Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating subjects having cancer based on the identification of pharmaceutical agents that target cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been identified. These methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of a COX2 inhibitor and an effective amount of a YAP1 inhibitor. In addition, methods of enhancing chemotherapeutic responses in cancer patients have been discovered and are described herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting urothelial carcinomas. In one embodiment, a method comprises the step of detecting CD24, CD49f and NANOG in a urine sample obtained from a patient suspected of having urothelial carcinoma. In a specific embodiment, the detection step comprises polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In certain embodiment, the PCR step utilizes at least one primer comprising SEQ ID NOS: 1, 2, 23, 24, 13 and 14. In another embodiment, the method further comprises treating the patient with one or more of surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Abstract: A program creation assisting system includes a camera that captures an image of a chip array in which a special chip indicating a task for programming is in a chip array, a task management table managed in a state where the task and an image of the plurality of chips used for the task are associated with each other, an image processing unit that recognizes an image relating to the chip from the image of the chip array acquired by the camera, and a program creation processing unit 103 that, when the image processing unit recognizes a special chip such as a start chip, selects a command corresponding to the image of the plurality of chips, which is recognized by the image processing unit, based on a task management table associated with a task of the special chip, and generates a program configured by a plurality of selected commands.

Abstract: A program creation assisting system includes a camera that captures an image of a chip array in which a special chip indicating a task for programming is in a chip array, a task management table managed in a state where the task and an image of the plurality of chips used for the task are associated with each other, an image processing unit that recognizes an image relating to the chip from the image of the chip array acquired by the camera, and a program creation processing unit 103 that, when the image processing unit recognizes a special chip such as a start chip, selects a command corresponding to the image of the plurality of chips, which is recognized by the image processing unit, based on a task management table associated with a task of the special chip, and generates a program configured by a plurality of selected commands.

Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating subjects having cancer based on the identification of pharmaceutical agents that target cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been identified. These methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of a COX2 inhibitor and an effective amount of a YAP1 inhibitor. In addition, methods of enhancing chemotherapeutic responses in cancer patients have been discovered and are described herein.

Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating subjects having cancer based on the identification of pharmaceutical agents that target cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been identified. These methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of a COX2 inhibitor and an effective amount of a YAP1 inhibitor. In addition, methods of enhancing chemotherapeutic responses in cancer patients have been discovered and are described herein.

Abstract: A jewelry holder for holding a piece of jewelry having a tapered portion including a jewelry mount base on which the piece of jewelry is mounted, and a frame portion including plural lower frames extending from the jewelry mount base so as to surround the piece of jewelry and form a swing space in which the piece of jewelry is freely swingable, and plural upper frames joined to the lower frames. The jewelry mount base has a recess portion in which the tip portion of the tapered portion of the piece of jewelry is mounted, and the piece of jewelry is swingable in any direction in the jewelry holder with the tip portion thereof as the center of the swing motion.