Bacterial meningitis is a major cause of death and disability in children worldwide. Two human restricted respiratory pathogens, Streptococcus pneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae , are the causative agents bacterial meningitis, attributing to 200,000 deaths annually. These pathogens often part nasopharyngeal microflora healthy carriers. However, what factors elicit them disseminate invasive disea...

The photocatalytic and plasmonic photothermal cancer cell-killing activity of the metallic Au-capped TiO(2) (Au@TiO(2)) composite colloidal nanopellets has been investigated on HeLa cells under UV-visible (350-600 nm) light irradiation. The Au@TiO(2) composite nanopellets with the uniform Au-capped TiO(2) structure were successfully synthesized by simple reduction of HAuCl(4) on the surface of ...

52 β- thalassemia major patients were studied. Their ages ranged from two to 20 years. The group consisted of 22 girls and 30 boys. Candida intracellular killing and NBT (nitroblue tetrazolium) tests were performed on the peripheral blood neutrophils of these patients. Average results of the intracellular killing test was within normal range for the patients, but showed an appreciable decr...

Dioscorea species, known as “Yams,” belong to family Dioscoreaceae. This genus consists ofmore than 600 species distributed from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean’s South America, and theSouth Pacific islands. Their organoleptic properties make them the most widely used carbohydratefood and dietary supplements. The underground and/or aerial tubers represent valuable sources...

It is confirmed rigorously that the Killing–Cauchy horizons, which sometimes occur in spacetimes representing the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background, are unstable with respect to bounded perturbations of the initial waves, at least for the case in which the initial waves have constant aligned polarizations.

insulting to prophet or imam is obscene, shameful and insupportable for any muslim, so the person who insults must be killed. any where that there is no islamic government or it has not been ordained any rule about killing insulter; killing insulter has no retaliation (punishment). but when legislator especially issued a rule for killing punishment in article513 for the crime of insulting to pr...

In this paper the symmetries of the dual manifold were investigated. We found the conditions when the manifold and its dual admit the same Killing vectors and Killing-Yano tensors. In the case of an Einstein’s metric gμν the corresponding equations for its dual were found. The examples of Kerr-Newman geometry and the separable coordinates in 1 + 1 dimensions were analyzed in details.

SUMMARY The colony-forming ability of HeLa cells that survived an initial dose of X-irradiation proved abnormally sensitive to lucanthone. Surviving cells gradually regained normal resist ance to lucanthone treatment, which implied that lucanthone was acting to inhibit a postradiation repair process. Enhance ment of cell killing by lucanthone was comparable in degree to that induced by actinomy...