This article takes its name and inspiration from Mad Professor’s album A Caribbean Taste of Technology in response to the theme of this Technosphere issue. This makes a good place to start a discussion of creolization and technology – the dub reggae tracks of this album produced British producer Mad Professor and released in 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewDTHfJqLwI So what I present he...

Laboratory-adapted (LA) macrophage-tropic (M-tropic) human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates (e.g., HIV-1(Ba-L)) and low-passage primary (PR) isolates differed markedly in tropism for syngeneic neonatal monocytes, monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs), and placental macrophages (PMs). Newly adherent neonatal monocytes and cultured PMs were highly refractory to infection with PR HIV-1...

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a paired-dominating set of G if every vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in S and if the subgraph induced by S contains a perfect matching. The maximum cardinality of a minimal paired-dominating set of G is the upper paired-domination number of G, denoted by pr(G). We establish bounds on pr(G) for connected claw-free graphs G in terms of the number n of v...

The transcript levels of six defense genes including pathogenesis-related gene 1 (PR-1), pathogenesis-related gene 2 (PR-2), pathogenesis-related gene 5 (PR-5), lipoxygenase (LOX), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) and catalase (CAT) were investigated in tomato plants inoculated with Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli as a non-host pathogen and X. euvesicatoria as a host pathogen. Activation o...

We discovered a 1,3-dipolar species co-existing in two different structures. Photolysis of matrix-isolated 5-phenyltetrazole generates two forms of phenylnitrile imine: propargylic and allenic. They are not resonance structures but correspond to different energy minima, representing bond-shift isomers. These distinct species were characterized spectroscopically and confirmed by calculations up ...

Most of the allergenic proteins from fruits identified so far belong to different families pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins. These PR have been classified in structurally and functionally unrelated proteins, but majority all fruit allergens three groups, particular PR-5 thaumatin-like (TLP), PR-10 Bet v 1-like PR-14 non-specific lipid transfer (nsTLP). Some can also be found among PR-protein ...

Let ℓ≥5 be prime. For the partition function p(n) and 5≤ℓ≤31, Atkin found a number of examples primes Q≥5 such that there exist congruences form p(ℓQ3n+β)≡0(modℓ). Recently, Ahlgren, Allen, Tang proved are infinitely many for every ℓ. In this paper, wide range c∈Fℓ, we prove p(ℓQ3n+β0)≡c⋅p(ℓQn+β1)(modℓ) Q. positive integer r, let pr(n) r-colored function. Our methods yield similar pr(n). partic...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate tolerability, safety, and quality-of-life outcomes in non-opioid-pretreated patients with severe chronic low back pain with a neuropathic component receiving tapentadol PR vs. oxycodone/naloxone PR. METHODS Eligible patients (average pain intensity [numerical rating scale] ≥ 6; painDETECT positive/unclear ratings) were randomized to twice-daily tapentadol PR 50 mg or oxy...

Twenty nine patients (median age 12 years) with a CNS tumour, received platinum-based chemotherapy for assessable disease. In 23 patients there was an objective response with improvement lasting for a median duration of 11 months. There was little difference in the response to cisplatinum or carboplatin therapy. The response rates in specific disease groups were: medulloblastoma 8/10, two with ...