In this paper an application of guided local search (GLS) to the problem of natural language parsing is presented. The given parsing approach is situated in a constraint based parsing paradigm [10] that allows natural language processing in a robust and resource adaptive way [16]. Some extensions of GLS are introduced, most notably a multi-threaded search where a couple of agents cooperate with...

The aim of this study was to analyze the significance of glucose metabolism-related enzymes in the proliferation of gastric cancer under hypoxia. Four hypoxia-resistant gastric cancer cell lines and four parent cell lines were used. Reverse transcription-PCR was used to evaluate the mRNA expression levels of the following metabolism-related enzymes: pyruvate kinase isozyme M2 (PKM2), glutaminas...

BACKGROUND In asymptomatic patients with ≥3+ mitral regurgitation and preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction who underwent mitral valve surgery, we sought to discover whether baseline LV global longitudinal strain (LV-GLS) and brain natriuretic peptide provided incremental prognostic utility. METHODS AND RESULTS Four hundred and forty-eight asymptomatic patients (61±12 years and 69...

PURPOSE Impaired left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) and the presence of microalbuminuria indicate early cardiac and renal dysfunction. We aimed to determine the relationships among 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (BP) variables, LV GLS, and urine albumin creatinine ratio (UACR) in hypertensive patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 130 hypertensive patients (mean age 53...

This paper studies the error in forecasting an autoregressive process with a deterministic component. We show that when the data are strongly serially correlated, forecasts based on a model that detrends the data using OLS before estimating the autoregressive parameters are much less precise than those based on an autoregression that includes the deterministic components, and the asymptotic dis...

: +1 607 Summary To estimate flood quantiles and other statistics at ungauged sites, many organizations employ an iterative generalized least squares (GLS) regression procedure to estimate the parameters of a model of the statistic of interest as a function of basin characteristics. The GLS regression procedure accounts for differences in available record lengths and spatial correlation in conc...

BACKGROUND Our study aimed to demonstrate the short-term impacts of right ventricular apical pacing (RVAP) and right ventricular septal pacing (RVSP) on left ventricular (LV) regional longitudinal strain (RLS) and global longitudinal strain (GLS) in patients with preserved ejection fraction (EF). LV strain and functions may be altered by RVAP. RVSP might be a better alternative. The detrimental...

In recent years, noteworthy research has been performed around lipids from microalgae. Among lipids, glycolipids (GLs) are quite abundant in microalgae and are considered an important source of fatty acids (FAs). GLs are rich in 16- and 18-carbon saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and often contain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) like n-3 α-linolenic (ALA 18:3), eicosapentaenoic (EPA, 20...

Scheduling precedence graphs with communication times is the theoretical basis for achieving efficient parallelism in message-passing machines. The lack of global information on the tasks, due to communication, has lead to develop local scheduling heuristics such as the Earliest-Task-First. Using knowledge on computation, communication, and system topology, a class of global priority-based sche...

Cancer cells reprogram metabolism to provide the energy, nucleotides, lipids, amino acids and other building blocks required to proliferate and survive in the stressful tumor microenvironment [1]. Changes in cancer metabolism were first noted in the 1920’s with Otto Warburg’s discovery that tumors show increased aerobic conversion of glucose to lactate (termed the Warburg Effect). A recent revi...