The alpine wetlands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau have degraded recent decades. However, response of soil food web to degradation is still unclear. Four habitats including a wet meadow (WM), grassland (GM), moderately (MDM) and severely (SDM) (sandy meadows) were selected along degrees degradation. macrofaunal biomass environmental factors vegetation investigated. community increased significa...

Purpose To develop a particle transport code to compute w-values and stopping power of swift ions in liquid water gases interest for reference dosimetry hadrontherapy. analyze the relevance inelastic post-collisional processes considered. Methods The Monte Carlo MDM was extended case ion impact on (MDM-Ion). Relativistic corrections cross sections Auger emission were effects introducing differe...

We have reported previously that human alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP) inhibits the infection of human monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) by R5 HIV-1, and that a disulphide-bridged peptide mimicking the clade B HIV-1 gp120 consensus V3 domain (V3Cs) binds specifically to CCR5 (the major co-receptor of R5 HIV strains) on these cells [Seddiki, Rabehi, Benjouad, Saffar, Ferriere, Gluckman and Gat...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection of monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) results in delayed and nonlytic productive viral growth. During late stages of replication, infectious virus remains cell associated in cytoplasmic vacuoles. In order to understand HCMV survival and persistence in MDM, we examined mechanisms involved in the formation and trafficking of HCMV-containing vacuoles in these...

Motivated by evolving business requirements and novel enterprise applications, we propose and implement the Semantic Master Data Management (SMDM), a semanticslevel enhancement to the existing MDM solutions. The SMDM system publishes relational-based master data as virtual RDF store, and injects instantaneous reasoning capabilities into semantic queries. Two kinds of ontologies are introduced t...

BACKGROUND A history of penicillin allergy in patients is common, but only 10-15 % are truly allergic. While the gold standard for diagnosing penicillin allergy is challenge, it is not recommended that this be done without first carrying out diagnostic skin testing. This is carried out with the major determinant benzylpenicilloyl (PPL) and the minor determinant mixture (MDM), consisting of peni...

Substance P (SP) is a potent modulator of neuroimmunoregulation. We recently reported that human immune cells express SP and its receptor. We have now investigated the possible role that SP and its receptor plays in HIV infection of human mononuclear phagocytes. SP enhanced HIV replication in human blood-isolated mononuclear phagocytes, whereas the nonpeptide SP antagonist (CP-96,345) potently ...

The Modified Direct Method (MDM) is an iterative mesh smoothing method for smoothing planar and surface meshes, which is developed from the non-iterative smoothing method originated by Balendran [1]. When smooth planar meshes, the performance of the MDM is effectively identical to that of Laplacian smoothing, for triangular and quadrilateral meshes; however, the MDM outperforms Laplacian smooth...