IMPROVING STABILITY, STEADY-STATE ERROR PERFORMANCE AND CONVERGENCE RATE IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IMPLEMENTING AFS-MDFE USING ADG AND TD ALGORITHM TAREK HASAN-AL-MAHMUD, ASHADUN NOBI, M. ZAMIL SULTAN and M. MAHBUBUR RAHMAN Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science an...

Perry MBChB, University of Cambridge, UK; KK Ray MD, University of Cambridge, UK; N Sarwar PhD, University of Cambridge, UK; M Alexander MPhil, University of Cambridge, UK; A Thompson PhD, University of Cambridge, UK; SG Thompson DSc, MRC Biostatistics Unit, UK; M Walker PhD, University of Cambridge, UK; S Watson MMath, University of Cambridge, UK; F Wensley MSc, University of Cambridge, UK; IR...

ing from Murcia, Spain. She was born in 1987, without meconium ileus, and was diagnosed as having cystic fibrosis at the age of 5 months, on the basis of growth retardation, gastrointestinal problems (especially diarrhoea and steatorrhoea), and repeated bronchitis. Staphylococcus aureus then Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been found in the patient's sputum since she was 6 months old. She is treate...

OBJECTIVE Vitamin D is a potential agent for the prevention of colorectal cancer possibly through mechanisms mediated by the vitamin D receptor (VDR). We investigated the association of circulating vitamin D metabolites and a genetic variant of the VDR gene with advanced colorectal adenoma, a precursor lesion of colorectal cancer. METHODS Cases with advanced adenoma of the distal large bowel ...

Prostatic cells express vitamin D receptor (VDR), which mediates the functions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. Two recent case-control studies suggested strong inverse associations between two VDR polymorphisms, TaqI and poly(A), and risk of prostate cancer. These two and a third polymorphism, BsmI, are closely linked. In a case-control study nested in the Physicians' Health Study, a randomized dou...

Epidemiologic and laboratory studies support a role for the vitamin D endocrine system in ovarian carcinogenesis. The association of ovarian cancer risk with polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene, including rs10735810 (FokI), rs11568820 (Cdx-2), rs1544410 (BsmI), rs7975232 (ApaI), rs731236 (TaqI), and BsmI-ApaI-TaqI combined genotypes, was examined among 313 women with epithelial o...