BACKGROUND/AIMS We have shown that A(3) adenosine receptor mediates apoptosis in human lung cancer cells such as A549 cells, an epithelial adenocarcinoma cell line, and Lu-65 cells, a giant cell cancer cell line, via each different signaling pathway. AMID, a pro-apoptotic protein, induces caspase-independent apoptosis by accumulating in the nucleus. The present study investigated AMID-dependent...

OBJECTIVE There is increasing interest in patients with metachronous (MBC) and synchronous breast cancer (SBC). The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence and outcome of MBCs and SBCs. METHODS A retrospective study on women operated in our department for breast cancer between 2002 and 2005 was carried out. Patients were divided into three groups: women with MBC, SBC, and unila...

BACKGROUND The treatment of simple bone cysts (SBC) in children varies significantly among physicians. This study examined which procedure is better for the treatment of SBC, using a decision analysis based on current published evidence. METHODS A decision tree focused on five treatment modalities of SBC (observation, steroid injection, autologous bone marrow injection, decompression, and cur...

Neurons that release more than one transmitter exist throughout the CNS. Yet, how these neurons deploy multiple transmitters and shape the function of specific circuits is not well understood. VGluT3-expressing amacrine cells (VG3-ACs) provide glutamatergic input to ganglion cells activated by contrast and motion. Using optogenetics, we find that VG3-ACs provide selective glycinergic input to a...

This study was conducted to identify the technical and economical performance of the existing models of maize sheller in the country and suggest the best maize sheller models for the farmers during 3 September 2006 to 30 March 2007 in the area of Bogra, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Rajshahi and Jessore. Detail field tests were conducted on seven selected maize sheller models of three categories to assess...

The design and implementation of a Monolithic-Kernel Single Board Computer (SBC) Cubietruck GNU/Linux-like operating system on ARM platform in technical details, including boot loader design UBOOT, building the Kernel uImage, design of root file system and init process. The Single Board Computer Operating System (SBC OS) is developed on Linux platform with GNU tool chain. The SBC OS can be used...

In the title compound, {[Pb(sbc)(bpy)]·2H(2)O}(n) [bpy is 2,2'-bipyridine (C(10)H(8)N(2)) and sbc is the 2-sulfonatobenzoate dianion (C(7)H(4)O(5)S)], the Pb(II) ion is bonded to four O atoms including carboxyl-ate and sulfonate from three sbc dianions, and two N atoms from a chelating 2,2'-bipyridine ligand. The sbc ligand acts as a μ(3)-bridging ligand by one O atom of the sulfonate group and...

Spectral beam combining (SBC) by volume Bragg gratings (VBGs) recorded in photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a powerful tool for laser applications that require higher radiance than a single laser unit can achieve. The beam-combining factor (BCF) is introduced as a tool to compare various beam-combining methods and experiments. It describes the change of radiance provided by a beam-combinin...

The ACS solar blind channel (SBC) is a photon-counting MAMA detector capable of producing two-dimensional imaging in the UV at wavelengths 1150– 1700 Å, with a field of view (FOV) of 31′′×35′′. We describe the on-orbit performance of the ACS/SBC from an analysis of data obtained from the service mission observatory verification (SMOV) programs. These data show that the detector is behaving nomi...

The simple Bayesian classiier (SBC), sometimes called Naive-Bayes, is built based on a conditional independence model of each attribute given the class. The model was previously shown to be surprisingly robust to obvious violations of this independence assumption, yielding accurate classiication models even when there are clear conditional dependencies. The SBC can serve as an excellent tool fo...