the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency, location and type of rpob gene mutations in mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb) collected from patients in the southern endemic region of iran. drug susceptibility testing was determined by using the bactec system and the center for diseases control’s (cdc) standard conventional proportional method. in 29 rifampicin-resistant mtb (85%) isolat...

backgrounds and aims: mastitis is a mammalian disease which is considered important due to its potential economic damages. trueperella pyogenesis is one of the important opportunistic pathogens of the mammary glands of cattle. this bacterium can produce acute mastitis infection in dairy cattle. in fact, this bacterium has several virulence genes which contribute to its pathogenicity. therefore,...

conclusions detection and surveillance of the significant sites of mutations in hbv is crucial for clinicians to decide on the choice of antiviral treatment and further management of hepatitis b carriers. objectives this study was carried out to detect mutations in p gene of hepatitis b virus isolated from malaysian hbv carriers. materials and methods a total of 58 sera samples were analyzed by...

background : anopheles stephensi is a sub-tropical species and has been considered as one of the most important vector of human malaria throughout the middle east and south asian region including the malarious areas of southern iran. current reports confirmed an. stephensi resistance to temephos in oman and india. however, there is no comprehensive research on mechanisms of temephos resistance ...

Prohibitin is an evolutionary conserved protein that is associated with cellular differentiation, atresia, and luteolysis in the rat ovary. However, the specific cellular location and function of prohibitin in ovarian cells has not been clearly elucidated. To characterize the expression of prohibitin during cell proliferation, differentiation, and cell death, we have successfully established a ...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY To investigate laryngeal function in cases of recurrent laryngeal neuropathy pre- and post laryngoplasty (LP) using dynamic respiratory endoscopy (DRE). OBJECTIVES To compare the rima glottidis area during DRE pre- and post LP; document all forms of dynamic upper airway obstruction (DUAO) pre- and post LP and investigate the relationship between post operative abd...

ABSTRACT Most barley cultivars are resistant to stripe rust of wheat that is caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. The barley cv. Steptoe is susceptible to all identified races of P. striiformis f. sp. hordei (PSH), the barley stripe rust pathogen, but is resistant to most P. striiformis f. sp. tritici races. To determine inheritance of the Steptoe resistance to P. striiformis f. sp. t...

This paper proposes a new paradigm, referred to as Recurrent Genetic Algorithms (RGA), to sustain Genetic Algorithm (GA) evolvability and effectively improves its ability to find superior solutions. RGA attempts to continually recover evolvability loss caused by the canonical GA iteration process. It borrows the term Recurrent from the taxonomy of Neural Networks (NN), in which a Recurrent NN (...

Plasma plumes resulting from Nd:YAG laser ablation of copper and Fecralloy (Fe 72.8%, Cr 22%, Al 5%, Zr trace, Y trace) have been analysed simultaneously with Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry (LAMS). A commercially available Residual Gas Analyser (RGA) was employed to perform mass spectrometric analysis of the neutral and ionic species created dur...

The Relative Gain Array (RGA) provides a quantitative comparison of interactions between control loops. It shows steady state interactions between control loops. The thermodynamic concept of exergy can be used to analyse a process in terms of its efficiency. The Relative Exergy Array (REA) that measures both the relative exergetic efficiency and controllability of a process has been proposed (2...