The combination of significantly lower cost and increased speed of sequencing has resulted in an explosive growth of data submitted into the primary next-generation sequence data archive, the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). The preservation of experimental data is an important part of the scientific record, and increasing numbers of journals and funding agencies require that next-generation sequen...

INTRODUCTION Receiving a kidney transplant from donors with multiple renal arteries (MRAs) is suggested to be associated with higher risk of vascular and urologic complications and poor allograft outcomes compared to the donors with single renal artery (SRA). We evaluated survival rates in the recipients from donors with MRAs compared to those from donors with SRA. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a ...

A Similarity Ratio Analysis (SRA) method is proposed for early-stage Fault Detection (FD) in plasma etching processes using real-time Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) data as input. The SRA method can help to realise a highly precise control system by detecting abnormal etch-rate faults in real-time during an etching process. The method processes spectrum scans at successive time points and ...

Abstract Visual programming environments are popular instruments in teaching Computational Thinking (CT) schools today. Applying Sense-Reason-Act (SRA) can influence the development of computational thinking when forcing pupils to anticipate unforeseen their computer programs. SRA-programming originates from tangible robots, but also be equal value visual with on-screen output. The underlying r...

AIMS The role of scavenger receptors in atherogenesis is controversial as a result of conflicting reports and a recent hypothesis suggesting that scavenger receptor absence would enhance the pro-inflammatory, pro-atherogenic milieu. This study addresses the effect of combined absence of scavenger receptors CD36 and SRA I/II on atherosclerosis lesion development in the apolipoprotein E knock-out...

Apolipoprotein L-I (apoL1) is a human-specific serum protein that kills Trypanosoma brucei through ionic pore formation in endosomal membranes of the parasite. The T. brucei subspecies rhodesiense and gambiense resist this lytic activity and can infect humans, causing sleeping sickness. In the case of T. b. rhodesiense, resistance to lysis involves interaction of the Serum Resistance-Associated...

BACKGROUND Heparin use in surgical patients places them at increased risk for developing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). The false positive rate of HIT using the current standard criteria is unknown in surgical ICU patients, who often have confounding factors that cause thrombocytopenia. STUDY DESIGN Surgical ICU patients, admitted over a 2-year period with a positive screening test f...

The problem of solving polynomial equations over finite fields has many applications in cryptography and coding theory. In this paper, we consider polynomial equations over a “large” finite field with a “small” characteristic. We introduce a new algorithm for solving this type of equations, called the Successive Resultants Algorithm (SRA) in the sequel. SRA is radically different from previous ...

In order to study the effects of recycled aggregate with different particle gradations and contents on mechanical properties cement soil modified by nano-MgO, unconfined compressive strength scanning electron microscope (SEM) tests were carried out. The content was fixed at 15% nano-MgO 1.5%. two ages, three contents, considered. test results show that natural graded (RA), coarse (SRA), fine (T...

Simultaneous reachability analysis (SRA) is a recently proposed technique to alleviate the state space explosion problem in reachability analysis of concurrent systems. Its goal is to reduce the number of generated states while guaranteeing the detection of certain types of faults in the system such as deadlock and unexecutable transitions. The main idea of SRA is to allow a global transition i...