The Creation of Adam, a section of Michelangelo’s fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling, illustrates the Biblical creation in which God gives life to Adam, the first man. The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become one of the most iconic images of touching as a way of giving life. Hands have always had an important significance in the fine arts, poetry, literature, and movies, expre...

Do Chemotherapy-induced activation of ADAM-17 results in increased growth factor shedding and activation of growth factor receptor-mediated pro-survival response. Enhanced ADAM-17 activity and HER ligand shedding results in resistance to chemotherapy in CRC. Therapies that decrease ADAM-17 activity in conjunction with current treatments may enhance response rates in advanced CRC patients. Clin ...

A disintegrin and metalloprotease domain-containing protein 12 (ADAM-12) is upregulated in many human cancers and promotes cancer metastasis. Increased urinary level of ADAM-12 in breast and bladder cancers correlates with disease progression. However, the mechanism of its induction in cancer remains less understood. Previously, we reported a Z-DNA–forming negative regulatory element (NRE) in A...

OBJECTIVE To date, serum free testosterone measurement is considered to be the gold standard for the diagnosis of hypogonadism in elderly males but it is not available to all subjects suspected of a decrease in testicular function. Therefore, we evaluated whether the Androgen Deficiency in Aging Males (ADAM) questionnaire, in its original or in a modified 'quantitative' version (qADAM), could b...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) and a disintegrin and metalloprotease 12 (ADAM 12) can be detected in the urine of breast cancer patients and provide independent prediction of disease status. To evaluate the potential of urinary metalloproteinases as biomarkers to predict breast cancer risk status, urine samples from women with known risk marker lesions, atypical hyperplasia and lobular carcino...

For most of history, economics did not have a separate identity apart from social thought in general. Even as late as the eighteenth century, Adam Smith viewed economics as a subset of jurisprudence. This makes the search for fIrst principles of economic reasoning more difficult, not because the intellectual cupboard of antiquity was bare, but because the subject boundaries between the social s...

In this paper, we introduce a new parameter iteration method (P-Iteration for short) ,which can be applied on Adams-Moulton methods to solve initial value problems. Compared with Jacobi iteration method, it has three advantages: (1) it may significantly implement the stable region of the iterative process such that we can efficiently use the large stable region of implicit formula; (2) it allow...

Adams-Bashforth-Moulton algorithm has been extended to solve delay differential equations of fractional order. Numerical illustrations are presented to demonstrate utility of the method. Chaotic behaviour is observed in one dimensional delayed systems of fractional order. We further find the smallest fractional order for the chaotic behaviour. It is also observed that the phase portraits get st...

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This paper concerns a generalization of Moulton planes. We consider these semi-classical projective planes over half-ordered fields and completely determine their Lenz-Barlotti classes in the case of finite planes and of ordered planes. We also obtain a characterization of the Desarguesian planes among the semi-classical planes in terms of linear transitivity. These results are applied to (topo...