Dose-response effect of interleukin (IL)-1beta, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, and interferon-y on the in vitro production of epithelial neutrophil activating peptide-78 (ENA-78), IL-8, and IL-6 by human endometrial stromal cells

The production of epithelial neutrophil activating peptide-78 (NA-78) and the interleukins IL-8 and IL-6 by endometrial stromal cells is stimulated by pro-inflammatory interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). IL-8 is suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis, and in these women the peritoneal fluid concentrations of ENA-78 and IL-8 are increased. TNF-α has been tested together with interferon-γ because of their cooperative stimulation of IL-6. The release of IL-8, however, is inhibited with increasing interferon levels. The aim of the study was the analysis of the production of ENA-78, IL-6 and IL-8 by cultured human endometrial stromal cells in the presence of varying concentrations of IL-1β, TNF-α, and interferon-γ.

Enhanced Knowledge Management by Synchronizing Mind Maps and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

This paper presents a conceptual approach to enhance knowledge management by synchronizing mind maps and fuzzy cognitive maps. The use of mind maps allows taking advantage of human creativity, while the application of fuzzy cognitive maps enables to store information expressed in natural language. By applying cognitive computing, it makes possible to gather and extract relevant information out of a data pool. Therefore, this approach is supposed to give a framework that enhances knowledge management. To demonstrate the potential of this framework, a use case concerning the development of a smart city app is presented.

Global Ocean Biomes: Mean and time-varying maps (NetCDF 7.8 MB)

Large-scale studies of ocean biogeochemistry and carbon cycling have often partitioned the ocean into regions along lines of latitude and longitude despite the fact that spatially more complex boundaries would be closer to the true biogeography of the ocean. Herein, we define 17 open-ocean biomes classified from four observational data sets: sea surface temperature (SST), spring/summer chlorophyll a concentrations (Chl a), ice fraction, and maximum mixed layer depth (maxMLD) on a 1° × 1° grid. By considering interannual variability for each input, we create dynamic ocean biome boundaries that shift annually between 1998 and 2010. Additionally we create a core biome map, which includes only the grid cells that do not change biome assignment across the 13 years of the time-varying biomes. These biomes can be used in future studies to distinguish large-scale ocean regions based on biogeochemical function.

Aplicación de la fotografía aérea por drone al estudio y documentación del arte rupestre: los grabados de la Laguna Tinaja (Lagunas de Ruidera, Albacete) desde un nuevo punto de vista.

La presente comunicación tiene por objetivo analizar las posibilidades que el uso de la fotogrametría nos ofrece en el estudio y documentación del arte rupestre, en concreto los grabados.

Nominations of Elaine D. Kaplan and Ruth Y. Goldway : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, March 30, 1998, nominations of Elaine D. Kaplan, to be Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel, and Ruth Y. Goldway, to be Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission.

Shipping list no.: 98-0363-P.

Modern philology : its discoveries, history, and influence with maps, tabular views, and an index /

Mode of access: Internet.

Maps, their uses and construction; a short popular treatise on the advantages and defects of maps on various projections, followed by an outline of the principles involved in their construction,

Mode of access: Internet.

A pictorial and descriptive guide to London and the British empire exhibition, 1925; with two large section plans of central London; map of London and twelve miles round; railway and motor bus maps; main roads out of London; Hyde park and Kensington gardens, and twenty other maps and plans. Over one hundred illustrations.

Mode of access: Internet.

The A B C and X Y Z of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honeybee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey plants, etc. Facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of beekeepers and verified in the authors' apiary.

Mode of access: Internet.

A checklist of the Illinois Department of Transportation's county highway and county traffic maps held by the Illinois State Library.

Title from cover.

A checklist of the Illinois Department of Transportation's county highway and county traffic maps held by the Illinois State Library /

Description based on: Mar. 1998.

Illinois Department of Transportation county highway and county traffic maps held by the Illinois State Library.

"April 2005."