Xenografts from eight malignant human gliomas were established in athymic mice and were used to study amplification and expression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene. Tissue identity between biopsy and xenografts was confirmed by karyotypic profiles, which showed that each glioma xenograft retained structural abnormalities, including double minute chromosomes, present in the pa...

Background Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3), a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily, shows inhibitory effects on Fas-mediated apoptosis. Currently, data are lacking on the correlation between DcR3 and the recurrence of breast cancer. The authors examined DcR3 mRNA expression and genomic amplification in breast cancer, and investigated the effect of DcR3 gene amplification on p...

The SomatoSensory Amplification Scale (SSAS) is a 10-item self-report instrument designed to assess the tendency to detect somatic and visceral sensations and experience them as unusually intense, toxic and alarming. This study examines the psychometric properties of a French version of the SSAS in a non-clinical population and, more specifically, explores its construct, convergent and discrimi...

We report on the detection of a large amplification of the flux density of PSR B0655+64 at 325 MHz (a factor of ∼ 43) that lasted about one hour. To the best of our knowledge such a large amplification has not been reported before. The phenomenon is restricted to a very narrow bandwidth (50 % decorrelation half-width of 3.6 ± 0.4 MHz). The decorrelation bandwidth and characteristic time scale o...

Paper presents a study about dynamic effects obtained from the dynamic load testing of the city highway bridges in Latvia carried out from 2005 to 2012. 9 prestressed concrete bridges and 4 composite bridges were considered. 11 of 13 bridges were designed according to the Eurocodes but two according to the previous structural codes used in Latvia (SNIP 2.05.03-84). The dynamic properties of the...

Glioblastoma (GBM), the most common malignant brain tumor in adults, contains a subpopulation of cells with a stem-like phenotype (GS-cells). GS-cells can be maintained in vitro using serum-free medium supplemented with epidermal growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor-2, and heparin. However, this method does not conserve amplification of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) gene,...

Millions of financial losses and thousands of people which die are due to earthquakes that happen every now and then in all corners of the world. Safety against the hazards of earthquake relates to two basic factors: safety of the structure and site. Site's conditions play an important role in damages of structures. This factor has a geotechnical cause and could be appeared as seismic wave ampl...

A method is described for measuring the local drag coefficient on a long cylinder which exhibits vortex-induced vibration (VIV). Results are shown from a field experiment in which a long flexible pipe was instrumented with two-hundred and eighty fiber optic strain gauges. The measured local drag coefficients are compared to a commonly used drag coefficient prediction formula. The formula is sho...

We search for an amplification mechanism of the seed cosmic magnetic induction by studying a new version of the Dirac’s æther in a curved cosmological background. We find that an amplification takes place if the scale factor R(t) varies with the cosmic time, which brings to the magnetic field the effect of a geometric amplification. ∗ e-mail: marcelo [email protected] † internet: [email protected]...

We study a possible amplification mechanism for the curvature perturbations generated during inflation by Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflaton in presence of sharp feature warp factor. The large growth resulting scalar power spectrum is consequence decreasing speed sound. obtain analytical approximate expressions relevant dynamical quantities both slow roll phase and transient which leads to amplif...