Following an eruptive accretion event in NGC 6334I-MM1, flares the various maser species, including water masers, were triggered. We report observed relative proper motion of highly variable masers associated with massive star-forming region, 6334I. High velocity H2O motions detected five clusters, CM2-W2 (bow-shock structure), MM1-W1, MM1-W3, UCHII-W1, and UCHII-W3. The overall average derived...

The results of a maser survey toward ninety-nine protostars in the Orion molecular cloud complex are presented. The target sources are low-mass protostars identified from infrared observations. Single-dish observations were carried out in the water maser line at 22 GHz and the methanol class I maser lines at 44, 95, and 133 GHz. Most of the detected sources were mapped to determine the source p...

In many service systems, customers are not served in the order they arrive, but according to a priority scheme that ranks them with respect to their relative “importance.” However, it may not be an easy task to determine the importance level of customers, especially when decisions need to be made under limited information. A typical example is from health care: When triage nurses classify patie...

A Bernoulli schedule is random service discipline for a multi-class priority queueing system which operates as follows: If queue i(l :s i :s N) is not empty just after servicing a message in its queue, a message in queue i is served again with probability Pi, and the highest class message present in the system is served with probability 1-Pi, where 0 :s Pi :s 1. This paper presents an analysis ...

The chicken anemia virus-derived protein apoptin induces apoptosis in a variety of human malignant and transformed cells but not in normal cells. However, the mechanisms through which apoptin achieves its selective killing effects are not well understood. We developed a lentiviral vector encoding a green fluorescent protein-apoptin fusion gene (LV-GFP-AP) that can efficiently deliver apoptin in...

Magnolol, a hydroxylated biphenol compound isolated from the bark of Magnolia officinalis, has been shown to exhibit anti-proliferative effect in various cancer cells, including skin cancer cells. Methoxylation of magnolol appears to improve its anti-inflammatory activity, yet the effect of this modification on the agent's antitumor activity remains unknown. In this work, we report that 2-O-met...

The objective of this study was to determine potential mechanisms of apoptotic activity of gemcitabine, a pyrimidine nucleoside analogue, in the MM1.S multiple myeloma (MM) cell line. A MM cell line that is sensitive to glucocorticoids (MM1.S) was used for this study. Immunoblotting analysis, cell cycle assays, and annexin V staining were performed to determine whether gemcitabine induced apopt...

The massive young stellar object (MYSO) G358.93-0.03-MM1 showed an extraordinary near-infrared- to (sub-)millimetre-dark and far-infrared-loud accretion burst, which is closely associated with flares of several class II methanol maser transitions, and, later, a 22 GHz water flare. Water provide invaluable insight into ejection events bursts. Although the short timescale flare made it impossible...

Background There is a growing body of literature on evidence-informed priority setting. However, the literature on the use of evidence when setting healthcare priorities in low-income countries (LICs), tends to treat the healthcare system (HCS) as a single unit, despite the existence of multiple programs within the HCS, some of whic...