Abstract Background Many patients with enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) have either only one allelic mutant of the SLC26A4 gene or lack any detectable mutation.In this study, multiplex beaker creatures series 1 ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) was used to screen for copy number variations (CNVs) of SLC26A4 and to reveal the pathogeni
Abstract Background PCA3 is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) that is highly expressed in prostate cancer (PCa) cells, but its functional role is unknown.To investigate its putative function in PCa biology, we used gene expression knockdown by small interference RNA, and also analyzed its involvement in androgen receptor (AR) signaling.Methods LNCaP and PC3
Deforestation is highly damaging to the global climate system and biodiversity.It varies strongly across countries and time, and is driven by several idiosyncratic as well as structural factors.Political regime types belong to the latter.Some studies suggest that more democratic countries are associated with lower rates of deforestation, whereas ot
In order to solve the problem that the global and local generated countermeasure network cannot inpaint the random irregular large holes, and to improve the standard convolution generator, which demonstrates the defects of color difference and blur, a network architecture of inpainting irregular large holes in an image based on double discriminatio
Hurricane Matthew was the deadliest Atlantic storm house of lashes blessings since Katrina in 2005 and prompted one of the largest recent hurricane evacuations along the Southeastern coast of the United States.The storm and its projected landfall triggered a massive social media reaction.Using Twitter data, this paper examines the spatiotemporal va