Background. Neuroimaging studies suggest that the prefrontal coltex (PFC) is involved in the pathophysiology of major depression Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as an antidepressant intervention ha...
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Background. Neuroimaging studies suggest that the prefrontal coltex (PFC) is involved in the pathophysiology of major depression Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as an antidepressant intervention has increasingly been investigated in the last two decades In this study metabolic changes within PFC of severely depressed patients before and after rTMS were evaluated by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) Method Thirty-four young depressed patients with treatment-resistant unipolar depression were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized study active ((n = 19) vs sham(n = 15)). and the PFC was investigated before and after high-frequency (15 Hz) rTMS using 3-tesla proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy Response was defined as a 50% reduction of the Hamilton depression rating scale. The results were compared with 28 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Results In depressive patients a significant reduction in myo-inositol (m-Ino) was observed pre-rTMS (p<0.001) After successful treatment, m-Ino increased significantly in left PFC and the levels no longer differed from those of age-matched controls In addition to a positive correlation between clinical improvement and an increment in m-Ino ratio, a correlation between clinical improvement and early age onset was observed Conclusions. Our results support the notion that major depressive disorder is accompanied by state-dependent metabolic alterations, especially in myo-inositol metabolism, which can be partly reversed by successful rTMS. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.
The close relationship between the structure,evolution,and resources environment of the South china Sea is a current research focus and also a focal point of our *** this paper,we use regional seismic sections to anal...
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The close relationship between the structure,evolution,and resources environment of the South china Sea is a current research focus and also a focal point of our *** this paper,we use regional seismic sections to analyze the relationship between seismic facies and the structure and tectonic evolution of the northeastern South china Sea and propose new points about the structure and the direction of block(land mass) ***,the tectonic features are clear and can be divided into five different structural units which are both linked and independent of each ***,it doesn't matter if the South china Sea basin pattern is extensional,weakly compressive,or strongly compressive,the regional tectonic stress field is *** the first time we find that two shallow subduction zones are recognized in the seismic *** the tectonic blocks have accordion-fold-style structures,converging in the east,and the South china Sea exhibits different stages of basin development:growth, maturity,end,and *** block subduction and regional block dip directions are all aligned with the regional stress field.
Cognitive radio is a new intelligent wireless communication technique for remedying the shortage of spectrum resource in recent years. Secondary users have to pay when they share available spectrum with primary users ...
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Cognitive radio is a new intelligent wireless communication technique for remedying the shortage of spectrum resource in recent years. Secondary users have to pay when they share available spectrum with primary users while price is an important factor in the spectrum allocation. Based on the game theory, an improved pricing function is proposed by considering the expectation of primary users. In this article, expectation represents the positivity of sharing spectrum with primary users. By introducing the positivity, price not only becomes different for different secondary users, but also can be adjusted according to the positivity. It is proved that the Nash Equilibrium of the new utility function exists. The simulation results show that spectrum sharing can not only be determined by the channel quality of secondary users, but also can be adapted according to the expectation of primary users. Besides, the proposed algorithm improves the fairness of sharing.
Our previous work reported that cotton dehydration-responsive element (DRE) binding protein 1 (GhDBP1) could function as an active transcriptional repressor for DRE-mediated gene expression. However, the repression me...
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Our previous work reported that cotton dehydration-responsive element (DRE) binding protein 1 (GhDBP1) could function as an active transcriptional repressor for DRE-mediated gene expression. However, the repression mechanism utilised by GhDBP1 was unclear. In this report, we demonstrate that GhDBP1's transcriptional repression domain is located at the C-terminus, and is known as an ERF-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR)-motif. Furthermore, the amino acid residues aspartic acid (D), leucine (L), asparagine (N) and proline (P) are conserved in the EAR-motif, and were found to be necessary for repression through mutational analysis. In addition, our promoter assays demonstrated a dehydration-induced and rehydration-repressed expression pattern of GhDBP1. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants overexpressing GhDBP1 were more sensitive to high salinity stress and appeared to downregulate the expression levels of the stress-induced effecter genes. Taken together, our findings provide an important insight into GhDBP1's potential molecular repression mechanism and how it is involved in plant stress responses.
With the increasing popularity of multicast and real time streaming service applications efficient channel assignment algorithms that handle both multicast and unicast traffic in wireless mesh networks are needed One ...
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With the increasing popularity of multicast and real time streaming service applications efficient channel assignment algorithms that handle both multicast and unicast traffic in wireless mesh networks are needed One of the most effective approaches to enhance the capacity of wireless networks is to use systems with multiple channels and multiple radio interfaces However most of the past works focus on vertex coloring of a general contention graph which is NP Complete and use the greedy algorithm to achieve a suboptimal result In this piper we combine unicast and multicast with a transmission set and propose a framework named Chordal Graph Based Channel Assignment (CGCA) that performs channel assignment for multicast and unicast traffic in multi channel multi radio wireless mesh networks The proposed framework based on chordal graph coloring minimizes the interference of the network and prevents unicast traffic from starvation Simulation results show that our framework provides high throughput and low end to end delay for both multicast and unicast traffic Furthermore our framework significantly outperforms other well known schemes that have a similar objective in various scenarios
This paper presents the experimental investigations on the strength of frozen sand by conducting the triaxial compressive tests under confining pressures varying from 0.0 to 18.0 MPa at a temperature of - 4 degrees C....
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This paper presents the experimental investigations on the strength of frozen sand by conducting the triaxial compressive tests under confining pressures varying from 0.0 to 18.0 MPa at a temperature of - 4 degrees C. The results demonstrated that the strength of frozen sand increases with increasing in confining pressure at first, and then decreases with a further increasing in confining pressure for pressure melting and crushing phenomena. A strength criterion is presented to describe the failure mechanism of frozen sand under general stress state by the combination of strength function F-1(p) in p-q plane and F-2(q,theta(upsilon)) in pi plane. In this study, the strength function F-1(p) was well fitted by cubic polynomial equation, considering the pressure melting and crushing phenomena of frozen sand under high confining pressures. The strength function F-2(q,theta(sigma)) derived from the extended Matsuoka-Nakai model. considering the influence of hydrostatic pressure, was used. All the parameters of this failure criterion can be easily determined using the conventional triaxial compression tests. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Contents E-cadherin, a Ca2 + -dependent cell adhesion molecule, is necessary for endometrial receptivity to blastocyst implantation. The aim of this study was to investigate the differential expression of E-cadherin i...
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Contents E-cadherin, a Ca2 + -dependent cell adhesion molecule, is necessary for endometrial receptivity to blastocyst implantation. The aim of this study was to investigate the differential expression of E-cadherin in canine uterus during early pregnancy and its regulation under different conditions by in situ hybridization. E-cadherin mRNA expression was at a low level in the glandular epithelium on days 6, 12 and 17 of pregnancy. On days 20 and 23 of pregnancy, E-cadherin mRNA was highly expressed in the glandular epithelium surrounding the embryo, but not in the luminal epithelium and declined in villi and placenta on day 28 of pregnancy. During oestrous cycle, a moderate level of E-cadherin mRNA expression was found in the luminal and glandular epithelium of canine uteri at oestrus stage. The same expression was also found at anoestrus stage. Progesterone slightly induced the expression of E-cadherin mRNA in the luminal and glandular epithelium of ovariectomized canine uterus. These results suggest that E-cadherin expression is closely related to canine implantation and can be up-regulated by progesterone.
Control models and control strategies on hot strip mill's laminar cooling system, including water level control, feedforward control and feedback control of coiling temperature with smith predictor, is introduced....
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Control models and control strategies on hot strip mill's laminar cooling system, including water level control, feedforward control and feedback control of coiling temperature with smith predictor, is introduced. Steady water level can be got by water level control model, which is very important for water flux stabilization and the setup precision of process computer. Feedforward control strategy and feedback control strategy are necessary for the control precision of coiling temperature. The Control models and control strategies have been used on site and good performance has been got, which testifies that this system may be applied on the other hot strip mill's laminar cooling system.
Allophycocyanin (APC), a cyanobacterial photosynthetic phycobiliprotein, functions in energy transfer as a light-harvesting protein. One of the prominent spectroscopic characteristics of APC is a strong red-shift in t...
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Allophycocyanin (APC), a cyanobacterial photosynthetic phycobiliprotein, functions in energy transfer as a light-harvesting protein. One of the prominent spectroscopic characteristics of APC is a strong red-shift in the absorption and emission maxima when monomers are assembled into a trimer. Previously, holo-APC alpha and beta subunits (holo-ApcA and ApcB) were successfully synthesized in Escherichia coli. In this study, both holo-subunits from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 were co-expressed in E. coli, and found to self-assemble into trimers. The recombinant APC trimer was purified by metal affinity and size-exclusion chromatography, and had a native structure identical to native APC, as determined by characteristic spectroscopic measurements, fluorescence quantum yield, tryptic digestion analysis, and molecular weight measurements. Combined with results from a study in which only the monomer was formed, our results indicate that bilin synthesis and the subsequent attachment to apo-subunits are important for the successful assembly of APC trimers. This is the first study to report on the assembly of recombinant ApcA and ApcB into a trimer with native structure. Our study provides a promising method for producing better fluorescent tags, as well as a method to facilitate the genetic analysis of APC trimer assembly and biological function.
One of the main requirements of cognitive radio systems is the ability to detect the presence of the primary user with fast speed and precise accuracy. To achieve that, a possible two-stage spectrum sensing scheme is ...
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One of the main requirements of cognitive radio systems is the ability to detect the presence of the primary user with fast speed and precise accuracy. To achieve that, a possible two-stage spectrum sensing scheme is suggested in this paper. More specifically, a fast spectrum sensing algorithm based on the energy detection is introduced focusing on the coarse detection. A complementary fine spectrum sensing algorithm adopts one-order cyclostationary properties of primary user's signals in time domain. Since the one-order feature detection is performed in time domain, the real-time operation and low-computational complexity can be achieved. Also, it drastically reduces hardware burdens and power consumption as opposed to two-order feature detection. The sensing performance of the proposed method is studied and the analytical performance results are given. The results indicate that better performance can be achieved in proposed two-stage sensing detection compared to the conventional energy detector.
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