Observing actions performed by others entails a subliminal activation of primary motor cortex reflecting the components encoded in the observed action. One of the most debated issues concerns the role of this output: Is it a mere replica of the incoming flow of information (kinematic coding), is it oriented to anticipate the forthcoming events (predictive coding) or is it aimed at responding in...

BCNU (1,3-bis[2-chloroethyl]-1-nitrosourea) is the mainstay in glioblastoma multiform chemotherapy with only minimal effects. BCNU may kill tumor cells via carbamoylating cytotoxicity, which irreversibly inhibits glutathione reductase with resultant accumulation of oxidized form of glutathione causing oxidative stress. S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) is a product of glutathione and nitric oxide int...

A salt with the composition [C12H9N2][C8H3Cl2O4] (1) with 4,5-dichlorophthalic acid and 1,10phenanthroline (phen) has been synthesized and characterized by IR, UV spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and X-ray crystallography. Compound 1 represents a 3D chiral supramolecular framework containing monohelical chains (21 axis) through multiform C–H· · ·O, O–H· · ·O, N–H· · ·N intramolecular hydrogen ...

Late hospital phase ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction (MI) have been associated with a high incidence of sudden death following hospital discharge. Thirty-eight patients were studied 10-24 days following onset of symptoms of MI. Each patient had a 24-hour ambulatory ECG tape recording and left ventricular and coronary angiography performed. Patients with complicated ventric...

In this paper, we proposed an approach of imagery-based image retrieval considering individual’s subjective perception. By using eigen SGLD (Space Gray Level Dependence) matrices, the statistical and textural features of images were extracted, the associations between these features and semantic features based on human visual perception were analyzed, and the mapping models were designed to bri...

Glioblastoma multiform is the most common and aggressive brain tumor with a worse prognostic. Ionizing radiation is a cornerstone in the treatment of glioblastome with chemo-radiation association being the actual standard. As a paradoxal effect, it has been suggested that radiotherapy could have a deleterious effect on local recurrence of cancer. In vivo studies have studied the effect of radio...

Grid monitoring is essential for the grid management and efficiency improvement. ChinaGrid Super Vision (CGSV) is proposed for ChinaGrid to collect status information of each entity (such as resources, services, users, jobs, Network), and provide corresponding information data query and mining services. In this paper, CGSV architecture and its components are discussed. CGSV is featured by data ...

Glioblastoma multiform (GBM) is the most common malignant glioma of all the brain tumors and currently effective treatment options are still lacking. GBM is frequently accompanied with overexpression and/or mutation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which subsequently leads to activation of many downstream signal pathways such as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/rapamycin-sens...

We present here a Demand Maximizing Circuit Problem, which involves time elastic demands, and which is related to applications of Network Synthesis to the design of urban public transportation systems. This problem consists in the optimization, on some irregular domain, of some quantity whose computation involves heavy computational costs. We propose a specific metaheuristic Pursuit scheme, bas...

The cases of AFI with no detectable sphingolipid abnormality have been placed by Zeman and Dyken 3 1 , and Zeman et al. 3 0 under the generic heading of neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis (NCF). The common denominator in these patitnts is the accumulation of lipofuscinlike autofluorescent substances in neurons, glial and mesodermal cells of the central nrevous system and, to a variable extent, also...