Modeling urban land-use dynamics in a fast developing city using the modified logistic cellular automaton with a patch-based simulation strategy Yimin Chen, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu & Bin Ai a School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China b Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China c School of Marine Sciences,...

The demand for privacy of digital data and of algorithms for handling more complex structures have increased exponentially over the last decade. This goes in parallel with the growth in communication networks and their devices and their increasing capabilities (Sen, 2013a; Sen, 2012d; Sen, 2012c; Bandyopadhyay & Sen, 2011; Sen, 2011b; Sen, 2011c; Sen, 2010c). At the same time, these devices and...

Poor lung function and respiratory disorders like asthma have a positive correlation with the development of adverse cardiovascular events. Increased adenosine levels are associated with lung inflammation that could lead to altered vascular responses and systemic inflammation. We hypothesized that asthmatic lung inflammation has systemic effects through A(1) adenosine receptors (A(1)AR) and inv...

At-speed testing is becoming crucial for modern very-large-scale-integration systems, which operate at clock speeds of hundreds of megahertz. In a scan-based test methodology, it is common to use a transition delay fault model for at-speed testing. The launching of the transition can be done either in the last cycle of scan shift [launch-off-shift (LOS)], or in a functional launch cycle that fo...

The hallmark of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs or prion diseases) is the accumulation of an abnormally folded, partially protease-resistant form (PrP-res) of the normal protease-sensitive prion protein (PrP-sen). PrP-sen is attached to the cell membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor. In vitro, the anchor and the local membrane environment are important for the ...

Recently, a novel DNA virus designated SEN virus (SEN-V), which is thought to be related to posttransfusion hepatitis, was discovered. The aim of the present study was to clarify the relationship between SEN-V infection and the development of liver disease. We examined SEN-V from the sera of 21 patients with non-B, non-C hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 13 patients with non-B, non-C chronic l...