Designing our town: MOOsburg

MOOsburg: multi-user domain support for a community network

Vision MUDs (multiuser domains) and MOOs (MUDs object-oriented) offer an interesting combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication mechanisms. People using a MOO can chat with one another, but the database that underlies the MOO is persistent: participants can create, modify, and manipulate objects, changing the state of the MOO for other participants. For example, people can leave ...

MEANS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TUMOROUS DISEASES - European Patent Office - EP 1976886 B1

Complete ablation of tumor necrosis factor decreases the production of IgA, IgG, and IgM in experimental central nervous system tuberculosis

Objective(s): This study aimed to explore the contribution of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the recruitment of B-cell and secretion of immunoglobulins (Igs) during cerebral tuberculosis (TB).Materials and Methods: In this work, the contributing role of TNF in regulating Ig secretions was investigated by comparing wild type TNF (TNFf/f),...

Extranodal involvement in lymphoma – A Pictorial Essay and Retrospective Analysis of 281 PET/CT studies

Objective(s): The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of PET-CT in identification of different patterns of extranodal involvement in Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) and to enlist the common sites of extranodal involvement in each histological type and compare our results with the existing literature. Methods: In this retrospective study of 281 cases of lymphomas of...

Location as a Poverty Trap

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...