Background: The discovery of circulating fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma has opened
up new possibilities for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of …

Nuts contain fibre, unsaturated fatty acids and polyphenols that may impact the composition
of the gut microbiota and overall gut health. This study aimed to assess the impact of nuts on …

… The SABER assay has been noted to produce false positive results in certain applications
such as haemoglobin E genotyping.106 The exact cause is currently unknown, but it could be …

The pull-in instability limits the travel distance of elastically suspended parallel-plate electrostatic
microactuators to about 1/3 of the undeflected gap distance. In this paper, we examine …

We study the problem of mining frequent itemsets from uncertain data under a probabilistic
framework. We consider transactions whose items are associated with existential …

Background and aims Smartphones allow users to access social networking sites (SNSs)
whenever and wherever they want. Such easy availability and accessibility may increase their …

In view of the progressive respiratory failure despite conventional antibiotic therapy, SARS
was suspected. The Prince of Wales Hospital was the site of a major SARS outbreak in Hong …

In this paper, we demonstrate how efficient low-order dynamical models for micromechanical
devices can be constructed using data from a few runs of fully meshed but slow numerical …

Objective To describe the general characteristics and epidemiology of search and rescue (SAR)
in Yosemite National Park (YNP) and identify possible areas for intervention directed at …

BACKGROUND A long‐term follow‐up was conducted of 18 patients with a diagnosis of
pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, vincristine…