BACKGROUND The OptEC trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of oral iron in young children with non-anemic iron deficiency (NAID). The initial sample size calculated for the OptEC trial ranged from 112-198 subjects. Given the uncertainty regarding the parameters used to calculate the sample, an internal pilot study was conducted. The objectives of this internal pilot study were to obtain reli...

Abstract Many works in capacitive deionization (CDI) use finite-element (FEM) simulations to investigate process behavior. Here, we present ELC, comprehensive software that integrates these methods with COMSOL Multiphysics. It can save significant time for common research questions CDI operations and is well-suited new complex upscaled device designs. The ELC has already been used the ...

Tendons and ligaments are crucial structures inside the musculoskeletal system. Still many issues in the treatment of tendon diseases and injuries have yet not been resolved sufficiently. In particular, the role of estrogen-like compound (ELC) in tendon biology has received until now little attention in modern research, despite ELC being a well-studied and important factor in the physiology of ...

The group of PRIS focuses on both tasks in Entity Track this year, Related Entity Finding (REF) and Entity List Completion (ELC). This paper reports the approaches to the two tasks. In REF, three points are improved based the method of last two year: building entity lexicons including more information, introducing a distance algorithm between keywords and entities to entity ranking, allocating ...

This paper presents an extensive review of the analysis, modeling, design, testing and other aspects of an electronic load controller (ELC) found in the literature .The assumptions made and a brief description of the solution methods is presented. This paper describes step by step development in the area of ELC which provides helpful information and resources for the future studies for those in...

Kontext: Vzhledem k omezenému množství údajů stále ještě panuje značná nejistota ohledně významu a korelace mezi záhybem ušního lalůčku (earlobe crease, ELC) zátěží koronárních tepen aterosklerózou plus adipozitou perikardu. Cíl: Cílem naší studie bylo zhodnotit souvislost ELC hodnocenou výpočtem kalciového skóre (coronary artery calcium score, CAC), přítomnost...

In the current study, we used a canine model of radiation-induced lung injury to test the effect of a single i.v. infusion of 10×10(6)/kg of marrow fibroblasts on the progression of damage following 15 Gy exposure to the right lung. The fibroblasts, designated DS1 cells, are a cloned population of immortalized cells isolated from a primary culture of marrow stromal cells. DS1 cells were infused...

The interlace polynomial q was introduced by Arratia, Bollobás, and Sorkin. It encodes many properties of the orbit of a graph under edge local complementation (ELC). The interlace polynomial Q, introduced by Aigner and van der Holst, similarly contains information about the orbit of a graph under local complementation (LC). We have previously classified LC and ELC orbits, and now give an enume...

Rodent studies have revealed that the early rearing environment plays an important role in the development of stress vulnerability, memory and cognition. Although early lighting conditions (ELC) are involved in these neuronal developments through both maternal and offspring behavior, their influence has not been fully elucidated. Thus, by using Sprague-Dawley rats, we examined whether ELC affec...

The regulatory domain of the myosin head is believed to serve as a lever arm that amplifies force generated in the catalytic domain and transmits this strain to the thick filament. The lever arm itself either can be passive or may have a more active role storing some of the energy created by hydrolysis of ATP. A structural correlate which might distinguish between these two possibilities (a pas...