In this announcement we describe categories of equivariant vector bundles on certain “spherical” varieties. Our description is in linear-algebra terms: vector spaces equipped with filtrations, group and Lie-algebra actions, and linear maps preserving these structures. The two parents of our description are i) the description of G-equivariant vector bundles on homogeneous spaces G/H as H-represe...

toxoplasma gondii contain various immunogenic antigens. the most important toxoplasma antigens are somatic and excreted/secreted antigens. rhoptry proteins are known as excreted/secreted antigens. these antigens have been proposed as a vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis. the main objective of the present work was cloning rhoptry protein1 (rop1) gene of toxoplasma gondii (rh) in a cloning v...

conclusions the results of the present study will increase our knowledge about molecular cloning and expression of the l. infantum kmp-11 gene, and this may be used as an effective target for controlling visceral leishmaniasis. results the kmp-11 gene was successfully subcloned in pcdna3 as a eukaryotic expression vector. recombinant kmp-11 protein was confirmed by the reverse transcriptase pol...

Heart vector location was estimated for 23 isolated, perfused rabbit hearts during paced ectopic beats. Twenty computer-processed signals, derived from the surface electrodes of a spherical electrolyte-filled tank containing the hearts, were optimally fitted with a locatable cardiac dipole every millisecond of the QRS and every 3rd msec of the ST-T interval. During the QRS, the computed heart v...

In this paper the necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the solution of a system of parameter varying linear inequalities of the form A (t)x ≥ b (t) for all t ∈ T , where T is an arbitrary set, x is the unknown vector, A (t) is a known triangular Toeplitz matrix and b (t) is a known vector. For every t ∈ T the corresponding inequality defines a polyhedron, in which the solution shou...

0 = d dt ‖x(t)‖ = 2x(t) ẋ(t) = 2x(t)Ax(t) = x(t) (A+ A )x(t) for all x(t), which occurs if and only A+A = 0, which is the same as A = −A, i.e., A is skew-symmetric. There are many other ways to see this. For example, the norm of the state will be constant provided the velocity vector is always orthogonal to the position vector, i.e., ẋ(t)x(t) = 0. This also leads us to A + A = 0. Another approa...

Tetrahymena thermophila has been transformed to paromomycin-resistant phenotypes by microinjection of an aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase (neo) gene under the control of the T. thermophila histone H4-I promoter. This chimeric neo gene, by itself or on a vector containing a rRNA-encoding DNA (rDNA) origin of replication, transforms T. thermophila. In cells transformed with the rDNA origin ve...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a new successful treatment for refractory B-cell leukemia. Successful therapeutic outcome depends on long-term expression of CAR transgene in T cells, which is achieved by delivering transgene using integrating gamma retrovirus (RV) or lentivirus (LV). However, uncontrolled RV/LV integration in host cell genomes has the potential risk of causing...

A state i is said to be transient if fii < 1; and it is said to be persistent if fii = 1. Denote by q = (q 1, q t 2, . . . , q t n) the state probability vector (the distribution of the chain at time t), to be a row vector whose i-th component is the probability that the Markov chain is in state i at time t. A distribution π is a stationary distribution for a Markov chain with transition matrix...