Next generation proteomics with drug sensitivity screening identifies sub-clones informing therapeutic and drug development strategies for multiple myeloma patients

Abstract With the introduction of novel therapeutic agents, survival in Multiple Myeloma (MM) has increased in recent years.However, drug-resistant clones inevitably arise and lead to disease progression and death.The current International Myeloma Working Group response criteria are broad and make it difficult to clearly designate resistant and mot

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Occurrence of pathogenic and faecal Escherichia coli in layer hens

A total of 117 Escherichia coli from colibacillosis affected (APEC) and clinically healthy birds (AFEC) were chocolate chip cookie purse serotyped and tested for the presence of virulence genes: iss, tsh, cva.A total of 54.5% E.Coli were typeable and 15 different serogroups were identified.The most common serogroups among APEC strains were O78, O2

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An SDNFV-Based DDoS Defense Technology for Smart Cities

A software defined networking (SDN)-enabled smart city is a new paradigm that can effectively improve the cost efficiency and flexibility of data management through data-control separation.However, it faces significant security threats such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which jeopardize the security and availability of data and se

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Implementation with ex post hidden actions

In this paper, we study implementation in settings where agents take strategic actions that influence preferences over mechanism outcomes and yet are hidden from the mechanism designer.We show that such settings can arise in entry auctions for markets, and that the Vickery-Clarke-Groves Mechanism is not guaranteed to be truthful because of strategi

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