In the last decade, new non-apoptotic roles have been ascribed to apoptotic caspases.This family of proteins plays an important role in the sculpting of the brain in the early stages of development by eliminating excessive and nonfunctional synapses and extra cells.Consequently, impairments in this process can underlie many neurological and mental
Abstract Local seed systems that are developed, managed and maintained by farmers are a fundamental practice in smallholder crop production, supporting more than 80% of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and feeding more than 70% of its population.The resilience of such systems is under threat from poverty, climate change, drought, increased pests and d
As the performance of a convolutional neural network is logarithmically proportional to the amount of training data, data augmentation has attracted increasing attention in recent years.Although the current data augmentation methods are efficient because they force the network to learn multiple parts of a given training image through occlusion or r
Abstract Background To evaluate dosimetric differences of salvage irradiations using two commercially available volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) techniques: RapidArc (RA) and HyperArc (HA), for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after initial radiation therapy.Methods Ten patients with recurre