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• Analysis of the Effects of Different Surgical Procedures for the Treatment of Thyroid Cancer on the Expression Levels of IL-17, IL-35, and SIL-2R and the Prognostic Factors
• Chuanwei Xu¹, Renju Ding², Chuanping Xu^3,*
• Oncologie, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 43-51, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012445
• Abstract To analyze the effects of different surgical procedures for the treatment of thyroid cancer on the expression levels of serum interleukin-17 (IL-17), IL-35, soluble interleukin-2 receptor (SIL-2R), and the prognostic factors. Seventy-eight patients with differentiated thyroid cancer were selected and grouped as control group (CG) (n = 39, underwent subtotal thyroidectomy) and observation group (OG) (n = 39, underwent total thyroidectomy). The serum IL-17, IL-35, and SIL- 2R expression levels; the incidence of complications; and the differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) relapse rate were compared between the two groups. The serum IL-17 and SIL-2R levels were lower in the OG than… More
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• Diagnostic Performance of Serum miR-586 and miR-493 in Patients with Osteosarcoma
• Hao Dang^*
• Oncologie, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 35-42, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012485
• Abstract This study aimed to explore the expression and diagnostic performance of miR-586 and miR-493 in patients with osteosarcoma. We enrolled 63 patients with osteosarcoma treated between May 2016 and May 2019 as the experimental group and 55 healthy volunteers who underwent physical examination during the same period as the control group. We detected miR-586 and miR-493 expression in serum, normal bone tissue, and tumor samples. We also evaluated the relationship between clinical indicators and the miR-586 and miR-493 expression levels. The correlation between the serum and osteosarcoma tissue expression of miR-586 and miR-493 was examined by Pearson analysis. Furthermore, the… More
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• Expression Changes, Prognostic Analysis and Risk Factors of miR-625-3p and miR-449a in Osteosarcoma Patients after Surgery
• Hui Zhang, Zhan Wang, Lin Liu, Fuqiang Zhang, Yuxin Song, Yaowen Qian^*
• Oncologie, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 23-33, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012493
• Abstract The expression changes of miR-625-3p and miR-449a in osteosarcoma patients after surgery is the critical study in this paper. Analysis of their prognosis and risk factors can be helpful in understanding the prognostic value for clinical purposes. Fifty-eight patients with osteosarcoma diagnosed in our hospital were considered as the research group (RG), and 52 health subjects at the same time were collected as the control group (CG). Fluorescence quantitative PCR (RTPCR) was employed to test the expression levels of miR-625-3p and miR-449a in the serum of subjects in both groups before surgery and patients in the RG after surgery. The… More
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• Effects of Dexmedetomidine Combined with Remifentanil Anesthesia and Propofol Combined with Remifentanil Anesthesia on Perioperative Inflammatory Response and Pulmonary Function in Patients with Lung Cancer
• Siqiang Tian^1,#, Yao Jiang^2,#, Ying Wang¹, Jie Song^1,*
• Oncologie, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 13-21, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012492
• Abstract To explore the effects of dexmedetomidine combined with remifentanil anesthesia and propofol combined with remifentanil anesthesia on perioperative inflammatory response and pulmonary function in patients with lung cancer. Totally 128 patients admitted to our hospital for lung cancer surgery were taken as the research object of this experiment. Among them, 67 cases were sedated with dexmedetomidine combined with remifentanil (Group A), and 61 cases were sedated with propofol combined with remifentanil (Group B). The changes of vital signs, respiratory interval (RR), blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and blood sugar before and after sedation were recorded. The changes of inflammatory factors TNF-α,… More
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• Sinomenium Inhibits the Viability of Hepatoma Carcinoma Cells through Activating IFNA2
• Jingjing He^1,2, Lingyi Zhang², Dan Guo³, Xingwen Han⁴, Hui Zhang⁵, Liang Wang², Youcheng Zhang^1,*
• Oncologie, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 1-12, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012436
• Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks the sixth place of most common cancers. Meanwhile, it is the tertiary mortality cause of cancer. There is no effective therapeutic method to prevent and treat the liver cancer. Sinomenine is a kind of Chinese traditional medicine herbal, it is reported that it can inhibit the viability of several cancer cells. The study is to explore whether sinomenine is also able to inhibit the cell viability of HCC and its potential mechanism. The IC50 of sinomenine in BEL-7402 cells was 5.351 mmol/L, and the IC50 of sinomenine in SMMC-7721 cells was 6.204 mmol/L. The gene expression… More
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• Influence of the Molecular Weight on PVA/GO Composite Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications
• C. González-Guisasola¹, O. Gil-Castell^1,2, R. Teruel-Juanes¹, A. Ribes-Greus^1,*
• Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.9, pp. 1171-1180, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.04399
• Abstract Composite polymer electrolyte membranes were prepared with poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA). Two different molecular weight (M_w), 67·10³ and 130·10³ g·mol⁻¹ were selected, cross-linked with sulfosuccinic acid (SSA) and doped graphene oxide (GO). The effects on the membranes obtained from these polymers were characterized in order to evaluate the fuel cell performance. Electron microscopy showed a proper nanoparticle distribution in the polymer matrix. The chemical structure was evaluated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The absence of a crystalline structure and the enhancement on the thermal stability with the addition of 1% of GO was demonstrated by thermal characterization. Total transference number… More
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• Towards an Artificial Intelligence Framework for Data-Driven Prediction of Coronavirus Clinical Severity
• Xiangao Jiang¹, Megan Coffee^{2, 3, *}, Anasse Bari^{4, *}, Junzhang Wang⁴, Xinyue Jiang⁵, Jianping Huang¹, Jichan Shi¹, Jianyi Dai¹, Jing Cai¹, Tianxiao Zhang⁶, Zhengxing Wu¹, Guiqing He¹, Yitong Huang⁷
• CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 537-551, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010691 20 March 2020
• Abstract The virus SARS-CoV2, which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a pandemic and has spread to every inhabited continent. Given the increasing caseload, there is an urgent need to augment clinical skills in order to identify from among the many mild cases the few that will progress to critical illness. We present a first step towards building an artificial intelligence (AI) framework, with predictive analytics (PA) capabilities applied to real patient data, to provide rapid clinical decision-making support. COVID-19 has presented a pressing need as a) clinicians are still developing clinical acumen to this novel disease and b) resource limitations… More
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• A Review of Data Cleaning Methods for Web Information System
• Jinlin Wang¹, Xing Wang^{1, *}, Yuchen Yang¹, Hongli Zhang¹, Binxing Fang¹
• CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1053-1075, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08675 24 February 2020
• Abstract Web information system (WIS) is frequently-used and indispensable in daily social life. WIS provides information services in many scenarios, such as electronic commerce, communities, and edutainment. Data cleaning plays an essential role in various WIS scenarios to improve the quality of data service. In this paper, we present a review of the state-of-the-art methods for data cleaning in WIS. According to the characteristics of data cleaning, we extract the critical elements of WIS, such as interactive objects, application scenarios, and core technology, to classify the existing works. Then, after elaborating and analyzing each category, we summarize the descriptions and challenges… More
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• A Deep Convolutional Architectural Framework for Radiograph Image Processing at Bit Plane Level for Gender & Age Assessment
• N. Shobha Rani^{1, *}, M. Chandrajith², B. R. Pushpa¹, B. J. Bipin Nair¹
• CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 679-694, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08552 19 January 2020
• Abstract Assessing the age of an individual via bones serves as a fool proof method in true determination of individual skills. Several attempts are reported in the past for assessment of chronological age of an individual based on variety of discriminative features found in wrist radiograph images. The permutation and combination of these features realized satisfactory accuracies for a set of limited groups. In this paper, assessment of gender for individuals of chronological age between 1-17 years is performed using left hand wrist radiograph images. A fully automated approach is proposed for removal of noise persisted due to non-uniform illumination during… More
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• Droplet Breakup Regime in a Cross-Junction Device with Lateral Obstacles
• Tawfiq Chekifi^1,*
• FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.5, pp. 545-555, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.01793 31 December 2019
• Abstract Numerical simulation using Ansys Fluent code is performed, to investigate droplet generation in cross-junction based VOF method. Droplets of water are generated by the shear stress applied by continuous phase (oil), two configurations of cross-junction are suggested; the first is a simple model no modification is performed at the outer channel, while the second model is characterized by a lateral obstacle. we study the effect of velocity ratio, viscous parameter, interfacial tension, flow condition on droplet size and frequency, the effect of lateral obstacles on droplets generation is also focused and analysed. The numerical simulations showed that the velocity ratio… More
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• An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes
• Yinghang Jiang¹, Qi Liu^{2, 3, *}, Williams Dannah¹, Dandan Jin², Xiaodong Liu³, Mingxu Sun^{4, *}
• CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 713-729, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.04604 19 January 2020
• Abstract Hadoop is a well-known parallel computing system for distributed computing and large-scale data processes. “Straggling” tasks, however, have a serious impact on task allocation and scheduling in a Hadoop system. Speculative Execution (SE) is an efficient method of processing “Straggling” Tasks by monitoring real-time running status of tasks and then selectively backing up “Stragglers” in another node to increase the chance to complete the entire mission early. Present speculative execution strategies meet challenges on misjudgement of “Straggling” tasks and improper selection of backup nodes, which leads to inefficient implementation of speculative executive processes. This paper has proposed an Optimized Resource… More
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• Kinematic and Dynamic Characteristics of Pulsating Flow in 180^o Tube
• Tin-Kan Hung^1,*, Ruei-Hung Kuo², Cheng-Hsien Chiang³
• Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 19-24, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07817 22 January 2020
• Abstract Kinematic and dynamic characteristics of pulsating flow in a model of human aortic arch are obtained by a computational analysis. Three-dimensional flow processes are summarized by pressure distributions on the symmetric plane together with velocity and pressure contours on a few cross sections for systolic acceleration and deceleration. Without considering the effects of aortic tapering and the carotid arteries, the development of tubular boundary layer with centrifugal forces and pulsation are also analyzed for flow separation and backflow during systolic deceleration. More
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