Background: CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are the main types of lymphocytes in cell-mediated immunity and play a central role in the induction of efficient immune responses against tumors. The frequencies of T cell subtypes in the peripheral blood and tumor tissues, and draining lymph nodes (dLN) can be considered as useful markers for evaluation of the immune system in cancers. Methods: In this study,...

during recent decades, researchers have attempted to understand individual and group level behavior, at micro levels while macro level researchers studied organizational and institutional level behavior. yet few scholars have examined organizational effects on individual and group behavior and the effects of individual and group behavior on organization as a whole. such a research can lead to a...

BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that uric acid is a mediator of diabetic nephropathy. We hypothesized that elevated serum uric acid levels are a strong predictor of albuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes. METHODS We analyzed data from the Coronary Artery Calcification in Type 1 Diabetes study, a prospective observational study. A stepwise logistic regression model was applied to predi...

We compute the boundary entropies for the allowed boundary conditions of the SU (2)-invariant principal chiral model at level k = 1. We used the reflection factors determined in ref.[27]. As a by-product we obtain some miscellaneous results such as the ground-state energy for mixed boundary conditions as well as the degeneracies of the Kondo model in the underscreened and exactly screened cases...

Stripping techniques combined with an adequate replication policy across the Grid offers the possibility to improve significatively data access and processing times, while eliminating the need for local data mirroring, so saving significatively on storage costs. First results on a local cluster following a simple strategy are presented.

The spectrum of eigenenergies of a quantum integrable system whose hamil-tonian depends on a single parameter shows degeneracies (crossings) when the parameter varies. We derive a semiclassical expression for the density of crossings in the plane energy-parameter, that is the number of crossings per unit of energy and unit of parameter, in terms of classical periodic orbits. We compare the resu...

We compute the boundary entropies for the allowed boundary conditions of the SU (2)-invariant principal chiral model at level k = 1. We used the reflection factors determined in a previous work. As a by-product we obtain some miscellaneous results such as the ground-state energy for mixed boundary conditions as well as the degeneracies of the Kondo model in the underscreened and exactly screene...

I discuss the physics case of the standard Neutrino Factory facility coupled to an iron detector to exploit the so-called ‘Golden-Channel’. The performance of the facility is impressive, although it is not free from degeneracies arising from a combination of physics and instrumental limitations. Nevertheless, one could explore at great depth the parameter of the leptonic mixing matrix as well a...

We study exact representations for offset curves and surfaces, for equal-distance curves and surfaces, and for fixedand variable-radius blending surfaces. The representations are myekeme of nonlinear equationn that define the curves and surfaces as natural projections from a bigherdimeneional space into &space. We show that the systems derived by-naively trsnalating the geometric constrainb def...