Changes in land-use–land-cover (LULC) affect the water balance of a region by influencing yield (WY) along with variations rainfall and evapotranspiration (ET). Remote sensing satellite imagery offers comprehensive spatiotemporal distribution LULC to analyse changes WY over large area. Hence, this study mapped successive between 2000 2015 Johor River Basin (JRB) specifically comparing satellite...

BACKGROUND Reliable HIV incidence estimates for Mozambique are limited. We conducted a prospective HIV incidence study as part of a clinical research site development initiative in Chókwè district, Gaza Province, southern Mozambique. METHODS Between June 2010 and October 2012, we recruited women at sites where women at higher risk of HIV infection would likely be found. We enrolled and tested...

In arid and semi-arid regions, vegetation restoration will have a significant impact on ecosystem services (ESs). Accurate assessment of the relationship driving mechanism between ESs play an important role in implementation subsequent projects management. The purpose this study is to evaluate identify ESs, explore ecological ESs. Taking middle reaches Yellow River as area, analyzed three inclu...

Water yield (WY) refers to the difference between precipitation and evapotranspiration (ET), which is vital for available terrestrial water. Climate change has led significant changes in on a global scale, will affect WY. Nevertheless, how WY changed during past few decades factors dominated are not fully understood. In this study, based climate reanalysis remote sensing data, spatial temporal ...

Purpose Laparoscopic gastrectomy is accepted as a standard treatment for patients with early gastric cancer in Korea, Japan, and China. However, duodenal stump leakage remains a fatal complication after gastrectomy. We conducted a prospective phase II study to evaluate the safety of the new technique of laparoscopic reinforcement suture (LARS) on the duodenal stump. Materials and Methods The ...

The integration of different existing tools, each of them not covering the whole life cycle, to a SEE (Software Engineering Environment) is an actual task. There are two main mechanisms of integration. The fIrst one is the vertical integration, that means, that a common user interface and a common data base are available for the tools to be assembled into a CASE Environment. ( The second one is...

1. Introduction. This is a fascinating paper on an important topic: the choice of predictor variables in large-scale linear models. A previous paper in these pages attacked the same problem using the " LARS " algorithm (Efron, Hastie, Johnstone and Tibshirani [3]); actually three algorithms including the Lasso as middle case. There are tantalizing similarities between the Dantzig Selector (DS) ...

Carroll, Rogayah, and David L. Severson. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-a ligands inhibit cardiac lipoprotein lipase activity. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 281: H888–H894, 2001.—Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are ligand-activated transcription factors that regulate gene expression of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in liver and adipose tissue. We examined the direct...

Inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa-B kinase beta (IKKβ) plays a critical role in cell proliferation and inflammation in various cells by activating NF-κB signaling. However, the interrelationship between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) and IKKβ in cell proliferation is not clear. In this study, we investigated the possible role of PPARα in the hepatic cell death in the absen...

This is a multi-center retrospective study of patients underwent low anterior resection for rectal cancer. Ileostomy had been done to protect lying Colo-rectal anastomosis, closure ileostomy delayed in some due patient own will, surgical complications (anastomotic leak) or coarse chemotherapy. aimed find the effect temporary on post-operative bowel defunction which called Low syndrome (LARS), a...