There is a need to improve the nutritional and functional characteristics of breakfast cereal products (BCP) consumed worldwide, namely by increasing content diversity dietary fibre enrichment in micronutrients bioactive compounds. Considering high amounts fruit vegetable by-products (FVB) generated industrial processing, associated environmental issues but also their richness nutrients phytoch...

BACKGROUND Association of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development remains controversial. HBV basal core promoter (BCP) double mutations (T(1762)A(1764)) are very strong confounding factors of genotypes B and C in HCC development. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of HBV genotype C with HCC development after controlling for BCP double mutation...

Calcium deposition diseases caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals are a significant source of morbidity in the elderly. We have shown previously that both types of crystals can induce mitogenesis, as well as metalloproteinase synthesis and secretion by fibroblasts and chondrocytes. These responses may promote degradation of articular tissues...

Recent experiments show that external inplanar electric field can be employed to guide the molecular self-assembly in diblock copolymer (BCP) thin films to form lamellar nanostructures with potential applications in nanotechnology. We study this self-assembly process through a detailed coarse-grained phase-separation modeling. During the process, the free energy of the BCP films is modeled as t...

Abstract The limited options for bone repair have led to an extensive research of the field and development alloplastic xenogeneic grafts. purpose this study was evaluate with two substitutes: deproteinized bovine (DBB) biphasic calcium phosphate ceramic (BCP) in critical-size defect. A total 8-mm defects were made parietal bones rabbits (n=12). animals divided into three experimental groups: s...

COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research Lehigh University This document will serve as a simple example for using COIN/BCP to solve an integer linear program (ILP) using branch and price (BP). Topic: Integer Linear Program, Column Generation Modules: BCP, OSI, Coin, CLP Source: AAP BP.tar.gz Data: AAP Data included in AAP BP.tar.gz Author: Matthew Galati Document: AAP BP: A COIN/BCP...

We prove that the Besicovitch Covering Property (BCP) does not hold for some classes of homogeneous quasi-distances on Carnot groups of step 3 and higher. As a special case we get that, in Carnot groups of step 3 and higher, BCP is not satisfied for those homogeneous distances whose unit ball centered at the origin coincides with a Euclidean ball centered at the origin. This result comes in con...

Natural bicyclic sesquiterpenes, β-caryophyllene (BCP) and β-caryophyllene oxide (BCPO), are present in a large number of plants worldwide. Both BCP and BCPO (BCP(O)) possess significant anticancer activities, affecting growth and proliferation of numerous cancer cells. Nevertheless, their antineoplastic effects have hardly been investigated in vivo. In addition, both compounds potentiate the c...

Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that resides within the harsh, acidic confines of a lysosome-like compartment of the host cell that is termed a parasitophorous vacuole. In this study, we characterized a thiol-specific peroxidase of C. burnetii that belongs to the atypical 2-cysteine subfamily of peroxiredoxins, commonly referred to as bacterioferr...

Abstract Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major concern for blood safety in high-prevalence HBV countries such as China. In Shenzhen, dual hepatitis surface antigen (HBsAg) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) have been adopted parallel with nucleic acid testing (NAT) donors over decade. A small proportion of test reactive (R) HBsAg but negative through routine NAT, whic...