Background Temperature, humidity, and other weather variables influence dengue transmission. Published studies show how the diurnal fluctuations of temperature around different mean temperatures influence dengue transmission. There are no published studies about the correlation between diurnal range of humidity and dengue transmission. Objective The goals of this study were to determine the cor...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a small subset of dendritic cells and the main producers of type I interferons. Besides their contribution to tolerance, they are known to be involved in autoimmune diseases and have recently been implicated in atherosclerosis. However, their precise involvement, particularly in advanced lesion development, remains elusive. Hence, we i...

Understanding the function of Langerhans cells (LCs) in vivo has been complicated by conflicting results from LC-deficient mice. Human Langerin-DTA mice constitutively lack LCs and develop exaggerated contact hypersensitivity (CHS) responses. Murine Langerin-diphtheria toxin receptor (DTR) mice allow for the inducible elimination of LCs and Langerin(+) dermal dendritic cells (dDCs) after admini...

Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are used to operationalize treatment decision-making at different stages by clinicians. The decision rules are based on the time-varying patient characteristics. DTRs can provide more effective decisions compared with once-and-for-all decisions. Here we compare two approaches to identify a set of DTRs that includes the optimal DTR. The methods are: the ACI (Adap...

The diurnal temperature range (DTR) is an important meteorological component affecting maize yield. accuracy of climate models simulating DTR directly affects the projection production. We evaluate ability 26 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) to simulate during 1961–2014 in cultivation areas with observation (CN05.1), and project under different shared socioeconomic pathway ...

For a given connected graphG= (V ,E), a setDtr ⊆ V (G) is a total restrained dominating set if it is dominating and both 〈Dtr〉 and 〈V (G)−Dtr〉 do not contain isolate vertices. The cardinality of the minimum total restrained dominating set in G is the total restrained domination number and is denoted by tr(G). In this paper we characterize the trees with equal total and total restrained dominati...

Plasmid conjugation systems are composed of two components, the DNA transfer and replication system, or Dtr, and the mating pair formation system, or Mpf. During conjugal transfer an essential factor, called the coupling protein, is thought to interface the Dtr, in the form of the relaxosome, with the Mpf, in the form of the mating bridge. These proteins, such as TraG from the IncP1 plasmid RP4...

This note corrects a previous treatment of algorithms for the metric DTR, Depth by the Rule. Haworth (2000) addressed optimal winning strategies for chess endgames, given the constraint of the 50-move rule. It proposed the revival of the Depth to Zeroing-move metric DTZ, to be used with the familiar DTC, Depth to Conversion, and DTM(ate) metrics. It also introduced the new DTR metric, Depth by ...

This technical report (TR) is an optional part of the International Standard for Prolog, ISO/IEC 13211. Prolog manufacturers wishing to implement Definite Clause Grammar rules in a portable way should do so in compliance with this technical report. Grammar rules provide convenient functionality for parsing and processing text in a variety of languages. They have been implemented in many Prolog ...