We performed single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in two children with Sjögren-Larsson's syndrome (SLS). Both patients showed two abnormal spectral peaks at 1.3 ppm and 0.9 ppm that were obtained with short echo times. These two abnormal spectral peaks were seen in high-intensity areas on T2-weighted images and also in basal ganglia of normal intensities. 1H-MRS may be useful for establ...

Strategic-level systems (SLS) are information systems at the strategic level of an organization designed to address unstructured decision-making. Using the technology acceptance model, the current research examines the antecedents of SLS usage in decision-making among one hundred seventy-seven entrepreneurs, and members of the National Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia or Entrepren...

The authors report on investigation of type-II InAs/GaSb and InAs/InxGa1−xSb strained layer superlattices SLSs for long-wave infrared detection. Growth conditions were optimized to obtain nearly lattice matched a /a 0.03% 13 ML InAs/7 ML GaSb SLS nBn detector structure with cutoff wavelength of 8.5 m 77 K . Dark current density was equal to 3.2 10−4 A /cm2 Vb =+50 mV, 77 K for this detector str...

We propose a structure-exploiting heuristic for the justification-based stochastic local search (SLS) method CRSat for Boolean circuit satisfiability. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed depth-based heuristic significantly improved the performance of CRSat on structural instances arising from industrial applications. A proof of probabilistically approximate completeness (PAC) of CRS...

Recent studies of highly branched mutants of pea, Arabidopsis and rice have demonstrated that strigolactones (SLs) act as hormones that inhibit shoot branching. The identification of genes that work downstream of SLs is required for a better understanding of how SLs control the growth of axillary buds. We found that the increased tillering phenotype of fine culm1 (fc1) mutants of rice is not re...

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are well known for their ability to efficiently find models of random instances of the Boolean satisfiablity (SAT) problem. One of the most famous SLS algorithms for SAT is WalkSAT, which is an initial algorithm that has wide influence among modern SLS algorithms. Recently, there has been increasing interest in WalkSAT, due to the discovery of its great ...

In contrast to infection of superficial tissues, Streptococcus pyogenes infection of deeper tissue can be associated with a significantly diminished inflammatory response, suggesting that this bacterium has the ability to both promote and suppress inflammation. To examine this, we analyzed the behavior of an S. pyogenes mutant deficient in expression of the cytolytic toxin streptolysin S (SLS-)...