To study the major histocompatibility complex class II I-E dependence of mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) superantigens, we constructed hybrids between the I-E-dependent MMTV(GR) and the I-E-independent mtv-7 superantigens and tested them in vivo. Our results suggest that, although the C-terminal third mediates I-A interaction, additional binding sites are located elsewhere in the superantigen.

(b) If a process X(t) is strongly stationary, all of its moments have to be independent of t. The third moment of X(t), E(X(t)) = (EA)(cos(ωt) + sin(ωt)), is not a constant with respect to t unless EA = 0. Clearly we can find many examples of distributions for A so that the third moment is not zero while E(A) = 0. For example take A to be a discrete random variable with P (A = −1) = 1/3, P (A =...

If the first chapter of the Internet was about the dissemination of information, chapter two is about services. In the past, the Internet strategy of a company was about using a web site for advertising products. Today, companies shift their focus on electronic services (e-services), and the Internet offers a ubiquitous platform to support e-service deployment and provision. In particular, elec...

Earlier studies on e-business adoption factors have been conducted from a firm level perspective or from a single country level perspective. In this study, we propose a framework entitled “CBTG (Country characteristics-Business-Technology-Government Model)” that addresses a theoretical perspective on ebusiness adoption factors required for a nation level e-business development. The major goal o...

Proposed Work. The inherent complexity of applications, technologies, and platforms in today’s large scale distributed systems makes it extremely challenging for open systems to provide trustworthy services to end-users. In this research project, we propose an approach that integrates modern system virtualization techniques as well as new methods for runtime trust monitoring and assessment. Thi...

We attempt to formally deene the strong fair exchange problem and present a proof that it is impossible to solve strong fair exchange without a trusted third party. The proof is established by relating strong fair exchange to the problem of consensus and adapting the impossibility result of Fischer, Lynch and Paterson. We show that strong fair exchange is at least as hard as consensus and explo...

We propose Bloom cookies that encode a user’s profile in a compact and privacy-preserving way, without preventing online services from using it for personalization purposes. The Bloom cookies design is inspired by our analysis of a large set of web search logs that shows drawbacks of two profile obfuscation techniques, namely profile generalization and noise injection, today used by many privac...

Thirteen bovine leukemia virus- (BLV-) negative and 22 BLV-positive Holstein cows were immunized with J5 Escherichia coli bacterin at dry off, three weeks before calving, during the second week after calving, and three weeks after the third immunization. Serum was collected before the initial immunization, immediately before the third and fourth immunizations, and 21 days after the fourth immun...

Fang Gong1*, Lingtao Ding2, Donglin Jiang3, Chun Zhang3, Weihong Shen1, and Yuhong Pan1 Department of Laboratory medicine, The Third Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Wuxi 214041, China Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, The Third Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Wuxi 214041, China Burn Center, The Third Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Wuxi 214041, China *Corres...