As life expectancy increases in modern societies, a greater importance has recently started to be given to cognitive ageing. Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects the memory capability of individuals at advanced ages, independently of their general physical health. However, AD is suggested to have an undetectable development many years prior the first clear behavioral symptoms. This silent presence ...

Random Telegraph Signals (RTS) in transport current through a conduction channel of a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) are known to be related to charging and discharging of a single impurity due to electron tunneling between the impurity and the channel. The phenomenon provides a unique example where a single electron tunneling can be explicitly monitored. Recent expe...

In this paper, the filter based method that we use for our experiments is the one by Adams et al. [1]. In this method, the original computation is approximated by a convolution in a higher dimensional space. The original points are associated to a set of vertices on which the convolution is performed. The considered vertices are the one from the permutohedral lattice. Krähenbühl and Koltun [2] ...

Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1, aka PGP9.5) is an abundant, neuronal deubiquitinating enzyme that has also been suggested to possess E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase activity and/or stabilize ubiquitin monomers in vivo. Recent evidence implicates dysregulation of UCH-L1 in the pathogenesis and progression of human cancers. Although typically only expressed in neurons, high levels o...

Testosterone (T) is not just another hormone: it is endocrinologic dynamite. Testosterone supplementation at low levels is passionately and controversially discussed among health care professionals and lay people alike, giving it a cultural, social and even a political dimension. The problem arises with decreasing levels. With an incidence of 6% in middle-aged men [1], late-onset hypogonadism (...

One of the best ways to accomplish that goal would appear to be to find a way to easily spread antibioticresistant bacteria, aka "superbugs", and to do it in such a way as to keep the project under the radar of medical regulatory agencies such as the CDC and the FDA. Because some of the most difficult-to-treat antibioticresistant bacteria are found in the intestines of patients, an obvious mean...

It is well-known that the Gale-Shapley algorithm is not truthful for all agents. Previous studies in this category concentrate on manipulations using incomplete preference lists by a single woman and by the set of all women. Little is known about manipulations by a subset of women or other types of manipulations, such as permutation of complete preference lists. In this paper, we consider manip...

This specification defines a new EAP method, EAP-AKA’, which is a small revision of the EAP-AKA (Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement) method. The change is a new key derivation function that binds the keys derived within the method to the name of the access network. The new key derivation mechanism has been defined in the 3rd Generation ...

In vivo studies have suggested that gradients of CXCL12 (aka stromal cell-derived factor 1α) may be critical for neural stem cell (NSC) migration during brain development and neural tissue regeneration. However, traditional in vitro chemotaxis tools are limited by unstable concentration gradients and the inability to decouple cell migration directionality and speed. These limitations have restr...

This study aimed to characterize the effect of jasmonic acid (JA) on volatile compounds in grains of Kam sweet rice. Using GC-O and SPME-GC-MS, nonanal displayed the highest odor activity value (OAV) in the filling grains and increased after applicaton of jasmonic acid in the rice seedlings. The relative expression of rice OsLOX3 (rice lipoxygenase 3) and OsHPL1 (rice hydroperoxide lyase 1) was...