Daniel Guimarans , Silvia Padrón , Juan José Ramos , Salma Fitouri-Trabelsi 3 and Liana Napalkova 2 1 Optimisation Research Group, National ICT Australia (NICTA), 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015, Australia [email protected] 2 Dpt. Telecommunication and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Emprius 2, 08202 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain {silvia.padron, juanjose.ram...

Rogerio B. Wichi, Silvia B. Souza, Dulce E. Casarini, 1 Mariana Morris, Maria Luiza Barreto-Chaves, and Maria Claudia Irigoyen Nephrology Department, Federal University of São Paulo-UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil; Hypertension Unit and Heart Institute of Medical School-University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Wright State University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Da...

Address: 1University Children's Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2Hacattepe University, School of Physical Therapy and rehabilitation, Ankara, Turkey, 3Deptartment of Physiotherapy, Århus University Hospital, Skejby, Århus, Denmark, 4Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital, London, UK, 5Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS foundation trust, Birmingham, UK, 6Royal Hospital...

Normal heart function requires generation of a regular rhythm by sinoatrial pacemaker cells and the alteration of this spontaneous heart rate by the autonomic input to match physiological demand. However, the molecular mechanisms that ensure consistent periodicity of cardiac contractions and fine tuning of this process by autonomic system are not completely understood. Here we examined the cont...

Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency (IGHD) due to GH1 gene defects has a variable inheritance pattern: autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, and X-linked. the autosomal dominantly inherited form, IGHD II, is mainly caused by heterozygous mutations of splicing around the exon 3/IVs3 boundary region of the GH1 gene resulting in exon 3 skipping of transcripts. We have previously reported finding...

In this paper we formalize reasoning about agent dialogue semantics in defeasible logic, including FIPA speech acts. We introduce a defeasible logic for efficient reasoning about agents, roles, mental attitudes, time and communication. We introduce the inform and request action of FIPA in the logic by attributing the mental attitudes to roles, we extend it with defeasible reasoning about the me...

The effects of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) deficiency on thyroid development was examined using ultrasonography in a child with congenital isolated TSH deficiency. Ultrasound revealed the thyroid gland was one sixth normal volume, suggesting that TSH plays an important part in thyroid growth, but not a critical role in differentiation.

Since its introduction in the late 1950s, isolated limb perfusion (ILP) has been the preferred treatment option for locally advanced melanoma and sarcoma confined to a limb. This treatment results in high response rates with a satisfying duration of response in both tumor types. A drawback of ILP, however, is the invasive and complex character of the procedure. Isolated limb infusion (ILI) has ...

The risk of growth hormone on cancer in adult with growth hormone deficiency remains unclear. We carried out a meta-analysis to evaluate the risk of cancer in adult with and without growth hormone replacement therapy. We searched PubMed, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and WanFang databases up to 31 July 2016 for eligible studies. Pooled risk ratio (RR) with 95% confide...