the satellite cells. Contaminating CD45+/Mac-1+/Sca-1+ cells were subsequently removed by MACS cell separation. Cell cycle analysis revealed that over 80% of the resulting myogenic cell population was in G0, indicating a high proportion of quiescent cells in the isolated population. RT-PCR analysis showed that the expression of three Kruppel-like factors (Klf) was increased in quiescent satelli...

OBJECTIVE Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationship between (a) the manual abilities of children with cerebral palsy (CP), assessed with the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) in a school rehabilitation setting, and (b) the children's performance of self-care activities at home, assessed with the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). In addition, we asses...

Complement membrane attack complexes (MACs) promote inflammatory functions in endothelial cells (ECs) by stabilizing NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) and activating noncanonical NF-κB signaling. Here we report a novel endosome-based signaling complex induced by MACs to stabilize NIK. We found that, in contrast to cytokine-mediated activation, NIK stabilization by MACs did not involve cIAP2 or TRAF3....

We consider the problem of transmission of several distributed correlated sources over a multiple access channel (MAC) with side information at the sources and the decoder. Source-channel separation does not hold for this channel. Sufficient conditions are provided for transmission of sources with a given distortion. The source and/or the channel could have continuous alphabets (thus Gaussian s...

We study the problem of multicasting over a network of multiple-access channels (MACs). The separation-based solution to this problem is to reduce each MAC to a set of noiseless bit pipes via a channel code and then employ network coding. Sometimes, however, the physical-layer structure of the MAC can be exploited more advantageously. In many cases of interest, the MAC output is a (deterministi...

We propose message authentication codes (MACs) that combine a block cipher and an additional (keyed or unkeyed) permutation. Our MACs are provably secure if the block cipher is pseudorandom and the additional permutation has a small differential probability. We also demonstrate that our MACs are easily implemented with AES and its 4-round version to obtain MACs that are provably secure and 1.4 ...

AbsImcl--This paper pmposes a multiagent contml system (MACS) for a fossil-fuel power unit (FFPU). The MACS consists of fossil-fuel power unit agent (FFPUA), reference agent (RA), feedforward contml agents (FFCAs), feedback contml agents (FBCAs) and coordinator agent (COA). The reference agent decomposes the task of the MACS hy multiobjective optimization. The FFCAs make decision using the neur...

The concept of novel responsive materials with a displacement conversion capability was further developed through the design of new machine-augmented composites (MACs). Embedded converter machines and MACs with improved geometry were designed and fabricated by multi-material 3D printing. This technique proved to be very effective in fabricating these novel composites with tuneable elastic modul...

Reducing an automobile’s energy consumption will lower its dependency on fossil fuel and extend the travel range of electric vehicles. Automobile Climate Control Systems (CCS) are known to be heavy energy consumers. To help reduce CCS energy consumption, this paper presents an adaptive automated agent, MDP Agent for Climate control Systems – MACS, which provides drivers advice as to how to set ...