Autotroph-heterotroph interactions are ubiquitous in natural environment and play a key role controlling various essential ecosystem functions, such as production utilization of organic matter, cycling nitrogen, sulfur, other chemical elements. Understanding how these biofilm metabolic constrained space time remains challenging because fully predictive models designed for this purpose currently...

Urban consolidation centers (UCCs) have a key role in many initiatives in urban logistics, yet few of them are successful in the long run. The high costs have proven a barrier that prevents attracting a sufficiently high number of UCC users. In this paper, we study how the user base of a UCC develops under a variety of administrative policies. We perform an agentbased simulation applied to the ...

7 Abstract. Legal codes, such as the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) examined in this article, are 8 good points of entry for AI and ontology work because of their more straightforward adaptability 9 to relationship linking and rules-based encoding. However, approaches relying on encoding solely 10 on formal code structure are incomplete, missing the rich experience of practitioner expertise that...

insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-b1). This study tested the hypothesis that IGF-1 and TGF-b1 regulate immature cartilage compressive moduli and Poisson’s ratios in a manner consistent with known effects on tensile properties. Bovine calf articular cartilage from superficial-articular (S) and middle-growth (M) regions were analyzed fresh or followin...

OBJECTIVE This work aims to investigate the expression pattern and clinicopathologic significance of centromere protein H (CENP-H) in uterine cervical cancer (UCC). METHODS The level of CENP-H expression in the paraffin sections of 62 UCC cases was determined by the SP immunohistochemical method, with complete clinicopathologic data in all cases. Statistical analysis was conducted to evaluate...

Urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) includes urothelial bladder carcinoma (UBC), renal pelvic carcinoma (RPC) and ureter carcinoma (UC), and its incidence varies dependent on geographical areas and tumor locations, which indicates different oncogenic mechanisms and/or different genetic susceptibility/environment exposure. The activating mutations of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) g...

A cycle cover of a graph is a spanning subgraph where each node is part of exactly one simple cycle. A k-cycle cover is a cycle cover where each cycle has length at least k. We call the decision problems whether a directed or undirected graph has a k-cycle cover k-DCC and k-UCC. Given a graph with edge weights one and two, Min-k-DCC and Min-k-UCC are the minimization problems of finding a k-cyc...

Our aim was to determine the association of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection with the expression of ATPase family AAA domain containing 3A (ATAD3A), an anti-autophagy factor, in uterine cervical cancer (UCC). The HPV genotype was determined by an Easychip HPV blot assay. ATAD3A expression was determined by immunohistochemical staining. High-risk HPV (hrHPV) was detected in 184 (88.9%) of 20...

Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local governments in promoting sustainable urban development. However, existing studies still lack consensus not only on the theoretical aspects, but als...