BACKGROUND Various clinical and histological factors have helped in predicting the survival of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). However, there has been a need for more specialized diagnostic and prognostic factors to avoid subjective variation among opinion. Thus, fractal dimension (FD) can be used as an index of the morphological changes that the epithelial cells undergo duri...

Functional dependencies (FDs) and inclusion dependencies (INDs) are the most fundamental integrity constraints that arise in practice in relational databases. We introduce null functional dependencies (NFDs) and null inclusion dependencies (NINDs) to cater for the situation when a database is incomplete and thus contains null values. If a NFD or NIND is weakly satissed in a database, then there...

Neurofibrillary tangles are brain lesions that have been discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, using histological silver staining. Tangles are intra-neuronal hallmarks of a degenerating process: neurofibrillary degeneration (NFD). The basic component involved in tangle formation is tau protein. Tangles are found in more than 20 different neurodegenerative disorders, suggesting that N...

Recently, it has been reported that 25% of plasma angiotensinogen (Agt) is derived from fat. Meanwhile, liver-specific Agt knockout (KO) mice have markedly low plasma Agt, which may be due to reduced fat mass. To study the contribution of the fat to plasma Agt, we tested whether increasing fat mass can elevate plasma Agt and blood pressure in liver- Agt KO mice. Epididymal fat mass in liver- Ag...

Cotten, Bradley M. M.S., Purdue University, May 2015. Investigating the amino acid digestibility of alternative protein sources and determining the impact of dietary fiber on energy, nitrogen, and amino acid digestibility in growing pigs. Major Professor: Olayiwola Adeola. Three experiments were designed to quantify the nitrogen (N) and amino acid (AA) digestibility of various protein sources f...

Transport Theory offers the unique capability of connecting experimentally observable quantities in a relativistic heavy ion collision with its time evolution and reaction dynamics , thus giving crucial insights into the possible formation of a transient deconfined phase of hot and dense matter, the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (for reviews on QGP signatures, see e.g. [1,2]). Figure 1 provides an overvie...

Pressure on companies to report non-financial dimensions has amplified the interest in sustainability due increased awareness among stakeholders. While connecting value-related success financial performance is a niche field academicians and researchers, debate still “Does it matter going value of disclosures (NFD) relevant?” To clarify ambiguous perceptions existing literature, we examine how N...

Purpose This paper aims to identify, synthesise and critically examine the extant academic research on relation between big data analytics (BDA), corporate accountability non-financial disclosure (NFD) across several disciplines. Design/methodology/approach uses a structured literature review methodology applies “insight-critique-transformative redefinition” framework interpret findings, develo...

The objective of this study was to determine the responses in the digestibility of dry matter (DM) and amino acid (AA) composition of ileal endogenous flow (IEF) of pigs (initial body weight, 69.1±6.46 kg) fed N-free diets (NFD) formulated with different ratios of corn starch to dextrose. Fifteen pigs fitted with a T-cannula at the distal ileum were fed 5 diets according to a triplicated 5×2 in...