PD-L1 expression is critical in helping tumor cells evade the immune system. However, the level of PD-L1 expression in non-oropharyngeal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (non-OPHNSCC) and its association with patient prognosis remains unclear. A retrospective clinicopathological analysis was performed on 106 patients with non-OPHNSCC diagnosed between 2007 and 2014. In the current study, t...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) devices are widely used for monitoring cardiovascular function. However, these devices require skin contact, which restricts their use to at-rest short-term monitoring. Photoplethysmographic imaging (PPGI) has been recently proposed as a non-contact monitoring alternative by measuring blood pulse signals across a spatial region of interest. Existing systems operate in...

The Data Availability Statement appearing with the published article is incorrect. The correct Data Availability Statement should read: There are legal restrictions on the student outcome data. National Child Measurement Programme data was used as determined by the data sharing agreement with the then Information Centre of the National Health Service (NHS IC), now Health and Social Care Informa...

Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) causes health-care related infections such as endocarditis, meningitis, bacteremia, Septicemia and gastrointestinal tract infections in immunocompromised patients. VRE are emerging therapeutic dilemma due to high resistance against commonly used antibiotics including vancomycin. The present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of VRE in clinic...

THIS PAPER PRESENTS the results of a nationwide survey of deans, associate deans, and directors who make recommendations concerning the admission of applicants to graduate programs in their colleges and universities. A questionnaire was sent to a sample of academic officers in public and private institutions describing three different types of applicants. Each of the three applicants had a bach...

Specific spatial information about medicinal plants is becoming an increasingly important part of their conservation. Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino is a traditional Chinese medical plant, and gypenosides is one of the main active components of G. pentaphyllum. In our research, many samples of G. pentaphyllum and the data of gypenosides content in these samples were collected from 43 s...

Although information and communication technology (ICT) literacy is a key competence for students in the 21st century, most scholars only focus on ICT higher education vocational education, while neglecting to discuss this primary education. Given that it not clear how various level factors affect school students' literacy, study conducted multilevel analysis examine possible influencing studen...

BACKGROUND Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) influence the biological effects of carcinogens, drugs and hormones including testosterones. Among them, Cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6) plays a critical role in the deactivation of testosterone. In the present study, we examined CYP2B6 expression in human prostate tissues and prostate cancer. METHODS Immunohistochemical analysis was performed in 98 benign and ...