I read with great interest the article by Wang and colleagues (Wang et al., 2014), which investigated the impact of Stathmin 1 expression in outcome of a cohort with 100 esophageal carcinoma patients and found that high levels of Stathmin 1 was associated with low differentiated tumors, invasion, metastasis, higher tumor grade and negatively impacted survival. Several studies converge with the ...

in order to investigate the effect of sodium nitroprusside (snp) application on yield and yield components of kidney bean under water deficit stress, a field experiment was conducted in split-factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications in hamedan, in 2012. water deficit stress at four levels including vegetative stress, reproductive stress vegetative+reproductive...

Two general types of accounts have been offered to explain the smartness of young children's word learning. One account postulates that children enter the word-learning task with specific knowledge about how words link to categories. The second account puts the source of children's smart word learning in knowledge about the pragmatics of communication and social interactions. The present experi...

Nutritional performance and activity of some digestive enzymes (protease and α-amylase) of Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in response to feeding on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabales: Fabaceae)) cultivars (Shokufa, Akhtar, Sayyad, Naz, Pak, Daneshkadeh, and Talash) were evaluated under laboratory conditions (25 ± 1°C, 65 ± 5% RH, and a 16:8 L:D photoperiod). The highest ...

This paper presents a hybrid active noise canceling (HANC) algorithm to overcome the acoustic feedback present in most ANC system, together with an efficient secondary path estimation scheme. The HANC system provides a solution of two fundamental problems present in these kind of ANC systems: The first consists in a reduction of the acoustic feedback from the cancellation loudspeaker to the inp...

This paper presents a hybrid active noise canceling (HANC) algorithm to overcome the acoustic feedback present in most ANC system, together with an efficient secondary path estimation scheme. The HANC system provides a solution of two fundamental problems present in these kind of ANC systems: The first consists in a reduction of the acoustic feedback from the cancellation loudspeaker to the inp...

Bangladesh is one of a number of countries trying to prevent acid violence through legislation while providing specialized care for victims, but attitudes to women need to change for there to be further progress. Patralekha Chatterjee reports. It happened twelve years ago, but Asma Akhtar still remembers the assault vividly. A spurned suitor in his late 20s sneaked into her family's mud shack i...