objective: dna vaccines have been widely used to develop immunity against various pathogens including parasites and viruses. the potential of dna vaccine to induce an effective immune response is related to the expression levels of the encoded protein in eukaryotic cells. therefore, optimization of plasmid dna delivery system is a major concern in protein expression in order to make an efficien...

objective: hearing loss is the most frequent neurosensory defect in human. mutations in gjb2 and gjb6 are responsible for 50% of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (arnshl) cases. here we report on the frequencies of gjb2 and gjb6 mutations and three large deletions spanning the gjb6 gene including del (gjb6-d13s1830), del (gjb6-d13s1854) and a >920 kb deletion in patients affected ...

abstract background: the varieties of treatment methods for the scaphoid non:::::union::::: have always been a discussable issue for orthopaedic surgeons. the current study, considered to be review for treatment results of the patients who sustained the scaphoid non:::::union::::: with or without avascular necrosis and compared these two groups clinically and radiologically. methods: the clinic...

conclusions our results in terms of asami scores are comparable with the published literature. furthermore, our return to work is better than most european studies (63%). all our patients said they would have the procedure again. we attribute this success partly to the multidisciplinary approach. we recommend early referral to a dedicated unit if there is any evidence of a non-:union:. results ...

isolation of pigmented t.violaceum from a patient with endothrix infection associated with the inflammatory and kerion symptoms and also isolation of the non- pigmented strain from another patient with non-inflammatory symptoms, led us to investigate the enzymic activities in both strains. most of the studies on dermatophyte compoxition have shown the relationship between proteolytic enzymes an...

data envelopment analysis (dea) measures the relative efficiency of a homogenous set of decision-making units (dmus) when multiple inputs and outputs are present. the deabased malmquist productivity index measuring the productivity change of dmus over time has proven itself to be a valid tool to compare group performance. however, in the previous models developed for this purpose, it was suppos...

let c be a field of subsets of a set i. also, let     1 i i be a non-decreasing positivesequence of real numbers such that 1, 1 0 1   i  and    11 i i . in this paper we prove thatbv of all the games of -bounded variation on c is a non-separable and norm dual banach space of thespace of simple games on c . we use this fact to establish the existence of a linear mapping t from...