BACKGROUND This study was designed to evaluate whether or not T. gondii and its derivatives can change the gene expression level of IL-10 in murine leukocytes in vivo. METHODS Fifty BALB/c mice were divided into 5 groups, four of which received the excretory/secretory product (ESP) from cell culture medium, the ESP from cell free medium, the Toxoplasma lysate product (TLP) and the active tach...

Leaf shrinkage with dehydration has attracted attention for over 100 years, especially as it becomes visibly extreme during drought. However, little has been known of its correlation with physiology. Computer simulations of the leaf hydraulic system showed that a reduction of hydraulic conductance of the mesophyll pathways outside the xylem would cause a strong decline of leaf hydraulic conduct...

The tension leg platform (TLP) is a vertically moored structure with excess buoyancy. The TLP is regarded as moored structure in horizontal plan, while inherit stiffness of fixed platform in vertical plane. In this paper, a numerical study using modified Morison equation was carried out in the time domain to investigate the influence of nonlinearities due to hydrodynamic forces and the coupling...

The failure behavior and the corresponding physical mechanism of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) under transmission line pulse (TLP) stress were investigated in this paper. result shows that output transfer characteristics HEMTs after 90 cycles begin to degrade by comparing with fresh ones 40 V TLP voltage, gate leakage current devices slightly increases. When voltage 52 wa...

This paper describes research in exploiting loop-level parallelism on a simultaneous multithreading processor. We discuss some general and ad-hoc techniques for loop parallelization that proved to be e ective with SMT, and how they were tuned for it. These techniques have been tested on the well-known Livermore loops, chosen for their variety of behaviors. The set of optimizations used produced...

In a letter to Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein complained that the British philosopher did not understand the main message of the Tractatus. He explained that “the main point is the theory of what can be expressed by propositions—i.e., by language . . . and what cannot be expressed by propositions, but only shown; which, I believe, is the cardinal problem of philosophy” (qtd. in Stern 69–70). Th...

The study focuses on the critical interlayer thickness for averting pore formation during transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding in the Cu–Sn system. Such pores are a consequence of the growth and subsequent contact of Cu6Sn5 intermetallic grains on the two surfaces to be bonded, prior to the formation of the transient liquid phase. A criterion for the critical interlayer thickness is developed, ...

This paper presents an experiment in which an implementation of the client side of the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (SSH-TLP) was semi-automatically derived according to a model-driven development paradigm that leverages formal methods in order to obtain high correctness assurance. The approach used in the experiment starts with the formalization of the protocol at an abstract level. This model...