Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive pathogen that is capable of expressing a variety of virulence proteins in response to environmental signals. Virulence protein expression in S. aureus is controlled by a network of regulatory loci including sarA and agr. The sarA/agr network is associated with the expression of cell wall-associated adhesins during exponential growth and the expression of...

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) method of embryo grading is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for SART membership programs since 2010. Developed by SART in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, “good, fair, and poor,” are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the shi...

the society for assisted reproductive technology (sart) method of embryo grading is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for sart membership programs since 2010. developed by sart in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, “good, fair, and poor,” are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the shi...

Dyslexia and attentional difficulty have often been linked, but little is known of the nature of the supposed attentional disorder. The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART: Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley and Yiend, 1997) was designed as a measure of sustained attention and requires the withholding of responses to rare (one in nine) targets. To investigate the nature of the attention...

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) method of embryo grad- ing is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for SART membership programs since 2010. Developed by SART in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, "good, fair, and poor," are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the s...

Clinical reports after traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest frequent difficulties with sustained attention, but their objective measurement has proved difficult. In 1997, Robertson and colleagues reported on a new sustained attention assessment tool, the sustained attention to response task (SART). Individuals with TBI were reported to produce more errors of commission on the SART than control ...

Author details Department of General Intensive Care, University Hospital Centre of Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, Liège 4000, Belgium. GIGA-Cardiovascular Sciences, Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University of Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium. CHU de Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Laboratory Hematology, University Hospital Centre of Liège, Liè...

We propose two variable weighted iterative reconstruction algorithms (VW-ART and VW-OS-SART) to improve the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) and simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) and establish their convergence. In the two algorithms, the weighting varies with the geometrical direction of the ray. Experimental results with both numerical simulation and real CT data ...

Author details Department of General Intensive Care, University Hospital Centre of Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium. GIGA-Cardiovascular Sciences, Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University of Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium. CHU de Liège, Domaine Sart-Tilman B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Systems and Modeling, Department of Electrical Engineering and ...

SART (specific alternation of rhythm in temperature) stress is known to cause anxiety-like behavior in mice/rats in several anxiety-related behavioral tests. In the present study, we investigated possible roles for corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and glucocorticoids in SART stress-induced anxiety-like behavior in two different anxiety-related behavioral tests. In the forced swimming test, ...