The NKp46 receptor demonstrates a high degree of lineage specificity, being expressed almost exclusively in NK cells. Previous studies have demonstrated NKp46 expression by T cells, but NKp46+ CD3+ cells are rare and almost universally associated with NKp46 acquisition by T cells following stimulation. In this study we demonstrate the existence of a population of NKp46+ CD3+ cells resident in n...

COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; PEEP = positive end-expiratory pressure. The most frequent reason for admission to an intensive care unit is need for ventilatory assistance. At least, this is my experience over the past 20 years from working in university and county hospitals. Regardless of the illness that provokes respiratory insufficiency, the majority of patients with respirat...

A few of the presented soil behavior models are capable of predicting the triggering and post liquefaction and also shear band mechanism through the soil media. The assessment of earth-dam body behavior as a soil structure made of cohesive soil in core and non-cohesive soil as the core supports, including water interaction at upstream through earthquake upon a multi-line constitutive equations ...

The capability to design for, respond to, and recover from natural hazards is much influenced by demographic socio-economic vulnerability of the region. Triggering effect cyclone induced multi-hazards in coastal areas West Bengal, India makes life livelihood people miserable. Very recent cyclones, like, Fani, Bulbul, Amphan Yaas make more susceptible hazard with evil impact on-going pandemic. A...

Galaxy interactions/mergers, gravitational instabilities and density waves, such as bars, are frequently invoked to trigger starbursts. These mechanisms have been explored through numerical simulations, with the help of various star formation recipes. Gravitational instabilities are necessary to initiate star formation, but the main trigger might be the gas flows, to provide sufficient fuel in ...

In networked control systems, the advent of eventtriggering strategies in the sampling process has resulted in the usage reduction of network capacities, such as communication bandwidth. However, the aperiodic nature of sampling periods generated by event-triggering strategies has hindered the schedulability of such networks. In this study, we propose a framework to construct a timed safety aut...

While humans possess a ready capacity to view a target (biological or otherwise) as an intentional agent (i.e. the 'intentional stance'), the conditions necessary for spontaneously eliciting these mentalizing processes are less well understood. Although research examining people's tendency to construe the motion of geometric shapes as intentional has done much to illuminate this issue, due to m...

Recently, wireless sensor devices have been widely deployed in various application settings (including environmental research, control systems, etc.). Because of the inherent unreliability of sensor readings, any kind of reasoning in sensor environments needs to carefully account for noise. The key goal of pcet is to build an infrastructure that can automatically infer and reason about the prob...