Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA, formerly known as Wegener) is a systemic vasculitis characterized by granulomatous involving upper and lower respiratory tract and can also cause necrotizing glomerulonephritis (Umemoto et al. 2012 and Takala et al. 2011). GPA is associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) against serine proteinase 3 (PR3) (Takala et al. 2011, Dufour e...

Gastric cancer remains a major global problem. In 2008, 989,600 new stomach cancer cases and 738,000 deaths occurred, accounting for 8% of the total cases and 10% of total deaths, respectively (Jemal et al., 2011). Notwithstanding the global declining incidence of gastric cancer, mortality is continuously rising in Asian countries (Hu et al., 2004). Surgery is considered as the gold standard fo...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide in both developed and developing countries, including Thailand (Siegel et al., 2012; Ferlay et al., 2010; Sriplung et al., 2005). In Thailand, the incidence of all cancers and the mortality rate resulting from malignant diseases gradually increase each year. In particular, incidences of colorectal cancer and breast cancer significantly increased duri...

Research on cognitive interventions and training-induced changes in brain and behavior has been of growing interest in cognitive neuroscience and related disciplines over the last decade (for reviews see Hertzog et al., 2008; Lustig et al., 2009; Shipstead et al., 2010; Morrison and Chein, 2011; for a recent meta-analysis see Melby-Lervåg and Hulme, 2013). The aim of this research topic is to p...

Modelling approaches for estimating species ability to track environmental change over large scales may rely on different assumptions regarding the role of dispersal (Barbet-Massin et al. 2012; Engler et al. 2012; Bateman et al. 2013; Zhou and Kot, 2013): i) The species cannot disperse, thus considering null dispersal ability (which would, in most cases, underestimate the potential future area)...

A few key inorganic elements, many of them metals, are essential for life. Approximately 40% of all proteins are metalloproteins which are at the center of the fundamental biological processes that drive biogeochemical cycles. Metalloproteins split water, acquire carbon, reduce carbon, and reoxidize carbon. They are also integral to the nitrogen and oxygen cycles. In aquatic systems, metals are...

soil water retention curve (swrc) is important in the studies of soil and water relationship, soil conservation, irrigation scheduling, drainage, solute transport, plant growth and crop water stress. the performance of 10 models (simons et al., libardy et al., campbell, farrell and larson, van genuchten, brooks and corey, driessen, exponential bruce-luxmore, power bruce-luxmore, and rogowski) w...

introduction the study area is located 12km away from the north east of sarbisheh at the eastern border of the lut block (karimpour et al., 2011; richards et al., 2012). the magmatic activity in the lut blockhas begun in the middle jurassic (165-162 ma) and reached its peak in the tertiary age (jung et al., 1983; karimpour et al., 2011). volcanic and subvolcanic rocks in the tertiary age cover ...