Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) are virulent intracellular pathogens that invade and multiply within macrophages. The effect of M. tuberculosis on HIV-1 infection and replication was analyzed in vitro using human monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells by countercurrent centrifugal elutriation. Preinfection o...

Different ways exist in optics to realize photons carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum. Such photons with rotating wave fronts are called twisted photons. In microwaves, twisted fields can be produced based on small ferrite particles with magnetic-dipolar-mode (MDM) oscillations. Recent studies showed strong localization of the electric and magnetic energies of microwave fields by MDM fer...

A general form of codebook design for code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (CD-NOMA) can be considered equivalent to an autoencoder (AE)-based constellation multi-user multidimensional modulation (MU-MDM). Due a constrained space optimal constellation, e.g., fixed resource mapping and equal power allocation all codebooks, however, existing AE architectures produce constellations with subo...

It gives us a great pleasure to welcome you to Taiwan and the International Conference on Mobile Data Management – MDM’09. This is the ``tenth edition’’ of a successful series of MDM conferences that aim at bringing together the data management, wireless networking, and mobile computing communities. Marking this important milestone, MDM’09 has become a premier forum for researchers and technolo...

Background Penicillin allergy is a common presentation in allergy clinic. The diagnosis of immediate hypersensitivity is made using clinical history, skin testing, specific IgE levels and oral challenge. Skin testing is done using benzyl penicilloyl-polylysine (PPL) and a minor determinant mixture (MDM) consisting of penicillin byproducts. Although using PPL and MDM is considered first line for...

A complex rearrangement mutation in the mouse titin gene leads to an in-frame 83-amino acid deletion in the N2A region of titin. Autosomal recessive inheritance of the titin muscular dystrophy with myositis (Ttn(mdm/mdm)) mutation leads to a severe early-onset muscular dystrophy and premature death. We hypothesized that the N2A deletion would negatively impact the force-generating capacity and ...

Human tibial muscular dystrophy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2J are caused by mutations in the giant sarcomeric protein titin (TTN) adjacent to a binding site for the muscle-specific protease calpain 3 (CAPN3). Muscular dystrophy with myositis (mdm) is a recessive mouse mutation with severe and progressive muscular degeneration caused by a deletion in the N2A domain of titin (TTN-N2ADelta...

Both, ERP and MDM target integration: ERP follows a business process centric approach and integrates master data along value chains into one ERP system. MDM follows a broader approach and targets providing an enterprise-wide single version of the truth of selected master data objects and distribution of them to the different target IT systems. ERP and MDM include overlapping master data managem...

Neutral memories unbind from their emotional acquisition context when sleep is allowed the night after learning and testing takes place after two additional nights of sleep. However, mood-dependent memory (MDM) effects are not abolished after a restricted sleep episode mostly featuring non rapid-eye-movement (NREM) or rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Here, we tested whether (1) one night of slee...

The major cause of death from breast cancer is not the primary tumour, but relapsing, drug-resistant, metastatic disease. Identifying factors that contribute to aggressive cancer offers important leads for therapy. Inherent defence against carcinogens depends on the individual molecular make-up of each person. Important molecular determinants of these responses are under the control of the mous...