Portraying user life status from microblogging posts
We presented an interactive time-aware visualization prototype, LifeCircle, to help microblog users to visually retrospect their life statuses. By exploring and analyzing long-term microblogging post...
View ArticleManyInsights: A visual analytics approach to supporting effective insight...
This paper introduces ManyInsights, a multidimensional visual analytics system that supports effective insight annotation, browsing, retrieval, organization, and association. A case study of how a...
View ArticleDual chamber ICDs show higher risk of gomplications
Even though patients receiving an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention often receive a dual-chamber ICD, an analysis that included more than 32,000 patients receiving an...
View ArticleStudy evaluates long-term effectiveness of surgery for pelvic organ prolapse
Results after seven years of follow-up suggest that women considering abdominal sacrocolpopexy (surgery for pelvic organ prolapse [POP]) should be counseled that this procedure effectively provides...
View ArticleUC Davis agribusiness executives symposium to be held in Shanghai
Senior agribusiness executives from throughout China will gather June 14-16 in Shanghai for an innovative business leaders’ symposium coordinated by the Graduate School of Management at the University...
View ArticleWho else promotes synaptic formation during stem cell treatment for SCI?
In vitro studies have showed that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells can be induced to differentiate into neurons, reform synaptic connections and remodel nerve function. Thrombospondin 1 plays an...
View ArticleAutophagy activator promotes neuronal differentiation of adipose-derived...
Autophagy plays a dual role in cell growth. One mechanism induces type II programmed cell death (a different process from apoptosis), while the other protects or delays damage caused by environmental...
View ArticleDiffusion tensor imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in brain...
Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion tensor imaging are non-invasive techniques used to detect metabolites and water diffusion in vivo.
View ArticleSize and shape control of LiFePO4 nanocrystals for better lithium ion battery...
Six LiFePO4 nanocrystals with different size and shape are successfully synthesized in ethylene glycol by controlling the addition sequence and ratio of reagents. The most promising LiFePO4...
View ArticleOvaries 'burn out' during chemotherapy, causing infertility
A new study uncovers how chemotherapy causes infertility in female cancer patients, and finds that a new drug called AS101 can protect the ovarian egg reserve during treatment. Ovarian follicles are...
View ArticleBrain injury is caused by the advanced glycation end products-mediated pathway
Advanced glycation end products lead to cell apoptosis, and cause cell death by increasing endoplasmic reticulum stress. Advanced glycation end products alone may also directly cause damage to tissues...
View ArticleTherapeutic effects and side effect of olcegepant and telcagepant for migraine
Since calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists entered clinical practice in 2004, numerous randomized controlled clinical trials have been published. Nevertheless, no meta-analysis of these...
View ArticleTranscription factor changes following long-term cerebral...
A team from Chengde Medical College, China, observed signaling pathway changes for glutamic acid receptor and cAMP response element binding protein after long-term (30 days) global cerebral...
View ArticleWhat has changed on the water cycle in Haihe River basin in the past 10000...
Based on the datasets of paleoclimate, paleogeography, palynoflora, historical record, isotopic abundance ratio and content, the study reveals the evolution diagram of temperature, precipitation, river...
View ArticleRecent progress in gene-sensing strategies for rapid detection of foodborne...
Food safety is an important issue for people’s livelihood, and also an important indicator to measure the quality of people's lives in a country. This paper around the characteristics of author’s...
View ArticleOne ladybug’s parasite is another ladybug’s end
When it comes to out-competing other ladybugs, one particularly successful species can thank the parasites in its circulatory system, a new study shows. Invasive species multiply after settling into...
View ArticleMaking tiny complex, controlled shapes
A new study offers a detailed picture of how to make minerals assemble themselves into complex but controlled architectures. The findings pave the way toward developing complex architectures that are...
View Article3-D made simpler
Scientists have developed a simplified method for creating three-dimensional (3-D) images, a new study reports. Our retina captures images in two dimensions, but additional processing is required to...
View ArticleGlaciers and the rising tide
When it comes to rising sea levels, the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are at the center of attention. But what about all the glaciers -- distinct from these Ice Sheets -- melting around the world"...
View ArticleNatural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
Ecosystems are disproportionately influenced by “keystone molecules” that have powerful behavioral effects and contribute to ecosystem structure, according to a general theory described in the June...
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