The outbreak of nuclear power cooling water system (NPCS) disaster-causing organisms has become more frequent, causing huge economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the aggregation mechanism for risk prevention and control NPCS. Hence, this study applied Lagrangian flow network (LFN) analyze Acetes near NPCS, as such a complex can describe interconnections between massive nodes...

The NPCAgency project aims to automatically create deep, believable and interactive agents that can be easily generated and imported into game projects. These agents can be used as non-player characters (NPC) whose traits, personalities, personal histories and action conform to a “universe” selected by the user at creation time. The idea is that using NPCAgency would significantly reduce the ga...

Background Recently, artificial intelligence-powered devices have been put forward as potentially powerful tools for the improvement of mental healthcare. An important question is how these impact physician-patient interaction. Aims Aifred an clinical decision support system (CDSS) treatment major depression. Here, we explore use a simulation centre environment in evaluating usability Aifred, p...

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1447 Etiology of Misbehavior Multiple factors may contribute to behavior problems, including lack of adequate discipline. Commonly, children misbehave when they are tired, bored, or hungry. Children often misbehave when they are deprived of adult attention; misbehavior may elicit attention, and parental scolding may unintentionally reinforce the undesi...

A hopeful note in the contemporary abortion environment in the United States is the expanding role of advanced practice clinicians--nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse-midwives--in first trimester abortion provision. A large percentage of primary health care in the U.S. is currently provided by these non-physicians but their involvement in abortion care is promising, especially ...

NSCs/NPCs could be used for Sensorineural hearing loss treatment, because of the extensive capacity for self-renewal and pluripotency. In order to isolate and identify neural precursor cells (NPCs), we established a strategy to isolate and cultivate NPCs. Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, Western blotting, and electron microscopy were used to characterize the cells and compare their dif...

The notochord develops from notochord progenitor cells (NPCs) and functions as a major signaling center to regulate trunk and tail development. NPCs are initially specified in the node by Wnt and Nodal signals at the gastrula stage. However, the underlying mechanism that maintains the NPCs throughout embryogenesis to contribute to the posterior extension of the notochord remains unclear. Here, ...

The aim of the present study is to clarify the functional expression and physiological role in neural progenitor cells (NPCs) of carnitine/organic cation transporter OCTN1/SLC22A4, which accepts the naturally occurring food-derived antioxidant ergothioneine (ERGO) as a substrate in vivo. Real-time PCR analysis revealed that mRNA expression of OCTN1 was much higher than that of other organic cat...

Exchange between the nucleus and the cytoplasm is controlled by nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). In animals, NPCs are anchored by the nuclear lamina, which ensures their even distribution and proper organization of chromosomes. Fungi do not possess a lamina and how they arrange their chromosomes and NPCs is unknown. Here, we show that motor-driven motility of NPCs organizes the fungal nucleus. In...

We investigate a method for extracting nonlinear principal components (NPCs). These NPCs maximize variation subject to smoothness and orthogonality constraints; but we allow for a general class of constraints and multivariate probability densities, including densities without compact support and even densities with algebraic tails. We provide primitive sufficient conditions for the existence of...