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Assessment of Snow Status Changes Using L-HH Temporal-Coherence Components at Mt. Dagu, China
(2015)
Multitemporal Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR)
horizontally transmitted and horizontally received (HH) coherence data was decomposed
into temporal-coherence, spatial-coherence, and thermal noise ...
Evaluation of Social Media Use by Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty
(2015-09)
Introduction
Clinicians and residency programs are increasing their use of social media (SM) websites for educational and promotional uses, yet little is known about the use of these sites by residents and faculty. The ...
Esophageal perforation secondary to malignant gastric outlet obstruction: a case report
(2019-02-19)
Background
Esophageal perforation is a rare presenting sign of gastric cancer. To date, only nine case reports of this phenomenon have been previously published.
Case presentation
Esophageal perforation was diagnosed ...
Cap-Independent mRNA Translation in Germ Cells
(2019-01-04)
Cellular mRNAs in plants and animals have a 50-cap structure that is accepted as the
recognition point to initiate translation by ribosomes. Consequently, it was long assumed that the
translation initiation apparatus was ...
Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos
(2011-02-11)
A benthic species inventory of 1,125 taxa was compiled from various sources for the central Arctic deeper than 500 m, and bounded to the Atlantic by Fram Strait. The inventory was dominated by arthropods (366 taxa), ...
Burden of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Over Time and Arterial Stiffness in Youth With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study
(2019-07-02)
Background: The incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children is increasing, resulting in higher burden of cardiovascular diseases due to diabetes mellitus–related vascular dysfunction.
Methods and Results: We ...
Direct inhibition of RNAse T2 expression by the HTLV-1 viral protein Tax
(2011-08-18)
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is one of the primary diseases caused by Human T-cell Leukemia Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection. The virally-encoded Tax protein is believed to initiate early events in the development of this ...
Divergent roles of superoxide and nitric oxide in liver ischemia and reperfusion injury
(2011)
Liver ischemia and reperfusion-induced injury is a major clinical complication associated with hemorrhagic or endotoxin shock and thermal injury as well as liver transplantation and resectional surgery. Data obtained from ...
Pioglitazone Enhances the Beneficial Effects of Glucocorticoids in Experimental Nephrotic Syndrome
(2016-05)
Glucocorticoids are the primary therapy for nephrotic syndrome (NS), but have serious side effects and are ineffective in ~20-50% of patients. Thiazolidinediones have recently been suggested to be renoprotective, and to ...
Calibrating TrueBeam jaws by considering collimator walk out to improve the dose uniformity at abutting field junctions
(2019-01-11)
Jaw positions on a linear accelerator are calibrated to have accurate field size values over the range of jaw positions and to have excellent junctions when matching fields. It is sufficient to have field size accuracy on ...