Screening and surveillance for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is currently being promoted in many clinical practice guidelines. These include guidelines issued by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases [1], the European Association for the Study of the Liver–the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EASL–EORTC) [2], and the Asian Pacifi...

India has a rich heritage of medicinal plants, many of which have been explored for the various bioactivities since ages, but the radioprotective potential of the plants have been hardly explored. Since Amaranthus, a common weed and very often eaten as vegetable by rural population, has been used as emollient, astringent, diuretic, blood purifier, hemorrhagic diathesis and biliousness from time...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2016.11.004 0141-9382/ 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V. Curved, bendable, rollable, foldable, conformable, and stretchable displays have fascinated people in recent years. However, to commercialize these novel display devices and systems, not only fundamental developments on materials are required but also advancements on manufacturing techniques are necessary....

Microorganisms interact with plants because plants offer a wide diversity of habitats including the phyllosphere (aerial plant part), the rhizosphere (zone of influence of the root system), and the endosphere (internal transport system) [3, 5]. Interactions of epiphytes, rhizophytes or endophytes may be detrimental or beneficial for either the microorganism or the plant and may be classified as...

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) allow users to immerse in a virtual environment (VE) in which the user’s viewpoint can be changed according to the tracked movements in real space. Because the size of the virtual world often differs from the size of the tracked lab space, a straightforward implementation of omnidirectional and unlimited walking is not generally possible. In this article we review a...

Management in Radiology: Abstracts from the MIR 2011 Annual Meeting (September 29–30, Nice/FR) European Society of Radiology (ESR) MIR (Management in Radiology) provides a forum for education and exchange of ideas and state of the art concepts on management within Europe aimed at enhancing the contribution of Radiology to medicine. MIR addresses not only core managerial issues, but also support...

A new theory of school effectiveness and improvement is outlined, based on the master concepts of intellectual capital, social capital and leverage, linked with the conventional concept of institutional outputs. Each master concept is deŽ ned in terms of two subsidiary concepts. Twelve speciŽ cally educational concepts are set within this framework to provide the theory. It is proposed that, th...

Background: The interplay between intrarenal angiotensinconverting enzyme (ACE) and type 2 ACE (ACE2) might play important roles in the pathogenesis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis (HTN), but human data are limited. Methods: Renal biopsy specimens of 41 patients with HTN and 10 transplant donors as controls (CTL) were studied. The glomerular and tubulointerstitial mRNA expression of ACE and ACE...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease with complex etiology. Although AD seems to be unanimously characterized by strong activation of T helper (Th) 2 immune responses in lesional and even nonlesional skin, Th22, Th17 and/or IL-23 Th1 cytokine pathways likely play role the disease, especially some subtypes (Brunner et al., 2017Brunner P.M. Guttman-Yassky E. Leung ...