• Planning the coordinated motion of a group of agents who wish to move to a specified location amidst many obstacles • Planning the motion of an articulated skeletal model subject to constraints, such as maintaining hand contact with a door handle or avoiding collisions while passing through through a narrow passageway • Planning the motion of a character while navigating through a dense crowd...

PURPOSE This study compared the perioperative and pathologic outcomes between an extralevator abdominoperineal resection (APR) in the prone position and a conventional APR. METHODS Between September 2011 and March 2014, an extralevator APR in the prone position was performed on 13 patients with rectal cancer and a conventional APR on 26 such patients. Patients' demographics and perioperative ...

OBJECTIVE To update the evidence on the efficacy and safety of pharmacological agents in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS Systematic literature review of randomised controlled trials comparing pharmacological interventions in PsA: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoid, synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (sDMARDs) either conventional or targeted, biologicals (bDM...

Inactivation of the Caenorhabditis elegans APC-related gene (apr-1) has pointed at two separate functions of apr-1. First, apr-1 is required for the migration of epithelial cells during morphogenesis of the embryo. In this process, APR-1 may act in a Cadherin/alpha-Catenin/beta-Catenin complex as a component of adherens junctions. Second, apr-1 is required for Hox gene expression, most likely b...

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Background. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection causes substantial morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected persons. Representative prevalence estimates of HCV infection can help inform treatment efforts in the dawning era of highly effective antiHCV therapy. Methods. We used 2009 data from theMedical Monitoring Project, a nationally representative sample of U.S. HIV-infected adults in care, to...

The alkaline protease gene, Apr, from Bacillus licheniformis 2709 was cloned into an expression vector pET 28b(+). The pET-28b(+) Apr was expressed in a high expression strain E. coli BL21. In order to develop and optimize mathematical model of protease activity, three variables were investigated, including peptone concentration (6 g/L to 10 g/L), incubation time (16 h to 32 h) and agitation fr...