The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Minoan Santorini eruption have been proposed as a likely explanation of the biblical plagues. Particularly, it has been suggested that flooding b...

. The spectral theory of the equation changes depending on the growth of H towards the endpoint s+; the classical distinction into the Weyl alternatives ‘limit point’ or ‘limit circle’ case. A refined measure for the growth of a limit point Hamiltonian H can be obtained by comparing with Hpolynomials. This growth measure is concretised by a number∆(H) ∈ N0∪{∞} and appeared first in connection w...

Insects, like other organisms, must deal with a wide variety of potentially challenging environmental factors during the course of their life. An important example of such a challenge is the phenomenon of oxidative stress. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the role of adipokinetic hormones (AKH) as principal stress responsive hormones in insects involved in activation of anti-oxid...

Under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority to waive many provisions in the Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) statutes. Section 1115 demonstrations have long been an important vehicle for states to not only expand health insurance coverage, but also provide a launching pad for changes to their underlyin...

background & aim: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) impose a heavy burden on health care system. awareness on prevalence and incidence of sci is important because this would show the necessity of prevention. this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology and types of traumatic spinal cord injuries in a trauma referral center in guilan. methods & materials/patients: this is a descriptive ...

needed in the SCI database. Third, international diversity must be fulfilled. This means that authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members are from around the world. Fourth, citations to the journal itself (impact factor) and citations to the contributing authors, editorial board members of KJFM must be more than some point. It is a very challenging task for KJFM to be listed in the S...

We present a powerful diagnosis tool for the IEEE Std.1596 Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI): the SCI Tracer. The purpose of the SCI Tracer is to acquire data and analyze the activities on SCI links. The SCI Tracer consists of a hardware module and a software environment. The hardware is implemented in a multi-board module matching the Double Europe VME standard. It evaluates the flag bit in SC...

Accumulated evidence from our laboratory indicates that conditioned or anergized NK cells have the ability to induce resistance of healthy stem cells and transformed cancer stem cells through both secreted factors and direct cell-cell contact by inducing differentiation. Cytotoxic function of NK cells is suppressed in the tumor microenvironment by a number of distinct effectors and their secret...

The extremely low latencies and high bandwidth results achievable with the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) at lowest level encourages its integration into existing Message Passing Environments (MPE's). In combination with Network of Workstations, it can be seen as an alternative for traditional parallel computing with tightly coupled processors with comparable performance at low cost. This pa...