Bain Hedrick

The broad range of DNA concentration was workable in LAMP assay, in which the minimum detectable DNA concentration was 100 pg. DNA releasing method was applied, which took five minutes of incubation at 95 °C without the DNA extraction process. Only some pieces of tissue of larvae and adult samples were needed to extract DNA. The incidence of…[Read more]

Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging issue due to noise, artifact, and intensity non-uniformity in magnetic resonance images (MRI). Manual MRI segmentation is a very tedious, time-consuming, and user-dependent task. This paper aims to presents a novel level set method to address aforementioned challenges for reliable and automatic brain tumor…[Read more]

Mice displayed similar behavioral responses to oxycodone (e.g., sensitization) and patterns of withdrawal behaviors, independent of sex. Mice showed strong group preferences for the oxycodone-paired chamber, and the strength of these preferences did not differ by sex or maternal status. Postpartum females’ maternal behavior and motivation were…[Read more]

049, 95% CI 0.031-0.069). read more Besides, the influence of the overweight/obesity status of the wives on that of the husbands (odds ratio (OR) = 1.411, 95% CI 1.309-1.521) was slightly higher than that of the husbands on that of the wives (OR = 1.404, 95% CI 1.302-1.514).

We found that there was a moderate but significant resemblance in…[Read more]