BACKGROUND The non conventional RTM (Restricted Tobacco etch virus Movement) resistance which restricts long distance movement of some plant viruses in Arabidopsis thaliana is still poorly understood. Though at least three RTM genes have been identified, their precise role(s) in the process as well as whether other genes are involved needs to be elucidated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In t...

Resin injection such as resin transfer molding (RTM) is commonly applied in industry for serial production of composite components. RTM process simulation enables prediction of process parameters that are essential for component and tool design. As for all simulations where material behavior is modeled, validated material properties are indispensable for realistic simulations. Currently, materi...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of recombinant human-soluble thrombomodulin (rTM) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced, platelet-dependent neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation (NETosis). Human peripheral blood neutrophils and platelets were co-incubated with or without LPS (0.2 μg/ml) in the presence and absence of rTM (2 μg/ml). NETosis was confirmed by immunostain...

OBJECTIVES Conditioning child growth measures on baseline accounts for regression to the mean (RTM). Here, we present the "conditional random slope" (CRS) model, based on a linear-mixed effects model that incorporates a baseline-time interaction term that can accommodate multiple data points for a child while also directly accounting for RTM. METHODS In two birth cohorts, we applied five appr...

AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this study is to research the contribution of radiothermometry (RTM) to the characterization of breast masses, the differentiation of malignant-benign masses and diagnosis of early stage breast cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS This prospective study comprised 182 cases of patients diagnosed with a breast mass and a control group of 55 cases: a total of 237. RESULTS W...

Elastic least-squares reverse time migration (ELSRTM) describes the reflectivity of underground media more accurately than acoustic LSRTM in theory while suffering from P- and S-waves crosstalk artifacts. We propose a new wavefield decomposed ELSRTM scheme to alleviate these artifacts, which is different conventional methods. In our scheme, we implement wavenumber domain elastic vector decompos...

The development of multi-component seismic acquisition technology creates new possibilities for the high-precision imaging complex media. Compared to scalar acoustic wave equation, elastic equation takes information P-waves, S-waves, and converted waves into account simultaneously, enabling accurate description actual propagation. However, inherent attenuation is one important factors that rest...