Neurofilaments (NFs) are the major intermediate filaments (IFs) of mature neurons. They play important roles in the structure and function of axons. Recently, two mutations in the neurofilament light (NFL) subunit have been identified in families affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy type 2. We have characterized the effects of these NFL mutations on the formation of IF networks usin...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the ability to differentiate into neuronal like cells under appropriate culture condition. In this study, we investigated whether MSCs derived from human peripheral blood (PB-MSCs) can differentiate into neuronal like cells by synergic effect of the growth factors EGF, bFGF and Noggin. For this purpose, the expression of five neuronal markers (Nestin, β III tu...

New techniques for the prediction of tumour behaviour are needed since statistical analysis has a poor accuracy and is not applicable to the individual. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may provide these suitable methods. We have compared the predictive accuracies of neuro-fuzzy modelling (NFM), artificial neural networks (ANN) and traditional statistical methods, for the behaviour of bladder cance...

There is increasing interest in natural flood management (NFM) and the delivery of public environmental goods. Yet implementation NFM can be ad-hoc regionally diverse. Communities often play a role thus we assess governance UK communities' position within it. We develop theoretical framework using concepts goods, social capital, collective action polycentrism use it to examine design Pickering ...

United Kingdom (UK). Natural flood management (NFM) schemes are increasingly prominent in the UK. Studies of NFM have not yet used natural tracers at catchment scale to investigate how interventions influence partitioning during storms between surface rainfall runoff and water already stored catchments. Here we properties, particularly plantation forestry, storm runoff. We hydrograph separation...

Divergent community and practitioner perceptions of Natural Flood Management (NFM) may impact wide-scale uptake, but are under-researched, especially in peri-urban environments. This mixed-methods study used picture- scenario-based exercises, interviews envisioning workshops a post-industrial, area Greater Manchester, UK. Key differences were unpacked, with members showing less confidence NFM, ...

For the Noh, Fougers, and Mandel (NFM) operational quantum phase description, which is based on an eight-port homodyne-detection, we propose the number-difference-phase (ND-P) uncertainty relation and, then, discuss the mechanism of generation of ND-P squeezed states.

In this work, we report a sol-gel synthesis-based Zn-doped Na0.6Fe0.5Mn0.5O2 (NFM) cathode and understand the effect of Zn doping on crystal structure electrochemical performances such as discharge capacity rate capability. Detailed X-Ray diffraction (XRD) pattern analysis indicated decrease in Na-layer thickness with doping. Small amount Zn2+ dopant (i.e., 2 at.%) slightly improved cycling sta...

Recently, NAND flash memory-based storage systems (NFMS) are widely used in various applications. These systems are composed with many NAND Flash Memories (NFMs) and use multi-level parallelism in a concurrent or interleaving manner between NFMs to improve a performance. The multi-level parallelism is divided into three parts such as channel-level, way-level and plane-level. However, most of th...

A series of experiments have been conducted to evaluate the magnetotransport properties of rf-diode-sputterdeposited giant magnetoresistive multilayers with either copper or copper-silver-gold nonferromagnetic ~NFM! conducting layers. The study revealed that rf-diode-deposited multilayers utilizing Cu80Ag15Au5 as the NFM conducting layer possess significantly superior giant magnetoresistance to...