A computer based evaluation is essential to allow us to assess students’ protocols without human intervention in R SAT (Reading Strategy Assessment Tool). Word matching and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) approaches were explored for use in the evaluation of protocols and. experimentally it was found that word matching alone outperformed LSA or LSA in combination with word matching. Why does LSA...

The application of SAT solver in industrial verificationtools is mandatory for the successful analysis of prob-lems derived from hardware design, e.g. CombinationalEquivalence Checking (CEC) and Bounded Model Check-ing (BMC). In [8] Chaff, a new powerful SAT solver, waspresented that outperforms most of the existing publiclyavailable SAT solvers when applied to hard ...

Diets rich in cholesterol and/or saturated fats have been shown to be detrimental to cognitive performance. Therefore, we fed a cholesterol (2%) and saturated fat (hydrogenated coconut oil, Sat Fat 10%) diet to 16-month old rats for 8 weeks to explore the effects on the working memory performance of middle-aged rats. Lipid profiles revealed elevated plasma triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL,...

It is accepted that random k-CNF and industrial SAT instances have a distinct nature. While random formulas can be easily generated on demand, the set of industrial instances, which encode real-world problems, is limited. The problem of generating realistic pseudo-industrial random instances is stated in [9, 6, 4] as one of the most important challenges for the next few years. The main motivati...

Mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation and senescence-like features are observed in adipose depots in aging and obesity. Herein, we evaluated how maternal high calorie diet (HCD) may impact on subcutaneous adipose tissue (sAT) of the newborn mice. Adult C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided in three groups: normal calorie diet (NCD), HCD and HCD supplemented with niacin 8 weeks before mating. Mo...

Abstract Global warming has altered the energy budget and water cycle processes of land–atmosphere system, which resulted in significant effects on precipitation extremes. Previous studies have identified a hook structure between near-surface temperature extremes, extremes increase with rises decline thereafter. However, underlying physical mechanisms this association remain poorly understood. ...

In this research, we successfully expressed recombinant CMP-sialic Acid Synthetase (CSS) from Neisseria meningitides and 2,6-Sialyltransferase (SAT) from Photobacterium damsela in E. coli BL21(DE3) fermented at a scale of up to 8 litres using individual plasmids pIRL-1 and pIRL-4b, respectively. After cell lysis with BugBuster, enzyme levels of 2U and 22U per litre were produced for CSS and SAT...

Few studies have been reported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SA) to describe the clinical presentation and long term outcomes of subacute thyroiditis (SAT). Our aim was to review the demographic, anthropometric, clinical presentation, laboratory results, treatment, and disease outcome in Riyadh region and to compare those with results from different regions of the Kingdom and different part...

Background and objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most sensitive technique to detect multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques in central nervous system. In some cases, the patients who were suspected to MS, Whereas MRI images are normal, but whether patients don’t have MS plaques or MRI images are not enough optimized enough in order to show MS plaques? The aim of the current study is ...

BACKGROUND South Asians and African Caribbeans experience more cardiometabolic disease than Europeans. Risk factors include visceral (VAT) and subcutaneous abdominal (SAT) adipose tissue, which vary with ethnicity and are difficult to quantify using anthropometry. OBJECTIVE We developed and cross-validated ethnicity and gender-specific equations using anthropometrics to predict VAT and SAT. ...