The Response Bias Scale (RBS) and the Henry-Heilbronner Index (HHI) are two recently developed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) validity scales empirically derived for the purpose of detecting feigned symptom report. Utilizing a veteran sample, the present study examined the utility of these and other MMPI-2 validity scales in predicting Word Memory Test (WMT) failure and ...

We examined ve methods for selecting the of the summary tree topology, MCC, TCB, CCD, HPF and HPV. The rst four are explained in the article, and the last is simply picking the topology of the tree with the highest posterior value. The article shows results for only for MCC and TCB, and here we show why. Table 1 and 2 summarise the pairwise performance of the ve methods. Each method can be coup...

Chlamydia trachomatis LGV-434 was grown in HeLa 229 cells. Benzylpenicillin completely inhibited the formation of infectious elementary bodies (EBs) at a concentration of 19 pmol/ml or higher and produced abnormally large reticulate bodies (RBs) in the inclusions at 30 pmol/ml or higher. The possible targets for penicillin in C. trachomatis were three penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) which we...

Previous efforts to identify cross-neutralizing antibodies to the receptor-binding site (RBS) of ebolavirus glycoproteins have been unsuccessful, largely because the RBS is occluded on the viral surface. We report a monoclonal antibody (FVM04) that targets a uniquely exposed epitope within the RBS; cross-neutralizes Ebola (EBOV), Sudan (SUDV), and, to a lesser extent, Bundibugyo viruses; and sh...

The Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) online banking systems are vulnerable to a remote attack which allows an adversary to steal money from a customer’s account. The vulnerability has arisen as a result of poor software engineering practice which neglected security. More precisely, the authentication mechanisms used by Natwest and RBS are dependent on six pieces of customer data, namely...

Thousands of proteins make up a chloroplast, but fewer than 100 are encoded by the chloroplast genome. Despite this low number, expression of chloroplast-encoded genes is essential for plant survival. Every chloroplast has its own gene expression system with a major regulatory point at the initiation of protein synthesis (translation). In chloroplasts, most protein-encoding genes contain elemen...

The slow execution speed of current rule-based systems (RBSs) has restricted their application areas. To improve the speed of RBSs, various electronic multiprocessor systems as well as optical systems have been proposed. However, the electronic systems still su er in performance from the large amount of required time-consuming pattern matching and comparison operations at the core of RBSs. Whil...

BACKGROUND Nowadays there is a debate about the indication of the oral whole-cell/recombinant B-subunit cholera vaccine (WC/rBS) in traveller's diarrhoea. However, a cost-benefit analysis based on real data has not been published. METHODS A cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit study of the oral cholera vaccine (WC/rBS), Dukoral for the prevention of traveller's diarrhoea (TD) was performed in ...

Failure of chemotherapy associated with expression of the multidrug resistance protein p170 frequently occurs in retinoblastoma (RB). Despite using cyclosporine, which inhibits p170 and improves our chemotherapy results, rare failures occur. In nonmetastatic primarily enucleated RBs, we show expression ofpl7O in 3 of 18 samples and expression of multidrug resistance protein (MRP), the second pr...