Introduction Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is the most common hereditary autoinflammatory syndrome affecting >10,000 people in Israel. FMF is caused by mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes for the pyrin protein that is part of the inflammation complex that activates IL-1b. Evidence from case reports/series and one controlled study supports IL-1 blockage as a potential treatment for FM...

Privacy policies in sectors as diverse as Web services, finance and healthcare often place restrictions on the purposes for which a governed entity may use personal information. Thus, automated methods for enforcing privacy policies require a semantics of purpose restrictions to determine whether a governed agent used information for a purpose. We provide such a semantics using a formalism base...

Introduction the possible range of clinical manifestations associated to the different mutations associated to autoinflammatory disorders is still largely unknown. A registry of hereditary auto-inflammatory disorders mutations is available on the web (Infevers, http://fmf.igh.cnrs.fr/ISSAID/infevers/). This registry gathers updated information on all mutations responsible for hereditary inflamm...

1. Land: New inversion algorithm implemented. 2. Land: Valid range of AOD extended to -0.1 3. Land: Aerosol models now based on Dubovik (2002) and new geographic distribution 4. Land: Surface reflectance relationships a function of vegetation index and scattering angle. 5. Land: Subpixel snow mask implemented 6. Land: Cloud mask adjusted and QA flag set to 0 in some situations. 7. Land: Mass co...

Thirteen betelvine cultivars (PB 001 to PB 013) collected from different locations of Bangladesh showed remarkable variations in disease reaction foot and root rot caused by Sclerotium rolfsii. The lowest incubation period 8 days was required for the 005 (BARI line), 006 (Misti pan), 009 Pan-1) 010 (Bangla pan) highest 22 (Laldingi 013 (Gayasur appearance 1st symptoms. incidence ranged 8.33 100...

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سفیدبالک‏ گلخانه Trialeurodes vaporariorum یکی از مهم‌ترین آفات محصولات گلخانه‏ای در سراسر دنیا می‏باشد. این پژوهش، زیست­شناسی و جدول زندگی دوجنسی سن- مرحله آفت روی سه محصول مهم شامل بادمجان، خیار گوجه‏فرنگی دمای 2±25 درجه‏ سلسیوس، رطوبت نسبی 10±65 درصد دوره نوری 16:8 ساعت (تاریکی: روشنایی)‏ مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. میانگین‏ها خطای معیار بر اساس روش بوت‏استراپ با یک‏صد هزار تکرار محاسبه شد. نتایج ...

The downtime of a large industrial operation is often prohibitively expensive and a failure of a mission critical system could have disastrous consequences. Lacking an effective approach to mitigate the risks in system upgrades or to introduce third party supplied open system components, many industrial systems and defense systems are forced to keep outdated computing hardware and software. A p...