In order to quantify the long-range cross-correlations between two time series qualitatively, we introduce a new cross-correlations test QCC(m), where m is the number of degrees of freedom. If there are no cross-correlations between two time series, the cross-correlation test agrees well with the χ(m) distribution. If the cross-correlations test exceeds the critical value of the χ(m) distributi...

Ventricular and atrial myocytes cultured from chick embryos 14 days in ovo were used as model systems to study cardiac adenosine receptors. In membranes of ventricular cultures, blocking of the A1-adenosine receptor pathway by the A1-selective antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3 -dipropylxanthine (DPCPX) or by pertussis toxin treatment of the myocyte resulted in a significant adenosine agonist-mediate...

Use of agrochemicals is a worldwide practice that exerts an important effect on the environment; therefore the search of approaches for the elimination of such pollutants should be encouraged. The degradation of the insecticides imiprothrin (IP) and cypermethrin (CP), the insecticide/nematicide carbofuran (CBF) and the antibiotic of agricultural use oxytetracycline (OTC) were assayed with the w...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the relationship between urinary pesticide residue levels and neurotoxic symptoms amongst women working on Western Cape farms in South Africa. METHOD A total of 211 women were recruited from farms (n=121) and neighbouring towns (n=90). Participant assessment was via a Q16 questionnaire, reporting on pesticide exposures and measurement...

Biliary Tract Cancers (BTC) patients (pts) have poor prognosis and limited therapeutic options, but there is increasing evidence for biomarker-directed therapy, with several potentially actionable molecular targets FDA-approved drugs. ESMO ASCO recommends the use of tumour multigene next generation sequencing (NGS) BTC. This was a multicentric study assessing real-life clinical actionability al...

BACKGROUND Pyrethroid insecticides (PYR) are commonly used in rice farms and household pest control in Thailand. No investigative study has yet been made regarding factors associated with PYR exposure among Thai children. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the levels of PYR exposure between children living in rice farms (high-intensity PYR used) and aquacultural areas (low-intensity PYR us...

BACKGROUND Although arctic lakes have responded sensitively to 20(th)-century climate change, it remains uncertain how these ecological transformations compare with alpine and montane-boreal counterparts over the same interval. Furthermore, it is unclear to what degree other forcings, including atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr), have participated in recent regime sh...

Ventricular and atrial myocytes cultured from chick embryos 14 days in ovo were used as model systems to study cardiac adenosine receptors. In membranes of ventricular cultures, blocking of the A1-adenosine receptor pathway by the A1-selective antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX) or by pertussis toxin treatment of the myocyte resulted in a significant adenosine agonist-mediated...

This paper describes a series of cepstral-based compensation procedures that render the SPHINX-II continuous speech recognition system more robust with respect to acoustical changes in the environment. The first two algorithms, SNR based MultivaRiate gAussian based cepsTral normaliZation (SNR-based RATZ) and STAtistical Reestimation of HMMs (STAR), compensate for environmental degradation based...