Erythropoietin (EPO), the main growth factor responsible for the regulation of red blood cell production, may be overproduced when blood loss or haemolysis occurs. Patients with mild hereditary spherocytosis (HS) are able to maintain normal haemoglobin concentration, whereas typical and severe HS patients develop an anaemic state. Splenectomy usually reverses anaemia. We aimed to clarify the ro...

[1] Recent theoretical studies have shown the feasibility and potential scientific value of radio tomographic imaging of Earth’s magnetosphere by measuring Faraday rotation and phase difference (or group delay) of coherent radio wave signals. On 15 August 2000, a 6 W linearly polarized 828 kHz signal transmitted by the Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) on the IMAGE spacecraft was clearly detected by WA...

To extract English name mentions, we apply a linear-chain CRFs model trained from ACE 20032005 corpora (Li et al., 2012a). For Chinese and Spanish, we use Stanford name tagger (Finkel et al., 2005). We also encode several regular expression based rules to extract poster name mentions in discussion forum posts. In this year’s task, person nominal mentions extraction is added. There are two major...

The joint behavior of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the Relative Price Investment (RPI) in data lead several authors to conclude that neutral technology shocks are positively correlated with investment-specific shocks, challenging specification standard macroeconomic models. This paper rejects correlated-shocks hypothesis using both parametric non-parametric methods controlling for struct...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether age influences a change in the spasticity of the ankle plantar flexor after botulinum toxin type A (BTA) injection in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Sixteen children with spastic CP were enrolled in the study. Seven children (group 1) were under 5 years of age, and nine (group 2) were over 5 years of age. They all received BTA injection in the...

Trypanosoma cruzi, the human parasite that causes Chagas disease, contains a functional pentose phosphate pathway, probably essential for protection against oxidative stress and also for R5P (ribose 5-phosphate) production for nucleotide synthesis. The haploid genome of the CL Brener clone of the parasite contains one gene coding for a Type B Rpi (ribose 5-phosphate isomerase), but genes encodi...

Joining of aluminum alloy AA6061 to mild steel was achieved using a friction stir extrusion (FSE) method in which processed extruded into preformed dovetail groove. These joints were subject various in-process cooling (IPC) methods via compressed air, water, granulated dry ice, and liquid nitrogen as well varying weld pitches (WP) the following rotational translational (inches per minute, IPM) ...

Error estimation and adaptive applications help to control the discretization errors in finite element analysis. The study implements radial point interpolation (RPI)-based error-recovery approaches displacement/pressure-based mixed approach is used formulation. RPI considers basis functions (RBF) polynomials together interpolate solutions, i.e., displacement over influence zones recover soluti...