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Interferon-free therapy with sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for successful treatment of genotype 2 hepatitis C virus with lichen planus: a case report
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains the main cause of liver disease and can lead to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV may also develop extrahepatic manifestations in the ski...
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Surgical treatment for posttraumatic hemorrhage inside a filum terminale myxopapillary ependymoma: a case report and literature review
Symptoms of cauda equina syndrome due to ependymoma in the conus medullaris or filum terminale develop slowly. However, hemorrhagic change inside spinal tumors can induce acute neurologic decline. Here, we rep...
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A Socialized System for Enabling the Extraction of Potential Values from Natural and Social Sensing
This chapter tackles two problems we face when extracting values from sensing data: 1) it is hard for humans to understand raw/unprocessed sensing data and 2) it is inefficient in terms of management costs to ...
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Trigger Detection Using Geographical Relation Graph for Social Context Awareness
The concept of context awareness is believed to be a key enabler for the new ubiquitous network service paradigm brought by cloud computing platforms and smartphone OSs. In particular, autonomous context-based...
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Open AccessTCP-based window-size delegation method for TXOP Exchange in wireless local area networks
We propose a TCP window-size delegation method for downlink TXOP (transmission opportunity) Exchange in wireless local area networks (WLANs). In our method, the 'compliant' stations (STAs) cooperatively use th...
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Open AccessRelay Ability Estimation and Topology Control Using Multidimensional Context Parameters for Mobile P2P Multicast
We focus on mobile P2P multicast, in which mobile end nodes not only act as receivers but also relay the received stream forward to others. In mobile P2P multicast, negative effects caused by the change of ava...
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DNA Replication in Nucleus-Free Xenopus Egg Extracts
Extracts derived from Xenopus laevis eggs represent a powerful cell-free system to study eukaryotic DNA replication. A variation of the system allows for DNA replication not only in a cell-free environment, but a...
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Variable-Radii Method Based on Probing Mechanism (VRPM): An Energy Conservation Method for Wireless Active Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks, which are composed of advanced MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) called sensor nodes, has been broadly researched as ad-hoc networks recently. Since sensor nodes are powered by ...
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Redistribution of glutamate and GABA in the cerebral neocortex and hippocampus of the mongolian gerbil after transient ischemia
The redistribution of glutamate and GABA in postischemic brains was examined immunocytochemically using the gerbil model of unilateral 1 h cerebral ischemia. In the cerebral neocortex, the majority of neurons ...
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Effects of halothane and isoflurane anesthesia on sympathetic adrenal nerve responses to carbon dioxide challenge in rats
We studied the influence of two volatile anesthetics, halothane and isoflurane, on the circulatory and sympathetic nerve responses to carbon dioxide (9% CO2) in rats.
