Background The upgoing thumb sign has been frequently observed in patients with minor strokes and transient ischemic attacks as an indicator of brain involvement. We assessed the effect of primary motor cortex (M1) inhibition in the development of the upgoing thumb sign. Methods Used repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS, 1 Hz frequency for 15 min, 1s ISI, 900 pulses) at 60% of r...

DC-specific ICAM3-grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN), which is expressed on DCs, can interact with a variety of pathogens such as HIV-1, hepatitis C, Ebola, cytomegalovirus, Dengue virus, Mycobacterium, Leishmania, and Candida albicans. We demonstrate that human milk can inhibit the DC-SIGN-mediated transfer of HIV-1 to CD4+ T lymphocytes as well as viral transfer by both immature and mature DCs. ...

This paper regards Single Sign-On as an accumulation of a series of two-party authentication, multiparty authentication and authorization. Such a comprehension brings new semantics for Single Sign-On in grids: authentication service and authorization service are separable and could communicate with each other through SAML assertions; Single Sign-On could support both two-party and multiparty au...

We study the thermal properties of QCD in the presence of a small quark chemical potential µ. Derivatives of the phase transition point with respect to µ are computed at µ = 0 for 2 and 3 flavors of p-4 improved staggered fermions on a 16 3 ×4 lattice. Moreover we contrast the case of isoscalar and isovector chemical potentials, quantify the effect of µ = 0 on the equation of state, and comment...