Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization timeof-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI or SELDI-TOF MS) has yielded predictive protein profiles for a number of clinically relevant diseases. Yet, rather than identifying specific proteins, such studies have provided diagnostic information solely based on “black box” predictors that look at differential patterns of mass spectrometry peaks. This paper...

The ill-posed problem of determining the shape of a body immersed in a ""at earth" and the mass density within this body from gravity anomaly measurements on the surface of the earth is investigated. Under some a priori assumptions on the structure of the body's boundary a general theorem on uniqueness of the solution is established and some further theorems are derived as immediate consequence...

Functional high-density micro-arrays for mass spectrometry enable rapid picolitre-volume aliquoting and ultrasensitive analysis of microscale samples, for example, single cells.

Burkina Faso conducted mass measles vaccination campaigns among children aged 9 months to 4 years during December 1998 and December 1999. The 1998 campaign was limited to six cities and towns, while the 1999 campaign was nationwide. The last year of explosive measles activity in Burkina Faso was 1996. Measles surveillance data suggest that the 1998 urban campaigns did not significantly impact m...

some physical attributes of two common types of iranian garlic cloves (white and pink) were identified and compared. a machine vision system was used to determine three di-mensions and both major and minor projected areas of garlic cloves at a moisture content of 42.4% w. b. the geometric mean diameter and sphericity were calculated, as well as the unit mass and volume of cloves were measured. ...

We examined the morphology-density relations for galaxy samples selected by luminosity and by mass in each of five massive X-ray clusters from z = 0.023 to z = 0.83 for 674 spectroscopically-confirmed members. Rest-frame optical colors and visual morphologies were obtained primarily from Hubble Space Telescope images. The visual morphologies ensure consistency with the extensive published resul...

Background and aims: Celiac disease (CD), an autoimmune disease initiated by the ingestion of food containing gluten. Constant intolerance to gluten cause damages of the small intestinal mucosa. One of reasons malabsorption in children and infants is Celiac disease. About 75% of newly identified patients with celiac disease have low bone mineral density (BMD). Many factors have role in metaboli...

Roasting is among the most common methods of nut processing causing physical and chemical changes and ultimately increasing overall acceptance of the product. In this research, the effects of temperature (90, 120 ,and 150°C), time (20, 35 ,and 50 min) ,and roasting air velocity (0.5, 1.5 ,and 2.5 m/s) on gravimetrical properties of pistachio nuts and kernels including unit mass, true density, o...

effects of different paclobutrazol concentrations (0, 250, 350 and 450 mgl-1) and plantlet density (80, 100 and 120 plantlet/m2) on minituber production per plantlet in potato cultivar ‘sante’ were investigated in a factorial experiment based upon a randomized complete block design of 4 replications. paclobutrazol (cultar with 250 g/l of active ingredient) was used as foliar application at earl...