Treatment strategies for AD will have to include a variety of interventions directed at multiple targets. So far, the outcomes with available approved medications for AD are often unsatisfactory, and there is a place for alternative medicine, in particular herbal medicine. Herbal medicines are being used by about 80% of the world population primarily in the developing countries for primary heal...

The current study is focused on determining the mRNA expression levels of tetranectin, to detect oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and thus aiding in its classification at an early stage. RNA was isolated and cDNA synthesis was performed from the saliva samples of the patients and healthy individuals. A semiquantitative PCR based analysis was performed prior to quantitative and expression bas...

Higher-order Fourier analysis, developed over prime fields, has been recently used in different areas of computer science, including list decoding, algorithmic decomposition and testing. We extend the tools of higher-order Fourier analysis to analyze functions over general fields. Using these new tools, we revisit the results in the above areas. (i) For any fixed finite field K, we show that th...

To balance the load and to discourage the free-riding in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, many incentive mechanisms and policies have been proposed in recent years. Global peer ranking is one such mechanism. In this mechanism, peers are ranked based on a metric called contribution index. Contribution index is defined in such a manner that peers are motivated to share the resources in the network. F...

We use hand-collected data on a sample of German public firms during 2011-2014 to show that firms use currency derivatives more often when they export or import, and especially when exchange-rate fluctuations are larger, but to a lesser extent when having high export and import shares simultaneously. We interpret this finding as evidence of operational hedging that arises as foreign-denominated...

My responsibility for this workshop is to prepare a short paper on a substantive topic that invites (a) visualization by technical methods of mapping temporal evolution, and/or (b) time-series analysis. I propose to do this by showing the group some data which I have collected, presented and analyzed in fairly straightforward ways, but which seem to me to beg for more sophisticated methods than...

Given an array of n elements from a total order, we propose encodings that support various range queries (range minimum, range maximum and their variants), and previous and next smaller/larger value queries. When query time is not of concern, we obtain a 4.088n+o(n)-bit encoding that supports all these queries. For the case when we need to support all these queries in constant time, we give an ...

INTRODUCTION Fasting in the night before elective surgery has been established to prevent pulmonary complications, vomiting, regurgitation and aspiration of gastric contents. The year of 2005 was developed the project ACERTO. It consists in a multidisciplinary team that aims to recover the surgical patient by administering two our six hours before surgery, a carbohydrate-rich beverage (12.5% de...