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This is true in Pan’s case, as he is not really a “public health advocate” but a purchased advertisement for vaccines. He doesn’t seem to care whether or not vaccines are safe. All he cares about is making sure he posts enough pro-vaccine social media propaganda to meet whatever quota he and Big Pharma likely agreed upon.

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Convergence to $0$ of a certain series.

I was wondering whether or not the following holds - I didn't manage to get anywhere using standard tricks from elementary analysis. $$\lim_{c\to\infty}\sum_{n\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{0\}}ce^{-n-\frac{c}{n}}=0.$$
Or I suppose equivalently $$\lim_{c\to\infty}\int_1^\infty ce^{-x-\frac{c}{x}}\mathrm{d}x=0.$$
Many thanks!

A:

Yes it does converge to zero. Making the change of variable $x\mapsto\frac{1}{x}$, the integral becomes
$$\int_1^\infty ce^{-x}e^{-c/x}\mathrm{d}x=\int_0^1c\frac{e^{-1/x}}{x^2}e^{-cx}\mathrm{d}x,$$
then note that $\frac{e^{-1/x}}{x^2}$ is bounded on $[0,1]$ and use dominated convergence.


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Credits and personnel
Recording
Recorded at West Side Studios, London

Personnel
Celine Dion – lead and backing vocals
Christopher Neil – producer, backing vocals
Phil Palmer – guitars
Paul Bliss – songwriter, drums, keyboard programming, backing vocals
Simon Hurrell – engineer
Walter Afanasieff – additional producer, keyboards, percussion (Remix only)
Daniel Abraham – additional producer (Dance Remix only)

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world has developed as a response. Nearly every successive day, an act of cultural genocide against the Armenian civilization occurs in the neighboring countries of Armenia, excluding Iran. Armenian churches and stone crosses suddenly “become” Georgian in Georgia; in Turkey, there is not much left to destroy (over 2000 churches and cathedrals were ruined during the Armenian genocide in 1915), but a few surviving monuments are still being converted to Mosques or to secular buildings; in Azerbaijan, the Armenian monuments are either being wiped out or becoming “Albanian,"; let alone Russia, where Armenian cemeteries are being desecrated.

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important commissions.

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In the model proposed in this study, I provide a novel account of the emergence of present-day language. The model describes the period after *Hominans*


memory and consequently to communicate these lists to others. These word lists were the first sentences.

Neuroanatomy of language {#s2}
========================

In humans, two pathways connect the auditory cortex and the frontal lobe (Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}; Hickok and Poeppel, [@B88]; Rauschecker and Scott, [@B158]; Gow, [@B76]; Poliva, [@B151]). The first pathway, the auditory ventral stream (AVS), connects the anterior auditory cortex (aSTG) with the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in the frontal lobe via relay stations in the middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and temporal pole (TP). The second pathway, the auditory dorsal stream (ADS), connects the posterior auditory cortex (pSTG) with several frontal lobe regions (including the IFG) via relay stations in the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), Sylvian parieto-temporal junction (Spt) and inferior parietal lobule (IPL).

![**The neuroanatomy of the auditory ventral andbrainstem endowed our *Hominan* ancestors with partial vocal control. In the remaining sections of this paper, I present detailed evidence for the remaining functions of the ADS and interpret their juxtaposition in the ADS as evidence of additional forgotten chapters in our language evolution story.

The ADS and vocal mimicry
-------------------------

In my previous model, I proposed that, owing to changes in the ADS of early *Hominans*, mothers and children were capable of interacting in a vocal manner resembling conversation. In this scenario, children emitted low-level distress calls to alert their mothers that they were interested in exploring an object. The mothers then responded with a low- or high-level distress call to signal approval or disapproval, respectively. Such proto-conversations, however, are limited in content because the meaning of each call is


The authors reported that, in addition to activation in the IPL and IFG, speech repetition is characterized by stronger activation in the pSTG than during speech perception. (for additional converging evidence regarding the role of the ADS in the relay of feedback motor connections from the vocal apparatus, see Rauschecker and Scott, [@B158]; Rauschecker, [@B157]).

The ADS and the phonological lexicon
------------------------------------

Early *Hominans*\' ability to vocally name objects likely evolved gradually. Early in the evolutionary process, the neural trace of the calls decayed quickly. However, due to selective pressures that favored individuals with more robust representations of calls in the ADS, the neural trace of the calls began to last for longer periods. Eventually, the neural trace of these calls became immune to decay, and the learned calls became permanent.electrical stimulation studies that localized auditory agnosia to the aSTG by showing that stimulating this region results in the transient loss of speech comprehension (Lachaux et al., [@B109]; Matsumoto et al., [@B124]; Roux et al., [@B163]); a passive listening fMRI study of an auditory agnosia patient with brainstem damage (i.e., intact cortex) reported, in addition to bilateral activation reduction in the aSTG, reduced activation in the left pSTG (Poliva et al., [@B152]). These findings imply that after a sound is recognized in the aSTG, the auditory information is transferred to the left pSTG (Figure [3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} middle and bottom---arrow between **A** and **C**). Support for the view that the aSTG has a unique role in the recognition of syllables in speech repetition, in parallel to its role in the


and during object naming. A study in which semantic dementia patients (MTG damage) and healthy controls were instructed to rehearse and recall lists of nonsense words and lists of both words and nonsense words reported that the healthy participants committed speech errors only when recalling the nonsense word lists, whereas the semantic dementia patients committed the same number of errors during recall of both lists (Hoffman et al., [@B89]). This study thus demonstrates the role of the aSTG-pSTG pathway in relaying acoustic information because it shows that without the MTG-Spt/IPL pathway, all words are treated as nonsense words during speech repetition. Additional evidence for the existence of both semantic and non-semantic routes to the phonological lexicon is provided in a study of aphasic patients who compared their performancethat the ADS is also responsible for encoding the order of the syllables is an fMRI study that contrasted judgment of syllable order in nonsense words with syllable identification or identification of a speaker\'s gender and reported stronger activation in the IPL of the ADS (Moser et al., [@B135]; for additional order judgment studies implicating the IPL see: Marshuetz et al., [@B119]; Battelli et al., [@B14]).

![**Computational views of the auditory ventral and dorsal streams**. Top: In the ADS, repetition of a word (e.g., "UNIVERSITY") is accomplished in two stages. While hearing the word (top), each syllable is encoded in order into a temporary memory buffer. Only after all syllables have been encoded (bottom), are the syllables extracted from the storage space (in the same order) to vocally produce


reported that both activated the ADS (Koelsch et al., [@B105]), indicating that it was the ADS that was modified during *Hominan* evolution, advancing from tone rehearsal to spoken word rehearsal. Based on the evidence presented in the previous section that the ADS stores the representations of syllables in memory during speech repetition, I argue that our enhanced working memory evolved for the purpose of repeating words with increasing numbers of syllables.

In a previous Section (The AVS-ADS Connection and the Liberation from Lip Movement Imitation), I described a model of working memory that proposes a 3-step speech repetition process (Jacquemot and Scott, [@B96]). The acoustic structure of the word is decoded and stored in the input memory buffer. The syllables are then encoded in the output memory buffer, whichmemory**. Left: The model proposes that the transition from monosyllabic to polysyllabic repetition of calls was made possible by the development of a storage capacity in working memory. Speech repetition is initiated when the aSTG of the AVS perceives a call. As the aSTG-MTG extracts the call\'s meaning (not shown in figure), the aSTG also recognizes the individual syllables in the order in which they were perceived **(A)**. Each acoustic syllabic representation in the AVS activates its corresponding monosyllabic phonological representation in the pSTG-Spt-IPL regions of the ADS **(B)**. The Spt-IPL then activates the corresponding praxic representation in the IFG **(C)**. The storage capacity in working memory was made possible by the development of inhibitory connections in which each monosyllabic acoustic representation in the aSTG suppresses the phonological


Patients with damage to either the MTG or IPL have been reported to exhibit sentence comprehension difficulties; patients with MTG damage struggle to extract meaning and patients with IPL damage struggle to repeat sentences verbatim (Selnes et al., [@B169]; Martin et al., [@B122]; Bartha and Benke, [@B13]; Dronkers et al., [@B58]; Baldo et al., [@B11]; Magnusdottir et al., [@B118]). The role of the AVS in extracting the semantic properties of sentences has been demonstrated in functional imaging studies reporting stronger activation in the anterior MTG when proper sentences are contrasted with lists of words, sentences in a foreign or nonsense language, scrambled sentences, sentences with semantic or syntactic violations and sentence-like sequences of environmental sounds (Mazoyer et al., [@B125]; Humphries et al., [@B92], [@B91]; Vandenberghe et al., [@B188];Friederici et al., [@B67]; Xu et al., [@B197]; Rogalsky and Hickok, [@B162]; Pallier et al., [@B144]). One fMRI study in which participants were instructed to read a story further correlated activity in the anterior MTG with the amount of semantic and syntactic content each sentence contained (Brennan et al., [@B33]). An EEG study that contrasted cortical activity while reading sentences with and without syntactic violations in healthy participants and patients with MTG-TP damage, concluded that the MTG-TP in both hemispheres participate in the automatic (rule based) stage of syntactic analysis (ELAN component), and that the left MTG-TP is also involved in a later controlled stage of syntax analysis (P600 component; Kotz et al., [@B106]). In contrast to the role of the AVS in extracting meaning from sentences, evidence


scientific community with new lens for viewing language processing in the brain.

Author contributions {#s5}
====================

The author confirms being the sole contributor of this work and approved it for publication.

Conflict of interest statement
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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

First, I would like to thank my advisor and mentor, Robert Rafal for his advice, comments and support when writing this paper. I would also like to thank Ben Crossey, Iva Ivanova, Cait Jenkins, Ruth Fishman and Catherine Le Pape for their help with reviewing this paper; and to the editors of American Journal Experts, Journal Prep and NPG language editing for their participation in the editing, proofreading and reviewing of thispaper at its different stages.

[^1]: Edited by: J. Michael Williams, Drexel University, USA

[^2]: Reviewed by: Lei Chang, University of Macau, Macau; Yanjie Su, Peking University, China

[^3]: This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience


Low-density lipoprotein-lowering strategies: target versus maximalist versus population percentile.
Maximalist low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-lowering strategies such as lowering LDL as much as possible or, alternatively, using the most potent LDL-lowering regimens have become increasingly popular. Almost all attention has focused on the potential advantages of these approaches with little focus on their potential disadvantages. Moreover, it is increasingly assumed that the lower and lower is better and better approach is supported by unassailable evidence. This article will examine how strongly the findings of the statin clinical trials actually support the maximalist strategy. We will also introduce a new approach, the population percentile strategy, which is based on the fact that the amount of cholesterol in LDL can differ substantially. When cholesterol-depleted LDL particles are present, LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) underestimates apolipoproteinsignificantly higher fresh weights and root lengths. By contrast, lines SE3 and SE15 exhibited more severe leaf rolling and wilting, significantly reduced fresh weights and root lengths and the loss of green coloration compared with WT (Figure [4](#pbi12595-fig-0004){ref-type="fig"}b, c). In addition, the chlorophyll contents were similar among OE, WT and SE lines under control conditions. However, under salt and osmotic stress conditions, compared with WT plants, both OE9 and OE10 had significantly higher chlorophyll levels, while SE3 and SE15 had significantly lower chlorophyll levels (Figure [4](#pbi12595-fig-0004){ref-type="fig"}d). Overall, these results suggest that *BplMYB46* overexpression significantly improves abiotic stress tolerance in birch.

![Salt and osmotic stress tolerance. (a) Comparison of growth phenotypes among OE,WT and SE birch plants under control, salt and osmotic stress conditions. (b--d) analysis of relative fresh weight (b), root


used to determine statistically significant differences between results.](PBI-15-107-g007){#pbi12595-fig-0007}

We also analysed the expression of *BpMYB61* (GenBank number: [KT344120](KT344120)), a gene homologous to *Arabidopsis AtMYB61*, which encodes a protein that regulates stomatal aperture (Liang *et al*., [2005](#pbi12595-bib-0020){ref-type="ref"}). Under control conditions, the expression of *BpMYB61* was significantly induced in the OE lines compared with WT plants, but no significant differences in *BpMYB61* expression were detected between the WT and SE lines. Under salt or osmotic stress conditions, the expression of *BpMYB61* was significantly induced in the OE lines. However, its expression was significantly reduced in the SE lines compared with WT plants (Figure [7](#pbi12595-fig-0007){ref-type="fig"}d).

*BplMYB46* affects vessel dimension and secondary wall thickening in fibres {#pbi12595-sec-0013}
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We stained stem sections with phloroglucinol‐HCl and toluidine blue, finding that the number of vessels was higher in the OE(63×) in OE (d), WT (e) and SE (f), bar = 15 μm. (g--i) Sections stained with toluidine blue (20×) in OE (g), WT (h) and SE (i); ve, vessel; xf, xylem fibre, bar = 50 μm. (j--l) Sections analysed by scanning electron microscopy (3000×) in OE (j), WT (k) and SE (l); the arrow refers to the wall thickness of the xylem fibre, bar = 5 μm. (m) Secondary wall thickness of xylem fibres in OE,WT and SE. (n) Ratio of the vessel area to the total area (%) in OE,WT and SE. (o) Relative expression of genes related to secondary wall deposition in transgenic lines overexpressing *BplMYB46* (OE) and RNAi‐silenced *BplMYB46* (SE) lines. The sections were, respectively, analysed from the same stem positions of different plants of the same transgenic line. The error bars indicate


WT, suggesting that BplMYB46 promotes lignin deposition. We also found significantly increased lignin content in the OE lines and significantly reduced content in the SE lines compared with WT, as determined by chemical analysis (Table [1](#pbi12595-tbl-0001){ref-type="table-wrap"}), which is consistent with the results of lignin autofluorescence analysis (Figure [8](#pbi12595-fig-0008){ref-type="fig"}d--f). The chemical analysis also suggested that the cellulose content in the OE lines was higher than that of WT. However, the hemicellulose content in the OE lines was dramatically reduced compared with WT (Table [1](#pbi12595-tbl-0001){ref-type="table-wrap"}). These results indicate that BplMYB46 has a positive effect on lignin and cellulose content but a negative effect on hemicellulose content.

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Secondary cell wall composition of transgenic birch and WT plants

  Line          Lignin (%)    for 2 h in the light at 22 °C to induce stomatal opening (Cheng *et al*., [2013](#pbi12595-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"}). Then, 50 m[m]{.smallcaps} NaCl or 50 m[m]{.smallcaps} mannitol was added to the buffer solution. The samples were incubated for an additional 2 h. Stomatal apertures were photographed using light microscopy (Olympus BX43, Olympus Corporation, Shinjuku‐ku, Tokyo, Japan). The ratios of the widths and lengths of stomatal apertures under different treatments were calculated.

The expression of *BpMYB61*, a gene homologous to *AtMYB61*, encoding a protein that regulates stomatal aperture in *Arabidopsis*, was investigated in the OE, WT and SE *BplMYB46* lines under control conditions, 50 m[m]{.smallcaps} NaCl and 50 m[m]{.smallcaps} mannitol stress using the primers listed in Table S9.

Histological analysis {#pbi12595-sec-0029}
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Stems of 6‐month soil‐grown OE, WT and SE *BplMYB46* birch plants were fixed in FAA solution (70% ethanol: glacial acetic acid: formaldehyde;


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relevant questions. The levels of agreement achieved by the panel of 16 experts were 79% in the first round and 100% in the second and third round. The main consensus recommendations in prevention are: restricting the use of proton-pump inhibitors, primary prophylaxis with probiotics in antibiotics users, education of health personnel, isolation for patients hospitalized with CDAD, and cleaning the rooms exposed to C. difficile with products based in chlorine or hydrogen peroxide. In the diagnosis: use of biology molecular-based techniques is preferred and if not available, glutamate dehydrogenase-based algorithms may be recommended. With regard to treatment: the use of oral metronidazole in mild-moderate CDAD and oral vancomycin in severe CDAD are recommended. Treat the first recurrence with the same antibiotics according to severity. In the case ofand treated with rLz-8- fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) or rLz-8 (5 μg/ml). After several time courses, cells were incubated with 1 μM ER tracker, 300 nM mitotracker, or 75 nM Lysotracker for 45 min at 37˚C in 5% CO~2~, and nuclear stained with 1 μg/ml Hoechst33342 (Sigma, USA) for 15 min. Cell were washed thrice with fresh medium and were visualized using an Olympus laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscope fitted with the appropriate filters. The results of Lysotracker fluorescence were selected, five fields of view (512×512 pixel) per section, and fluorescence images were analyzed using ImageJ software (NIH).

Measurement of caspase activity
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Caspase-3 activity in SGC7901 cells was measured with a NucView 488 Caspase-3 Assay Kit for live cells according to the manufacturer\'s instructions (Biotium, Hayward, CA, USA). Briefly, the cells


may not even be apoptosis ([@b37-or-27-04-1079]--[@b41-or-27-04-1079]).

Regarding rLz-8-induced cell death, our findings suggest: 1) In SGC-7901 cells, rLz-8 diffuses and accumulates gradually in the ER, reaching saturation after 24 h. rLz-8 was not transported out of the ER or degraded until the cells died. 2) After rLz-8 accumulated in the ER, a significant increase in the number of lysosomes was observed, by fluorescence microscopy. The results of TEM also confirmed dilated and vacuolized smooth ER and an increased number of lysosomes. 3) rLz-8-treated cells showed increased mRNA and protein levels of CHOP/GADD153 and ATF4, respectively. 4) When rLz-8 gradually accumulated in the ER of SGC-7901 cells, autophagy and cell death were observed. When autophagy was inhibited by 3-MA treatment, the number of dead cells decreased, suggesting that autophagy played36 h). Cells were stained with propidium iodide and detected using a flow cytometer. (B) rLz-8 inhibits cell proliferation. SGC7901 cells treated with a range of rLz-8 concentrations (0.5 to 50 μg/ml) for 24, 36, 48 and 72 h. Proliferation was measured with WST-1 reagent after the indicated period of time. Points represent the mean of three similar experiments (n=3); bars, SE.

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Localization of rLz-8 and induction of ER stress in cells treated with rLz-8. (A) rLz-8- FITC (5 μg/ml) accumulating in cells for several time courses. Scale bar: 10 μm. (B) Intracellular localization of rLz-8. SGC7901 cells treated with rLz-8-FITC for 24 h. After treatment, the rLz-8 localization was examined by using Hochest 33342 (1 μg/ml) for nucleus (blue) and various subcellular makers such as ERtracker (red)


for ER, Mitotracker (red) for mitochondria, Lysotracker (red) for lysosome. Scale bar: 10 μm. (C) Gene expression of ER stress induced by rLz-8. SGC7901 cells treated with rLz-8 (5 or 20 μg/ml d) and incubated for 24 h. Relative mRNA levels were measured by real-time qPCR, n=3. (D) Protein levels of ATF4 (38 kDa), CHOP (30 kDa) and GRP78 (78 kDa) were measured by Western blot analysis. SGC7901 cells were treated for 24 h with 5 μg/ml rLz-8, 20 μg/ml rLz-8, 300 nM thapsigargin (TG), and 2 μg/ml tunicamycin (TM). (E) Quantitative analysis of intensities of Western blotting. CON, control. Standard error represents three independent experiments. P-value represents the significant difference between conditions at ^\*^P\<0.05.

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Induction of autophagy in SGC7901 cells treated with rLz-8. (A) Electron micrographs were23-year old spelled out his despair, with his own burning flesh, at about 2pm on 24 October when he doused himself in kerosene and set himself alight.

Police say he left a note saying he was exhausted by poverty, and that his soul would rest in peace if the government looked after his family - something the authorities did not do in his lifetime.

'Begged for help'

Raja's aged father, Roshan Khan Rindh, howled in pain as he waited outside the mortuary for the body of his eldest son.

"I begged God for this son. I was married for 10 years before my wife gave birth to him. He and I were very close. But now Allah has taken him back," he said, beating his brow with his own hands.

image caption Raja


Bouazizi, who set himself on fire outside a government building last December.

His death sparked protests that led to the Arab Spring.

But here the deaths of the poor do not spark uprisings, or unseat corrupt administrations. There is no whisper of revolution in the air in Islamabad.

"The poor are too busy just trying to survive," said one affluent Pakistani woman.

And there is another key factor. In Pakistan, there is freedom to protest, unlike in the pressure-cooker regimes that blighted the Arab world.

Pakistan's poor are free to demonstrate, to complain - and to end their own lives.

As Raja's coffin lid was nailed shut, his father cried out for the president.

"Oh Zardari, where are you?" he called out, his voice rising in a tormented song of loss.

"This wouldn't have happened ifto deconstruct our evolutionary architecture and to integrate microminiaturized electronics inside the body. We have evolved soft internal organs to better operate and interact with the world. Now we can engineer additional and external organs to better function in the technological and media terrain we now inhabit. It also sees the body as an extended operational system- extruding its awareness and experience. Another alternate functionality, aside from this remote listening, is the idea of the ear as part of an extended and distributed Bluetooth system - where the receiver and speaker are positioned inside my mouth. If you telephone me on your mobile phone I could speak to you through my ear, but I would hear your voice 'inside' my head. If I keep my mouth closed only


the EU (particularly by the euro) but who look at Britain’s Fawlty Towers attempt at leaving and think, “If even the British can’t leave this thing then what chance would we ever have?” I heard exactly those words in Italy recently and could only reflect that the blame lies equally with a Commission which doesn’t want anyone to leave well and a political class in Britain which must be the most inept this country has ever had.

Ordinarily, the public should flay this political class at the next available chance. But our options seem deeply limited. After one of the latest stumbles I told one cabinet minister that he and his party were making me wonder about voting Labour. But that minister, like all the others, knows that evenconfirmed.

The surge in violence marks growing chaos in Haiti and an increasingly difficult challenge for a U.S.-backed interim government that has promised elections next year. A month of violence has left at least 62 people dead — not including the 13 people residents said were executed by police on Tuesday.

People who said they were witnesses and relatives of the victims described the police executions, while occasional gunshots whizzed around Fort National, a warren of alleyways and one-room homes in the capital.

'Shot him in the mouth'

"I was on the roof taking clothes off the line when my friend Reginald was trying to run away from (the police)," said
Renemise Joseph
, 23. "They shot him in the mouth. Then they dragged him away and I heard another shot. We couldn't see


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Yao Ming Can Help The Rockets When They Need It Most

I'm all for hope and optimism in the face of tragic (in the context of sports) adversity, but sometimes it makes more sense to be coldly pragmatic. For the Houston Rockets’ front office, this is one of those times. In the aftermath of Yao Ming’s most recent season-ending injury, it's pretty clear that his time as a productive, full-time NBA player has all but come to an end. Thanks to a variety of severe foot and leg injuries, Yao’s played more than 57 games just once in the past six seasons- and has now lost the entirety of each of the last two (the five games heThis section is intended to introduce the reader to various aspects of art that may be related to various aspects of the present invention, which are described and/or claimed below. This discussion is believed to be helpful in providing the reader with background information to facilitate a better understanding of the various aspects of the present invention. Accordingly, it should be understood that these statements are to be read in this light, and not as admissions of prior art.
Ball valves are capable of controlling a flow through a conduit by using a sphere with a port or hole typically centered in the sphere. The valve is opened by rotating the sphere so as to position the port or hole in line with both ends of the valve. A


Q:

Get data from database with respect to all the values in dropdownlist

I have a drop down that has multiple values 1,2,3 with their respective name fields.
I need to get data from the database with respect to the all the values in the Drop down list.
For example if the drop down list has 3 different values the other drop down should have all the corresponding values of the values present in the first drop down..Like 1,2,3 ..if the values of the first drop down increases or decreases ..the 2nd drop down should match with the data accordingly.
Thank you.
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           INTRODUCTION {#s1}
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common head and neck malignancy that is prevalent in Southeast Asia, especially in southern China \[[@R1], [@R2]\]. Radiotherapy (RT) is the primary treatment option for this tumor type because of its predilection location and radiosensitivity \[[@R3]\]. Due to advances in radiological techniques, the survival of NPC patients has continued to improve. Nevertheless, local recurrence following RT remains a bottleneck that restricting the curative effect and favorable prognosis in NPC patients, and one of the main reasons behind this phenomenon is the radioresistance of NPC cells \[[@R4], [@R5]\]. It is well known that inter-individual variations in the genetic background of the tumor results in different therapeutic responses. Studies show that the occurrence of radioresistance may be related to radiation-induced gene regulation and expression


concentration of secreted QSOX1 in serum samples from 28 radioresistant and 32 radiosensitive NPC patients using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The level of QSOX1 was significantly different between the two groups (*p* = 0.001). As shown in Figure [1E](#F1){ref-type="fig"}, QSOX1 expression was low in the sera of patients with radioresistant NPC. TMA-based immunohistochemistry (IHC) measurements were performed to determine QSOX1 expression in NPC patients at the tissue level. QSOX1 expression was high in 17.9% (5/28) radioresistant NPC tissues, whereas it was 68.8% (22/32) in radiosensitive NPC tissues. (Figure [1D](#F1){ref-type="fig"}, *p* \< 0.001). Positive staining was predominantly localized in the cytoplasm and extracellular matrix of NPC cells (Figure [1C](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). Taken together, these results were consistent with the results obtained using proteomics in our previous study.

Successful stable knockdown of QSOX1with a rabbit polyclonal anti-QSOX1 antibody (1:200 dilution; Proteintech, Chicago, IL, USA) overnight at 4°C, followed by incubation with a biotinylated secondary antibody and an avidin-biotin peroxidase complex (ZSGB-Bio, Beijing, China). Then, the immune reactions were developed by adding DAB chromogen- substrate solution (ZSGB-Bio, Beijing, China) to the slides. Harris hematoxylin was used for counterstaining. Negative controls were run in parallel with all reactions. All specimens were scored by a board-certified pathologist. The scoring was determined as follows: i) the proportion of tumor cells with IHC staining for QSOX1 protein expression (0: no staining, 1 (Low): \<33%, 2 (Intermediate): 33 to 66%, 3 (High): \>66%), and ii) the intensity of the stain (0: negative, 1: weak, 2: moderate, 3: strong staining intensity). An overall staining score of ≤3


Ex Taq (Takara Bio, Otsu, Japan) and Light Cycler 480 software v1.5.0 (Roche Diagnostics, Switzerland). The QSOX1 expression was calculated by the equation 2^--ΔΔCt^.

Western blot analysis {#s4_7}
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Protein samples were extracted from the harvested cells or conditioned media, and western blotting was performed according to standard methods. After lysis with RIPA buffer containing 1% protease inhibitors (PMSF), the CNE-2 and CNE-2R cells were harvested and centrifuged. Conditioned media (CM) of CNE-2 and CNE-2R cells were treated with a protease inhibitor tablet (Roche Applied Science, Mannheim, Germany) and concentrated to an approximate volume of 200 μL using a 10 kDa molecular-weight-cut-off Amicon Ultra-15 centrifugal filter device (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA) following the manufacturer's instructions. Proteins extracted from the harvested cells and conditioned media were electrophoretically separated on 10% SDS-PAGE gelsbefore being blotted onto PVDF membranes (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). After being blocked with 5% non-fat milk in TBST, the membranes were incubated with a rabbit polyclonal antibody against QSOX1 (1:1,000 dilution, Abcam, USA) and a rabbit polyclonal antibody against GAPDH (1:1,500 dilution; Proteintech, Chicago, IL, USA) at 4°C overnight. GAPDH served as the loading control. Then, the membranes were incubated with a goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (1:1,500) for 1 h at room temperature. Visualization was performed with an infrared fluorescence imaging system (Odyssey; Li-Cor Co., Lincoln, NE, USA).

X-ray irradiation (radiation exposure) {#s4_8}
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X-ray IR was performed using a medical electron linear accelerator (Precise 1120; Elekta Instrument AB, Stockholm, Sweden), emitting at a fixed dose rate of 4 Gy/min.

Cell irradiation and CCK-8 assay {#s4_9}
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CCK-8 assays were used to


cells were irradiated with X-rays at a dose of 8 Gy, collected after 24 h of culture and then incubated with 500 μL of 1 × binding buffer containing 5 μL of Annexin V APC and 5 μL of 7-AAD (BD Pharmingen, USA) for at least 15 min at room temperature in the dark. All samples were measured on an FC500 flow cytometry system within 1 h. Three independent experiments were performed.

Xenograft mouse model {#s4_13}
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BALB/c nude mice (4 to 5 weeks old; SLAC Laboratory Animal, Shanghai) were used to establish xenografts by subcutaneous injection of 0.2 mL of cells (1 × 10^7^ cells/mL) into the right groin. The mice were then randomly divided into 3 groups. The tumor volume and activity of the mice were monitored and evaluatedof its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. For example, the development of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was done in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union. It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

5.
Black sites
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In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. It can refer to the facilities that are controlled by the CIA, U. S. President George W. Bush acknowledged the existence of secret prisons operated by the CIA during a speech on September 6,2006.


A claim that the black sites existed was made by The Washington Post in November 2005, after denying the fact for years, Poland confirmed in 2014 that it has hosted black sites. In January 2012, Polands Prosecutor Generals office initiated investigative proceedings against Zbigniew Siemiątkowski, Siemiątkowski is charged with facilitating the alleged CIA detention operation in Poland, where foreign suspects may have been tortured in the context of the War on Terror. The possible involvement of Leszek Miller, Polands Prime Minister in 2001–04, is also considered, black sites operated by the U. S. government and its surrogates were first officially acknowledged by U. S. President George W. Bush in the fall of 2006. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported details of black site practices to thea European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States.


people undergoing a military court martial are entitled to the same basic rights as those in the civilian justice system. The Guantanamo military trials under the 2006 MCA do not operate according to system of justice. The differences include, Unlike civilian courts, only two-thirds of the needs to agree in order to convict someone under the military commission rules. This includes charges such as supporting terrorism, attempted murder, the accused are not allowed access to all the evidence against them. The Presiding Officers are authorized to consider secret evidence which the accused have no opportunity to see or refute and it may be possible for the commission to consider evidence that was extracted through coercive interrogation techniques before passage of the Detainee Treatment Act. But, legally, the commissionActs in the Frontier Crimes Regulations. Taliban presence in the area has been an issue of concern in the War on Terrorism particularly since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. North Waziristans District capital is Miranshah, also known as Miramshah, the South Waziristans Agency has its district headquarters at Wana. South Waziristan, comprising about 6,500 square kilometres, is the most volatile agency of Pakistan, in south Waziristan Agency, there are three tribes, Wazir, Maseed and Burki. The Waziristan Revolt of 1919–1920 was sparked by the Afghan invasion of British India in 1919, though the British made peace with the Afghans, the Waziri and Mahsud tribesmen gave the imperial forces a very difficult fight. One aspect of conflict was the effective use of air power against the Waziris. This is


Tribal Areas are almost 100% Pashto-speaking, while it is the majority language of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pashto is the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto-speakers is estimated to be 45–60 million people worldwide, Pashto belongs to the Northeastern Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian branch, but Ethnologue lists it as Southeastern Iranian. Pashto has two main groups, “soft” and “hard”, the latter known as Pakhto. As a national language of Afghanistan, Pashto is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, the exact numbers of speakers are unavailable, but different estimates show that Pashto is the mother tongue of 45–60% of the total population of Afghanistan. In Pakistan Pashto is spoken as a first language by about 15. 42%of Iraq was granted official independence, the pro-British faction was represented by politicians such as Nuri as-Said who did not oppose a continued British presence. The anti-British faction was represented by such as Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who demanded that remaining British influence in the country be removed. From 1936 to 1941, five coups by the RIrA occurred during each year led by the officers of the Army against the government to pressure the government to concede to Army demands

17.
Afghanistan
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia. It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west,


of Indo-Iranian languages in the region. At multiple points, the land has been incorporated within large regional empires, among them the Achaemenid Empire, the Macedonian Empire, the Indian Maurya Empire, and the Islamic Empire. Archaeological exploration done in the 20th century suggests that the area of Afghanistan has been closely connected by culture and trade with its neighbors to the east, west. Artifacts typical of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, urban civilization is believed to have begun as early as 3000 BCE, and the early city of Mundigak may have been a colony of the nearby Indus Valley Civilization. More recent findings established that the Indus Valley Civilisation stretched up towards modern-day Afghanistan, making the ancient civilisation today part of Pakistan, Afghanistan, in more detail, it extended fromstar forts of the gunpowder age. While the project went through the process in late July 1941, Somervell selected the contractors, including John McShain, Inc. and Doyle and Russell. In addition to the Hoover Airport site and other government-owned land, construction of the Pentagon required an additional 287 acres, which were acquired at a cost of $2.2 million. The Hells Bottom neighborhood, a slum with numerous pawnshops, factories, approximately 150 homes, Later 300 acres of land were transferred to Arlington National Cemetery and to Fort Myer, leaving 280 acres for the Pentagon. Contracts totaling $31,100,000 were finalized with McShain and the contractors on September 11

20.
Ahmed Khadr
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Ahmed Said Khadr was an Egyptian citizen who had ties to a number of militant and Mujahideen leaders in Afghanistan, including Osama bin


met Maha el-Samnah, who was impressed by his calmness, Mahmud later described their meeting as love at first sight. Ahmed and Maha married in November at Jami Mosque in Toronto, in May 1978, the couple moved to Ottawa so Ahmed could finish his studies. In 1979, Maha gave birth to their first child and daughter, Khadr joined the Muslim Students Association at the university. He came to agree with their notions of Sharia law, Khadr started working at Bell Northern Research, while writing his Masters Thesis, entitled Development of a CSSL interface to GASP IV

21.
Kabul
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Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan as well as its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country. According to a 2015 estimate, the population of the city was around 3,678,033 whichin Afghanistan, Osama bin Ladens full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, means Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden. The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as Osama or Osama bin Laden, not bin Laden alone, as bin Laden is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. According to bin Ladens son Omar bin Laden, the familys surname is al-Qahtani. Osama bin Laden had also assumed the kunyah Abū Abdāllāh and his admirers have referred to him by several nicknames, including the Prince or Emir, the Sheik, the Jihadist Sheik or Sheik al-Mujahid, Hajj, and the Director. The word usāmah means lion, earning him the nicknames Lion and Lion Sheik, in a 1998 interview, bin Laden gave


nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad, Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The president is empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves. The president is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States, since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole. However, nine vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having elected to the office. The Twenty-second Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president forthe Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former colonies, with peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. Prospects for the convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washingtons attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia. It was through the negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U. S. The first power the Constitution confers upon the president is the veto, the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. Once the legislation has been presented, the president has three options, Sign the legislation, the bill becomes law. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections, in this


reported details of black site practices to the U. S. government in early 2007, and the contents of that report became public in March 2009. On September 6,2006, Bush publicly admitted the existence of secret prisons, the report was submitted to Bush administration officials. On March 15,2009, Mark Danner provided a report in the New York Review of Books describing and commenting on the contents of the ICRC report, according to Danner, the report was marked confidential and was not previously made public before being made available to him. Danner provided excerpts of interviews with detainees, including Abu Zubaydah, Walid bin Attash, black sites are embroiled in controversy over the legal status of the detainees held there, the legal authority for the operation of the sites, and fullthat resulted in the United States Supreme Court ruling that the first version of the Guantanamo military commissions were unconstitutional. The United States Congress, which the Supreme Court had ruled did have the authority to institute military commissions passed the Military Commissions Act in the fall of 2006. Military Police, Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees

33.
Habeas corpus
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Habeas corpus is a recourse in law whereby a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment before a court, usually through a prison official. The writ of habeas corpus is known as the great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement, if the custodian is acting beyond his or her authority, then the prisoner must be released. Any prisoner, or another person acting on


to the Union as the 50th state and he grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, in 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U. S. Senate. In 2008, Obama was nominated for president, a year after his campaign began and he was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20,2009. Nine months12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine


It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the n

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Bilingual (Greek and Aramaic) edict by Emperor Ashoka from the 3rd century BCE discovered in the southern city of Kandahar

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One of the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Buddhism was widespread in the region before the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan.

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army, between 562, 000–2 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. The war is consideredLaden

Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh, was a militant Islamist from Jordan who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan. He was sometimes known as Shaykh of the slaughterers and he formed al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in the 1990s, and led it until his death in June 2006. Zarqawi took responsibility, on audio and video recordin

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq from 2004 to 2006.

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American hostage Nick Berg seated, with five men standing over him. The man directly behind him, alleged to be Zarqawi, is the one who beheaded Berg.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq
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Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (TQJBR, also referred to as Al-Qaeda in Iraq or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was an Iraqi Sunni Islamic Jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. The group was founded by


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 was calculated as an indicator of glucose metabolism. Of the 12 patients, 4 showed positive uptake of FDG in the gallbladder wall. Of these 4 patients, 3 had gallbladder cancer. The remaining one, who had chronic cholecystitis, had false-positive findings. The other 8 patients had negative uptake of FDG in the gallbladder wall. Two of these 8 underwent surgical resection, which yielded a diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis. The other 6 patients exhibited no sign of gallbladder malignancy and have been followed without active treatment. FDG-PET appears able to distinguish between benign and malignant gallbladder wall thickening.


Q:

How to write the if condition for this situation?

I need to set an error for a password field with the condition "Only 2~22 characters and symbols , _ - are allowed."
But I am a little stuck here.
Here is what I got so far:
if(
  !(editText.length() >= 2 && editText.length() <= 22 ) ||
    !(editText.contains("-") || editText.contains("_") || editText.contains(","))
  ) {
  //set error message
}

But the problem is that if I input a symbol other than , _ or -, the error message still doesn't show. For the input length, the error message shows as it should though.

A:

In java, use :
editText.matches("^[A-Za-z,_\\-]{2,22}$");

construed aspects:

If on the back of the horse whatever saw it from Zain or Shin return it to its owner.

It felt: that he had bought Srja or gave it to him to buy a current or sermon woman with a lot of money and gets his money from the point of inheritance.

It felt: that it is broken Srjh his wife die.

It felt: that it has been lost Srjh called his wife and leave her.

It felt: that Srjh crowned with jeweled gets his money by a woman.

It felt: that Srjh decorated with gold or silver, his wife be impressed by the lofty weak in the way of religion.

It felt: that Srjh free from his wife, the decorations be valid and the secretariat of the same religion, and was told


the saddle indicates chaste woman was rich and good riding saddle injury was money and the mandate of the injury, and is said to benefit an animal.

It felt: he rode Srja victory in all his affairs.

Vision bridle

Construed and bridle ways:

It is believed that the bridle horse is lost or interrupted, it indicates a decrease of honor and merit.

It felt: on the head of the gamma Kalkhjul it shows repentance, fasting, and avoided speaking falsehood as the Commander of the Faithful to the generosity of God and his face was afraid Vljammeh in his mouth. It was the vision of literature to those who interpreted the bridle in his mouth is and fix it other discipline.

In all, the vision of the bridle construed to six aspects: the honor andbefore his substantive testimony. But Russert's gonna kill them. Judy Miller - who knows what that traitorous, gelatinous bitch is gonna say? (which begs the question of whether a D.C. jury will believe a word that comes from her mouth).

And in another little side issue about which EW and I were speaking the other day - if Scoots gets up - claims no memory of the whole thing - THAT is how Fitz gets in the Wilson op-ed, annotated with Cheney's handwritten notes. (provided that it can be verified that Scoots has indeed seen it before)(and who know Cheney's handwriting better than Scoots?) He can verify the handwriting.

And if the op-ed with Cheney's handwritten notes on it get into evidence, that is the point at which Richard Bruce


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(February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642)

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In a press release, the museum noted that, "one hundred years after his death, inequality remains an essential aspect of American life, and the story of Jacob Riis needs to be remembered." This exhibit should go a long way toward doing that.

· "Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half" [Museum of the City of New York]


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First, various ideas and suggestions were discussed among the crowd in an attempt to explore some “best practices” in the trading process itself and what obstacles they might need to be aware of given New York City park regulations. For example, presented with the hypothetical scenario of a completely new buyer who wanted to purchase their first Bitcoin right there on the spot, it was accepted that the best option would be to use the Coinapult service to complete the deal to the person.

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and has an oxygen tube up his nose. His beard is a bit ragged and he wears a simple yarmulke on his bald head.

Still, his mind is still sharp. He quickly discusses his most famous work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny (based on his World War II naval service). And he talks about the aim of his central life work: to fix down in literature what happened in World War II and the Holocaust. Besides The Caine Mutiny (1951), Wouk also wrote Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978). The latter graphically depicted the Holocaust and was the foundation for a 1988-89 TV miniseries of the same name.

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1. Do you feel you came to know the characters personally? Some charactersinterventions. Expression of collagen VI mRNA has been shown to increase in the early phases of wound healing and in keloids \[[@pone.0145107.ref006]\] as well as in other fibrotic processes such as systemic sclerosis \[[@pone.0145107.ref007]\] suggesting a role in matrix reorganisation, fibrosis and scaring in general. Wound healing of tendons and ligaments is generally similar to that of skin \[[@pone.0145107.ref008]\]. Collagen VI is abundant in the extracellular matrix of many tissues, where it binds to cell-surface receptors, integrins \[[@pone.0145107.ref009]\] and NG2 \[[@pone.0145107.ref010]\] and to other extracellular matrix (ECM) components including fibrillar collagens, collagen IV and fibronectin. Via these interactions collagen VI mediates cell adhesion and extracellular matrix organisation \[[@pone.0145107.ref011]--[@pone.0145107.ref013]\]. Collagen also VI triggers intracellular signaling events regulating for instance cell cycle progression \[[@pone.0145107.ref014]\] and apoptosis \[[@pone.0145107.ref015]\].

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Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG pathway databases were used for functional enrichment analysis as previously described \[[@pone.0145107.ref024]\]. The most over-represented GO_BP terms amongst up-regulated genes were related to cell adhesion, immunity, blood vessel development and wound healing ([S4 Table](#pone.0145107.s004){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). Hypertrophic scars and keloids, which are common inThose correlations that are significant in patients´cells only are represented in black lines. Orange lines represent those correlations that are present in both patients and control cells but are of different sign (positive or negative) whereas those that have the same sign are represented by lilac lines. Red lines around gene symbols represent significantly over-expressed genes and green lines those that were under-expressed in patients´ fibroblasts relative to control fibroblasts.](pone.0145107.g001){#pone.0145107.g001}

To investigate this further we studied the capacity of UCMD fibroblasts (n = 7 which included the 6 fibroblasts cell lines analysed in the microarrays and an additional UCMD fibroblast sample with collagen VI deficiency) to adhere to various ECM substrates. We found that the adherence profile of UCMD cells was similar to controls for vitronectin, fibronectin and collagen


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Besides their role as regulators of gene expression, miRNAs represent useful clinical biomarkers of different diseases including muscular dystrophies. By means of qRT-PCR we quantified miR-181a and miR-30c in UCMD muscle (n = 5) and fibroblasts (n = 9). We found that miR-181a was over-expressed in UCMD muscle relative to healthy muscle whereas miR-30c was under-expressed ("[Fig 5A](#pone.0145107.g005){ref-type="fig"}"). Levels of both miRNAs were decreased in RNA from UCMD skin fibroblasts ("[Fig 5B](#pone.0145107.g005){ref-type="fig"}") although they did not reach the -1.5 threshold.

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Sax came to Paris in 1842 and succeeded in interesting many eminent men, including composer Hector Berlioz. He set up a workshop in the Rue St Georges and studied acoustics, discovering a new principle in the manufacture of wind instruments, viz. That it is the proportions given to a column of air vibrating in a sonorous tube, and these alone, that determine the character of the timbre produced: the material of the walls of the tube is not of the slightest importance so long as it offers enough resistance.[1]

Together with his genius for mechanical invention Sax seems to have combined a knowledge of self-advertisement, and his name was often prefixed to successful types of


Kingdomino. What has changed is the love and attention that has been poured into their design. The first thing gamers will notice is the visual appeal has been cranked up to 11. Using almost minimalistic art the game thrives at being extremely clear for all players, yet has some flair treats to break up large blobs of the same terrain types. The bright vibrant colours that have been used make it easy to score at the end of the game and enjoyable to look at while playing.

After the colourful artwork, players will notice the production quality of the tiles. Kingdomino has thick tiles (a touch thicker than Carcassonne tiles for reference), which help the game feel sturdy and importantly for the tile placement aspect of the game lesstheir geographical proximity to South America.

"This referendum won't change opinion in Argentina, but it will change opinion in the world," he said. "Argentina does not have a strategy. We need to think of a new approach, but with this government that is impossible."

Other have questioned the official government line. "Is it correct to use the word 'negotiate' if we are not willing to consider giving?" asked the historian Federico Lorenz in an opinion piece this week. "Dare we think, at least as an intellectual exercise, that we may not be entirely right?"

Such views would have been impossible during the dictatorship. Locals say they were rarely expressed even 10 years ago. But even though there is a debate, the fundamental aims are the same as they have been for


repeated what have become mantras: Somos todos Chávez – We are all Chávez. Chávez vive en nosotros" – Chavez lives in us. Others coined a new slogan: Chávez did not die, he multiplied!

"I was 10 years old when he took power. He was our comandante, our father," said Giancarlos Mendoza, 24, who joined a convoy of red red buses ferrying mourners to Caracas for the funeral.

Franklin Roosevelt and Georges Pompidou died in office but the example Chávistas hope to emulate was the name on a big white banner near the chapel entrance, Juan Perón, who died in 1973 and remains decades later a talisman for Argentina's ruling Perónists.

Maduro – whose opponent is expected to be Henrique Capriles in the forthcoming election – will try to harness the passionknown.

Buoyed by what they see as some momentum in the labeling war, consumers, organic farmers and food activists plan to hold an “eat-in” outside the F.D.A.’s offices next month to protest government policies on genetically modified crops and foods. Whole Foods, which specializes in organic products, tends to be favored by those types of consumers, and it enjoys strong sales of its private-label products, whose composition it controls. The company thus risks less than some more traditional food retailers in taking a stance on labeling.

In 2009, Whole Foods began submitting products in its 365 Everyday Value private-label line to verification by the Non GMO Project.

But even Whole Foods has not been immune to criticism on the G.M.O. front. A report by Cornucopia, “Cereal Crimes,” revealed that its 365


dozen states that have passed laws restricting drones do not fall into conventional red-blue divisions, nor do the score of states competing to be the site of the Federal Aviation Administration’s test sites for drones.

The serious issues raised by the government’s lethal drones seem inextricably mixed with the ubiquitous appearance of the technology in art, commerce and satire.

A four-minute video by the Air Force Research Laboratory on “micro aerial vehicles” shows a futuristic bee-size drone flying in an open window and taking out an enemy sniper with a miniature explosive payload. Since it was posted in 2009, it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and reposted all over the Web.

When Amazon advertised a six-inch model of the Predator, made by Maisto, in its toy section, peopleof interests in how to extract cash from lobbyists-- exactly how Down With Tyranny has been painting him for the last six years. Ney retells the story of Boehner handing out Tobacco Industry bribery checks on the floor of the House and suggests that if the FBI were to examine who paid for Boehner's golfing addiction, the Speaker could be headed for the same prison Ney had served time in.

Perhaps worse, Boehner broke his word to Ney, the same way he just broke his word to Illinois teabagger Joe Walsh. He promised both Ney and Walsh that if they stepped aside-- if Ney would resign and, more recently, if Walsh would give up an easy win for a much tougher race-- he would take care of them. He's


this way: "Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. It happened with the fiscal cliff. It happened with Sandy."

Why this happens isn't obvious just looking at the numbers. There are 232 Republicans in the House; 217 votes are needed to pass a bill. But a lot of Republicans don't vote the way the leadership wants them to.

Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, says these members are afraid of getting hit with a primary challenge.

"The good of the Republican Party as a whole is not something that necessarily resonates with a lot of individual members whose constituents back home don't feel the same way," he says.

As a result, Ornstein says, bills that can pass the Senate and be signed by the president oftensite, Mr. Haggard enumerated more than a half-dozen instances since 1991 when North Korea vowed to abandon the armistice or challenged its legitimacy. The North’s latest threat, he wrote, could mean that it feels empowered by nuclear arms to strike with impunity, or that it simply regards the armistice as unsupportable.

“Or,” he wrote, “it could be just noise and signify nothing. Not knowing what the North Koreans really think is a central source of the current instability on the peninsula at the moment.”

In the past, North Korea has raised the fear of accidental or uncontrolled military clashes along the border as a way to push Washington into bilateral talks. The North, officials in South Korea say, craves the prestige that such a dialogue would confer on it, but


women on the finer points of managing a wealthy household, reading their husbands’ moods and “understanding the importance of sexual relations.” The fee for two, 14-day courses is $16,000.

But Diamond Love’s chief target is men, the wealthier the better. The company’s four million members are mostly men who pay from a few dollars a month for basic searches to more than $15,000 for access to exclusive databases with customized assistance from a professional love consultant.

The company’s wealthiest, highest-paying clients — 90 percent of whom are men — show little interest in lectures or databases. They want exclusive access to what Ms. Fei coolly refers to as “fresh resources”: young women who haven’t yet been exposed to other suitors online. It’s the love hunters’ job to find them.

Besides givingsweetheart to Beijing. They were in love and planned to marry. But her family demanded a bride price — a sort of dowry used in rural China — of $15,000. His family could not afford it, and the relationship ended.

Mr. Zhao threw himself into his work as a driver and salesman. His former girlfriend married and had a baby. He told his mother he had little time to think about marriage.

The strangers in the park, uprooted from their traditional family and hometown networks, shared similar stories, and Ms. Yu found comfort there. Many other parents, she realized, were even more frantic; they had only one child because of China’s policy. (Ms. Yu, as a rural mother, was permitted to have multiple offspring.)

The marriage candidates on offer in the


can’t refuse,” he told me.

Ms. Yu doesn’t tell her son about the parents who scoff when they find out he has no property and no Beijing residency permit. But the handful of young women she’s persuaded to meet him never made it to a second date.

One afternoon last summer, however, there was a glimmer of hope. Ms. Yu traded information with a mother who didn’t dismiss her son out of hand. The woman’s daughter was 35, with a good education, a substantial income and a Beijing residency permit. She was, in some eyes, a leftover woman. Ms. Yu e-mailed Mr. Zhao’s picture to her that evening. The daughter declined to meet at first. A week later, she called back: “Yes, maybe.”

Ms. Yu was thrilled. It was her firstand family backgrounds. His mother, however, had come through, arranging a meeting between him and the daughter of the woman she had met in the marriage market.

Not long after our conversation in McDonald’s, Mr. Zhao met the woman at a coffee shop. It was, he told me later, even more awkward than most first dates. A rural migrant and door-to-door salesman, he struggled to find a shared topic of interest with the woman, a 35-year-old entrepreneur and Beijing native who had arrived driving a BMW sedan.

The lack of chemistry didn’t seem to bother the woman, who told him about her profitable photo business and the three Beijing apartments she owned. Mr. Zhao didn’t find her unattractive, but how was he supposed to respond? Then, even before broaching the


ambitions for higher office. “She’s only thinking about becoming president of Burma,” said Pu Zo Zam, a leading voice of the country’s minority groups, using the name for the country preferred by many in the opposition. “She was a national hero for us. Now she’s only talking on behalf of her party.”

Party officials acknowledge that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi needs the army’s support to change a rule in the Constitution that bars anyone with a foreign spouse from becoming president. Her husband was British.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, said recently that she would be open to the job of the presidency “if that is what the people want.” Many see the next elections, scheduled for 2015, as the last chance for her to run.

There appears torate, increased social and economic inequality is giving rise to new problems like sexual harassment at the workplace and in public transport.

“While changes are taking place in economic parameters, social parameters are not keeping pace with these transformations,” said Indu Agnihotri, director for the Center for Women’s Development Studies. “The lack of progressive values unleashes a strange volatility in the social system, and this affects the women who are the most vulnerable section of the population.”

Because of the rapidly changing socioeconomic context across the country and the vital issues at hand, Indian feminism is often seen as infused with a sense of urgency.

“Feminists in India are fighting for issues of immediate critical urgency – violence, equal wages, life with dignity,” said Annie Zaidi the co-author of “The Bad


only way to stop the mindless violence and discrimination.”

One way to improve women’s lot, she said, was to care for infants and thus allow mothers to return to their work — mostly toil in the fields of this spottily fertile region, where women have been second-class for centuries.

The Pannaipatti center — a bare room with dog-eared posters of fruits, letters and numbers hanging from the ceiling, — is one of three run in the area since 1988. At one point, there were 14 centers with more than 350 children, but when the government started to provide more child care, Ms. Annamalai diverted attention to other projects.

At Pannaipatti, as the midday sun beat down on a recent day, 22 children 1 to 3 years old were in the careof a teacher and a trained assistant, who work 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. six days a week, playing, singing, telling stories and ensuring that children eat a lunch of sprouted green gram, lentils and rice. Mothers, most of whom work in the fields from dawn, arrive about 3 p.m. to collect the children and chat.

Ms. Annamalai, now 62, recalled the long slog to win trust. “It took a year to break the ice,” she said. Getting direct access to young mothers through child care centers helped the council to understand their problems, she said.

A first daughter was usually allowed to live, said P. Pramil Kumar, 48, a council worker in Usilampatti. But subsequent girls were under threat, so “we would register every pregnant woman and monitor their


Delhi for Calcutta, to study in that city, and left my abuser behind. But he didn’t forget, and when I came back to Delhi as a 17-year-old, he was there.

At 17, I knew that he had no right to do this to me. When he sent poems, said that despite the four decades that separated us, we were supposed to “be together,” I finally broke my own silence — but only partly. I told my mother and my sister, and they formed a fierce, protective barrier between me and my abuser.

But the man who had started his abuse when I was a 9-year-old was still invited to my wedding, because we were keeping secrets, trying to protect one family member or another.

Years later, when my abuser was dyinglife. I’m breaking my silence today to make a point, not about abuse, but about the importance of consent in the present debate over women’s rights and gender equality in India.

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are no different from anyone who has survived sexual violence, in terms of what we do to rebuild ourselves. But we are experts in two areas: We’ve taken a master class in the toxicity of silence and secret-keeping, and we have doctorates in our understanding of the importance of consent. It can take abuse survivors, like rape survivors of either gender, years to reclaim a sense of ownership over their bodies. The body is the site of so many violations, starting with the chief one: Our abusers did not ask us for permission


interview at the STIR office in London.

The explosive growth of Indian schools means that many teachers have had little or no formal training.

“Indian teachers are used to thinking of themselves as instruments of a ministry or of government policy,” Mr. Jeevan said. “It was the first time many of them had been asked about anything.”

“Through innovation, we wanted to get teachers to think of themselves more seriously — as professionals,” he said. “The idea is to create a platform to collect the best of these micro-innovations, test them to see if they work, and then take them to scale. There are 1.3 million schools in India, so scale is a huge problem.”

Some of the ideas, recounted in STIR materials, will sound familiar to parents in wealthier countries. Atthe words of the texts studied in class to the tune of popular songs, then encouraged the students to perform the poems, making classes more fun and giving students added confidence in approaching potentially daunting material.

After it is officially introduced in Delhi, STIR plans to open additional hubs in Mumbai and Bangalore — big ambitions for a program that has just 10 full-time employees, four in Britain and six in India. But Mr. Jeevan has a track record of developing similar programs.

While he was at eBay, he started eBay for Charity, which let buyers and sellers on the auction site donate a portion of the price of items they bought and sold to the nonprofit organization of their choice. The initiative has raised €43 million, or $65 million,