1 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, University of Cagliari, Policlinico Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy 2 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Room Ee 1714a’s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 UMR190, Emergence des Pathologies Virales Aix-Marseille Universite, Institut de Reche...

The membrane form of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein (mfVSG) is acylated with ester-linked tetradecanoic (myristic) acid (Ferguson, M. A. J., and Cross, G. A. M. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 3011-3015). Comparative analysis of Pronase peptides from mfVSG and soluble VSG localizes the site of mfVSG acylation to a COOH-terminal oligosaccharide structure. Chemical and enzymatic treat...

We have measured 21-cm absorption and emission spectra in the direction of a further 7 southern pulsars with the Parkes telescope to derive their kinematic distances and to study the interstellar medium. For the first time we have successfully obtained H i absorption measurements for PSRs J1602–5100, J1740–3015 and J1745–3040. We have also significantly improved the sensitivity and resolution o...

Balanced truncation (BT), as applied to date in model order reduction (MOR), is known for its superior accuracy and computable error bounds. Positive-real balanced truncation (PRBT) is a particular BT procedure that preserves passivity and stability, and imposes no structural constraints on the original state space. However, PRBT requires solving two algebraic Riccati equations (AREs), whose co...

Neonatal pneumonia diagnosed in 0.5 1.0% of full-term and 10 15% of premature babies. Of neonatal pneumonia contributes to failure resulting from maternal immunity factors, which affects the function of the immune system and, in particular, the mechanisms of innate immunity. Lactoferrin one of the factors of innate immunity directed against a range of bacteria, viruses and fungi. The aim of the...

In this paper, we have characterized the nature and form of solutions following nonlinear delay-differential equation: $$f^{n}(z)+\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}b_{i}f^{i}(z)+q(z)e^{Q(z)}L(z,f)=P(z),$$ where $b_i\in\mathbb{C}$, $L(z,f)$ are a linear polynomial $f$; $n$ is positive integers; $q$, $Q$ $P$ respectively nonzero, nonconstant any polynomials. Different special cases our result will accommodate all ...

Correspondence: Prof. Patrick Serruys MD, PhD, Head of Interventional Cardiology, Ba583a, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC,’s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands E-mail:[email protected] Coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Coronary revascularisation, with either percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass surgery ...

In this article, we explored 1) the extent of mental health (MH) service use by American Red Cross disaster relief workers, both before (lifetime) and 1 year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and 2) demographic, disaster and MH variables predicting (1-year) post-September 11 MH service use in this population. A sample of 3015 Red Cross disaster workers was surveyed 1 year after th...

Sodicity affects a larger area than salinity, but research on the sodicity tolerance mechanism is limited. The study was carried out to screen 120 finger millet genotypes under sodic soil conditions and identify sodicity-tolerant genotypes. experimental field were sandy clay loam with pH 8.9, electrical conductivity (EC) 0.94 dSm-1 exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) 21.5, which naturally sodi...