OBJECTIVE The potential effect of a long-term intake of resistant starch on colonic fermentation and on gut morphologic and immunologic indices of interest in bowel conditions in humans was studied in pigs. METHODS Sixteen growing pigs were meal fed for 14 wk on a diet containing a large amount of raw potato starch (RPS; resistant starch) or corn starch (CS; digestible starch). Effects were a...

Retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) are rare tumours that typically present late and carry a poor prognosis even following grossly complete resection. In an attempt to improve the outlook for patients with RPS, sarcoma specialists have employed various adjuvant therapies, including extermal beam radiation, intraoperative radiation, brachyradiation and systemic chemotherapy. This article reviews the ...

We present a denoising technique in the domain of time series data that presumes a model for the uncorrupted underlying signal rather than a model for noise. Specifically, we show how the non-linear reconstruction of the underlying dynamical system by way of time delay embedding yields a new solution for denoising where the underlying dynamics is assumed to be highly non-linear yet low-dimensio...

For exploring the meaning of power set in evidence theory, a possible explanation is proposed from view Pascal’s triangle and combinatorial number. Here comes question: what would happen if number replaced by permutation number? To address this issue, new kind set, named as random (RPS), paper, which consists event space (PES) mass function (PMF). The PES certain considers all that set. element...

Introduction: Radiochemical purity (RCP) is a routine quality control test carried out at nuclear medicine to determine the concentration of various chemical species present in the radiopharmaceuticals (RPs). The present work describes three years of experience in a single institute for the measurement of these impurities in the RPs preparations. Methods: </strong...

The antigenically related coaggregation receptor polysaccharides (RPS) of Streptococcus oralis strains C104 and SK144 mediate recognition of these bacteria by other members of the dental plaque biofilm community. In the present study, the structure of strain SK144 RPS was established by high resolution NMR spectroscopy as [6Galfbeta1-6GalNAcbeta1-3Galalpha1-2ribitol-5-PO(4)(-)-6Galfbeta1-3Galbe...

Intake of raw potato starch (RPS) has been associated with various intestinal health benefits, but knowledge of its mechanism in a long-term is limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of long-term intake of RPS on microbial composition, genes expression profiles in the colon of pigs. Thirty-six Duroc × Landrace × Large White growing barrows were randomly allocated to corn ...

Although closely related at the molecular level, the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) of serotype 10F Streptococcus pneumoniae and coaggregation receptor polysaccharide (RPS) of Streptococcus oralis C104 have distinct ecological roles. CPS prevents phagocytosis of pathogenic S. pneumoniae, whereas RPS of commensal S. oralis functions as a receptor for lectin-like adhesins on other members of the d...

Purpose. To report the phenomenon of infected retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS).Method. Two case reports.Results. Both patients died soon after laparotomy.Discussion. Infected RPS is identified as an entity not clearly documented in the literature. It should probably be added to the list of poor prognostic factors when planning the management of patients with RPS.