Investigation of the immunologically active substance in Mycobacterium Zeprae has been hampered because of the unavail ability of pure cultures. However, this difficulty can now be circumvented in part by taking advantage of the identification of the group-specific antigen, Polysaccharide I (PolyINb ), present in Nocardia and Mycobacteria ( I. 3 G. 8) . This has been chemically characterized as...

For the sake of achieving remarkable superprism effect, we investigate in thin film Fabry-Perot filter which possess drastic change in phase and large group delay around wavelength of peak transmittance. The group delay and spatial dispersion shift are simulated numerically; while the device is fabricated and tested with the maximum spatial separation shift reach to 65μm. We also analyze Gaussi...

The question investigated in this paper is to what extent an input representation influences the success of learning, in particular from the point of view of analyzing agents that can interact with their environment. We investigate learning environments that have a group structure. We introduce a learning model in different variants and study under which circumstances group structures can be le...

INTRODUCTION To verify relationships between physical activity (steps per day) and obesity (components of body composition) among postmenopausal women. MATERIAL AND METHODS Physical activity (ActiGraph GT1M accelerometer; worn for 7 days) and obesity (body composition analyzer InBody 720) were assessed among 79 healthy postmenopausal women (age 63.25 ± 5.51 years; range: 51-81 years). In orde...

Isolation, purification and physicochemical properties of the antibiotic complex YA-56, a family of phleomycin-bleomycin group, are described. The antibiotic YA-56 complex was found to be composed mainly of two active components named YA-56X and Y. These components were clearly differentiated from the reported phleomycins and bleomycins by their physicochemical properties. However, by direct co...

This study used a moderator model to examine the relationship between active living and the physical components of health-related quality of life [i.e. overall physical component of quality of life (PQOL), physical functioning and ability to fulfill physical role] among a randomly selected sample of rural residents (n = 407) from the Midwestern US. Results showed that active living was associat...

Many traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) decoctions are proven to have multiple functions in animal production. These decoctions are seldom recognized by the international scientific community because the mechanisms of action are not clearly elucidated. According to TCM theory, Cortex Phellodendri (COP), Rhizoma Atractylodes (RA), Agastache Rugosa (AR), and Gypsum Fibrosum (GF) can be used to fo...

Traditionally, active shape models (ASMs) do not make a distinction between groups in the subject population and they rely on methods such as (single-level) principal components analysis (PCA). Multilevel principal components analysis (PCA) allows one to model betweengroup effects and within-group effects explicitly. Three dimensional (3D) laser scans were taken from 240 subjects (38 Croatian f...

hydroalcoholic extract of pycnocycla spinosa has spasmolytic effect in vitro and antidiarrhoeal action in vivo . the aim of this research was to separate fractions of total hydroalcoholic extract of p. spinosa guided by their spasmolytic activity. aerial parts of p. spinosa were extracted with ethanol. the concentrated extract was subjected to column chromatography and thin layer chromatography...