Several previous studies have been reported to examine the association between Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene Fok I polymorphism and susceptibility to prostate cancer (PCa), however the results remain inconclusive. To provide a relatively comprehensive account of the association, we searched PubMed, Embase, CNKI, and Wanfang for eligible studies and carry out this meta-analysis. A total of 27 ca...

We used a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) strategy and restriction fragment polymorphism analysis to evaluate all 19 exons of the plasminogen (PLG) gene in a Japanese patient with congenital PLG deficiency and her family members. She presented with cerebral infarction. Sequence analysis following amplification of each exon and its flanking regions showed a single T to C transition in exon 14, w...

Instances in which we cannot retrieve information immediately but know that the information might be retrieved later are subjective states that accompany retrieval failure. These are expressed in feeling-of-knowing (FOK) and Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experiences. In Experiment 1, participants with Parkinson's disease (PD) and older adult controls were given general questions and asked to report w...

Participants heard music snippets of varying melodic and instrumental familiarity paired with animal-name titles. They then recalled the target when given either the melody or the title as a cue, or they gave name feeling-of-knowing (FOK) ratings. In general, recall for titles was better than it was for melodies, and recall was enhanced with increasing melodic familiarity of both the cues and t...

The dynamics near firstand second-order phase transitions in a two-dimensional lattice-gas model are compared using the first-order reversal curve (FORC) method. The FORC diagram of a first-order transition is characterized by a negative region separating two positive regions, reflecting a competition between the time-varying electrochemical potential and the tendency of the system to phase order.

in this study, bimodal meso-porous silica (uvm-7) synthesized and fabricated amino silane modified supports were characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), n2 adsorption/desorption, transmission electron microscope (tem), elemental analysis and titration. capacity of co2 capture on modified bimodal pore structure silica at 70°c was calculated using breakthrough curves; and it was found th...

This paper provides formal semantics for an extension of the ObjectRole Modeling approach that supports declaration of dynamic rules. Dynamic rules differ from static rules by pertaining to properties of state transitions, rather than to the states themselves. In this paper we restrict application of dynamic rules to so-called single-step transactions, with an old state (the input of the transa...

Permissive-Nominal Logic (PNL) is an extension of first-order predicate logic in which term-formers can bind names in their arguments. This allows for direct axiomatisations with binders, such as of the λ-binder of the lambda-calculus or the ∀binder of first-order logic. It also allows us to finitely axiomatise arithmetic, and similarly to axiomatise ‘nominal’ datatypes-with-binding. Just like ...

We propose a language which can express every computable query. The language is syntactically based on the first-order predicate calculus, but semantically is interpreted as post-conditions, unlike the customary calculus query languages. The language has a capability to restrict itself to reasonable queries, accepting criteria of reasonability as a parameter.

Let / be any fixed positive integer and a a sentence in the first-order predicate calculus of/unary functions. For positive integers n, an «-structure is a model with universe {0,1,...,« 1} and/unary functions, and p(n,a) is the ratio of the number of «-structures satisfying a to n"f, the number of «-structures. We show that lim„_00/i(«, a) exists for all such a, and its value is given by an ex...