal. 3980 to 3540 years BP) in Lop Nur Desert of Xinjiang, China were investigated for the reconstruction of the ancient environments at the site. The results demonstrate that the Xiaohe People lived at a well-developed oasis, which was surrounded by extensive desert. The veget...

Agriculture of the inland arid region in Xinjiang depends on irrigation, which forms oasis of Northwest China. The production and water use of wheat, a dominant crop there, is significantly affected by undergoing climate variability and change. The objective of this study is to quantify inter-annual variability of wheat yield and water use from 1955 to 2006. The farming systems model APSIM (Agr...

We assessed the total nitrogen (N) concentrations of 28 still surface water (lake and pond), and 42 flowing surface water (river), monitoring sites under 29 typical terrestrial ecosystems of the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) using monitoring data collected between 2004 and 2009. The results showed that the median total N concentrations of still surface water were significantly highe...

BACKGROUND The association between birth position and obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) in spontaneous vaginal deliveries is unclear. METHODS The study was based on the Stockholm-Gotland Obstetric Database (Sweden) from Jan 1(st) 2008 to Oct 22(nd) 2014 and included 113 279 singleton spontaneous vaginal births with no episiotomy. We studied risk of OASIS with respect to the following bi...

Dorothy Euwards, PhD, is Coordinator of Research, De· partment of Occupational Therapy, and Carolyn Manville Baum, MA, OTR, FAOTA, is Director of Occupational Therapy Clinical Services, both at the Irene Walter John· son Institute of Rehabilitation, Washington University Medical School, SI Louis, Missouri. Dorothy Edwards and Carolyn Manville Baum also are members of the OASIS AdVisory Committe...

Petrological and geochemical examination of Upper Cretaceous chalks from the Abu Roash area and Bahariya Oasis (Egypt) provide insights into factors which control porosity development in fine-grained calcitic carbonates. Petrological studies indicate that primary skeletal fabrics of coccoliths and foraminifera in micrites of Abu Roash are well preserved. In contrast, primary skeletal fabrics of...

UNLABELLED Oasis is a web application that allows for the fast and flexible online analysis of small-RNA-seq (sRNA-seq) data. It was designed for the end user in the lab, providing an easy-to-use web frontend including video tutorials, demo data and best practice step-by-step guidelines on how to analyze sRNA-seq data. Oasis' exclusive selling points are a differential expression module that al...

Landscape Ecology is a new field of the macro-ecological research. Study on the Landscape pattern change is a research hotspot of the landscape ecology at present. The main research methods in this paper are stated as follow: using remote sensing data to get the basic landscape pattern data of Jinta Oasis in 1990 and 2000; calculating four landscape indexes by utilizing the statistics function ...

Testing remains an important aspect of checking software correctness. Manually constructed test suites are one option: they typically complete quickly, but they require human involvement in producing test cases, and their coverage may be limited. Recently, symbolic execution and concolic execution have been investigated as alternatives to test suites. These approaches require little manual inte...