Abstract Background Secreted phosphoprotein 1 (SPP1), an extracellular secreted glycol phosphoprotein, is closely related to tumor biologies, such as proliferation, migration, and invasion.However, the role and biological function of SPP1 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) was still ambiguous.Methods SPP1 expression in LUAD tissues and its associations
The several faces of fear: ecological consequences of predation risk in a lagoon model system
AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of predation risk on the occurrence of trophic cascades in a benthic food chain, and detect if the ecological consequences of predation risk can reverberate in patterns observed across different hierarchical scales, such as prey size, prey growth efficiency and nutrient recycling patterns.METHODS:
A NOVEL ADAPTIVE REMOTE SENSING PANSHARPENING ALGORITHM BASED ON THE ICM
In the paper, a novel Intersecting Cortical Network Model (ICM) based adaptive pansharpening algorithm is proposed to solve the deficiency of spectral distortion and texture detail missing in the remote sensing image fusion.The Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) is used in the proposed method to adaptively optimize the ICM model parameters.The
My neighbour as myself? An experimental investigation of spatial patterns of risk preferences among smallholder farmers
Farmers could be spatially clustered according to their risk attitude.Previous studies neither investigated such effects nor incorporated spatial terms in models examining risk preferences and attitudes.We examined decision-making under risk using a lottery-task experiment and then measured spatial patterns through spatial autocorrelation analysis