liver fibrosis is a potentially reversible response to hepatic insults, triggered by different chronic diseases most importantly viral hepatitis, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. in the course of the chronic liver disease, hepatic fibrogenesis may develop, which is attributed to various types of cells, molecules, and pathways. activated hepatic stellate cell (hsc), the primary ...

The subject of this thesis is the derivation and study of Bayesian mean eld learning algorithms for feed-forward neural networks and Gaussian processes. In Bayes learning our posterior beliefs { based upon our a priori knowledge and past observations { are expressed as probabilities. Making predictions on new observations requires averaging over this posterior probability distribution. Mean eld...

Kautz, in the above paper' has presented a method of correcting single errors in SIB3 codes that does not displace the count by more than two counts in the counting sequence, assuming the two most significant bits are correct. This paper presents a correction method that does not require the two most significant bits to be correct and does not displace the count by more than one in the counting...

downs syndrome (ds), or trisomy 21, is the most common genetic cause of cognitive impairment and congenital heart defects in the human population. to date, the contribution of micrornas (mirnas) in ds has not been investigated. bioinformatic analyses demonstrate that human chromosome 21 (hsa21) harbors five mirna genes mir-99a, let-7c, mir-125b-2, mir-155 and mir-802. mirna expression profiling...

Differences in public health approaches to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could largely explain substantial variations in epidemiological indicators (such as incidence and mortality) between the West and the East. COVID-19 revealed vulnerabilities of most western countries’ healthcare systems in their response to the ongoing public health crisi...