BACKGROUND The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database began in 2003. It consists of anonymised records from over 300 general practice computer systems and is likely to be valuable for research, planning and strategic issues in health care, but it is important to establish completeness and accuracy of the data. AIM To investigate the validity of THIN data for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC...

Treatment of SKH-1 hairless mice with UVB (30 mJ/cm(2)) twice a week for 20 weeks results in the formation of cellular patches, long before the appearance of tumors, that are visualized in epidermal sheets with an antibody (PAb240) recognizing mutated p53 protein. Direct sequencing analysis of the whole coding region of the p53 gene (exons 2-11) detected one or two mutations in 64.4% of 104 ana...

High-performance computing (HPC) demands high bandwidth and low latency in I/O performance leading to the development of storage systems and I/O software components that strive to provide greater and greater performance. However, capital and energy budgets along with increasing storage capacity requirements have motivated the search for lower cost, large storage systems for HPC. With Burst Buff...

1A,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25D3) exhibits antitumor activity in a variety of cancers including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Intrinsic resistance of SCC cells to cisplatin was observed and led to the investigation into whether 1,25D3 sensitizes SCC cells to cisplatin. Pretreatment with 1,25D3 followed by cisplatin enhanced growth inhibition in SCC cells compared with 1,25D3 alone as assessed...

Human action recognition remains challenging in realistic videos, where scale and viewpoint changes make the problem complicated. Many complex models have been developed to overcome these difficulties, while we explore using low-level features and typical classifiers to achieve the state-of-the-art performance. The baseline model of feature encoding for action recognition is bag-of-words model,...

The purpose of this study was to determine if a particularsomatic cell count (SCC) range can be used as an indicator ofintramammary infection (IMI). Mastitis in dairy cows is mostlycaused by microbial infections and changes in pathogenicitymay be indicated by increased SCC. Cyto-microbiologicalexaminations were performed on 491 464 quarter andcomposite cow milk sampl...

Switched-Capacitor Converters (SCC) suffer from a fundamental power loss deficiency which make their use in some applications prohibitive. The power loss is due to the inherent energy dissipation when SCC operate between or outside their output target voltages. This drawback was alleviated in this work by developing two new classes of SCC providing binary and arbitrary resolution of closely spa...

this paper demonstrates design and fabrication o f a mechatronic system for human drowsiness detection. this system can be used in multiple places. for example, in factories, it is used on some dangerous machinery and in cars in order t o prevent the operator o r driver from falling asleep. this system is composed of three parts: (1) mechanical, (2) electrical and (3) image processing system. a...

Robots, in their most general embodiment, can be complex systems trying to negotiate and manipulate an unstructured environment. They ideally require an ‘intelligence’ that reflects our own. Artificial evolutionary algorithms are often used to generate a high-level controller for single and multi robot scenarios. But evolutionary algorithms, for all their advantages, can be very computationally...