UNLABELLED The possibility that vaccination with adenovirus (AdV) vectors increased mucosal T cell activation remains a central hypothesis to explain the potential enhancement of HIV acquisition within the Step trial. Modeling this within rhesus macaques is complicated because human adenoviruses, including human adenovirus type 5 (HAdV-5), are not endogenous to macaques. Here, we tested whether...

where the C, are matrices of Coriolis and centrifugal coefficients. If T is used to denote the torque due to the minimum norm acceleration, then T can be obtained by substituting the first term of (6), i.e., the pseudoinverse solution, into (7), which results in where T is the vector of joint torques, H is the inertia matrix, C is a vector of torques due to Coriolis and centrifugal effects, and...

Chimeric repressor gene-silencing technology (CRES-T) is a powerful tool that has recently been developed for the functional analysis of plant transcription factors and for the genetic manipulation of plant traits. For CRES-T, a transcription factor is converted to a strong repressor by fusion with an SRDX repression domain, which is then expressed in plants to induce a loss-of-function phenoty...

  Genetic typing methods of T. gondii strains have been extensively perfected in recent years. From a technical point of view, many tools usable for genetic studied on single-copy loci have been used: RFLP, PCR-RFLP, sequencing, RAPD-PCR and isoenzyme analysis. We described the cloning and sequence analysis of the gene which encodes the major surface antigen (SAG1 or P30) of T. gondii. SAG1 is ...

NomencLature A the closectloop mapping from r to f d nxl external-force vector on the robot end-polnt e nxl input trajectory vector %,dm posltive scalars E envtronment d namics f nxt vector of ttie contact force fm, &, t he l m t m value of the contact force and robot posttlon 8r ngld envlronment robot dynamics with positloning controller comDensator transfer functlon matrlx nxl hput-c...

The properties of ρ-mesons at finite temperature (T ) are examined with an effective chiral lagrangian in which vector and axial-vector mesons are included as massive Yang-Mills fields of the chiral symmetry. It is shown that, at T 2 order, the effective mass is not changed but only the mixing effect in vector and axial-vector correlator appears. PACS numbers : 25.75+r, 11.10.Wx, 11.30.Rd Types...

A tree T is said to be homogeneous if it is uniquely rooted and there exists an integer b > 2, called the branching number of T , such that every t ∈ T has exactly b immediate successors. A vector homogeneous tree T is a finite sequence (T1, ..., Td) of homogeneous trees and its level product ⊗T is the subset of the cartesian product T1 × ...× Td consisting of all finite sequences (t1, ..., td)...

• Review of vector fields and differential equations in Rn . Let X be a vector field on a nonempty open subset of Rn . An integral curve of X with initial condition p0 is a differentiable path c : (a,b) → Rn , defined on an open interval containing 0 such that c(0) = p0 and c ′(t ) = X (c(t )) for all t ∈ (a,b). Thus to the vector field X one associates a differential equation ṗ = X (p). A solu...

X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) is an inherited genetic immunodeficiency associated with mutations in the common cytokine receptor γ chain (γc) gene, and characterized by a complete defect of T and natural killer (NK) cells. Gene therapy for SCID-X1 using conventional retroviral (RV) vectors carrying the γc gene results in the successful reconstitution of T cell immunity. Ho...

Let A be a type t artinian level algebra with h-vector h =) be the h-vector of the generic type c level quotient of A having the same socle degree e. The main result of this paper is an (in general sharp) lower-bound for the h-vector H H c,gen u ≥ 1 t 2 − 1 ((t − c)h e−u + (ct − 1)h u). This result generalizes a recent theorem of Iarrobino (which treats the case t = 2). Finally, we begin to obt...