Endogenous glucocorticoids and their synthetic analogues, such as dexamethasone, stimulate receptor-mediated signal transduction mechanisms on target cells.Some of these mechanisms result in beneficial outcomes whereas others are deleterious in the settings of pathogen infections and immunological disorders.Here, we review recent studies by several
Spectral unmixing is an important technique for quantitatively analyzing hyperspectral remote sensing images.Recently, constrained nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for spectral unmixing.However, acquiring the problem-dependent prior knowledge and incorporating it into NMF as effective constraints is
ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the relevance of clinical indicators and the clarity and precision of conceptual and operational definitions of the diagnosis Impaired gas exchange.Methods Content analysis, by 39 nurse judges, divided into the phases of conceptual definition of the phenomenon of interest, construction of the structure of the phenomeno
This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities.Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we illust
Increasing sand temperatures resulting from climate change may negatively impact sea turtle nests by altering sex ratios and decreasing reproductive output.We analyzed the effect of nest shading and watering on sand temperatures as climate mitigation strategies in a beach hatchery at Playa Grande, Costa Rica.We set up plots and placed thermocouples