We describe a novel method of rapidly assessing exposure of premetamorphic Rana catesbeiana tadpoles to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Tail fin biopsy and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses of the thyroid hormone (TH)-responsive gene, TH receptor beta (TRbeta), demonstrate for the first time that a known accelerant of TH-induced metamorphosis, acetochlor, can significantl...

Two methods for incr easing performance of th e backpropagat ion learning algorithm are present ed and their result s are compared with those obtained by optimi zing par ameters in the standard method . The first method requires adaptation of a scalar learning rat e in order to decrease th e energy value along the gradient direction in a close-to-optimal way. Th e second is derived from the con...

This paper reports the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) system that our ‘IKOMA team’ developed at TAC 2010. We implemented a new method that identifies entailment sentences using local-novelty detection. This method determines whether a Hypothesis (H) is local-novel. ‘H is local-novel’ means that H is the new information first appeared in TH , and TH denotes the text (T) that entails H. If ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background: osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases and the knee is the most commonly affected joint. intra-articular prolotherapy is being utilized in acute and chronic pain management setting. this study was designed to compare the efficacy of three methods of intra-articular knee joint therapies with erythropoietin, dextrose, and pulsed ra...

statement of the problem: some children do not show an appropriate cooperation with their dentist. a number of them cannot be managed by local anesthesia and the usual techniques used to control behaviors, so further steps are required to control their pain and anxiety. pharmaceutical control is recommended through sedation or general anesthesia. purpose: this study was aimed to evaluate two gr...

In this paper, we study two different phenomena (the Newman–Janis algorithm and the semiclassical Hamilton–Jacobi method) to analyze Hawking temperature (TH) for massive 4-dimensional regular Hayward BH with spin parameter. First of all, compute rotating black hole solution by taking algorithmic rule. We derive TH help surface gravity. have also analyzed effects parameter a free l on graphs. Mo...

Recent results show that the establishment of wing melanization patterns in Drosophila depends on the veins. While several genes have been shown to play a role in melanization, changes in a single gene - the one encoding tyrosine hydroxylase - are sufficient to generate novel pigmentation patterns.

The k-th power of a n-vertex graph X is the iterated cartesian product of X with itself. The k-th symmetric power of X is the quotient graph of certain subgraph of its k-th power by the natural action of the symmetric group. It is natural to ask if the spectrum of the k-th power –or the spectrum of the k-th symmetric power– is a complete graph invariant for small values of k, for example, for k...