This is the second part of a work dedicated to the study of Bernstein-Sato polynomials for several analytic functions depending on parameters. In this part, we give constructive results generalizing previous ones obtained by the author in the case of one function. We also make an extensive study of an example for which we give an expression of a generic (and under some conditions, a relative) B...

Nancy Thompson, RN, MS, AOCNS, is a clinical nurse specialist at Swedish Cancer Institute, Caroline Cogen, RN, BSN, is a staff nurse at Swedish Medical Center, Debra Forman, RN, BSN, OCN ®, is a supervisor in the Comprehensive Breast Center at Swedish Cancer Institute, and Sheryl Londerville, RN, BSN, OCN ®, is the radiation oncology charge nurse at Swedish Cancer Institute, all in Seattle, WA....

Lydia T. Madsen, RN, MSN, OCN , is a senior research nurse in the Department of Urology and Elizabeth Ganey-Code, MSN, RN, OCN, is the associate director of clinical nursing in the Division of Nursing, both at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. (The solutions offered to the clinical problems posed in this column are the opinions of the authors and do not represent t...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) represent a promising alternative source of MSCs for effective periodontal regeneration. Scientific evidence has demonstrated that growth/differentiation factor-5 (GDF-5) supports regeneration of periodontal tissues and has a key role in MSC differentiation. The present study investigated the effects of recombinan...

AIMS. To study the proliferation of osteoblasts and genes expression under normal glucose, high glucose, and metformin (Met). METHODS. MG63 osteoblast-like cells were cultured in osteogenic medium supplemented with normal glucose (glucose 5.5 mmol/L) or high glucose (glucose 16.7 mmol/L) and metformin + high glucose (Met 300  μmol/L + glucose 16.7 mmol/L). Proliferation was detected with CCK-8 ...

This work addresses the problem of relaxing spatial constraints for pictorial queries having null answers in geographical databases. It focuses on the polygon-polyline topological relationship and proposes a computational model which is based on the notions of Operator Conceptual Neighborhood (OCN) graph and the relative 16-intersection matrix. The former is addressed to represent the conceptua...

INTRODUCTION There are very few reports assessing bone mineral mass and its metabolism in the course of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the levels of selected serum markers of bone formation (OCN) and resorption (CTx) in JIA children. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study involved 52 children with JIA diagnosed according to the EULAR criteria of 1997, aged 6-18 years...

There is a biological turn in order to understand the underlying processes concerningmarkets and organizations. As part of the biological turn, in 2008, I wrote an article for the Journal of Consumer Behavior about neuromarketing and the perceptions of knowledge (Butler, 2008). The argument put forward in the article is that there are inter-related and potentially competing perspectives which c...

The bone marrow niche is recognized as a central player in maintaining and regulating the behavior of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Specific gain-of and loss-of function experiments perturbing a range of osteolineage cells or their secreted proteins had been shown to affect stem cell maintenance (Calvi et al, 2003 [1]; Stier et al., 2005 [2]; Zhang et al., 2003 [3]; Nilsson et al., 2...