Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by longterm progressive inflammation of the pancreatic gland, leading to permanent deterioration of its structure and to development of malabsorption, debilitating pain and diabetes mellitus. The annual incidence of the disease has been estimated to 5-10 per 100,000 persons in Western countries. The persistent pancreatic inflammation also confers a high ris...

Background and Aims: Different hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes have characteristic geographical distribution. Identification of HCV genotype is an important factor in the progression, clinical outcome and therapy of HCV infection. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HCV genotypes among HCV-RNA positive patients in Yazd, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectiona...

We compare Temporal Difference Learning (TDL) with Coevolutionary Learning (CEL) on Othello. Apart from using three popular single-criteria performance measures: i) generalization performance or expected utility, ii) average results against a hand-crafted heuristic and iii) result in a head to head match, we compare the algorithms using performance profiles. This multi-criteria performance meas...

The goal of the study reported in the paper was to determine whether rendering style (non-photorealistic versus realistic) has an effect on perception of American Sign Language (ASL) finger spelling animations. Sixty-nine (69) subjects participated in the experiment; all subjects were ASL users. The participants were asked to watch forty (40) sign language animation clips representing twenty (2...

Picture 1. Biopsy of the neck lymph node. (A) Difuse medium cel lymphoma (mantle cel lymphoma) (HE stain). (B) Positive immunostaining of lymphoma cels with anti-cyclin D1 antibody. Picture 2. Formalin-fixed (A) right and (B) left lungs showing major bronchi with marked thickening of the wal and a pencil lead caliber. MB, main bronchus; ULB, upper lobe bronchus; MLB, middle lobe bronchus; LLB, ...

aLaboratório de Dinâmicas Ecológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Av. Cel. Francisco Heráclito dos Santos, s/n, Jardim das Américas, CP 19020, CEP 81530-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil bLaboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Av. Cel. Francisco Heráclito dos Santos, s/n, Jardim das Américas...

BACKGROUND Thermochemical pretreatment of lignocellulose is crucial to bioconversion in the fields of biorefinery and biofuels. However, the enzyme inhibitors in pretreatment hydrolysate make solid substrate washing and hydrolysate detoxification indispensable prior to enzymatic hydrolysis. Sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocelluloses (SPORL) is a relatively new process, bu...

The impact of colonic fermentation on postileal absorption of Ca, Mg, P, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn was investigated in 8 ileally cannulated grower pigs (initial BW = 29.1 ± 1.6 kg) according to a double 4 × 4 Latin square. A semi-purified diet was supplemented with 5.20% low viscous, low fermentable cellulose (CEL), 6.25% high viscous, low fermentable carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), 8.95% low viscous, h...