With many scientific disciplines represented by CDC scientists, the checklist was developed to have utility in conducting laboratory and basic science studies, epidemiologic studies, and behavioral and social science studies employing a variety of study designs. In using the checklist, investigators should select the items that apply to their types of studies. It is unlikely that any protocol w...

The purpose of this study was to identify vaccination patterns of both general pediatricians and subspecialists with regards to their own children and projected progeny. A 14 question survey was sent randomly to 1000 members of the Academy of Pediatrics in 2009. Two categories of questions included 1) how physicians with children vaccinated them in the past, and 2) how all respondents would vac...

LAPI is a low-level, high-performance communication interface available on the IBM RS/6000 SP system. It provides an activemessage-like interface along with remote memory copy and synchronization functionality. It is designed primarily for use by experienced programmers in developing parallel subsystems, libraries and tools, but we also expect power programmers to use it in end-user application...

Uncultured tumor-infiltrated spleen cells (TISpC) from mice bearing large (20-22 mm) s.c. MOPC-315 plasmacytomas were previously shown to be ineffective in bringing about the cure of mice bearing a nonpalpable (Day 4) tumor that had been treated with a subcurative dose (10 mg/kg) of cyclophosphamide (i.e.. adoptive chemoimmunotherapy, U M) (M. B. Mokyr, J. C. D. Hengst, and S. Dray, Cancer Res....

The aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of polyethylene glycols (PEGs) in a model wastewater was investigated employing sludge microbes from Xiamen Terylene plant. The effect of molecular weight (MW) on the aerobic/anaerobic biodegradation of PEGs was assessed by performing shake flasks/sealed flasks experiments, respectively, using organic model wastewater containing PEG 600, 6000 and 20,000....

Let G be a finite group and k be a field of characteristic p. We investigate the homotopy category K(Inj kG) of the category C(Inj kG) of complexes of injective (= projective) kG-modules. If G is a p-group, this category is equivalent to the derived category Ddg(C(BG; k)) of the cochains on the classifying space; if G is not a p-group it has better properties than this derived category. The ord...

Background Microparticles are one of drug delivery systems designed for sustained and controlled release drugs a long period time. Clotrimazole is broad-spectrum antifungal agent, which generally used treatment Candida albicans others fungal infections. Objective The present study aims to fabricate microparticles using beeswax (lipophilic coating) polyethylene glycol (hydrophilic coating). Meth...

The leapfrog scheme is a commonly used second-order method for solving differential equations. Letting Z denote the state of the system, we compute the state at the next time step as Z (t + 1) = H (Z(t);Z(t 1); W), where t denotes a particular time step, H is the nonlinear timestepping operator, and W are parameters that are not time dependent. In this article, we show how the associativity of ...