Hormonal factors have a profound influence on the development, treatment, and outcome of breast cancer. The absence of steroid hormone receptors is highly correlated with resistance to antihormonal treatments. Work in cultured human breast cancer cell lines has shown that the absence of estrogen receptor (ER) gene expression in ER- cells is associated with extensive methylation of the ER gene 5...

Can a computer which runs for time ω 2 compute more than one which runs for time ω? No. Not, at least, for the infinite computer we describe. Our computer gets more powerful when the set of its steps gets larger. We prove that they theory of second order arithmetic cannot be decided by computers running to countable time. Our motivation is to build a computer that will store and manipulate surr...

We study combinatorial principles known as stick and club. Several variants of these principles and cardinal invariants connected to them are also considered. We introduce a new kind of side-by-side product of partial orderings which we call pseudo-product. Using such products, we give several generic extensions where some of these principles hold together with ¬CH and Martin’s Axiom for counta...

We study three convolutions of polynomials that are inspired by free probability. We define these to be the expected characteristic polynomials of certain random matrices. The symmetric additive and multiplicative convolutions have been studied for a century. The asymmetric additive convolution, and the connection of all of them with random matrices, appears new. We prove that these convolution...

The authors show, by means of a finitary version fin λ,D of the combinatorial principle b ∗ λ of [6], the consistency of the failure, relative to the consistency of supercompact cardinals, of the following: for all regular filters D on a cardinal λ, if Mi and Ni are elementarily equivalent models of a language of size ≤ λ, then the second player has a winning strategy in the Ehrenfeucht-Fräıssé...

Methods Catheterization with pressurevolume (PV) studies was performed in control pigs, and in models of pulmonary stenosis (PS) and pulmonary regurgitation (PR) at 1012 weeks of model creation. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with assessment of ventricular volumes, function and flow (four-dimensional phasecontrast magnetic resonace imaging, 4DPCMRI) was performed at baseline and at 10-12 we...

Mono- and dianionic carboranylamidinates are readily available in one-pot reactions directly from o-carborane (1). In situ-monolithiation of 1 followed by treatment with N,N'-diisopropylcarbodiimide, (i)PrN=C=N(i)Pr, or N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, CyN=C=NCy, provided the lithium carboranylamidinates (o-C2B10H10C(NH(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)-κ(2)C,N)Li(DME) (2a) and (o-C2B10H10C(NH(i)Cy)(=N(i)Cy)-κ(2)C,...

[1] The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) version-6 rainfall products show the reduced bias between Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) rainfall estimates during the 1997/1998 El Niño event noted in version 5, but need to be verified. We investigate consistency between TMI-observed brightness temperatures (TBs) at 10 and 19 GHz channels and those simulated from the...

PURPOSE To verify whether active recovery (AR) applied after a kickboxing match resulted in better performance in anaerobic tests when compared to passive recovery (PR). METHODS Eighteen kickboxers volunteered to participate on a Kickboxing match preceded and followed by anaerobic tests: squat jump (SJ), the counter movement jump (CMJ) and the upper-body Wingate test. Blood lactate (BL), hear...

Pattern recognition (PR) (or classification or discrimination or analysis) concerns the development of theoretical and computational means for placing abstract objects into categories. PR spans theoretical work involving techniques from probability and statistics, information theory, learning theory, and more [1, 2, 3, 4]. PR also plays a major role in applications in fields such as machine lea...