Periodontitis, a complex chronic inflammatory disease caused by subgingival infection, is among the most prevalent microbial diseases in humans which characterized periodontal damage, alveolar bone resorption, pain, and eventual tooth loss. Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) has widely infected >90% adults world associated with many human diseases, so that this study aimed to investigate association b...

Pao-Yang Chen, Amit Ganguly, Liudmilla Rubbi, Luz D. Orozco, Marco Morselli, Davin Ashraf, Artur Jaroszewicz, Suhua Feng, Steve E. Jacobsen, Atsushi Nakano, Sherin U. Devaskar, and Matteo Pellegrini Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, Neonatal Research Center, David Geffen School ...

Understanding the mechanism of salinity tolerance in any crop plant is a prerequisite to crop development with regards to this trait. However, analogous to agronomic breeding for yield, salt tolerance breeding in grapevines is hampered by the complex nature of the plant response to a soil solution containing a high concentration of salt (reviewed in M. Ashraf and P.J.C. Harris, eds., 2005, Abio...

Sources 1. Ashraf U, Ye J, Ruan X, Wan S, Zhu B, Cao S. Usutu virus: an emerging flavivirus in Europe. Viruses. 2015;7:219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v7010219 2. Pecorari M, Longo G, Gennari W, Grottola A, Sabbatini A, Tagliazucchi S, et al. First human case of Usutu virus neuroinvasive infection, Italy, August–September 2009. Euro Surveill. 2009;14:19446. 3. Weissenböck H, Bakonyi T, Rossi ...

The South African female labour force has been growing because of equity legislation and improved access to education and work opportunities (Finnemore & Cunningham, 1995; Franks, Schurink & Fourie, 2006; Mostert, 2009; Van den Berg & Van Zyl, 2008). However, progress with gender transformation and equity in the South African workplace is still unsatisfactory (Anonymous, 2012; Du Plessis & Bark...

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore, Corresponding Author. E-mail: [email protected]. Abstract  Many web-based tutoring environments involve tutoring using fixed sets of problems. Such environments are unable to accurately measure a student’s understanding about the subject matter. Unless a good pedagogical framework is used in the development o...

Maize (Zea mays) is one of the important food crops of India with other potential uses in preparation of livestock feed and biofuel. But production of maize in India is low compared to top maize producing countries due to abiotic stresses (Ranum et al., 2014). Among abiotic stresses affecting maize production in India, drought is the major limiting factor. In spite of extensive research on drou...

The undersigned hereby certify that they have read and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for acceptance a thesis entitled " An Ontology-Based Electronic Medical Record for Chronic Disease Management " by Ashraf Mohammed Iqbal in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Computer Science. Permission is herewith granted to Dalhousie University to circulate and...