The potential energy landscape (PEL) formalism is a valuable approach within statistical mechanics to describe supercooled liquids and glasses. Here we use the PEL formalism and computer simulations to study the pressure-induced transformations between low-density amorphous ice (LDA) and high-density amorphous ice (HDA) at different temperatures. We employ the ST2 water model for which the LDA-...

Human herpesvirus (HHV)-8 is an oncogenic gamma herpesvirus that was first described in 1994 in Kaposi sarcoma lesions. HHV-8 is involved in the pathophysiological features of multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), both rare B-cell lymphoproliferative diseases. HHV-8-related tumours occur almost exclusively in immunocompromised patients, mostly those with HI...

Standardized hybrid video coding systems are based on motion compensated prediction with fractional-pel displacement vector resolution. In the recent JVT video coding scheme (MPEG-4 part 10, H.264) displacement vector resolutions of 1/4or 1/8-pel are applied. In order to estimate and compensate these fractional-pel displacements, interpolation filters are used. So far, these interpolation filte...

We reviewed 97 consecutive cases of myeloid neoplasm with erythroid predominance (MN-EP) between 2000 and 2015. Following 2016 WHO classification, MN-EP patients were classified into four groups. Eight pure erythroid leukemia (PEL) (including t-MN and AML-MRC morphologically fulfilled criteria for PEL) patients had dismal outcomes (median OS: 1 month) and showed more bone marrow fibrosis, worse...

When blood contacts the surface of a material, several processes take place including the activation of coagulation and immune systems. The aim of this work is to study in vitro the biological reactions seen from the point of view ofhemocompatibility and cytocompatibility of a new polymer suggested as an artificial surface for cardiovascular applications: CarbofiJm® coated polyetherimide (C®PEI...

Common hybrid video coding standards such as H.263, MPEG-1,2,4 are based on motion compensated prediction. For the motion compensated prediction purpose, displacement vectors with fractional-pel resolutions (e.g. 1/2-pel or 1/4-pel) are used. In order to estimate and compensate fractional-pel displacements, the image signal has to be interpolated. The most popular and very simple interpolation ...

A sensitive stability-indicating reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the simultaneous determination of mometasone furoate (MON), oxymetazoline (OXY), phenyl ethanol (PEL) and benzalkonium chloride analogs (BKC1and BKC2) in nasal spray solution. The chromatographic separation was achieved on Cosmosil CN 150 mm x 4.6mm, 5 um column Using a mobile phase ...

Primary effusion lymphomas (PEL) are associated with human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) and usually occur in immunocompromised individuals. However, there are numerous reports of HHV-8-unrelated PEL-like lymphomas with unknown aetiology. Here we characterize an HHV-8-unrelated PEL-like lymphoma in an elderly woman who was negative for human immunodeficiency viruses 1 and 2, and hepatitis B and C. The ...

Actinomyces uiscosus was fractionated into cell wall (PEL) and intracellular supernatant (SUP) fractions following ultrasonication. In vitro lymphocyte transformation induced by each fraction was assessed using the lymphocytes obtained from subjects with minimal periodontal disease. In kinetic experiments, a detectable blastogenic response to both fractions was measured by the fourth day, with ...

Adaptive Block-size Transform (ABT) has been added to H.264/AVC standard with the Fidelity Range Extension. In this paper, we apply this ABT concept to our FME design and propose a full-mode FME architecture based on 8x8/4x4 adaptive Hadamard Transform. This technique can avoid unifying all variable block-size blocks into 4x4-size blocks and improve the encoding performance. We also exploit the...