Traditional geostatistical space-time geostatistics is not able to take account of the generally strongly non-linear dynamics of multivariate space-time processes. To this effect physico-chemical transport models are in general more suitable. However, as the latter do not fully master the complexity of the processes they attempt to describe, either because of simplifying hypotheses or because t...

In this paper, we present new attacks on the redactable signature scheme introduced by Kundu and Bertino at VLDB ’08. This extends the work done by Brzuska et al. at ACNS ’10 and Samelin et al. at ISPEC ’12. The attacks address unforgeability, transparency and privacy. Based on the ideas of Kundu and Bertino, we introduce a new provably secure construction. The corresponding security model is m...

Associations between polymorphisms of the CD36 gene and susceptibility to coronary artery heart disease (CHD) are not clear. We assessed allele frequencies and genotype distributions of CD36 gene polymorphisms in 112 CHD patients and 129 control patients using semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. Additionally, we detecte...

mAb CS-35 is representative of a large group of antibodies with similar binding specificities that were generated against the Mycobacterium leprae lipopolysaccharide, lipoarabinomannan (LAM), and which cross-reacted extensively with LAMs from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria. That this antibody also cross-reacts with the arabinogalactan (AG) of the mycobacterial cell wall, sugg...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and the IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) family play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. This study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of IL-1 and IL-1R family genes with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) and Behcet's disease (BD) in Han Chinese. The case-control study was divided into two stages and included 419 VKH...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease of grave public health concern worldwide. Early diagnosis and treatment required to reduce morbidity & mortality from complications caused by secondary dengue infection. According WHO, the three main diagnostic modalities for infection are cultivation identification viruses, molecular methods, serology. Whereas virus labour intensive available on...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and molecular genetic characteristics human immunodeficiency virus in pregnant women Republic Guinea. Materials methods. material for blood plasma samples 972 from patients were examined presence HIV infection serological (Ag+Ab) markers (RNA). For with a positive PCR result sufficient viral load (>500 c/ml), sequences pol gene fragment resp...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate efficacy Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), immunochromatographic (ICG), and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) methods for detection rotavirus (RV) bovine coronavirus (BCV). Feces samples were collected from 90 diarrhoeic calves (male female) up one month age immune response against RV BCV infection assessed by usin...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial properties of multifunctional nanocomposites based on poly(dl-Lactide-co-Glycolide) (PLGA) and increasing concentration of silver (Ag) nanoparticles and their effects on cell viability for biomedical applications. PLGA nanocomposite films, produced by solvent casting with 1 wt%, 3 wt% and 7 wt% of Ag nanoparticles were investigated ...

Dendritic cells (DC) are the professional antigen-presenting cells of the immune system. Previous studies have demonstrated that targeting foreign antigens to DC leads to enhanced antigen (Ag)-specific responses in vivo. However, the utility of this strategy for the generation of MAbs has not been investigated. To address this question we immunized mice with IgG-peptide conjugates prepared with...