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Publication of material presented at radiologic meetings: authors' country and international collaboration.

PURPOSE To estimate the influence of the authors' country and collaboration on the probability of subsequent full publication of material from oral presentations at the 2000 European Congress of Radiology (ECR). MATERIALS AND METHODS After searching the Medline database for articles published between 2000 and 2003, all articles that originated from presentations at the ECR in 2000 and were published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Report were evaluated. Relative likelihood of full publication depending on the country in which an abstract originated was compared with that of Austria, which is the host country of the ECR. The chi(2) test was used to compare publication rates according to country of origin and collaboration. The median and interquartile range of the impact factor of publications according to country of origin and collaboration in the abstract were analyzed by using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The percentage of articles published in journals ranked in the top quartile (top 25% of journals according to impact factor) was calculated. RESULTS Of 1020 presentations, 403 articles (39%) with significant (P < .001) variations according to country of origin were identified. Studies originating from the United States had the highest percentage of full publication (62%; relative likelihood, 1.41), median impact factor (4.5), and percentage of articles in the top quartile (54%). Radiology was the top quartile journal, with the most articles published (60%). Impact factor differed according to country of origin (P < .001). Abstracts submitted with collaboration between (a) European countries and countries outside of Europe (other than the United States) and (b) different European countries had the highest publication rates (83% and 52%, respectively; P = .03). CONCLUSION The country of origin of an abstract was useful in predicting the chances of full publication of the abstract, with the United States having the highest publication rate. Authors were more likely to publish an article if it had been prepared with international collaboration.
Estradiol binding to rat corpora lutea during pregnancy.

The corpus luteum of the pregnant rat bound estradiol in a manner similar to that observed in classical target tissues. A luteal cell cytosol component exhibited specific, high affinity and low capacity binding for estradiol with an equilibrium dissociation constant of 0.22 nM. The cytosol es-tradiol binding component appeared to have charac-teristics of an intracellular receptor distinct from the estradiol binding protein found in serum of pregnant rats. In the presence of \3H]estradiol a cytosol component, but not the serum protein, bound to DNA; in the presence of diethylstilbestrol, the binding of \3H]estradiol to cytosol, but not to serum, was inhibited. The content of estradiol receptor complex in luteal cell nuclei changed during preg-nancy as determined by nuclear exchange assay. Estradiol receptor complex in luteal cell nuclei increased between days 3–12, reached a maximum in the second half of pregnancy and decreased on day 22 of pregnancy. Similar changes in the amount of \3H]estradiol specific.
Considering load-carrying capability and wind speed correlation of WECS in generation adequacy assessment

Wind power is an intermittent energy source that behaves quite differently from conventional energy sources. The reliability impact of this highly variable energy source is an important aspect that needs to be assessed as wind power penetration becomes increasingly significant. Generation adequacy assessment including wind energy conversion systems (WECS) at multiple locations is described in this paper. Effective load-carrying capabilities (ELCC) obtained using the loss of load expectation (LOLE) and the loss of load frequency (LOLF) for a power system containing WECS are illustrated and compared. The results show that ELCC obtained using the LOLF and obtained using the LOLE for WECS can be considerably different, while they are similar for a conventional generating unit. The impact on the system reliability indices of wind speed correlation between two wind farms is also examined. The studies show that the degree of wind speed correlation between two wind farms has a considerable impact on the resulting reliability indices. The sequential Monte Carlo simulation approach is used as this methodology can facilitate a time series modeling of wind speeds, and also provides accurate frequency and duration assessments. An autoregressive moving average time series model is used in this study to simulate hourly wind speeds
The Possible Associations of Septal Deviation on Mastoid Pneumatization and Chronic Otitis

Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine the role of nasal septal deviation on volume of mastoid air cells and possible relationship to chronic otitis. Materials and Methods Between May 2010 and September 2012, paranasal sinus computed tomographic findings of 825 patients (470 male and 355 female subjects) who were treated in Ear Nose and Throat Department of Bozok University Medical Faculty were retrospectively analyzed. By excluding the other coexistent sinonasal pathologies, 100 patients (45 male and 55 female subjects; mean age, 37.7 ± 10.4 yr; range, 18–70 yr) with nasal septal deviations were recruited for the study. The convex side of the septal curvature was accepted as the direction of deviation. The findings were grouped according to the radiologically measured angle of nasal septal deviations. The deviation angle of the nasal septum was described as follows: mild (<9 degrees), moderate (9–15 degrees), or severe (≥15 degrees). The volume of each mastoid air cells was also calculated using the computer program. Chronic otitis was defined a abnormality criteria of the normal temporal scan. Criteria for a normal temporal bone were as follows: 1) absence of bony destruction or sclerosis; 2) absence of fluid or mass in any of the temporal bone air spaces; and 3) the presence of “normal” air cells. Results There were 45 male and 55 female subjects (mean age, 37.7 ± 10.4 yr; range, 18–70 yr). Nasal septal deviation angles were found to range between 5 and 28.1 degrees (mean, 14 ± 1.2 degrees). The left-sided deviations included 16 mild (<9 degrees, Group I), 15 moderate (9–15 degrees, Group II), and 17 severe (≥15 degrees, Group III) subjects. The right-sided deviations included 18 mild (<9 degrees, Group I), 16 moderate (9–15 degrees, Group II), and 18 severe (≥15 degrees, Group III) cases. We could not demonstrate a statistically significant difference between the right mastoid cell volumes of the Group I and Group II in left-sided deviation cases (p = 0.51). In the same side comparison of Group I to Group III and Group II to Group III, the mastoid cell volume differences were found to be significantly meaningful (p = 0.00 and p = 0.00, respectively). Identical results were yielded in the right-sided septal deviation group related to the mastoid cell volumes of Group I and Group II and Group I to Group III and Group II to Group III comparisons (p = 0.55, p = 0.00, and p = 0.011, respectively). In both right and left deviation groups, ipsilateral and contralateral mastoid cell volume comparisons produced statistically significant results (p = 0.04 and p = 0.003, respectively). The presence of chronic otitis findings were significantly increased in both groups (p = 0.00). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Conclusion Our findings suggest that mastoid cell volumes tend to be larger at the contralateral side of the severe septum deviations.
Providing Task Allocation and Secure Deduplication for Mobile Crowdsensing via Fog Computing

Mobile crowdsensing enables a crowd of individuals to cooperatively collect data for special interest customers using their mobile devices. The success of mobile crowdsensing largely depends on the participating mobile users. The broader participation, the more sensing data are collected; nevertheless, the more replicate data may be generated, thereby bringing unnecessary heavy communication overhead. Hence it is critical to eliminate duplicate data to improve communication efficiency, a.k. a. , data deduplication. Unfortunately, sensing data is usually protected, making its deduplication challenging. In this paper, we propose a fog-assisted mobile crowdsensing framework, enabling fog nodes to allocate tasks based on user mobility for improving the accuracy of task assignment. Further, a fog-assisted secure data deduplication scheme (Fo-SDD) is introduced to improve communication efficiency while guaranteeing data confidentiality. Specifically, a BLS-oblivious pseudo-random function is designed to enable fog nodes to detect and remove replicate data in sensing reports without exposing the content of reports. To protect the privacy of mobile users, we further extend the Fo-SDD to hide users’ identities during data collection. In doing so, Chameleon hash function is leveraged to achieve contribution claim and reward retrieval for anonymous mobile users. Finally, we demonstrate that both schemes achieve secure, efficient data deduplication.
Antipsychotic drugs up‐regulate tryptophan hydroxylase in ADF neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans: Role of calcium‐calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II and transient receptor potential vanilloid channel

Antipsychotic drugs produce acute behavioral effects through antagonism of dopamine and serotonin receptors, and long‐term adaptive responses that are not well understood. The goal of the study presented here was to use Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the molecular mechanism or mechanisms that contribute to adaptive responses produced by antipsychotic drugs. First‐generation antipsychotics, trifluoperazine and fluphenazine, and second‐generation drugs, clozapine and olanzapine, increased the expression of tryptophan hydroxylase‐1::green fluorescent protein (TPH‐1::GFP) and serotonin in the ADF neurons of C. elegans. This response was absent or diminished in mutant strains lacking the transient receptor potential vanilloid channel (TRPV; osm‐9) or calcium/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII; unc‐43). The role of calcium signaling was further implicated by the finding that a selective antagonist of calmodulin and a calcineurin inhibitor also enhanced TPH‐1::GFP expression. The ADF neurons modulate foraging behavior (turns/reversals off food) through serotonin production. We found that short‐term exposure to the antipsychotic drugs altered the frequency of turns/reversals off food. This response was mediated through dopamine and serotonin receptors and was abolished in serotonin‐deficient mutants (tph‐1) and strains lacking the SER‐1 and MOD‐1 serotonin receptors. Consistent with the increase in serotonin in the ADF neurons induced by the drugs, drug withdrawal after 24‐hr treatment was accompanied by a rebound in the number of turns/reversals, which demonstrates behavioral adaptation in serotonergic systems. Characterization of the cellular, molecular, and behavioral adaptations to continuous exposure to antipsychotic drugs may provide insight into the long‐term clinical effects of these medications. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Beliefs and Inferences: A Test of a Rational-Emotive Hypothesis: 2. On the Prospect of Seeing a Spider

96 subjects were asked to imagine that they were about to enter a room in which there may have been one or more spiders. They were also asked to imagine that (a) they either held a rational or an irrational belief about spiders, (b) they were about to enter the room either alone or with someone, and (c) that the room was either dark or light. Having absorbed their assigned role, the subjects were then asked to make inferences about various elements of their situation. The results supported the hypothesis that holding an irrational belief leads to more negative inferences. It was also found that the lighting conditions in the room and whether the subject was alone or with someone affected the negativity of the inferences made. In addition, there were several two-way and three-way interactions between the independent variables which indicated that entering a light room or being with someone else tended to moderate the negativity of inferences made by those holding a rational belief rather than the opposite, amplifying the negativity of inferences made by those holding an irrational belief. The results supported Ellis's (1985) recent formulation concerning the complex relationship between events and inferences (A), beliefs (B), and emotional and behavioral consequences of beliefs (C).
Detection of messenger RNA from O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene MGMT in human normal and tumor tissues.

BACKGROUND The level of the DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase is an important determinant of the response of tumor cells in culture to alkylating nitrosoureas. In these cells, the abundance of messenger RNA (mRNA) is directly correlated with repair activity. PURPOSE Our purpose was to compare transferase mRNA levels with the repair activity in primary human tumors. METHODS Human transferase mRNA was measured in tissue samples from brain tumors, normal lung, lung tumors, ovarian tumors, and normal human liver by use of an RNA protection assay with an antisense probe prepared from the cloned gene. RESULTS Normal and tumor tissue samples from the same patient had similar transferase activity levels, but transferase expression varied widely among tissue samples from different patients. Brain and lung samples, on average, had transferase mRNA levels closer to those in liver samples than their transferase activity levels. In two cases, tissue samples which were transferase deficient by the activity assays were found to lack transferase mRNA. CONCLUSIONS Deficiencies in transferase activity are due to reduced or absent mRNA transcription or processing. In brain and lung, there may be post-transcriptional control of mRNA expression. The wide interindividual variation in transferase expression is also seen at the transcription level. IMPLICATIONS These are among the first measures of transferase mRNA expression in primary human tissue. More samples should be examined to extend these observations.
Biological Medicine and the Survival of the Person

The Argument The status of the person is analyzed as represented by the life sciences under the influence of modern physico–chemical and molecular biology. At the same time the linguistic structure of reality as seen through formalized scientific discourse is not that of a language, but rather that of operational symbolisms, so that the judeo–Greek tradition of Verb as creating and Logos as procreating — which is probably at the origin of the surprising confidence in the possibility of dominating nature through words and formulae — could be suc–cessful only through the depersonalization of language. Notwithstanding appearances, the phenomena of structural and functional self–organization do not really change this situation. In this context the question of the status of the person and of the intentional subject has to be dealt with pragmatically, giving up the notion of a unified scientific theory that would take into consideration at the same time the experi–mental sciences (physics, chemistry, biology and “objective” human) and the human sciences as linking subjectivity and intentionality.
Variation of Cold Agglutinin Levels

Abstract. Cold agglutinin levels were determined in 120 individuals ranging in age from 1 to 64 years using untreated and ficin‐treated group O erythrocytes. The geometric mean titer for untreated cells was 5.7±1.1 SEM and for ficin‐treated cells 18.7±1.1 SEM. The mean titers and scores for various blood groups were not significantly different. Titers and scores correlated significantly to total serum IgM concentration (p<0.001). Females had significantly higher cold agglutinin levels than males (p<0.001). A significant decrease of cold agglutinins occurred in the 26‐ to 64‐year age group as compared to the 11‐ to 25‐year age group (p<0.01). The data should contribute to a clearer understanding of the biological impact of cold agglutinins.
Internal Network Monitoring and Anomaly Detection through Host Clustering

Internal network traffic is an undervalued source of information for detecting targeted attacks. Whereas most systems focus on the external border of the network, we observe that targeted attacks campaigns often involve internal network activity. To this end, we have developed techniques capable of detecting anomalous internal network behaviour. As a second contribution we propose an additional step in the model-based anomaly detection involving host clustering. Through host clustering, individual hosts are grouped together on the basis of their internal network behaviour. We argue that a behavioural model for each cluster, compared to a model for each host or a single model for all hosts, performs better in terms of detecting potentially malicious behaviour. We show that by applying this concept to internal network traffic, the detection performance for identifying malicious flows and hosts increases.
Alkalinization by chloride/bicarbonate pathway in larval mosquito midgut

The midgut of mosquito larvae maintains a specific lumen alkalinization profile with large longitudinal gradients (pH ≈ 3 units⋅mm−1) in which an extremely alkaline (pH ≈ 11) anterior midgut lies between near-neutral posterior midgut and gastric cecum (pH 7–8). A plasma membrane H+ V-ATPase energizes this alkalinization but the ion carriers involved are unknown. Capillary zone electrophoresis of body samples with outlet conductivity detection showed a specific transepithelial distribution of chloride and bicarbonate/carbonate ions, with high concentrations of both anions in the midgut tissue: 68.3 ± 5.64 and 50.8 ± 4.21 mM, respectively. Chloride was higher in the hemolymph, 57.6 ± 7.84, than in the lumen, 3.51 ± 2.58, whereas bicarbonate was higher in the lumen, 58.1 ± 7.34, than the hemolymph, 3.96 ± 2.89. Time-lapse video assays of pH profiles in vivo revealed that ingestion of the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor acetazolamide and the ion exchange inhibitor DIDS (4,4′-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid), at 10−4 M eliminates lumen alkalinization. Basal application of these inhibitors in situ also reduced gradients recorded with self-referencing pH-sensitive microelectrodes near the basal membrane by ≈65% and 85% respectively. Self-referencing chloride-selective microelectrodes revealed a specific spatial profile of transepithelial chloride transport with an efflux maximum in anterior midgut. Both acetazolamide and DIDS reduced chloride effluxes. These data suggest that an H+ V-ATPase-energized anion exchange occurs across the apical membrane of the epithelial cells and implicate an electrophoretic Cl−/HCO\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} \begin{equation*}{\mathrm{_{3}^{-}}}\end{equation*}\end{document} exchanger and carbonic anhydrase as crucial components of the steady-state alkalinization in anterior midgut of mosquito larvae.
Nonlinear Relationship between Inflation and Economic Growth

Economists have been paying special attentions to the factors affecting economic growth. The related literature shows that inflation is a crucial factor in this regard. Therefore, the relationship between inflation and economic growth matters for policymakers. This paper examines this relationship in Iranian economy. We have designed a model and estimated it using econometric techniques. A model with lags has also been estimated. The findings of the paper are(1) Inflation, in low levels ( less than ten percent ) does have a positive effect on economic growth, (2) For medium levels, the relationship between inflation and economic growth are negative just up to 26 percent for one period, (3) For high levels ( which over 26 percent in our study ), all inflation rates above 26 percent do, have negative impact on economic growth, (4) Finally, we ,based on causality Granger testing model, have showed that there is a significant relationship from inflation to growth ( and not vice versa).
The computational power of the W And GHZ States

It is well understood that the use of quantum entanglement significantly enhances the computational power of systems. Much of the attention has focused on Bell states and their multipartite generalizations. However, in the multipartite case it is known that there are several inequivalent classes of states, such as those represented by the W-state and the GHZ-state. Our main contribution is a demonstration of the special computational power of these states in the context of paradigmatic problems from classical distributed computing. Concretely, we show that the W-state is the only pure state that can be used to exactly solve the problem of leader election in anonymous quantum networks. Similarly we show that the GHZ-state is the only one that can be used to solve the problem of distributed consensus when no classical post-processing is considered. These results generalize to a family of W- and GHZ-like states. At the heart of the proofs of these impossibility results lie symmetry arguments.
Use of an In Vitro Pharmacodynamic Model To Derive a Moxifloxacin Regimen That Optimizes Kill of Yersinia pestis and Prevents Emergence of Resistance

ABSTRACT Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, is classified as a CDC category A bioterrorism pathogen. Streptomycin and doxycycline are the “gold standards” for the treatment of plague. However, streptomycin is not available in many countries, and Y. pestis isolates resistant to streptomycin and doxycycline occur naturally and have been generated in laboratories. Moxifloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that demonstrates potent activity against Y. pestis in in vitro and animal infection models. However, the dose and frequency of administration of moxifloxacin that would be predicted to optimize treatment efficacy in humans while preventing the emergence of resistance are unknown. Therefore, dose range and dose fractionation studies for moxifloxacin were conducted for Y. pestis in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model in which the half-lives of moxifloxacin in human serum were simulated so as to identify the lowest drug exposure and the schedule of administration that are linked with killing of Y. pestis and with the suppression of resistance. In the dose range studies, simulated moxifloxacin regimens of ≥175 mg/day killed drug-susceptible bacteria without resistance amplification. Dose fractionation studies demonstrated that the AUC (area under the concentration-time curve)/MIC ratio predicted kill of drug-susceptible Y. pestis, while the C max (maximum concentration of the drug in serum)/MIC ratio was linked to resistance prevention. Monte Carlo simulations predicted that moxifloxacin at 400 mg/day would successfully treat human infection due to Y. pestis in 99.8% of subjects and would prevent resistance amplification. We conclude that in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model, the clinically prescribed moxifloxacin regimen of 400 mg/day is predicted to be highly effective for the treatment of Y. pestis infections in humans. Studies of moxifloxacin in animal models of plague are warranted.
Mortality of very-low-birth-weight infants in Jamaica

A 10-year retrospective descriptive study was conducted looking at the outcome of all neonates weighing less than 1500 g admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies. Analysis of predictors of mortality using regression models revealed birth weight to be the only independent predictor of mortality. Further improvement in survival of these infants will be dependent on the availability of ventilatory and nutritional support.