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Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan.
Hui-Yuan Yeh, Chieh-Fu Jeff Cheng, ChingJung Huang, Xiaoya Zhan, Weng Kin Wong, Piers D Mitchell
Feb 09, 2020
In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo...
Published by: The Korean journal of parasitology
Twelve weeks of protracted venous infusion of fluorouracil (5-FU) is as effective as 6 months of bolus 5-FU and folinic acid as adjuvant treatment in colorectal cancer.
A Saini, AR Norman, D Cunningham, I Chau, M Hill, D Tait, T Hickish, T Iveson, F Lofts, D Jodrell, PJ Ross, J Oates
Sep 02, 2020
We performed a multicentre randomised trial to compare the efficacy and toxicity of 12 weeks of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) delivered by protracted intravenous infusion (PVI 5-FU) against the standard bolus regimen of 5-FU and folinic...
A Fine-Grained IoT Data Access Control Scheme Combining Attribute-Based Encryption and Blockchain
IoT technology has been widely valued and applied, and the resulting massive IoT data brings many challenges to the traditional centralized data management, such as performance, privacy, and security challenges. This paper...
Fast 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis by Learning Spatial Relation Priors of Objects
We present a framework for fast synthesizing indoor scenes, given a room geometry and a list of objects with learnt priors.Unlike existing data-driven solutions, which often learn priors by co-occurrence analysis and...
Fast 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis by Learning Spatial Relation Priors of Objects
We present a framework for fast synthesizing indoor scenes, given a room geometry and a list of objects with learnt priors.Unlike existing data-driven solutions, which often learn priors by co-occurrence analysis and...
A Self-Assessment Framework for Global Supply Chain Operations
This research developed an effective supply chain management (SCM) operation model and a corresponding diagnostic methodology in the global competitive environment by combining three phases and methodologies. In Phases 1, a list...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Secondary Metabolites of Osmanthus fragrans
Chen-Chen Fu, Fa-Ying Xu, Yu-Chen Qian, Hoi-Lun Koo, Yi-Fan Duan, Geng-Min Weng, Tai-Ping Fan, Mo-Xian Chen, Fu-Yuan Zhu
Aug 01, 2022
Osmanthus fragrans (scientific name: Osmanthus fragrans (Thunb.) Lour.) is a species of the Osmanthus genus in the family Oleaceae, and it has a long history of cultivation in China. O. fragrans is edible and is well known for...
BGM-Net
Yunzhu Wu, Ruoxin Zhang, Lei Zhu, Weiming Wang, Shengwen Wang, Haoran Xie, Gary Cheng, Fu Lee Wang, Xingxiang He, Hai Zhang
Aug 02, 2021
Automatic and accurate segmentation of breast lesion regions from ultrasonography is an essential step for ultrasound-guided diagnosis and treatment. However, developing a desirable segmentation method is very difficult due to...
Putting Industry Into WIL Teaching Praxis
Jeff Naqvi
Apr 02, 2021
A 2008 review identified the need for Australia to get more citizens into higher education. With this increase in participation, the student cohort began to diversify. Qualitative research showed that final-year students...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
On a new proposed mechanism of 5-fluorouracil-mediated cytotoxicity
Shobbir Hussain
May 01, 2020
The major molecular mode of action of the cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is generally considered to result from thymidylate synthase inhibition. Recent findings relating to the function of the human uracil-5...
General Construction for Extended Visual Cryptography Scheme Using QR Codes
This article describes how a visual cryptography scheme, with one prominent feature—decrypting simply, has attracted much research attention since it was first proposed. However, meaningless shares remain a continuing challenge...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A fluorescent peptidyl substrate for visualizing peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase activity in live cells
Quan Jiang, Xiao-Rong Li, Cheng-Kun Wang, Juan Cheng, Chao Tan, Tian-Tian Cui, Nan-Nan Lu, Tony D James, Feng Han, Xin Li
Feb 21, 2018
This communication reports on a fluorescent probe (PPI-P) for imaging active peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases in live cells. PPI-P is capable of responding to both recombinant and cellular PPIases fluorogenically, and has...
Modeling the Factors That Drive the Need for Inter-Facility Transfers to Downstream Services in US Emergency Departments
Improving emergency department (ED) care coordination requires analytics-based models that can integrate large patient-level and hospital databases to help formulate better transfer processes and policies across different...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An Observation Protocol for Scaffolding Community of Inquiry and Its Exemplary Practices in Language MOOCs
As a response to a call to investigate the fundamental aspects regarding educational theory, research, designing and teaching of language massive open online courses (MOOCs), this study first developed a Community of Inquiry...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Intensive Imaging-based Follow-up of Surgically Treated Localised Renal Cell Carcinoma Does Not Improve Post-recurrence Survival
Saeed Dabestani, Christian Beisland, Grant D Stewart, Karim Bensalah, Eirikur Gudmundsson, Thomas B Lam, William Gietzmann, Paimaun Zakikhani, Lorenzo Marconi, Sergio Fernandéz-Pello, Serenella Monagas, Samuel Paul Williams, Christian Torbrand, Thomas Powles, Erik Van Werkhoven, Richard Meijer, Alessandro Volpe, Michael Staehler, Börje Ljungberg, Axel Bex
Dec 03, 2018
The optimal follow-up (FU) strategy for patients treated for localised renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains unclear. Using the RECUR database, we studied imaging intensity utilised in contemporary FU to evaluate its association...
Surface Electron-Hole Rich Species Active in the Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation.
Juan-Jesús Velasco-Vélez, Emilia A Carbonio, Cheng-Hao Chuang, Cheng-Jhih Hsu, Jyh-Fu Lee, Rosa Arrigo, Michael Hävecker, Ruizhi Wang, Milivoj Plodinec, Feng Ryan Wang, Alba Centeno, Amaia Zurutuza, Lorenz J Falling, Rik Valentijn Mom, Stephan Hofmann, Robert Schlögl, Axel Knop-Gericke, Travis E Jones
Sep 08, 2021
Iridium and ruthenium and their oxides/hydroxides are the best candidates for the oxygen evolution reaction under harsh acidic conditions owing to the low overpotentials observed for Ru- and Ir-based anodes and the high...
A fluorescent peptidyl substrate for visualizing peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase activity in live cells
Quan Jiang, Xiao-Rong Li, Cheng-Kun Wang, Juan Cheng, Chao Tan, Tian-Tian Cui, Nan-Nan Lu, Tony D James, Feng Han, Xin Li
Feb 21, 2018
This communication reports on a fluorescent probe (PPI-P) for imaging active peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases in live cells. PPI-P is capable of responding to both recombinant and cellular PPIases fluorogenically, and has...
Topical treatment of actinic keratoses in organ transplant recipients
Zeeshaan-Ul Hasan, Ikhlaaq Ahmed, Rubeta N Matin, Victoria Homer, John T Lear, Ferina Ismail, Tristan Whitmarsh, Adele C Green, Jason Thomson, Alan Milligan, Sarah Hogan, Vanessa Van-de-Velde, Liza Mitchell-Worsford, Jonathan Kentley, Claire Gaunt, Yolande Jefferson-Hulme, Sarah J Bowden, Piers Gaunt, Keith Wheatley, Charlotte M Proby, Catherine A Harwood
Jun 14, 2022
BACKGROUND: The risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is significantly increased in organ transplant recipients (OTRs). Clearance of actinic keratoses (AKs) is generally regarded as a surrogate biomarker for cSCC...
On a new proposed mechanism of 5-fluorouracil-mediated cytotoxicity
Shobbir Hussain
May 01, 2020
The major molecular mode of action of the cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is generally considered to result from thymidylate synthase inhibition. Recent findings relating to the function of the human uracil-5...
A Corpus-Based Study on the Translation Style of Five English Versions of Fu Sheng Liu Ji, Vol I
Bing Zhang
Oct 31, 2022
Using a corpus approach, this article investigates the translation styles of the first chapter of Fu Sheng Liu Ji at three levels: the statistical parameters, the translation of culture-specific lexis, and readability...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk by Using Machine Learning Approaches and Anthropometric Features.
Cheng-Yu Tsai, Huei-Tyng Huang, Hsueh-Chien Cheng, Jieni Wang, Ping-Jung Duh, Wen-Hua Hsu, Marc Stettler, Yi-Chun Kuan, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chia-Rung Hsu, Kang-Yun Lee, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Dean Wu, Hsin-Chien Lee, Cheng-Jung Wu, Arnab Majumdar, Wen-Te Liu
Jan 04, 2023
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a global health concern and is typically diagnosed using in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG). However, PSG is highly time-consuming and labor-intensive. We, therefore, developed machine learning...
In Situ Chemical Modification with Zwitterionic Copolymers of Nanofiltration Membranes
Xinyun Zhang, Jiayu Tian, Ruiyang Xu, Xiaoxiang Cheng, Xuewu Zhu, Ching Yoong Loh, Kaifang Fu, Ruidong Zhang, Daoji Wu, Huixe Ren, Ming Xie
Jun 29, 2022
Breaking the trade-off between filtration performance and antifouling property is critical to enabling a thin-film nanocomposite (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membrane for a wide range of feed streams. We proposed a novel design...
In Situ Chemical Modification with Zwitterionic Copolymers of Nanofiltration Membranes
Xinyun Zhang, Jiayu Tian, Ruiyang Xu, Xiaoxiang Cheng, Xuewu Zhu, Ching Yoong Loh, Kaifang Fu, Ruidong Zhang, Daoji Wu, Huixe Ren, Ming Xie
Jun 29, 2022
Breaking the trade-off between filtration performance and antifouling property is critical to enabling a thin-film nanocomposite (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membrane for a wide range of feed streams. We proposed a novel design...
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