Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common types of malignant tumors with poor sensitivity to chemotherapy drugs and poor prognosis among patients. In the present study, we downloaded the original data from the Gene Expression Omnibus and compared gene expression profiles of liver cancer cells in patients with HCC with those of colon epithelial cells of healthy controls to identif...

This work describes a way of interactive manipulation of structured objects by interaction rules. Symbols are used as graphical representation of object states. State changes lead to different visual symbol instances. The manipulation of symbols using interactive devices lead to an automatic state change of the corresponding structured object without any intervention of the application. Therefo...

We present a pole inspection system for outdoor environments comprising a high-speed camera on a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial platform. The pole inspection task requires a vehicle to fly close to a structure while maintaining a fixed stand-off distance from it. Typical GPS errors make GPS-based navigation unsuitable for this task however. When flying outdoors a vehicle is also af...

Leadership research has traditionally explored the consequences of leadership behaviors while giving far less attention to understanding why leaders behave the way they do toward subordinates. Moreover, the few theoretical frameworks and studies that do address antecedents of leadership behavior have focused almost entirely on personality and other individual differences while largely overlooki...

BACKGROUND The levonorgestrel-releasing IUD can help the treatment of dysmenorrhea by reducing the synthesis of endometrial prostaglandins as a conventional treatment. OBJECTIVE This study was performed to assess the frequency of dysmenorrhea, satisfaction and quality of life in women using Mirena IUDs as compared to those using copper IUDs. MATERIALS AND METHODS This double-blind randomize...

The tracheal epithelium can be induced to move as a cellular sheet by heterotopic transplantation, which offers the opportunity to observe migrating cells as a group in an in vivo environment. We therefor investigated the ultrastructural characteristics of migrating tracheal epithelial cells with special reference to the moving front using this transplantation. The migrating epithelial cells un...

Drugs are currently being developed for the treatment of serious brain disorders including glioblastoma, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. These include chemotherapeutic drugs and those based on neurotrophic factors such as glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and neurturin (NTN). Neurotrophic factors have therapeutic potential for...

The aim of this thesis is to present Paramodulation Operators deciding the (i) Ackermann class with Equality [FS93] and (ii) the monadic class with equality [BGW93]. Ad (i) a refinement of the Ordered Paramodulation calculus [HR91] is used to define the appropriate inference operator; ad (ii) a variant of the Superposition calculus [BG94] is employed for this purpose. It seemed natural to give ...

The development process of web information systems is often tedious, error prone and usually involves redundant steps of work. Therefore, it is rather efficient to employ a modeldriven approach for the systematic aspects that comprise such a system. This involves models for the data structure that shall be handled by the system (here: class diagrams), various editable and read-only presentation...

The heating of microfluidic channels such as occurs in cell stretching and sorting devices was examined using the established technique of recording the intensity ratio between two fluorescent dyes, Rhodamine B (RhB) which is temperature sensitive and Rhodamine 110 (Rh110) which is not[1]. Microfluidic devices each consisting of a single channel and waveguide input were manufactured using ultra...