Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) makes up almost 15% of all cases of lung cancer and occurs almost exclusively in individuals with a history of smoking (Blackhall & Faivre-Finn, 2011; Meyerson et al., 2004; Tamasi and Muller, 2011; Walenkamp et al., 2009). However, SCLCs differ significantly from NSCLCs in specific genetic alterations that occur. Moreover, smoking-damaged bronchial epithelia accom...

Localization of 5’-nucleotidase in the frog retina was investigated using histochemical and cytochemical techniques. Light-microscopic observations revealed the presence of this enzyme in the inner retinal layers (the nerve fiber layer, ganglion cell layer, and inner plexiform layer). Ultrastructural investigations revealed that the enzyme activity is associated with the plasma membranes of the...

In an influential paper entitled “How much memory is needed to win infinite games”, Dziembowski, Jurdziński, and Walukiewicz have shown that there are Muller games of size O(n) whose winning strategies require memory of size at least n!. This shows that the LAR-memory, based on the latest appearance records introduced by Gurevich and Harrington, is optimal for solving Muller games. We review th...

In this work we study the list-decoding size of Reed-Muller codes. Given a received word and a distance parameter, we are interested in bounding the size of the list of Reed-Muller codewords that are within that distance from the received word. Previous bounds of Gopalan, Klivans and Zuckerman [4] on the list size of Reed-Muller codes apply only up to the minimum distance of the code. In this w...

In this paper, we study the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes. Using results from [6], we prove under some restrictive condition that the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes depends on the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes of small order with two variables. In some cases, we are able to determine the third weight and the third weight codewords of generalized Re...

Let K = Fq be a finite field. We introduce a family of projective Reed-Mullertype codes called projective Segre codes. Then we study their basic parameters and show that they are direct products of projective Reed-Muller-type codes. It turns out that the direct product of two projective Reed-Muller-type codes is again a projective Reed-Muller-type code. As a consequence we recover some results ...

The paper describes a spectral method for combinational logic synthesis using the Walsh transform and the Reed-Muller form. A new algorithm is presented that allows us to obtain the mixed polarity Reed-Muller expansion of Boolean functions. The most popular minimisation (sub-minimisation) criterion of the Reed-Muller form is obtained by the exhaustive search of all the polarity vectors. This pa...