Any software development project uses software tools that assist its developers in coordinating their efforts. These tools, termed coordination technologies in this paper, have undergone remarkable changes over time in the functionality that they offer. We contribute a novel perspective on this historical trend with our Coordination Pyramid, a framework that recognizes four distinct paradigms o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the diagnostic values of soluble cluster of differentiation 163 (sCD163) in patients with liver failure or various inflammations. METHODS Serum samples were collected from patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University from October 2013 to January 2015 for treatment of with liver diseases, including liver failure (n=38), hepatitis B virus (HBV...

The ice-rafted-debris (IRD) record of the open Northwest Pacific points towards existence substantial glacial ice on Northeast Siberian coast during late Quaternary. However, scale and timing glaciation de-glaciation remains controversial due to dearth both onshore offshore records. Existing IRD data suggests at least one event dynamic abrupt change mid-late Marine Isotope Stage (MIS 3) which m...

Abstract Background The incidence and prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases with age. With an ageing general population, a 2.3-fold rise in AF is expected. Catheter ablation has emerged as effective treatment option for rhythm control therapy. However, very elderly patients (≥80 years old) have been excluded landmark clinical trials. Current data regarding the safety efficacy cathete...

There has been much recent discussion ahout the ultimate sources of macroeconomic variability. A number ofauthors attribute most of this variability to only B few sowces, sometimes only one. Although there may be only B few important sources, this is fsr from obvious, since economies seem compliested. The purpose of this paper is to provide qusntitstive estimates of various sowces of vsriabilit...

This study concerned the relationship between the prosodic feature, especially F0, and the listeners’ identification of contexts. It became obvious that duration and F0 range are the important cues to guess speakers’ emotional state or contexts [1, 2, 3, 4]. However, as the stimuli used were designed to keep F0 average constant, we could not see the effect of big F0 range and high F0 components...

Irinotecan (IRN), a topoisomerase I interactive agent, has significant antitumor activity in early Phase I studies in children with recurrent solid tumors. However, the disposition of IRN and its metabolites, SN-38 and APC, in children has not been reported. Children with solid tumors refractory to conventional therapy received IRN by a 1-h i.v. infusion at either 20, 24, or 29 mg/m2 daily for ...

François Facchini, L’entrepreneur comme un homme prudent, (Przedsiębiorca jako człowiek rozważny), „La Revue des Sciences de Gestion” 2007, n° 4–5 (n° 226–227), pp. 29–38, https://doi.org/10.3917/rsg.226.0029

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related peptide (AgRP) stimulate feeding, whereas NPY also facilitates the estrogen-mediated preovulatory GnRH surge. In addition to regulating reproductive function, estrogen also acts as an anorexigenic hormone, although it is not yet known which hypothalamic neurons are involved in this process. We hypothesize that estrogen may directly control hypothalamic NP...

Native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (N-PAGE) was used to characterize Candida albicans strains isolated from vaginal specimens of patients suffering from vaginitis in Ankara hospitals, Turkey. Three different protein band profiles were observed among these 38 C. albicans isolates when whole cell protein extracts of these strains were used in N-PAGE. 34 of the 38 isolates were shown to bel...