The metalloproteinase-like, disintegrin-like, cysteine-rich (MDC) family is a large group of sequence-related proteins, first characterized in the male reproductive tract, but subsequently also identified in non-reproductive tissues. Their primary translation products are of approximately 90 kDa and each can be divided into distinct domains which show remarkable homology to reprolysins; snake v...

Manufacturers and users of medical diagnostic devices are provided a statistical decision tool for investigating a claimed minimal detectable concentration (MDC). The MDC is defined by setting two respective probabilities: that the blank sample being analyzed is determined to have analyte and that the device fails to determine a low concentration of analyte at the MDC. The statistical procedure...

User location prediction in location-based social networks can predict the density of people flow well terms intelligent transportation, which make corresponding adjustments time to traffic smooth, reduce fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and help build a green cycle low-carbon transportation system. This paper proposes Markov chain position model based on multidimensional correction ...

In order to study the axial compression behavior of magnetically-driven concrete (MDC) filled double-skin GFRP tubes (CFDGT), test was conducted on eight columns (the length ranged from 1,000 mm 3,000 mm). For MDC, a magnetic vibration device established vibrate and two series MDC (concrete with without vibration) were adopted investigate effect, research results showed that between circular co...

OBJECTIVES Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen presenting cells that play a central role in inflammation, allograft rejection and immune tolerance. Myeloid (mDC) and plasmacytoid (pDC) subsets regulate immune reactions by polarising naive T-helper cells into a Th1 or Th2 response, respectively. In this study we examined total peripheral blood DCs, mDC and pDC subsets in chronic heart failure (CHF...

The robustness property can be added to DSC system at the expense of reducing performance, i.e., increasing the sum-rate. The aim of designing robust DSC schemes is to trade off between system robustness and compression efficiency. In this paper, after deriving an inner bound on the rate–distortion region for the quadratic Gaussian MDC based RDSC system with two encoders, the structure of...

In this paper, a new VLSI based Radix-4 FFT architecture is developed by combining the mixed radix and pipelining architectures. Proposed architecture named as “Radix-4 Combined Single Path Delay Feedback (SDF) Multipath Delay Commutator (MDC) FFT”. As the name itself, design of proposed FFT architecture is designed with the help of both SDF and MDC data flow structures. Both SDF and MDC archit...

BACKGROUND In head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the secretion of various immunosuppressive mediators contributes to large-scale effects on the immune functions. The influence of HNSCC on various cellular functions of human myeloid dendritic cells (MDC) was analyzed in this work. MATERIALS AND METHODS MDCs were isolated from peripheral blood by 'magnetic bead separation'. Cellular...

BACKGROUND HIV infection is characterized by ineffective anti-viral T-cell responses and impaired dendritic cell (DC) functions, including response to Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) ligands. Because TLR responsiveness may affect a host's response to virus, we examined TLR ligand induced Myeloid and Plasmacytoid DC (MDC and PDC) activation of naïve T-cells in HIV+ subjects. METHODS Freshly purified ...