ABSTRACT Over the past century, an increase in temperatures and a decrease dissolved oxygen concentrations have been observed bottom waters of Laurentian Channel (LC), throughout Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (LSLE) Gulf (GSL), eastern Canada. To document impact these changes, we analyzed benthic foraminiferal assemblages geochemical signatures four sediment cores taken LC. Radiometric measurement...

In this paper we present the methodology of data collection and implementation of databases with the purpose to create extensive lexical and terminological resources for the Greek Sign Language (GSL). The focus is on issues of linguistic content validation, multipurpose design and reusability of resources, exemplified by the multimedia dictionary products of the projects NOEMA (19992001) and PR...

Received: June 26 2017; Accepted: July 13 2017; Published: July 17 2017 challenge studies in healthy adults with potentially attenuated viruses? Second, influenza vaccines are recommended not only for healthy adults but also for children, the elderly, pregnant women, anyone with high-risk conditions and those with chronic medical conditions; it is not known whether the HI titer of 40 is equally...

Worskhop on initial value for binary black holes, by Carlos Lousto . . . . . 13 ITP Conference on strong gravitational fields, by Don Marolf . . . . . . . . 16 Yukawa International Seminar, by John Friedman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Minnowbrook symposium on the structure of space-time, by Kamesh Wali . . 23 Black holes II and CCGRRA 8 by Jack Gegenberg and Gabor Kunstatter . . 26 Hartlefes...

In this paper we explore the parallelization of the scientific library from GNU both on shared-memory and distributed-memory architectures. A pair of classical operations, arising in sparse linear algebra and discrete mathematics, allow us to identify the major challenges involved in this task, and to analyze the performance, benefits, and drawbacks of two different possible parallelization app...

Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) cause an enteric illness that results in a spectrum of outcomes ranging from asymptomatic carriage to uncomplicated diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, and the postdiarrheal haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which leads to renal and other organ microvascular thrombosis. Binding of Stx to the glycosphingolipid (GSL) globotriaosylceramide (Gb3Cer/CD77) o...

The host response to infection and inflammation is associated with multiple alterations in lipid metabolism. We have shown that endotoxin [lipopolysaccharide (LPS)] stimulates hepatic sphingolipid synthesis and increases ceramide and glucosylceramide (GlcCer) content in circulating lipoproteins in Syrian hamsters. LPS also increases the activity and mRNA levels of serine palmitoyltransferase (S...

Gas source localization (GSL) with mobile robots is a challenging task due to the unpredictable nature of gas dispersion, the limitations of the currents sensing technologies, and the mobility constraints of ground-based robots. This work proposes an integral solution for the GSL task, including source declaration. We present a novel pseudo-gradient-based plume tracking algorithm and a particle...

Molecular modeling of glycosphingolipids (GSLs), and their organization in membranes, suggest that GSL "patches" provide binding sites for interaction with ligands and adjacent cells, and that GSLs or their catabolites modulate transmembrane signaling. Aberrant GSL expression is a ubiquitous phenotype common to essentially all types of tumors, and leads to (i) formation of tumor-associated anti...

PURPOSE To evaluate the intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering efficacy of goniosynechialysis (GSL) for advanced chronic angle-closure glaucoma (CACG) using a simplified slit-lamp technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with CACG with one severely affected eye with best-corrected visual acuity below 20/200 and a mildly or functionally unaffected fellow eye were enrolled in this study. All patie...