BACKGROUND Epigenetic control of gene expression profiles is a ubiquitous mechanism during cell differentiation, organogenesis and chronic inflammatory reactions. Recent studies have shown that allergen exposure during very early pregnancy increases bronchial hypersensitivity in offspring in a murine model of bronchial asthma. However, no such phenomena were reported in humans. In the present s...

The aim of this study is to investigate the expression of sarcosine metabolism related proteins according to androgen receptor (AR) and HER-2 status in estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer and to analyze its clinical implications. Tissue microarray was constructed for a total of 334 cases of ER negative breast cancer. Immunohistochemical stain was conducted for sarcosine metabolism rel...

A complex-valued model with AR(p) errors is proposed as an alternative to the more common Gaussian-assumed magnitude-only AR(p) model for fMRI time series. Likelihood-ratio-test-based activation statistics are derived for both models and are compared in terms of activation detection and false discovery rates for simulated and experimental data. For simulated data, the complexvalued AR(p) model ...

We measured height and arm span of 400 males and 231 female subjects between 16-83 years of age. Arm span exceeded height in 82.6% subjects. Mean height to arm span ratio was 0.9711 and 0.9816 in males and females respectively, and was not significantly correlated with age. Linear regression equations were generated for both sexes for prediction of height from arm span and age. The use of heigh...

Collision-free teleoperation of robotic arms is a critical requirement on the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts manually navigate robotic arms using video views and are hindered by factors such as limited fields of view, displaycontrol misalignments and poor depth perception. Augmented reality (AR) interfaces can be useful in mitigating many of these issues. An AR technique that syn...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney diseases (CKD). Aspirin resistance (AR) worsens prognosis in CVD. AIM The aim of this study was to detect AR prevalence in this patient group. METHODS The 203 patients (mean age 61.84 ± 11.51 years, 128 [63.1%] male) with stable coronary artery disease included in the study were grouped i...

introduction: in order to make a dimensional proportion between human and equipment or environment, anthropometric data bank is essential. anthropometry has an important role in industrial management and ergonomic design. this information is needed to be collected regularly in every society. the purpose of this study was to determine arm length to height ratio according to gender in adults, bet...

Zinc nitride thin films were grown on fused silica substrates at 300 °C by radio frequency magnetron sputtering. Films were grown at different N2/Ar flow rate ratios of 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, 0.80, and 1.0. All the samples have grain-like surface morphology with an average surface roughness ranging from 4 to 5 nm and an average grain size ranging from 13 to16 nm. Zn3N2 samples grown at lower N2/Ar r...