Abstract Changes in convective activity and hydroclimate over Northeastern Kalimantan are key features to understand glacial interglacial climate evolution the center of West Pacific Warm Pool during Late Pleistocene Holocene. We use high-resolution X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanner-derived elemental ratios sediment Core SO217-18522 (1º 24.106’ N, 119º 4.701’E, 975 m water depth) recovered from ...

•Tumor characteristics of 5 cases of ovarian tumor of low malignant potential (LMP) with BRCA mutation were examined.•Young age, BRCA1 mutation, and presence of invasive implants may be characteristics of BRCA carriers with ovarian LMP.

BACKGROUND Malaria is still a major public health problem, partly because the pathogenesis of its major complication, cerebral malaria (CM), remains incompletely understood. However tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is thought to play a key role in the development of this neurological syndrome, as well as lymphotoxin alpha (LT). METHODS AND FINDINGS Using an in vitro model of CM based on human brai...

This letter presents an improved version of diffusion least mean ppower (LMP) algorithm for distributed estimation. Instead of sum of mean square errors, a weighted sum of mean square error is defined as the cost function for global and local cost functions of a network of sensors. The weight coefficients are updated by a simple steepest-descent recursion to minimize the error signal of the glo...

SUMMARY Illumina's recently released Nextera Long Mate Pair (LMP) kit enables production of jumping libraries of up to 12 kb. The LMP libraries are an invaluable resource for carrying out complex assemblies and other downstream bioinformatics analyses such as the characterization of structural variants. However, LMP libraries are intrinsically noisy and to maximize their value, post-sequencing ...

BACKGROUND Prior studies of prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) have shown mixed results regarding its effect on birth weight and gestational age. OBJECTIVES In this retrospective cohort study we examined whether PCE contamination of public drinking-water supplies in Massachusetts influenced the birth weight and gestational duration of children whose mothers were exposed before the...

While evidence exists for an association between people management practices (PMP), firm characteristics and lean manufacturing (LMP), there is limited research focusing on different sized firms. What not understood (1) what PMP bundles are chosen by firms which adopt LMP, (2) play a role in explaining these choices. The empirical based archival data sourced from the world dataset comprising of...

This article is available online at http://www.jlr.org Physiological and pathological cell death have been classifi ed according to morphological criteria into at least three categories: type I cell death or apoptosis; type II cell death or autophagic cell death; and type III cell death or necrosis ( 1, 2 ). Lysosomes were known to be involved in autophagy ( 3, 4 ) and, after the massive ruptur...