This study investigated the frequency of apolipoprotein E (apoE) alleles among women with severe pre-eclampsia. The presence of the three most common apoE alleles (å2, å3, å4) was determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in three groups of white women: non-pregnant healthy (n = 101), pregnant healthy (n = 52), and pregnant with a diagnosis of severe pre-e...

BACKGROUND Earlier studies indicate that altered angiogenesis at birth is associated with poor birth outcome in women with preeclampsia. Now, we hypothesize that the progressive gestation dependant changes in markers of angiogenesis will be more useful to predict birth weight early even in a normotensive pregnancy. This study for the first time examines the association of gestation dependant ch...

State-of-the-art algorithms for industrial instances of MaxSAT problem rely on iterative calls to a SAT solver. Preprocessing is crucial for the acceleration of SAT solving, and the key preprocessing techniques rely on the application of resolution and subsumption elimination. Additionally, satisfiability-preserving clause elimination procedures are often used. Since MaxSAT computation typicall...

An automatic facial feature extraction method is presented in this paper. The method is based on the edge density distribution of the image. In the preprocessing stage a face is approximated to an ellipse, and genetic algorithm is applied to search for the best ellipse region match. In the feature extraction stage, genetic algorithm is applied to extract the facial features, such as the eyes, n...

DNA replication of the papillomaviruses is specified by cooperative binding of two proteins to the ori site: the enhancer E2 and the viral initiator E1, a distant member of the AAA+ family of proteins. Formation of this prereplication complex is an essential step toward the construction of a functional, multimeric E1 helicase and DNA melting. To understand how E2 interacts with E1 to regulate t...

This bachelor thesis investigates the use of the RWTH-OCR system on the French handwriting database RIMES. The RWTH-OCR system is based on the RWTH-ASR speech recognition system. The field of offline handwriting recognition is an open topic in research and in the past the RWTH-OCR system has been adapted to several languages as English or Arabic handwriting. The RWTH-OCR is a hidden Markov mode...

In human pregnancy, placental cytotrophoblasts that invade the uterus downregulate the expression of adhesion receptors that are characteristic of their epithelial origin, and upregulate the expression of adhesion receptors that are expressed by vascular cells. We suggest that this transformation could be critical to endovascular invasion, the process whereby cytotrophoblasts invade the uterine...

Data Mining Server is an internet based data analysis tool available for public usage. It offers simple use of data preprocessing and machine learning algorithms for subgroup discovery. The paper presents the Data Mining Server, illustrates its usage and describes the results obtained by its application on an artherosclerotic coronary heart disease database, resulting in the identification and ...

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