(Received: Feb. 24, 2013; Accepted in Revised Form: April 9, 2013) Abstract: Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is an antibiotic and immunosuppressive agent, as a secondary metabolite of Penicillium brevicompactum. Parameter optimization of culture composition using Test plan L16, available in the form of an orthogonal array and software for automatic design and analysis of the experiments, both based on ...

GIS-based modelling of topographyinduced solar radiation variability in complex terrain for data sparse region Min Liu a b , András Bárdossy c , Jing Li d & Yuan Jiang a a State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , PR China b Department of Bioenergy , Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) , Magdeburg , Germany c Depar...

Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at Laser Vision Center, Model Town, Lahore. It comprised of 200 patients(400 eyes) that underwent PRK on Summit Apex Plus excimer laser from 20 Feb 2004 to 3 June 2005. All consecutive patients with complete relevant data were included in the study. Three months postoperatively, the uncorrected visual acuity and complications in each...

Choledochal cyst is the congenital abnormality that almost invariably requires surgical intervention to prevent hepaticobiliary & pancreatic complications. Although majority of these patients present in infancy & childhood, about 20 – 30% are diagnosed in adults. This study was both retrospective & prospective in 30 patients from Jan, 2011 to Feb. 2014 admitted in the Department of General Surg...

Methods The study was conducted in SICU. ASCs were performed from 20 Sep 10 to 28 Feb 11 on all patients admitted/ transferred in/transferred out of SICU. ASC specimens consisted of swabs from anterior nares and axilla/groin. The swabs were inoculated onto chromogenic agar selective for MRSA (MRSASelect, Bio-Rad). MRSA positive patients were placed on contact precautions/isolation. Automatic ha...

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L. Rhoades and R. Eisenberger (2002) reported the meta-analytic finding of a highly statistically significant relation between perceived organizational support (POS) and performance but concluded that the reviewed studies’ methodology allowed no conclusion concerning the direction of the association. To investigate this issue, the authors assessed POS and extra-role performance 2 times, separat...

developed, it became clear that individuals who had recently been infected were sometimes symptomatic. Their flu-like symptoms became known as “acute retroviral syndrome,” and the overall initial period of infection as “acute” or “primary” HIV infection. Now the term “primary HIV infection” usually describes the initial period in which infection occurs and immune responses develop, roughly span...