Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by pathogenic Leptospira. The whole-genome sequence of L. interrogans serovar Copenhageni together with bioinformatics tools represent a great opportunity to search for novel antigen candidates that could be used as subunit vaccine against leptospirosis. We focused on six genes encoding for conserved hypothetical proteins predicted to be exported to ...

Intracellular delivery of functional macromolecules using peptide transduction domains (PTDs) is an exciting technology with both experimental and therapeutic applications. Recent data indicate that PTD-mediated transduction occurs via fluid-phase macropinocytosis involving an intracellular pH drop to approximately 5. Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)-coordinated metals avidly bind hexahistidine-tagg...

The UK's first taught master's degree in medical humanities involves a field of inquiry that is frequently philosophical, pursuing interests and questions traditionally arising in medical philosophy and ethics, but on a larger interdisciplinary canvas, drawing upon literature and the visual arts, sociology and anthropology, social history and politics, and theological and religious perspectives.

YES I will make 2 arguments to support the idea that assisted death is in the best interests of some patients: death can sometimes be in a patient’s best interest; and capable patients are well positioned to determine when death is in their best interests. I will then argue that physicians should have a role in assisted death by reversing the premise of this debate and arguing that nobody’s int...

Waqf is a worship that highly recommended by Rasulullah SAW. practice will always flow through his thighs even though he has passed away. In addition to the waqf, there was manager who asked waqif manage waqf assets gave, namely Nazhir. Nazhir existence in development of very important, this can be likened company. He plays role developing produce something useful for religious and social inter...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...

This paper discusses the poetic modes of recounting past in a Sanskrit mahākāvya titled Sāḷuvābhyudaya, authored by Rājanātha Ḍiṇḍima ca. 1480 AD, to eulogise Sāḷuva Narasiṃha, soon-to-be founder dynasty Vijayanagara. Focusing on poem’s second canto, which is built theme divine intervention culminating miraculous conception future, I argue that depiction Narasiṃha as Ahobilanarasiṃha incarnate ...

adaption of metaphor and allusion has been always considered as the most valuable literary representations and seved as an appropriate device for benchmarking versification potential in poets. as one of shiite poets, seyed hemyari who has devoted his verse for defense from al-ul-bayt (pbut) has benefitted successfully from rhetoric images in this field. despite of its simplicity and plainness i...