Colorectal cancer is a common disease, representing the third and second most common cause of cancer death in the United States in women and men, respectively. [Ahnen et al.: Mayo Clin Proc 2014;89: 216-224; Siegel et al.: CA Cancer J Clin 2016;66: 7]. It is estimated that 20% of patients have distant metastatic disease at time of diagnosis [Ahnen et al.: Mayo Clin Proc 2014;89: 216-224; Siegel...

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Immunodominance hierarchies are a substantial, but poorly understood, characteristic of CD8(+) T cell-mediated immunity. Factors influencing the differential responses to the influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP(366-374)) and acid polymerase (PA(224-233)) peptides presented by H2D(b) have been analyzed by disabling (N5--> Q substitution) these peptides in their native configuration, then express...

To elucidate effects of electrostatic interactions resulting from surface charges on structures and phase stability of cubic phases of lipid membranes, membranes of 1-monoolein (MO) and dioleoylphosphatidic acid (DOPA) (DOPA/MO membrane) mixtures have been investigated by small-angle x-ray scattering method. As increasing DOPA concentration in the DOPA/MO membrane at 30 wt% lipid concentration,...

We show that the elementary theory of the free group – and more generally the elementary theory of any torsion-free hyperbolic group – is n-ample for any n ≥ 1. We also give an explicit description of the imaginary algebraic closure in free groups.

This paper studies linear impulsive systems with varying time-delay and uncertainty. By using the method of the variation of constants formula for impulsive system, robustly global exponential stability criteria are established in terms of fairly simple algebraic conditions. Estimate of the decay rate of the solutions of such systems are also derived. Some examples are given to illustrate the m...

Given a linear ODE with polynomial coeecients, one easily nds local information about its solutions. To obtain global information of algebraic nature (operator factorization, explicit nite form, algebraic relations between solutions), one classically reduces the problem to determining rational or exponential solutions of auxiliary linear ODE's. The latter are often uneasy to compute in practice...