BACKGROUND Functional transcanial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD) is a convenient approach to examine cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in major cerebral arteries. METHODS In this study, the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) was insonated on both sides, that is, right ACA (R-ACA) and left ACA (L-ACA). The envelope signals (the maximum velocity) and the raw signals were analyzed during cognitive proc...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular thrombus(LVT] formation is a frequent complication in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction(MI). LVT is associated with increased risk of embolism and higher mortality rates after acute MI. Anticardiolipin antibodies (ACA) are immunoglobulins that react with phospholipid-binding proteins interfering with the prothrombin activator complex. The effects of ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are two classes of small non-coding regulatory RNAs, which have been much investigated in recent years. While their respective functions in the cell are distinct, they share interesting genomic similarities, and recent sequencing projects have identified processed forms of snoRNAs that resemble miRNAs. Here, we investigate a possible evoluti...

BACKGROUND Oral cancers although preventable, possess a low five-year survival rate which has remained unchanged over the past three decades. In an attempt to find a more safe, affordable and effective treatment option, we describe here the use of 1'S-1'-acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA), a component of Malaysian ginger traditionally used for various medicinal purposes. METHODS Whether ACA can in...

President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act1 and on March 30, 2010, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,2 known collectively as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Over the next several years, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will need to implement many ACA provisions. Several ACA provisions that directly imp...

The reversibility issue of one-dimensional asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs) is addressed in this paper. The cells of ACAs are updated independently. The cellular automata (CAs) rules are classified as reversible and irreversible rules. The irreversible rules cannot configure reversible ACAs. The reversible rules may configure reversible ACAs depending upon the update of ACA cells. Finally,...

Abstract To improve the accuracy of wind power forecasting, improved ACA (Ant Colony Algorithm) is used to optimize GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) model. First, original generation data normalized; Second, neural network model established, and ant colony algorithm it; Finally, optimized non-optimized are predict short-term output, prediction results compared verify that ACA-GRU has higher for output.

Conservation management is often integrated into a broader tourism context, and under some conditions allows wildlife trophy hunting to support its goals. In such cases it generally acknowledged that the direct impact of requires careful monitoring regulation with respect size dynamics hunted populations. However, may also affect behaviour local wildlife, including their reaction approach human...

The prevailing view among health policy experts seems to be that today’s political polarization means yearsof trenchwarfare areahead for theAffordable Care Act (ACA). According to this gloomy view, a messy stalemate is assured for years to come. I’m not so sure. I believe the states can and will become the vehicle—both politically and technically—for an era of progress inwhicheachpolitical side...

Cellular automata are used as models of emergent computation and artificial life. They are usually simulated under synchronous and deterministic conditions. Thus, they are evolved without existence of noise, i.e., fluctuation or randomness. However, noise is unavoidable in real world. The target of the present paper is to show the following two effects and several other phenomena caused by exis...