OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe changes in high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) scans with simultaneous fundus autoflorescence (FAF) signals in tubercular serpiginouslike choroiditis (SLC). METHODS Simultaneous SD-OCT and FAF imaging of eyes affected with SLC from acute stage until resolution of lesions was obtained using Spectralis HRA+OCT system (Heide...

Butter cream is an all-purpose icing that is used to both ice and decorate cakes. Cream icings contain up to 40% shortening. As consumers become aware of the need to reduce fat in their diet, the demand for healthy, flavorful, and low-fat food increases. High-amylose corn starch was cooked in an excess-steam jet cooker in the presence of oleic acid. Amylose formed helical inclusion complexes wi...

Inside modern SSDs, a small portion of MLC/TLC NAND flash memory blocks operate in SLC-mode to serve as write buffer/cache and/or store hot data. These SLC-mode blocks absorb a large percentage of write operations. To balance memory wear-out, such MLC/TLC-to-SLC configuration rotates among all the memory blocks inside SSDs. This paper presents a simple yet effective design approach to reduce wr...

Early B cell development is characterized by stepwise, ordered rearrangement of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy (HC) and light (LC) chain genes. Only one of the two alleles of these genes is used to produce a receptor, a phenomenon referred to as allelic exclusion. It has been suggested that pre-B cell receptor (pre-BCR) signals are responsible for down-regulation of the VDJH-recombinase machiner...

The release of chemokines by intrinsic renal cells is an important mechanism for the regulation of leukocyte trafficking during renal inflammation. The expression of chemokine receptors by intrinsic renal cells such as mesangial cells (MC) suggests an expanded role for chemokine-chemokine receptor biology in local immunomodulation and potentially glomerular homeostasis. By immunohistochemistry ...

Improved sperm selection techniques are needed to increase the efficiency of equineassisted reproduction. Single layer centrifugation (SLC) of spermatozoa has been shown to improve the quality of stallion sperm samples. In this study, the functionality of selected stallion spermatozoa was tested by intracytoplasmic sperm injection of equine oocytes after selection by SLC through Androcoll-E or ...

Automated machine learning (AutoML) supports the algorithmic construction and data-specific customization of pipelines, including selection, combination, parametrization algorithms as main constituents. Generally speaking, AutoML approaches comprise two major components: a search space model an optimizer for traversing space. Recent have shown impressive results in realm supervised learning, mo...

Precision tests of the electroweak interactions will soon be possible at the SLC and LEP. The SLC will be capable of providing longitudinal polarization of one incoming beam, the electrons, for such tests. Plans at the SLC to provide and monitor these beams are described, and some physics objectives are discussed. Invited talk presented at the Workshop on Tests of Electroweak Theories, Polarize...

Mouse 6Ckine/SLC (secondary lymphoid tissue chemokine) is a chemotactic factor for dendritic cells, T cells, and NK cells in vitro. In addition, mouse 6Ckine/SLC interacts with the chemokine receptor CXCR3, as do several chemokines with antiangiogenic properties. These dual properties of mouse 6Ckine/SLC were tested for the induction of an antitumor response by transducing the C26 colon carcino...

Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy is regarded as a promising means for anti-cancer therapy. The efficiency of T cell-priming in vivo by transferred DCs should depend on their encounter with T cells. In the present study, we attempted to improve the capacity of DCs to prime T cells in vivo by genetic modification to express chemokine with a T cell-attracting property. For genetic modificat...