A 77-year-old woman visited our institution complaining of general fatigue. Chest radiography revealed masses in the upper and middle lung fields. Pathological findings for an endoscopic biopsy specimen revealed squamous cell carcinoma. High-grade fever developed and blood analyses revealed sustained elevated white blood cell count and C-reactive protein levels. Cytokine production by tumor cel...

Faster elimination of drug tolerant 'persister' bacteria may shorten treatment of tuberculosis (TB) but no method exists to quantify persisters in clinical samples. We used automated image analysis to assess whether studying growth characteristics of individual Mycobacterium tuberculosis colonies from sputum on solid media during early TB treatment facilitates 'persister' phenotyping. As Time t...

Limited amount of time and computational resources in industrial domain makes Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) a useful approach to find near optimal solutions in polynomial time for Nondeterministic Polynomial time (NP) problems. For dynamically changing graphs, such as in case of network routing and urban transportation systems which are based on Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), the ant colony...

One of the most striking examples transport networks are trail systems formed and used by several species ants. Ants forage to find food from a central nest, building network trails radiating out nearby sources bring it back colony. During entire tenure survey 11 ant encountered in various locations study sites. All along, there is physical contact between outgoing incoming traffics. The way ge...

BACKGROUND To describe Rituximab associated neutropenia (RAN), and to explore its underlying mechanism. CASE REPORT We describe three patients with RAN. The effect of patient's plasma on colony forming unit, Granulocyte-Monocyte (CFU-GM) was measured by the addition of plasma to the culture of a healthy bone-marrow. Repeated tests were performed after recovery of white count. In the leukopeni...

Despite relatively high rates of low neutrophil count during standard-dose chemotherapy regimens for malignancies other than acute leukaemias, rates of FN, other complication rates and mortality rates are relatively low for most standard chemotherapies (Table 1). These rates do not justify the systematic use of haematopoietic growth factors (hGFs) such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The presence of Candida yeasts in urine, known as candiduria, is an indicator of infection or colonization of the urinary tract by Candida species. This condition in diabetic patients can be hazardous due to diminished immune system response. The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence of candiduria in diabetic patients and to identify its causative agent...

Label-free microcolony identification via elastic light scattering was investigated for three different genera: Salmonella enterica serovar Montevideo, Listeria monocytogenes F4244, and Escherichia coli DH5α. Microcolonies were defined as bacterial colonies in their late-lag phase to early-exponential phase with the diameter range of 100-200 µm. To link biophysical characteristics with correspo...

With the progress of research on Wireless Sensor Network, location in Wireless Sensor Networks has become a very important research topic. There must be unable location area that is called blind zone in this paper due to the randomness of the nodes deployment. In order to improve the localization accuracy of the blind node in blind zone, a new anchor nodes selection algorithm was proposed based...