The amino acid sequence corresponding to residues 107-116 of hen egg-white lysozyme (HEL) has been identified as containing an immunodominant T-cell epitope recognized in association with the I-Ed molecule. The immunodominance of this epitope in HEL-primed H-2d mice was demonstrated by analysis of the T-cell proliferative response induced by synthetic peptides covering almost the entire HEL seq...

The pion superfluidity phase transition at $$T-\mu _I$$ and $$\mu _q-\mu planes are studied in the framework of Dyson-Schwinger equations. rainbow truncation Gaussian effective gluon propagator employed to calculate condensate, $$\langle \pi \rangle $$ , as a function finite T _q$$ . At $$T=(0, 80, 113, 120)$$ MeV, keeps zero when is less than critical value _{Ic}(T)$$ $$T=113$$ MeV agrees with...

A total of 120 pleural fluid specimens from 113 pediatric patients were tested using two rapid antigen detection assays for Streptococcus pyogenes. Results were compared to culture, Gram stain, and PCR results. Each rapid antigen assay detected 9 out of 10 (90%) PCR-positive samples, with 100% specificity. These antigen detection assays are useful to provide microbiological diagnosis of empyema...

BACKGROUND Small heat shock proteins regulate microtubule assembly during cell proliferation and in response to stress through interactions that are poorly understood. METHODOLOGY Novel functions for five interactive sequences in the small heat shock protein and molecular chaperone, human alphaB crystallin, were investigated in the assembly/disassembly of microtubules and aggregation of tubul...

We consider the problem of approximating the b-chromatic number of a graph. We show that there is no constant ε > 0 for which this problem can be approximated within a factor of 120/113− ε in polynomial time, unless P = NP. This is the first hardness result for approximating the b-chromatic number.

This paper is devoted to an inequality for divided differences in the multivariate case which is similar to the inequality obtained by [J. Pečarić, and M. Rodić Lipanović, On an inequality for divided differences, Asian-European Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2008), 113-120].

The effects of different temperature and time conditions during retorting of canned cat food on physicochemical characteristics and palatability were examined. For this purpose, lacquer cans containing an unprocessed loaf-type commercial cat food were heated in a pressurised retorting system at three specified temperature-time profiles (113°C/232 min, 120°C/103 min and 127°C/60 min) to equal a ...

ion operator, 48active code, 102adaptive market hypothesis, 123ADATE, 48ADFcrossover, 49recursion prevention, 49troubleshooting, 134agentevolutionary, 122image processing, 122social simulation, 123aggregate fitness function, 75–76analogue circuit evolution, 119ant colony optimisation (ACO), 74PEEL, 74ant programming, generalised (G...

ion operator, 48active code, 102adaptive market hypothesis, 123ADATE, 48ADFcrossover, 49recursion prevention, 49troubleshooting, 134agentevolutionary, 122image processing, 122social simulation, 123aggregate fitness function, 75–76analogue circuit evolution, 119ant colony optimisation (ACO), 74PEEL, 74ant programming, generalised (G...