Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease and central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) develop serous retinal detachment; however, the treatment of each disease is totally different. Steroids treat VKH but worsen CSC; therefore, it is important to distinguish these diseases. Here, we report a case with CSC which was diagnosed by en face optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging during the course of VKH...

Planning budget will help to identify wasteful expenditures, adapt financial situation changes quickly, and achieve financial goals. The reliability based budgeting has a great importance for broadcasting industry. In this study, several kinds of failure modes in TV broadcasting system have been det...

We prove that for suitable evolution problems, the solution u(t) corresponding to some right hand side term f(t) in V ′ (with V some Hilbert space), only satisfies the stabilization property (f(t) → f∞ in V ′ implies that u(t) → u∞, in V , when t → +∞, with u∞ solution of the associated stationary problem) when the space V is taken strictly larger than the distribution space. This type of probl...

Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a nutrient-dependent, intestinotrophic hormone derived from posttranslational processing of proglucagon in the distal bowel. GLP-2 is thought to act through indirect mediators, such as IGF-I. We investigated whether intestinal expression of GLP-2 and IGF-I system components are increased with the mucosal growth induced by enteral nutrient (EN) and/or a low dos...

Surprisingly small peptide motifs can confer critical biological functions. One example is the WRPW tetrapeptide present in the Hairy family of transcriptional repressors, which mediates recruitment of the Groucho (Gro) corepressor to target promoters. We recently showed that Engrailed (En) is another repressor that requires association with Gro for its function. En lacks a WRPW motif; instead,...