The identification and characterization of Bacillus polyfermenticus KJS-2 (B. polyfermenticus KJS-2) was conducted using TEM, an API 50CHB kit, 16S rDNA sequencing, a phylogenetic tree, and catalase and oxidase testing. The conversion rate of glucose to lactic acid by B. polyfermenticus KJS-2 was found to be 60.71+/-4.9%. In addition, treatment of B. polyfermenticus KJS-2 with artificial gastri...

Background. Tuberculosis (TB) is world’s endemic infection, especially in developing countries. In children, tuberculosis infection can be seen as the great masquerade because have non-specific symptoms. Diagnosis of tuberculosis infection is more difficult in children because of chest x-ray are less specific; standard sputum samples are often difficult to collect; lower bacterial loads made mi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) blockade with etanercept in refractory knee joint synovitis (KJS) in rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, by local and systemic disease activity assessment and combined grey scale and power Doppler ultrasonographic monitoring. METHODS 27 knees affected by rheumatoid KJS (n = 12) and psoriatic KJS (n = 8) were assessed...

Bu çalışmada denizanalarının okyanustaki yiyecek arama davranışının modellenmesi ile oluşturulan yapay denizanası algoritmasının (JS) performansını geliştirmek amacıyla yeni gelişmiş bir algoritma önerilmiştir. Bunun için JS’ye karşıt tabanlı öğrenme yaklaşımı dahil edilerek popülasyondaki bireylerin uzayına daha doğru şekilde dağıtılması sağlanmıştır. Geliştirilmiş algoritma(KJS), standart kıy...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 17141 “Probabilistic Methods in the Design and Analysis of Algorithms”. Probabilistic methods play a central role in theoretical computer science. They are a powerful and widely applied tool used, for example, for designing efficient randomized algorithms and for establishing various lower bounds in complexity theory. They a...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 17141 “Probabilistic Methods in the Design and Analysis of Algorithms”. Probabilistic methods play a central role in theoretical computer science. They are a powerful and widely applied tool used, for example, for designing efficient randomized algorithms and for establishing various lower bounds in complexity theory. They a...

A long-term prospective study was performed to evaluate the safety and long-term outcome of surgical arthroscopy (AS) for persistent rheumatoid (RA) and psoriatic (PsA) knee joint synovitis (KJS). Local signs of joint inflammation (tenderness, swelling, "ballottement') and range of motion (ROM) were scored and the sum, taken as a global outcome measure, was recorded in 17 RA and 18 PsA knees, b...

BACKGROUND Up till now about 400 red cells antigen have been identified. The majority are inherited by Mendelian Fashion. The ABO blood group system was first to be identified and RH blood group system was the 4th one, both are most important for blood transfusion purposes. This study is conducted to determine the frequency of ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood groups in District Swat, NWFP, Pakistan. I...

In this work, we propose an improvement of the classical Derjaguin-Broekhoff-de Boer (DBdB) theory for capillary condensation/evaporation in mesoporous systems. The primary idea of this improvement is to employ the Gibbs-Tolman-Koenig-Buff equation to predict the surface tension changes in mesopores. In addition, the statistical film thickness (so-called t-curve) evaluated accurately on the bas...