A prime-boost strategy conserving BCG is considered the most promising vaccine to control tuberculosis. A boost with a DNA vaccine containing the mycobacterial gene of a heat shock protein (pVAXhsp65) after BCG priming protected mice against experimental tuberculosis. However, anti-hsp65 immunity could worsen an autoimmune disease due to molecular mimicry. In this investigation, we evaluated th...

The problem of sharing data across multiple sources has received considerable attention in recent years because of its relevance to enterprise data management, scientific data management, and information integration on the WWW. However, the management of updates in such systems has received very little attention. In a data sharing system, the set of sources and clients is not fixed, and therefo...

1 This work has been partially supported by the IST Project MOBIVAS. ABSTRACT The transport mechanisms of Internet have an inherent drawback, which is due to their generality. Internet has to support a broad range of services (data, audio, video, etc.) on top of a unique protocol stack. On the other hand, it is well known, that there is a high potential for QoS and efficiency improvement if joi...

Boost-phase ballistic missile defense is alluring because rocket boosters are easy to detect and track, they are relatively vulnerable due to the large axial loads on a missile under powered flight, the entire payload (single or multiple warheads and midcourse penetration aids) may be destroyed in a single shot, and countermeasures to defeat boostphase defense are more difficult to devise than ...

Quantum computing is believed to be particularly useful for the simulation of chemistry and materials, among various applications. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in development near-term quantum algorithms simulation, including VQE many its variants. However, such useful, they need overcome several critical barriers inability prepare high-quality approximations ground...

Abstract In this paper, an integration of a fuzzy-interval credibility-constrained (FIC) model expressed by fuzzy interval sets (FIS) and nonlinear programming (INP), termed FIC-INP model, was proposed applied to two cases. After formulating the upper lower disinfection booster costs can be obtained for cases under various combinations credibility levels limits. The results indicated that incre...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...