D riving the rapid advance in knowledge of peptidebinding to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is the prospect of predicting which peptides from foreign proteins are likely to be antigenic, and thus effective immunogens in vivo. Despite the numerous peptides that theoretically could be generated from a foreign protein, in practice cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) focus upon just a f...

P N Rastogi is Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The success of any organization depends on its leadership. Although a good deal of research has been done on leadership, it is difficult to say what it is. Recent research classifies leaders broadly into two types: transactional and transforming (Burns, 1978). In t...

In most industries, ranging from information systems development to construction, an overwhelming proportion of projects are delayed beyond estimated completion time. This fact constitutes somewhat of a puzzle for existing theory. The present paper studies project delays and optimal contracts under moral hazard in a setting with time to build. Within this setup, project delays are found to be m...

Background: Because of the scarcity of antifungal drugs,their undesired side effects and emergence of drug resistant strains research for finding novel antifungal drugs with less side effects is necessary. In this research, the antifungal effects of satureja khuzistanica essence,which is a native plant in our province, on ten kinds of fungi were evaluated. Materials and methods: To extract the...

since long time ago, mobile metaphor and simile are most important mean for poetic images creation. the present paper studies bayati works according to the important role of the colors in poetic images creation in. we came to conclusion that the poet has used the colors in order to express his feelings, his unsatisfactory as well goals, aims and ideologies. the colors application or secret sema...

A description of the Essence' language as used by the tool Savile Row.

The influence of the environmental parameters on the traffic noise in the sea is studied with the help of a simplified model based on normal-mode propagation at a single frequency. The results show significant variation of the traffic noise spectrum level among the various seasons of the year. The differences are more pronounced when the bottom consists of soft sediments.