In the last 20 years car sharing has been a growing trend in personal mobility.Multiple aspects of these systems have been already discussed: different forms of car sharing, user’s preferences and behavior, or benefits estimation.Nevertheless, the management of these systems needs to be continuously improved to remain a competitive alternati

This paper presents a novel approach for classifying obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adolescents from resting-state fMRI data.Currently, the state-of-the-art for diagnosing OCD in youth involves interviews with adolescent patients and their parents by an experienced clinician, symptom rating scales based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Abstract In the adult vertebrate intestine, multi-potent stem cells continuously generate all of the epithelial cells throughout the adulthood.While it has long been known that the frog intestine is formed via the development of adult intestinal stem cells during thyroid hormone (TH)-dependent metamorphosis, the basic structure of the adult intesti

Recent progress toward an HIV vaccine highlights both the potential of vaccines to end the AIDS pandemic and the need to boost efficacy by incorporating additional vaccine strategies.Although many aspects of the immune response can contribute to vaccine efficacy, the key factors have not been defined fully yet.A particular area that may yield new i

A 32-year-old man underwent radiofrequency thermal annuloplasty (TA) with percutaneous endoscopic discectomy (PED) under local anesthesia for chronic low back pain.His diagnosis was discogenic pain with a high signal intensity zone (HIZ) in the posterior corner of the L4-5 disc.Flexion pain was sporadic, and steroid injection was given twice for se