Streptococcal preparation, OK-432, was examined for its therapeutic effect on experimental infection due to Mycobacterium lepraemurium (Mlm) in mice, When C3H/Jms mice (Mlm-sensitive strain) were infected with 108 Mlm to the left hind footpad, weekly injections of OK-432 via the peritoneal route (0. 1 mg dry weight per injection), it considerably enhanced elimination of organisms from the infec...

There are errors in the Author Contributions. Christoph Buettner should be listed as one of the persons who conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools and contributed to the writing of the manuscript. The correct contributions are: Conceived and designed the experiments: MLM and CB. Performed the experiments: MLM EK CL MLF. Analyzed ...

A general initial-boundary value problem of one-dimensional transient wave propagation in a multi-layered elastic medium due to arbitrary boundary or interface excitations (either prescribed tractions or displacements) is considered. Laplace transformation technique is utilised and the Laplace transform inversion is facilitated via an unconventional method, where the expansion of complex-valued...

each observation with p traits measured in each environment is normally distributed. For r environments, the Classification methods are used in genetic resource conservation vector of each observation has dimensions 1 rp, where and plant breeding. The two-stage Ward-Modified Location Model (Ward-MLM) clustering strategy defines initial groups by the Ward rp trait–environment combinations (varia...

BACKGROUND Biological system is a multi-layered structure of omics with genome, epigenome, transcriptome, metabolome, proteome, etc., and can be further stretched to clinical/medical layers such as diseasome, drugs, and symptoms. One advantage of omics is that we can figure out an unknown component or its trait by inferring from known omics components. The component can be inferred by the ones ...

Multilevel Models (MLM) have pioneered the analysis of hierarchical data of two or more levels. Agent-Based Models (ABM) are also used to analyse social phenomena in which there are two or more levels involved. This paper addresses a comparison between MLM and ABM. To provide a basis of comparison, we focus on differential school effectiveness analysis, where MLM has been well studied, using da...

khorasan province is one of the most important provinces of iran, especially as regards agricultural products. the prediction of crop yield with available data has important effects on socio-economic and political decisions at the regional scale. this study shows the ability of artificial neural network (ann) technology and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (anfis) for the prediction o...