Connexin 43, a gap junction protein, coordinates cell-to-cell communication and adhesion. Altered Connexin 43 expression associated with cancer development and progression. In this study, we assessed Connexin 43 expression for association with clinicopathological features and biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. Pathological specimens were collected from 243 pa...

4-bit Linear Relations play an important role in Cryptanalysis of 4-bit Bijective Crypto S-boxes. 4-bit finite differences also a major part of cryptanalysis of 4-bit substitution boxes. Count of existence of all 4-bit linear relations, for all of 16 input and 16 output 4-bit bit patterns of 4-bit bijective crypto S-boxes said as S-boxes has been reported in Linear Cryptanalysis of 4-bit S-boxe...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of tumor characteristics and parameters of treatment response in predicting biochemical disease-free survival (BFS) for patients with intermediate or high risk prostate cancer treated by combined definitive external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). METHODS Between June 1995 and January 2015, 375...

This study investigated the effects of feeding by-product feed (BF)-based silage on the behavior of growing Hanwoo heifers. Twelve Hanwoo heifers (13.2 months-old, 315 kg body weight; four heifers per pen) were assigned to three diets: a rice straw (RS) diet (concentrate mix and free access to RS), a RS and BF-based silage (RSBFS) diet (concentrate mix and free access to RS and BF-based silage)...

Improving the anti-demineralizing/remineralizing and mechanical properties of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) composites has been the focus of our recent research. In this study, an ethoxylated bisphenol A dimethacrylate (EBPADMA) was blended with triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and methacryloxyethyl phthalate (MEP) to form experimental resins wi...

G. Klir proposed to describe the behavior of complex systems using functions (BFs) - invariant constraints on set system states. BFs are one most productive tools for studying functioning systems. To study systems, it is necessary have a metric measuring difference between two BFs. modern researchers do not use distributions other than probability or possibility. But these can be considered as ...

We know that any bfs is uniquely determined by n linearly independent tight constraints (where n is number of variables of the LP ). Since we have exponentially many constraints in this LP, a bfs may be satisfying many of them with equality (i.e. being tight). We want a “good” set of linearly independent tight constraints defining it. The notion of “good” here will be clear soon. First, observe...

The stop-signal paradigm has been widely adopted as a way to parametrically quantify the response inhibition process. To evaluate inhibitory function in realistic environmental settings, the current study compared stop-signal responses in two different scenarios: one uses simple visual symbols as go and stop signals, and the other translates the typical design into a battlefield scenario (BFS) ...

Different ways of combining argon oxygen decarburisation slag (AOD) or electric arc furnace slag (EAF) with blast furnace slag (BFS) for achieving better phosphorus (P) removal performance in small-scale wastewater systems (SSWSs) were examined. The three types of slag were combined in varying mass ratios and with different dosing procedures in batch experiments using synthetic solution and rea...

Natural fiber-reinforced nanocomposites (NFRCs) are proved as the best alternative for synthetic composites in view of cost and environmental effects. NFRCs have been produced from agro-waste such banana tree fiber (BFs), because BF strong, light-weight, smaller elongation. To improve quality BF, multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) used reinforcing filler. MWCNTs functionalized by an ecofriendl...