The age-matched normal cervical controls were women without a history of abnormal Pap smears or any form of cancer and planned to undergo a hysterectomy for benign reasons during the same period. Normal cervices were collected after surgery and histologically confirmed. Informed consent was obtained ...
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder of movement, tone and posture resulting from nonprogressive damage to the developing brain [1]. It is the most common form of motor disability in childhood and is often associated with other developmental problems [1]. International guidelines recommend early int...
Participants who are eligible will then be provided the consent form to start the consenting process. Because the population we are recruiting is comprised of older individuals, there is some risk of severe cognitive impairment and/or decline among eligible survey respondents. Therefore, it is ...
calculations of dynamic models can be then carried out. When fish swims, the pressure field leads to a form drag in the forward direction and a resistive force in the lateral direction. The reversed Kaman
Investigators AJK, JE, KC, TH, NWM, SVB and JSL designed the study. AJK, JE, KC, TH, NWM, SVB and JSL determined the outcome measures. AJK, JE, KC, TH, NWM and SVB contributed to the data collection and processing. AJK, JE, KC, TH, NWM and SVB designed the statistical analy...
and the extension tubes at the inlet and outlet locations. Hexahedral structured cells were applied to the inlet and outlet extension tubes using the mesh generation tool ICEM CFD, while the double-suction chamber, volute, and the impellers were meshed in the form of unstructured tetrahedral cells...
(MOI) of 0.01 were added to a 96-well plate and incubated at 37 °C for 24, 48, and 72 h, respectively. Additionally, 100 µL of AB48 was inoculated into the wells and incubated at 37 °C for 24, 48, and 72 h to form biofilms. Subsequently, phage HZY2308 was added at an ...
Environmental stressors can promote the production of harmful metabolites such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants. Oxygen free radicals act on unsaturated fatty acids to produce lipid peroxides that break down to form toxic compounds like malondialdehyde (MDA) [7]. Compared to the control,...
Therefore, to yield reliable inference, one must impose strong restrictions on the form of the model. When developing regression and classification models for gene-expression data, a widely employed assumption (restriction) is that the model parameters are sparse, implying that only a small subset ...
The χχ242measure was the sum of 24 terms of the form: χ2=(Nmodel−Nobserved)2Nmodel (3) where Nmodel is the average number of breakdowns from model runs. This measure was expected to have an approximately χ224 distribution, so it is referred to as the ‘χ224 value...