background: candida albicans is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens that suppress immunologic mechanisms of the host. it is speculated that structural and secretory proteins of c. albicans have immunomodulatory effects in cancer. objective: to evaluate the effects of c. albicans structural and secreted proteins on intratumoral cd4/cd8 ratio as well as the survival rate in balb/c t...

IT business value research has identified a dual role of IT investment: to increase the firm’s productivity by improving or replacing other inputs, and to reshape intermediate value-creation processes. Innovation is one such process that has been recognised as critically important. This paper incorporates the innovation process in a model of overall production to estimate the effect of IT in th...

This paper investigates how social factors predict attitude towards gamification and intention to continue using gamified services, as well as intention to recommend gamified services to others. The paper employs structural equation modelling for analyses of data (n=107) gathered through a survey that was conducted among users of one of the world’s largest gamification applications for physical...

Arrows illustrate a large variety of semantics in diagrams. An automated interpretation of arrows would be highly desirable in pen-based interfaces. This paper formalizes the structural patterns of arrows, and identifies three structural properties that contribute to the interpretation of arrows: (1) the assignment of components to three slots, (2) the semantic types of the components, and (3) ...

We address the validation of the current sensed environmental state against a model known from earlier perception. Our surface based approach compares 3D range data of a built environment against an a priori scene model with the analysis of identified differences facilitating the hypothesis of causal structural changes within the scene. Experimental results show good success rates in identifyin...

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The sensitized photo-oxidation of amino acids in proteins is a special case of chemical modification, which is used in particular to study buried and exposed groups in proteins. The general principles of the technique and various applications of it are discussed in this article.

Many studies have focused on the relationship between vegetation biomass and environmental factors in grassland. However, several questions remain to be answered, especially with regards to the spatial pattern of vegetation biomass. Thus, the distributed mechanism will be explored in the present study. Here, plant biomass was measured at 23 sites along a transect survey during the peak growing ...