We address in this paper the following two closely related problems: 1. How to represent functions with singularities (up to a prescribed accuracy) in a compact way? 2. How to reconstruct such functions from a small number of measurements? The stress is on a comparison of linear and nonlinear approaches. As a model case we use piecewise-constant functions on [0, 1], in particular, the Heaviside...

A novel filarial serine protease inhibitor (SPI) from the human parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, Ov-SPI-1, was identified through the analysis of a molting third-stage larvae expressed sequence tag dataset. Subsequent analysis of the expressed sequence tag datasets of O. volvulus and other filariae identified four other members of this family. These proteins are related to the low molecu...

PURPOSE Almost all patients with epithelial ovarian cancer receive chemotherapy and, concurrently, the synthetic steroid hormone dexamethasone to alleviate the side effects. This study aims to test the impact of steroid hormones on the apoptosis of epithelial ovarian cancer cells and to identify its mediators. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Tumor cell lines from 19 patients with advanced epithelial ovar...

INTRODUCTION Preliminary data suggested that non-invasive methods could be useful to assess presence of oesophageal varices (OV) in liver cirrhosis. The primary objectives were to investigate non-invasive markers for diagnosing and grading OV in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included a total of 106 consecutive treatment-naive patients with primary bi...

Circadian rhythms in mammals are regulated not only globally by the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), but also locally by widely distributed populations of clock cells in the brain and periphery that control tissue-specific rhythmic outputs. Here we show that the oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST-OV) exhibits a robust circadian rhythm in expression o...

It is shown that the capacity of a classical-quantum channel with arbitrary (possibly mixed) states equals to the maximum of the entropy bound with respect to all apriori distributions. This completes the recent result of Hausladen, Jozsa, Schumacher, Westmoreland and Wooters [5], who proved the equality for the pure state channel. 1. Information and capacity for quantum channel. We start by re...

Background: Cancer antigen CA125 is known as a valuable marker for the management of ovarian cancer. Methods: The analytical and clinical performance of the Access OV Monitor Immunoassay System (Beckman Coulter) was evaluated at five different European sites and compared with a reference system, defined as CA125 on the Elecsys System (Roche Diagnostics). Results: Total imprecision (%CV) of the ...

abstract. certain facts about frames and generalized frames (g- frames) are extended for the g-frames for hilbert c*-modules. it is shown that g-frames for hilbert c*-modules share several useful properties with those for hilbert spaces. the paper also character- izes the operators which preserve the class of g-frames for hilbert c*-modules. moreover, a necessary and suffcient condition is ob- ...

Is the best estimate of power equal to the power of the best estimate? Abstract. In an inverse problem, such as the determination of brain activity given magnetic field measurements outside the head, the main quantity of interest is often the power associated with a source. The 'standard' way to determine this has been to find the best linear estimate of the source and calculate the power assoc...