Taking full advantage of SIMD instructions in c programs still requires tedious and non-portable programming using intrinsics, despite considerable efforts spent developing auto-vectorization capabilities in recent de...
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Taking full advantage of SIMD instructions in c programs still requires tedious and non-portable programming using intrinsics, despite considerable efforts spent developing auto-vectorization capabilities in recent decades. Whole Function Vectorization (WFV) is a recent technique for extending the use of SIMD across entire functions. WFV has so far only been used in data-parallel languages such as OpencL and ISPc. We propose a vector-oriented programming framework that facilitates WFV directly in c. We show that our framework achieves competitive performance to OpencL and ISPc while maintaining c's original syntax and semantics. This allows c programmers to gain better performance for their applications by improving SIMD utilization, without stepping out of c.
Fruit dehydration is a way of supplying the population with healthy and nutritious foods. The shelf life of dried fruit can be defined by the evaluation of changes occurred in chemical characteristics during storage. ...
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Fruit dehydration is a way of supplying the population with healthy and nutritious foods. The shelf life of dried fruit can be defined by the evaluation of changes occurred in chemical characteristics during storage. This study aims to evaluate the sensory quality and the stability of papaya cv. Tainung n° 1 dehydrated by convective drying. Fresh and dried papaya were evaluated for color, moisture, pH, acidity, water activity, soluble solids, vitamin c, carotenoids, total extractable polyphenols (TEP) and antioxidant activity (ABTS). The sensorial acceptance of the dried papaya was evaluated using a structured nine-point hedonic scale. For the stability study, the analysis of moisture, pH, titratable acidity, water activity, total carotenoids and vitamin c were carried out every 30 days of storage until 120 days. During storage, the moisture content of dried papaya remained constant, but there were undesirable changes in color, increase of acidity and reduction of soluble solids. The degradation of total carotenoids and vitamin c followed the first order reaction, and the half-life time was 346 days for carotenoids, whereas for vitamin c it was only 29 days. In the sensory analysis, the dried papaya received grades between 5.0 and 6.0 for all evaluated attributes. Dried papaya is recommended to be consumed up to 30 days, since within this period a product with higher total carotenoids content, vitamin c and with satisfactory physicochemical and sensorial characteristics were obtained.
Aging is the major risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases that are also associated with impaired proteostasis, resulting in abnormal accumulation of protein aggregates. However, the role of aging in development an...
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Aging is the major risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases that are also associated with impaired proteostasis, resulting in abnormal accumulation of protein aggregates. However, the role of aging in development and progression of disease remains elusive. Here, we used caenorhabditis elegans models to show that aging-promoting genetic variations accelerated the rate of cell-to-cell transmission of SNcA/-synuclein aggregates, hallmarks of Parkinson disease, and the progression of disease phenotypes, such as nerve degeneration, behavioral deficits, and reduced life span. Genetic and pharmacological anti-aging manipulations slowed the spread of aggregates and the associated phenotypes. Lysosomal degradation was significantly impaired in aging models, while anti-aging treatments reduced the impairment. Transgenic expression of hlh-30p::hlh-30, the master controller of lysosomal biogenesis, alleviated intercellular transmission of aggregates in the aging model. Our results demonstrate that the rate of aging closely correlates with the rate of aggregate propagation and that general anti-aging treatments can slow aggregate propagation and associated disease progression by restoring lysosomal function.
A supervised machine learning algorithm, which is qualified for image classification and analyzing similarities, is based on multiple discriminative morphological features that are automatically assembled during the l...
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A supervised machine learning algorithm, which is qualified for image classification and analyzing similarities, is based on multiple discriminative morphological features that are automatically assembled during the learning processes. The algorithm is suitable for population-based analysis of images of biological materials that are generally complex and heterogeneous. Here we used the algorithm wndchrm to quantify the effects on nucleolar morphology of the loss of the components of nuclear envelope in a human mammary epithelial cell line. The linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINc) complex, an assembly of nuclear envelope proteins comprising mainly members of the SUN and nesprin families, connects the nuclear lamina and cytoskeletal filaments. The components of the LINccomplex are markedly deficient in breast cancer tissues. We found that a reduction in the levels of SUN1, SUN2, and lamin A/c led to significant changes in morphologies that were computationally classified using wndchrm with approximately 100% accuracy. In particular, depletion of SUN1 caused nucleolar hypertrophy and reduced rRNA synthesis. Further, wndchrm revealed a consistent negative correlation between SUN1 expression and the size of nucleoli in human breast cancer tissues. Our unbiased morphological quantitation strategies using wndchrm revealed an unexpected link between the components of the LINccomplex and the morphologies of nucleoli that serves as an indicator of the malignant phenotype of breast cancer cells.
AIM: To determine the genomicchanges in hepatitis B virus(HBV) and evaluate their role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma(Hcc) in patients chronically infected with genotype c ***: Two hundred and forty c...
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AIM: To determine the genomicchanges in hepatitis B virus(HBV) and evaluate their role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma(Hcc) in patients chronically infected with genotype c ***: Two hundred and forty chronic hepatitis B(cHB) patients were subjected and followed for a median of 105 mo. Hcc was diagnosed in accordance with AASLD guidelines. The whole X, S, basal core promoter(BcP), and precore regions of HBV were sequenced using the direct sequencing ***: All of the subjects were infected with genotype c HBV. Out of 240 cHB patients, 25(10%) had c1653 T and 33(14%) had T1753 V mutation in X region; 157(65%) had A1762T/G1764 A mutations in BcP region, 50(21%) had G1896 A mutation in precore region and 67(28%) had pre-S deletions. Hcc occurred in 6 patients(3%). The prevalence of T1753 V mutation was significantly higher in patients who developed Hcc than in those without Hcc. The cumulative occurrence rates of Hcc were 5% and 19% at 10 and 15 years, respectively, in patients with T1753 V mutant, which were significantly higher than 1% and 1% in those with wild type HBV(P < 0.001).cONcLUSION: The presence of T1753 V mutation in HBV X-gene significantly increases the risk of Hcc development in patients chronically infected with genotype c HBV.
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are critical mediators of cellular responses to pathogens and are activated in response to infection, but investigation is difficult in multi-cell hosts due to developmental le...
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Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are critical mediators of cellular responses to pathogens and are activated in response to infection, but investigation is difficult in multi-cell hosts due to developmental lethality of mutations. Mycobacterium marinum (Mm) is an established model for tuberculosis, a disease afflicting nearly one-third of the world's population. We found that Mm-infected caenorhabditis elegans display >80% mortality, but nonpathogenic M. smegmatis cause <15% mortality. c. elegans display pathological changes when infected with Mm, whereas Mm mutants produce lower mortality, suggesting that *** is a promising virulence model for detailed genetic analysis. c. elegans MAPK mutants are hypersusceptible to mycobacterial infection;however, the c. elegans TOL-like, TGF- and insulin-like pathway genes do not play important roles in susceptibility. We show that pathogenic mycobacteria inhibit MAPK-mediated protection through the MAPK phosphatase gene and demonstrate that *** provide a genetically tractable pathogenicity model of both the host and pathogen.
The sensitivity on the measurements of the angles of the cKM unitarity triangle, i.e. ϕ 1 , ϕ 2 and ϕ 3 , for Belle II experiment is presented in this letter, the cKM mechanism is expected to be tested at 1% level on ...
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The sensitivity on the measurements of the angles of the cKM unitarity triangle, i.e. ϕ 1 , ϕ 2 and ϕ 3 , for Belle II experiment is presented in this letter, the cKM mechanism is expected to be tested at 1% level on Belle II.
Each year a large number of wooden pallets are manufactured, recycled, and disposed of during the transportation of goods throughout the United States. The production of these pallets consumes a significant amount of...
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Each year a large number of wooden pallets are manufactured, recycled, and disposed of during the transportation of goods throughout the United States. The production of these pallets consumes a significant amount of wood and a large number of pallets also end up in landfills at the end of their useful life cycle. However, these pallets can be recovered through repair, broken apart into components, ground into mulch, fuel, animal bedding, or used by landfills for day to day operations. The purpose of this research was to investigate the total number of pallets and crates reaching landfills in the United States as well as to gain a better understanding of the overall waste stream. This was done by surveying all licensed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and construction and Demolition (candD) landfills in the continental United States. A questionnaire was sent to these landfills, and this entire study was intended to build upon previous Virginia Tech landfill surveys conducted in 1995 and 1998 with some changes made after careful review.
Overall, it was found the average MSW facility in the United States received 185,077 tons of waste and the average candD facility received 74,911 tons. This results in a total national estimate of 253 million tons of MSW and 76.9 million tons of candD waste. Approximately 18.3 million pallets were landfilled and an additional 13.8 million were recovered, repurposed, or reused at MSW facilities. At candD facilities, approximately 19.2 million pallets were landfilled while 38.3 million were recovered.
BRcA2 is a multifunctional tumor suppressor involved in homologous recombination (HR), mitoticcheckpoint regulation, and telomere homeostasis. Absence of Brca2 in mice results in progressive shortening of telomeres a...
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BRcA2 is a multifunctional tumor suppressor involved in homologous recombination (HR), mitoticcheckpoint regulation, and telomere homeostasis. Absence of Brca2 in mice results in progressive shortening of telomeres and senescence, yet cells are prone to neoplastic transformation with elongated telomeres, suggesting that BRcA2 has positive and negative effects on telomere length regulation along the path to tumorigenesis. Using caenorhabditis elegans as a model, we show here that depletion of BRc-2, an ortholog of BRcA2, paradoxically delays senescence in telomerase-deficient mutant worms. Telomerase-deficient worms (trt-1) exhibit early replication senescence due to short telomeres. It should be noted that worms mutated in brc-2 are not viable as well due to massive genotoxic insults. However, when BRc-2 is depleted by RNA interference in trt-1 mutant worms, the number of generations is unexpectedly increased with telomere length maintained, compared to telomerase mutants. Interestingly, depletion of other HR genes such as rad-51 and rad-54 exhibited similar effects. In worms doubly deficient of telomerase and brc-2, rad-51, or rad-54, extra telomericc-circles were generated, suggesting that abrogation of HR induces an alteration in telomere environment favorable to illegitimate telomere maintenance when telomerase is absent. collectively, absence of BRc-2 in telomerase-deficient background first leads to telomere shortening, followed by an induction of an as-yet-unknown telomere maintenance pathway, resulting in delay of senescence. The results have implications in the understanding of dysfunctional BRcA2-associated tumorigenesis.
The classification of a gene as an oncogene or a tumor suppressor has been a staple of cancer biology for decades. However, as we delve deeper into the biology of these genes, this simple classification has become inc...
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The classification of a gene as an oncogene or a tumor suppressor has been a staple of cancer biology for decades. However, as we delve deeper into the biology of these genes, this simple classification has become increasingly difficult for some. In the case of heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclear protein K (hnRNP K), its role as a tumor suppressor has recently been described in acute myeloid leukemia and demonstrated in a haploinsufficient mouse model. In contrast, data from other clinical correlation studies suggest that hnRNP K may be more fittingly described as an oncogene, due to its increased levels in a variety of malignancies. hnRNP K is a multifunctional protein that can regulate both oncogenic and tumor suppressive pathways through a bevy of chromatin-, DNA-, RNA-, and protein-mediated activates, suggesting its aberrant expression may have broad-reaching cellular impacts. In this review, we highlight our current understanding of hnRNP K, with particular emphasis on its apparently dichotomous roles in tumorigenesis.
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