Extrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (PSS) in small animals can be congenital (CPSS) or acquired (APSS) as a consequence of portal hypertension (PH), and are distinguished on the bases of their anatomical pattern. A precise morphologic imaging assessment, along with clinical and histopathologic findings, is important for distinguishing patients with PH from those with congenital PSSs, which requir...

The capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) of most pathogenic bacteria are T cell-independent antigens whose conjugation to carrier proteins evokes a carbohydrate-specific response eliciting T cell help. However, certain bacterial CPSs, known as zwitterionic polysaccharides (ZPSs), activate the adaptive immune system through processing by antigen-presenting cells and presentation by the major histocom...

Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) play a great role in gathering data from and possibly taking actions on the real world. Because of unpredictable environment dynamics, software for CPSs needs to be adaptive. So far, however, there is neither dedicated design solutions nor programming support for such software. We address this issue by bringing Context-Oriented Programming (COP) to CPSs. Using COP, ...

Although many researchers have begun to study the area of Cyber Physical Social Sensing (CPSS), few are focused on robotic sensors. We successfully utilize robots in CPSS, and propose a sensor trajectory planning method in this paper. Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. However, traditional methods are not suited for robotic sensors, because of their low efficiency,...

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs), integrated in critical infrastructures, could provide the minimal services that traditional situational awareness (SA) systems demand. However, their application in SA solutions for the protection of large control distributions against unforeseen faults may be insufficient. Dynamic protection measures have to be provided not only to locally detect unplanned deviat...

A Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) is a novel paradigm of cyber-physical and cyber-social systems with highly inhomogeneous distributed nature integrating dynamic stochastic hybrid including computation, communication, sensing actuation, social systems.Their usage can be traced to homes such as smart homes, manufacturers in Industry 5.0, critical infrastructures, cities, medicines, healthcar...

The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans is an important virulence factor. In this investigation capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) were isolated by ethanol precipitation from culture filtrates of C. neoformans serotype A strains 6, 15, 98, 110, and 145. Capsule sizes on India ink examination ranged from barely perceptible (strain 15) to greater than the diameter of the yeast cell (strain 6); the ot...

A practical study was conducted to improve the performance of conventional pyramidal solar stills (CPSS) using two types fins with differing geometries, as well nanocomposites TiO2 and graphene. The first fin hollow, cylindrical, perforated (HCPF), whereas second an inclined rectangular (IPRF). were integrated base a still evaluate their in comparison CPSS. obtained experimental results demonst...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the utility of the revised Mayo risk model (rMRM) and Child-Pugh scores (CPSs) for predicting the prognosis of disease in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients were divided into 2 groups: Group I (37 patients; alive and not requiring liver transplantation) and Group II (8 patients; deceased or re...