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Stra6, a retinoic acid-responsive gene, participates in p53-induced apoptosis after DNA damage
Stra6 is the retinoic acid (RA)-inducible gene encoding the cellular receptor for holo-retinol binding protein. This transmembrane protein mediates the internalization of retinol, which then upregulates RA-respon...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of High Performance Clusters in Private Cloud Computing Environments
In recent years, an increasing number of organizations — including universities, research centers, and businesses — have begun to use Cloud Computing technology as an essential and promising tool for optimizin...
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Generating heterogeneous executable specifications in SystemC from UML/MARTE models
Modeling and analysis of real-time embedded system is becoming an important area of research nowadays. In this context, the UML/MARTE profile has been introduced to support the specification, design, and verif...
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Effect of type 2 diabetes on mortality risk associated with end-stage kidney disease
Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and patients with diabetes mellitus experience higher mortality rates than the general population. Whether ESKD imparts the same excess in mortality risk for those...
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Chapter
Heterogeneous Specification with HetSC and SystemC-AMS: Widening the Support of MoCs in SystemC
This chapter provides a first general approach to the cooperation of SystemC-AMS and HetSC (Heterogeneous SystemC) heterogeneous specification methodologies. Their joint usage enables the development of SystemC s...
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Prediction of relapse by day 100 BCR-ABL quantification after allogeneic stem cell transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) relapse after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is a relatively frequent situation, which is correlated to disease status, time from diagnosis to transplant and T-cell d...
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RTOS modeling in SystemC for real-time embedded SW simulation: A POSIX model
SystemC is committed to support the requirements for an integrated, HW/SW co-design flow, thus allowing the development of complex, multiprocessing, Systems-on Chip (MpSoC). To make this possible, efficient mo...
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Single Source Design Environment for Embedded Systems Based on SystemC
There is a clear need for new methodologies supporting efficient design of embedded systems on complex platforms implementing both hardware and software modules. Software development has to be carried out unde...
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Weekly irinotecan (CPT-11) in 5-FU heavily pretreated and poor-performance-status patients with advanced colorectal cancer
Irinotecan (CPT-11) is an effective drug in patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). Little is known about its efficacy and safety in previously treated patients with poor performance status. We prospec...
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Chapter
Systematic Embedded Software Generation from Systemc
The embedded software design cost represents an important percentage of the embedded-system development costs [1]. This paper presents a method for systematic embedded software generation that reduces the soft...
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Chapter
Transplantation versus dialysis in aged and type II diabetic patients
In the early years of dialysis, the majority of patients accepted for a renal replacement therapy were men, diabetics were never treated and patients were not accepted beyond age 55. Nowadays, diabetes is the ...
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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus right-sided infective endocarditis in a non-addict patient with ventricular septal defect
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Disseminated histoplasmosis successfully treated with liposomal amphotericin B following azathioprine therapy in a patient from a nonendemic area
Histoplasma infections in Europe are rare, and acute disseminated histoplasmosis has been observed only in immunocompromised persons. An unusual case of autochthonous disseminated histoplasmosis in a 22-year-old...
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Public health problems due to dirofilaria: The spanish situation
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Increased serum N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase and α-ddd-mannosidase activities in obese subjects
We have studied N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase and α-d-mannosidase activities in human sera from 35 control subjects, 47 normo- and hyperinsulinemic obese persons, and 12 diabetic patients after a fasting period of...
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A test of the modified Enskog theory for the transport properties of liquids
The modified Enskog theory (MET) has been applied to various fluids in the liquid range (between the triple point and the critical point), and the viscosity, thermal conductivity, and self-diffusion coefficien...
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Natural ventilation of the Paintings Room in the Altamira cave
The Altamira cave (Santillana del Mar, Santander, Spain) is famous for the ceiling of one of its chambers, the Paintings Room, which is decorated with palaeolithic paintings. However, the massive influx of vis...
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Angular distributions of secondary relativistic charged particles produced in interactions of negative pions in emulsion at 300 GeV/c
Angular-distribution data are presented of single relativistic charged particles produced in inelastic and incoherent negative-pion interactions with emulsion nuclei heavier than hydrogen at 300 GeV/c. The obt...
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Photoproduction of charmed particles in nuclear emulsion coupled to the Omega Prime spectrometer. Description of the experimental method
The hybridized system including the nuclear-emulsion target and the magnetic Omega Prime spectrometer is described. The set-up was used in a CERN experiment for the measurement of lifetimes of charmed particle...
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Associated photoproduction of a charmed meson and a charmed baryon
