Because mice infected with Trichinella spiralis experience a pronounced, but transient, mastocytosis and eosinophilia in their intestine, this disease model was used to follow the fate of senescent T cell-dependent mast cells (MCs) and eosinophils. Very few MCs or eosinophils undergoing apoptosis were found in the jejunum during the resolution phase of the infection, even though apoptotic MCs w...

Enumeration of Minimal Correction Sets (MCS) finds a wide range of practical applications, including the identification of Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets (MUS) used in verifying the complex control logic of microprocessor designs (e.g. in the CEGAR loop of Reveal [1,2]). Current state of the art MCS enumeration exploits core-guided MaxSAT algorithms, namely the so-called MSU3 [15] MaxSAT algorit...

Dianne Wiganowsky heard an unusual noise outside her house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in September 1992, so she went to look out her screen door. She did n t expect the potent stream of lawn c i that struck her in the face, n cou shL know that, at that me r alth would begin to din th point that most of her time is svrlnitoring pain. What hit Wigan sky was a strong mix of active agricultural organoph...

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Performing a probabilistic study rather than a determinist one is a relatively easy way to quantify the uncertainty in an engineering design. Due to the complexity and poor accuracy of the statistical moment methods, the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) method is wildly used in an engineering design. In this work, an MCS-based reliability analysis was carried out for the stability of the chain pill...

to determine the effect of bilateral uterine artery ligation (bual) on mast cell (mc) distribution, 24 mature female rabbits were studied. the rabbits were ovariohysterectomized on day 23, 43 or 63 following bual. histological sections were stained with toluidine blue to determine the mc distribution. in rabbits that had undergone bual, mcs were present extensively in the helium of the treated ...

Another Look at Bovine Growth Hormone A Focus article, "Extra Ingredients: Hormones in Food," in the August issue of EHP (102:632-635), included a brief but well-researched and generally accurate account of the debate over recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH). But, in quoting Consumers Union's Jean Halloran, your report unduly emphasized one narrow technical issue and left an erroneous impr...

Given an over-constrained system, a Maximal Satisfiable Subset (MSS) denotes a maximal set of constraints that are consistent. A Minimal Correction Subset (MCS, or co-MSS) is the complement of an MSS. MSSes/MCSes find a growing range of practical applications, including optimization, configuration and diagnosis. A number of MCS extraction algorithms have been proposed in recent years, enabling ...

Right ventricular dysfunction and significant tricuspid regurgitation are frequently seen in end stage heart failure patients undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implantation. Clinical impact of tricuspid valve repair at the time of LVAD implantation in patients with pre-existing significant tricuspid regurgitation has been a topic of debate for several years. Some groups have advo...

Recently, multiple classifier systems (MCS) have been used for practical applications to improve classification accuracy. Self-generating neural networks (SGNN) are one of the suitable base-classifiers for MCS because of their simple setting and fast learning. However, the computation cost of the MCS increases in proportion to the number of SGNN. In this paper, we propose an efficient pruning m...