The surrogate of protection against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) is the serum bactericidal antibody (SBA) assay, which measures the functional activity of antibody by using an exogenous complement source. Despite baby rabbit complement having been used in meningococcal serogroup A, C, Y, and W135 SBA assays, it is not recommended for use in the MenB SBA assay due to elevated SBA ti...

The ability of a number of mesoporous silica materials (SBA-15, SBA-3, and MCM-48) to immobilize polyphenol oxidase (PPO) at different pH has been tested. Pore size and volume are the structural characteristics with higher influence on the PPO immobilization. Mesoropous material SBA-15 adsorbs a larger quantity of PPO at pH 4.00 and offers an inhibition of enzymatic activity close the 50% in ap...

A protonated polyaniline-functionalized SBA-15 mesoporous silica nanomaterial (H(+)-PANI/SBA-15) with high surface area and ideal surface properties for the adsorption of anionic dyes is synthesized. Compared with the conventional emeraldine salt of polyaniline (H(+)-PANI), H(+)-PANI/SBA-15 has a significantly higher adsorption capacity for the anionic dye Orange G and is a more effective sorbe...

Short bronchial segments obtained by pneumonectomy were implanted, 9-12 per dog, in the subcutaneous tissues of the back of seven dogs. These subcutaneous bronchial autografts (SBA) became vascularized, and they contained viable, histologically normal respiratory epithelium 4 wk after implantation. From 1-3 mo after implantation, 10% methylcholanthrene in steroid suspension medium was instilled...

We study Schapire's Boosting Algorithm(SBA) for use in practice. SBA is analyzed in terms of its representation and its search. We show that the SBA representation is a piecewise tiling of the domain and that if the weak learner has low coverage ability, SBA's search may fail to boost or may give a sub-optimal solution. We present a rejection boosting algorithm that trades-oo exploration and ex...

Mesoporous Cu(Fe)/SBA-15 catalysts were prepared with distinct metal loadings of ca. 2–10 wt.%. A detailed set characterizations using X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), transmission microscopy (TEM), scanning coupled to energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), Mössbauer spectroscopy, photoelectron (XPS) and Raman was performed correlate the relationship among stru...

AIM To assess the use of serum levels of angiopoietin-1 (Ang1), Ang2 and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) as predictive factors for small bowel angiodysplasia (SBA). METHODS Serum samples were collected from patients undergoing capsule endoscopy for any cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) or anaemia. Based on small bowel findings patients were divided into 3 groups: (1) SBA; (2) o...