The present study investigated processing strategies and matrix effects on the antioxidant capacity (AC) and polyphenols (PP) content of fruit-based beverages: (1) strawberry powder (Str) + dairy, D-Str; (2) Str + water, ND-Str; (3) dairy + no Str, D-NStr. Beverages were subjected to high-temperature-short-time (HTST) and high-pressure processing (HPP). AC and PP were measured before and after ...

We study the chiral interactions of hidden charm $D\bar{D}^*$ system within effective field theory. Chiral Lagrangians are constructed by incorporating symmetry, heavy quark symmetry as well proper charge conjugation properties mesons. The interacting potentials $S$-wave calculated up to second order at 1-loop level, where complete two-pion exchange included. further investigate behaviors in co...

In this paper we present a collection of results pertaining to haplotyping. The first set of results concerns the combinatorial problem of reconstructing haplotypes from incomplete and/or imperfectly sequenced haplotype data. More specifically, we show that an interesting, restricted case of Minimum Error Correction (MEC) is NP-hard, point out problems in earlier claims about a related problem,...

Recent improvements in the accessibility of high-throughput genotyping have brought a great deal of attention to disease association studies[6]. It is believed that more accurate disease association is achieved with inferred haplotypes rather than with directly available genotypes. The main goal of disease association analysis is to identify gene variations or, in general, haplotypes which cont...

Computational methods for inferring haplotype information from genotype data are used in studying the association between genomic variation and medical condition. Recently, Gusfield proposed a haplotype inference method that is based on perfect phylogeny principles. A fundamental problem arises when one tries to apply this approach in the presence of missing genotype data, which is common in pr...

Haplotyping under the Mendelian law of inheritance on pedigree genotype data is studied. Because genetic recombinations are rare, research has focused on Minimum Recombination Haplotype Inference (MRHI), i.e. finding the haplotype configuration consistent with the genotype data having the minimum number of recombinations. We focus here on the more realistic k-MRHI, which has the additional cons...

MOTIVATION In modern sequencing studies, one can improve the confidence of genotype calls by phasing haplotypes using information from an external reference panel of fully typed unrelated individuals. However, the computational demands are so high that they prohibit researchers with limited computational resources from haplotyping large-scale sequence data. RESULTS Our graphics processing uni...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact of swollen to tender joint count ratio (STR) and other baseline characteristics on treatment response to a first course of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS Patients with RA initiating their first course of anti-TNF treatment were included in a structured clinical followup protocol. Based on pragmatic thr...

Nine new Chinese species of Cephennodes are described: C. (s. str.) intricatus sp. n. (Gansu), C. (s. str.) cryptointricatus sp. n. (Gansu), C. (s. str.) monofoveatus sp. n. (Shaanxi), C. (s. str.) pinnapes sp. n. (Sichuan), C. (s. str.) elegantissimus sp. n. (Sichuan), C. (s. str.) palpalis sp. n. (Gansu), C. (Fusionodes) corpulentus sp. n. (Sichuan), C. (Fusionodes) gutta sp. n. (Shaanxi) and...