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This study was designed to investigate the effects on single skeletal muscle fibers of a novel thienylhydrazone, referred to as LASSBio-294, which is a bioisoster of pyridazinone compounds that inhibit the cyclic AMP-specific phosphodiesterase (PDE) 4. Twitch and fatigue were analyzed in single skeletal muscle fibers isolated from either the semitendinous or the tibialis anterior muscles dissec...

In this assignment, the goal was to parse a large set of Wikipedia articles, to extract features into a sparse feature matrix and to cluster them with a clustering algorithm of our choice. One motivation to perform automated clustering on unstructured, unlabeled data is to detect correlations between data points; for instance, in the case of Wikipedia, one might be able to automatically group a...

BACKGROUND Newborns display distinct immune responses that contribute to susceptibility to infection and reduced vaccine responses. Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists may serve as vaccine adjuvants, when given individually or in combination, but responses of neonatal leukocytes to many TLR agonists are diminished. TLR8 agonists are more effective than other TLR agonists in activating human neona...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the impact of radiation, reconstruction, and timing of tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) on complications and speech outcomes. METHODS Retrospective review identified 145 patients who underwent TEP between 2003 and 2007. RESULTS Ninety-nine patients (68%) had primary and 46 (32%) had secondary TEP, with complications occurring in 65% and 61%, respectively (p = .96). T...

at the SPTL conference, Glasgow University 2002. I would like to thank Sara Fovargue for her comments on that draft and the anonymous reviewers of Medical Law Review. 1 See further C. Dyer, ‘Surrogate Mother Refuses to Give Up Baby’ (1997) 314 B.M.J. 250 and D. Kennedy, ‘Minister Hints at Change in the Law’ (1997) The Times, 16 May. 2 M. Brazier, A. Campbell and S. Golombok, Surrogacy: Review f...

In this report, we describe our implementation of a linear regression method to classify a numerically-scored sentiment data. The dataset was collected by Mark Dredze and others at Johns Hopkins, which records 1M amazon.com book review. The linear regression classification starts with reading tokenized data and building word counts map, and then training linear classifier by minimizing error te...