Diabetes remains one of the oldest diseases all over the world and is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in human populations. The pathology is a consequence of a lack of insulin or resistance to insulin, resulting in an increase in blood glucose levels. Resistance to insulin is an important risk factor in the industrial world and is often associated with obesity. Taking the proportions...

Increasing evidence suggests that some newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VoCs) resist neutralization by antibodies elicited the early-pandemic wild-type virus. We applied tests to paired recoveree sera (n = 38) using clinical isolates representing first wave (D614G), VoC1, and VoC2 lineages (B.1.1.7 B 1.351). Neutralizing inhibited contemporary VoC1 lineages, whereas inhibition was ...

Anticorruption awareness raising efforts are designed to encourage citizens resist and report corruption but have been found either not work or unwanted effects—including increasing bribe payment. This article represents the first test of whether these also undermine critical aspects a society's social contract, namely, willingness pay tax. Using household level survey experiment in Lagos, Nige...

Background: Based on the reports, Aloe vera extract, a herbal medicine, has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects. Also, this medicinal plant has considerable effects on innate immunity through cytokine secretion which resist fungal infections such as Candida albicans. Moreover, Aloe vera is considered as immunomodulatory agent and regulate inflammatory responses. Materials and Methods: I...

We have calculated the electron energy deposition distribution in Calixarene negative resist and analyzed the development profile in order to improve the resolution of pattern. From the trajectories and energy deposition distribution in resist at various beam diameters, it is obvious that the thinner resist film should be adopted for formation of very fine dots. The analysis of relationship bet...