To examine the role of specific cytokines in mediating the clinical manifestations of human onchocercal disease, microfilariae-positive Ghanaian subjects with inflammatory ocular disease were compared with microfilariae-positive subjects without ocular disease. Onchocerca volvulus antigen (OvAg)-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from subjects with disease produced significant...

The role of human dynamin in receptor-mediated endocytosis was investigated by transient expression of GTP-binding domain mutants in mammalian cells. Using assays which detect intermediates in coated vesicle formation, the dynamin mutants were found to block endocytosis at a stage after the initiation of coat assembly and preceding the sequestration of ligands into deeply invaginated coated pit...

Original scientific paper Evaluating candidates’ suitability for a selection of academic staff is an important tool for Human Resources Management (HRM) to select the most suitable candidates for required posts. There are various methods regarding the selection of staff in the field. As there are increasing improvements in the field of education, universities around the world demand high qualit...

Abstract In Egypt, Wadi Qena Middle Eastern Desert, Paleogene successions exposed at Hawashiya and Abu Had sections from north to south were measured comprehensively investigated for their foraminiferal content. The Dakhla, Tarawan, Esna formations make up the sections. studied are subdivided into six biozones; they five zones of Late Paleocene ( Igorina albeari subzone (P3b), G. Globanomalina ...

process capability indices (pcis) can be used as an effective tool for measuring product quality and process performance. in classic quality control there are some limitations which prevent a deep and flexible analysis because of the crisp definition of pca‟s parameters. fuzzy set theory can be used to add more flexibility to process capability analyses. in this study, the fuzzy x ba and mrx ba...

In real-world manufacturing environments, it is common to face a job-shop scheduling problem (JSP) with uncertainty. Among different sources of uncertainty, processing times uncertainty is the most common. In this paper, we investigate the use of a multiobjective genetic algorithm to address JSPs with uncertain durations. Uncertain durations in a JSP are expressed by means of triangular fuzzy n...

Unfortunately Table 1 was not corrected during the e.proof reading. The correct data for membrane composition in is as follow:

[1] A method of transfer function-noise (TFN) modeling is presented that operates in continuous time and uses a predefined family of impulse response (IR) functions. The resulting class of models is referred to as predefined IR function in continuous time (PIRFICT). It provides a useful tool for standardized analysis of time series, as it can be calibrated using irregularly spaced data and does...