BACKGROUND A group of researchers has argued that sexual stature dimorphism (SSD) can serve as an indicator of living standards. This argument is based on evidence that boys' physical growth is more sensitive to environmental conditions than girls' physical growth. Because Korea's economic growth in the second half of the 20th century was unprecedentedly rapid, according to their logic, it is l...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Saikosaponin-d (SSd) combined with radiotherapy on SMMC-7721 hepatoma cell lines and its mechanism. MATERIAL/METHODS SMMC-7721 hepatoma cell lines are selected in our research. With MTT (methylthiazolyldiphenyl-tetrazolium-bromide) method, the effects of SSd and radiation on inhibiting SMMC-7721 cell growth were investigated. ...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic intervention programs for somatic symptom disorder (SSD) show only small-to-moderate effect sizes. These effects are partly explained by the motivational problems of SSD patients. Hence, fostering treatment motivation could increase treatment success. One central aspect in SSD patients might be damage to motivation because of symptomatic relapses. Consequently, the aim of...

Allometry for sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is common in animals, but how different evolutionary processes interact to determine allometry remains unclear. Among related species SSD (male : female) typically increases with average body size, resulting in slopes of less than 1 when female size is regressed on male size: an allometric relationship formalized as 'Rensch's rule' . Empirical studies ...

Saikosaponin-d (Ssd) is one of the major pharmacologically active molecules present in Bupleurum falcatum L, a medical herb against inflammatory diseases in the traditional Chinese medicine. In the current study, we investigated the protective activity of Ssd on diabetic nephropathy along with the underlying mechanisms using renal tubular epithelial cell line (NRK-52E). Our study showed that hi...

This paper makes a case for the multi-streamed solidstate drive (SSD). It offers an intuitive storage interface for the host system to inform the SSD about the expected lifetime of data being written. We show through experimentation with a real multi-streamed SSD prototype that the worst-case update throughput of a Cassandra NoSQL DB system can be improved by nearly 56%. We discuss powerful use...

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are a moving target for system designers: they are black boxes, their internals are undocumented, and their performance characteristics vary across models. There is no appropriate analytical model and experimenting with commercial SSDs is cumbersome, as it requires a careful experimental methodology to ensure repeatability. Worse, performance results obtained on a give...

Deformable registration is ubiquitous in medical image analysis. Many deformable registration methods minimize sum of squared difference (SSD) as the registration cost with respect to deformable model parameters. In this work, we construct a tight upper bound of the SSD registration cost by using a fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) in the registration pipeline. The upper bound SSD (UB-S...

Solid-state drive (SSD) has gain prevalence in consumer and enterprise storage markets. However, its reliability is declining with the wearing of the Flash memory. The error correcting codes (ECCs) are generally applied in SSD to cope with bit errors caused by abrasion, however, the lifetime of pages in Flash is still limited to their fixed correctability. Due to different process and usage, th...