The data presented in this paper establish the finding that multiple specific protective antibodies exist in rabbits in response to immunization with Group B streptococci. The summary in Table I indicates the serological types into which Group B streptococci have been divided on the basis of their antigenic composition. This classification is dependent upon passive protection of mice with antib...

In the wireless network, both random errors and burst errors do occur due to the channel noise. In order to combat such heterogeneous error patterns, we employ an adaptive error protection based on product code. The proposed product code-based protection in network includes cross-layer protection, because each layer experiences a different type of channel errors. We improve the decoding efficie...

Two US swine influenza virus (SIV) isolates, A/Swine/Iowa/15/1930 H1N1 (IA30) and A/Swine/Minnesota/00194/2003 H1N2 (MN03), were evaluated in an in vivo vaccination and challenge model. Inactivated vaccines were prepared from each isolate and used to immunize conventional pigs, followed by challenge with homologous or heterologous virus. Both inactivated vaccines provided complete protection ag...

In this paper, we introduce the Pre-cross-connected Segment First —PXSFirst protection scheme; a new path-based protection schemes for WDM optical networks. The goal of the PXSFirst scheme is to achieve fast recovery, while maximizing bandwidth sharing to improve bandwidth utilization. Similar to pre-cross-connected trails (PXTs) protection scheme, PXSFirst ensures that all backup paths are pre...

Recent experiments where ferrets were exposed to two influenza strains within a short time have provided insight into the timing and contribution of each immune component to cross-protection. While mathematical models which capture the novel observations have been developed and analysed, they have many parameters and it is unclear whether the contributions of each immune component to crossprote...