Lipoproteins, isolated by sequential flotation at densities 1.006, 1.019, 1.063, and 1.21, were examined for their ability to inhibit human lymphocytes stimulated by allogeneic cells and by lectins (phytohemagglutinin-P and concanavalin A). All the classes of normal plasma lipoproteins inhibited lymphoproliferation when peripheral blood lymphocytes were cultured in autologous, heterologous, or ...

BACKGROUND Acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection could lead to atherogenic lipid profile changes in adults; while there is no evidence about the children with Infectious mononucleosis (IM). The aim of this study was to evaluate the lipid profile of the children in acute phase of mononucleosis and two months after the recovery. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 2010 through 2012, 36 children with ...

In this paper, a simple and intuitive technique for analyzing clock jitter effect on bandpass Continuous-Time SigmaDelta (Σ∆) modulators is introduced. The power spectral density of the jitter noise for different feedback DAC shapes are derived and compared. It is shown that DAC output signal shapes used to reduce clock jitter sensitivity in lowpass Continuous-Time Σ∆ modulators may not be suit...

In this paper, I will give a brief introduction to the theory of low-density parity-check codes, and their decoding. I will emphasize the case of correcting erasures as it is still the best understood and most accessible case. At the end of the paper, I will also describe more recent developments.

Early View (Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue) (/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915/earlyview) Additional Information high-rate irregular QC-LDPC codes with applications to PR2 and EPR2 channels. Trans Emerging Tel Tech.

OF THE DISSERTATION Optimizing and Decoding LDPC codes with Graph-Based Techniques

The objective of this study was to evaluate the imputation accuracy of parent-offspring trios under different scenarios. By using simulated datasets, the performance Bayesian LASSO in genomic prediction was also examined. The genome consisted of 5 chromosomes and each chromosome was set as 1 Morgan length. The number of SNPs per chromosome was 10000. One hundred QTLs were randomly distributed a...

Background: A great deal of evidence has indicated that oxidatively modified LDL plays a critical role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. Antioxidants that can prevent LDL oxidation may act as antiatherogens. Copper is a candidate for oxidizing LDL in atherosclerotic lesions. The binding of copper ions to LDL is usually thought to be a prerequisite for LDL oxidation by copper...