The most important pathophysiological abnormalities of sickle cell disease are reviewed, taking into account three levels: a) molecules and cells, b) tissues, c) organism as a whole. We dedicated especial attention to the chronic inflammatory phenomena, abnormally expressed adhesion molecules, the interaction among sickle cells,

Personal skill information on social media is at the core of many interesting applications. In this paper, we propose a factor graph based approach to automatically infer skills from personal profile incorporated with both personal and skill connections. We first extract personal connections with similar academic and business background (e.g. co-major, co-university, and co-corporation). We the...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a common injury leading to child disability and is associated with a variety of long-term cognitive, social, and behavioral dysfunctions. emotion perception (ep) starts up an integral part of social communication is critical to achieve developmentally appropriate goals. this skill, which emerges relatively early in development, is driven by increasing connectivit...