Arguments for an involvement of bacteria in the pathogenesis ofchronicjoint inflammation (arthritis) are several (1-12). To study the pathogenetic mechanism ofbacteriuminduced sterile arthritis, different animal models are used, among which, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced or adjuvant arthritis (AA)t (2) and streptococcal cell wall (SCW)-induced arthritis (1) are the best known. In both mode...

Substorm current wedge (SCW) formation is associated with global magnetic field reconfiguration during substorm expansion. We combine a two-loop model SCW (SCW2L) with a background magnetic field model to investigate distortion of the ionospheric footpoint pattern in response to changes of different SCW2L parameters. The SCW-related plasma sheet footprint shift results in formation of a pattern...

study was conducted to fractionate, tentatively identify and semi-quantitate the major proteins in the 3 SCW residual lipid fractions by sodiumdodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and densitometry. SCW, LDLF, MDLF, and HDLF contained 7, 3, 5, and 8 protein components, respectively. a-lactalbumin and 13-lactoglobulin accounted for 44.6 to 80.8% of the total proteins in the sew resid...

Sub-critical or supercritical water was utilized for the degradation of glycerol in an environmentally benign reaction. The reaction was carried out in a batch reactor in the temperature range of 473-673 K, pressure of 30 MPa, and reaction time of 20-60 min. The effects of temperature and reaction time were observed. The degradation of glycerol produced acetaldehyde, acrolein, allyl alcohol and...

A study was conducted to evaluate the cooking and eating quality of Ofada rice. Quality parameters measured were; volume increase, grain elongation (GE), water uptake (WU), cooking time (CT), solids in cooking gruel (SCW), gelatinization temperature (GT) and amylose content (AC). The result showed that Ofada rice had high cooked rice volume with length and breadth increase of 152.54% and 87.85%...

BACKGROUND The impact of anti-TNF, corticosteroid and analgesic therapy on inflammation and pain was evaluated in a novel mono-arthritic multi-flare rat Streptococcal Cell Wall (SCW) model using Etanercept, Dexamethasone and Buprenorphine. METHODS Multiple flares of arthritis were induced with an intra-articular injection of SCW in the hind ankle on day 1, followed by intravenous challenges o...

in order to study dry matter accumulation in different developmental stages and photoassimilates remobilization in bread wheat genotypes, a field experiment was carried out using a split split plot design based on a randomized complete block design with three replications in torogh agricultural and natural resources research station (mashhad, iran) in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. main plots were as...

A forced Korteweg–de Vries (fKdV) equation can be used to model the surface wave of a twodimensional water flow over a bump when the upstream Froude number is near one. The fKdV model typically has four types of solutions: sub-critical cnoidal waves, sub-critical hydraulic fall, transcritical upstream soliton radiation, and supercritical multiple solitary waves. This paper provides a numerical ...

Surface Canopy Water (SCW) is the intercepted rain water that resides within tree canopy and plays a significant role in hydrological cycle. Challenges arise measuring SCW remote areas using traditional ground-based techniques. Remote sensing radio spectrum has potential to overcome challenges where modelling approaches face difficulties. In this study, we aim at estimating by fusing informatio...