The problem of multilevel diversity coding with secure regeneration (MDC-SR) is considered, which includes the problems of multilevel diversity coding with regeneration (MDC-R) and secure regenerating code (SRC) as special cases. Two outer bounds are established, showing that separate coding of different messages using the respective SRCs can achieve the minimum-bandwidth-regeneration (MBR) poi...

Correspondence: Jana Wolf, Max Delbrück Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D13092 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49 30 9406 2641, Fax.: +49 30 9406 2394, email: [email protected] Wei Chen, Max Delbrück Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D13092 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49 30 9406 2995, Fax.: +49 30 9406 3068, email: [email protected] Matthias Selbach, M...

Citrus fruit contain various flavonoids that have multiple biological activities. However, the content of these flavonoids are changed during maturation and immature Citrus is known to contain larger amounts than mature. Chemokines are significant mediators for cell migration, while thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC/CCL17) and macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC/CCL22) are well know...

Packet delay jitter and loss due to network congestion pose significant challenges for designing and deploying delay sensitive multimedia applications over the best effort packet switched networks such as the Internet. Recent studies indicate that using Multiple Description Coding (MDC) in conjunction with path or server diversity can mitigate these effects. However, the proposed MDC coding and...

The rise of large-scale wireless sensor networks (LSWSNs), containing thousands nodes (SNs) that spread over large geographic areas, necessitates new Quality Service (QoS) efficient data collection techniques. Data and transmission in LSWSNs are considered the most challenging issues. This study presents a hybrid protocol called MDC-K is combination K-means machine learning clustering algorithm...

objective: To estimate the minimal detectable change (MDC) and the minimal clinically important changes (MCIC) for pain severity in subacute and chronic neck pain (NP) patients, to assess if MDC and MCIC values are influenced by baseline values and to explore if they are different in the subset of patients reporting referred pain, and in subacute versus chronic patients.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was for us to determine National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline-compliance of multidisciplinary conference (MDC) recommendations and actual treatment received, and to determine this impact on patient outcomes. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of patients presented at MDC between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006, with previou...

[Purpose] This study was aimed to determine the relative and absolute reliability of Korean version tools of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the Timed Up and Go (TUG), the Four-Meter Walking Test (4MWT) and the Groningen Meander Walking Test (GMWT) in patients with dementia. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 53 patients with dementia were tested on TUG, BBS, 4MWT and GMWT with a prospective cohor...

Chemokines are important mediators of macrophage and T-cell recruitment in a number of inflammatory pathologies, and chemokines expressed in atherosclerotic lesions may play an important role in mononuclear cell recruitment and macrophage differentiation. We have analyzed the expression of the linked chromosome 16q13 genes that encode macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC/CCL22), thymus- and activa...

Macrophage-activating lipopeptide 2 (MALP-2), a mycoplasmal diacylated lipopeptide with palmitic acid moiety (Pam2), activates Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 to induce inflammatory cytokines. TLR2 is known to mature myeloid dendritic cells (mDC) to drive mDC contact-mediated natural killer (NK) cell activation. Here we tested if MALP-2 activates NK cells through stimulation of TLR2 on mDC. Although...