Arsenic stress induces in subtle changes in the canopy chlorophyll content (CCC). Therefore, the establishment of a spectral index that is sensitive to subtle changes in the CCC is important for monitoring crop arsenic contamination in large areas by remote sensing. Experimental sites with three contamination levels were selected and were located in Chang Chun City, Jilin City, Jilin Province, ...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in Latin America. Thirty percent of infected individuals develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC), an inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy that is, by far, the most important clinical consequence of T. cruzi infection. The others remain asymptomatic (ASY). A possible genetic component to disease progression was su...

BACKGROUND Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level has been shown to be a prognostic factor for myocardial infarction and stroke via its promotion of vascular calcification. AIM To investigate for the first time the correlation between serum ALP level and coronary collateral circulation (CCC) development. METHODS A total of 356 patients with stable angina pectoris were evaluated retrospectiv...

This paper describes a method to enhance the performance of a unification-style bottom-up chart parser by means of top-down filtering techniques. The filter developed consists of a syntactic module which prevents the construction of redundant edges in the chart by ensuring that a proposed edge in the chart can really be syntactically combined with neighboring edges later, and a semantic module ...

A critical step in phacoemulsification (as well as extracapsular cataract extraction) is making a window in anterior capsule wall (i.e. anterior capsulotomy). Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis (CCC) has become recognized as the standard method of anterior capsulectomy. Techniques employed for CCC have undergone sustained evolution. The present review evaluates elementary principles of CCC. M...

The growing importance of spatial data has made it imperative that spatial operations be executed efficiently. The most expensive operation is the join for spatial databases. This paper proposes a Replicated Parallel Packed R-tree and its use in performing the parallel R-tree join. We examine performance using the Digital Chart of the World Data on a shared nothing machine. Our experimental res...

The commercial cloud computing (CCC) industry has reached a level of maturity to make it a truly viable alternative to the traditional, in-house data center. Although there are many notable examples of CCC platforms and technologies being piloted for high performance computing (HPC) tasks, it has yet to enter the mainstream. A variety of obstacles exist which have slowed or hindered adoption of...

An optimized resistance bridge based on the Cryogenic Current Comparator (CCC) with SQUID readout has been developed. The bridge can be used for routine secondary resistance calibrations as well as for the traceability of 100 R to the quantum Hall resistance. The CCC-SQUID, shielding and wiring are mounted in a telescopic insert, fitted in a low-evaporation rate, transportable liquid He dewar, ...

BACKGROUND Glypican-3 (GPC3), a membrane-bound heparan sulphate proteoglycan, may play a role in promoting cancer cell growth and differentiation. Recent studies reported that GPC3 is overexpressed in clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the ovary, and not other ovarian histotypes. However, in CCC patients, the relationship between the overexpression of GPC3 and prognosis has not yet been clarified. ...