Fifty patients with endoscopically proven gastric ulcers completed a one month double-blind randomised trial of tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate (TBD) (DeNol) compared with an identical placebo. Ulcer healing occurred in 18 (72%) of the 25 patients given TDB and in nine (36%) of the patients given placebo. The TDB group experienced significantly less pain than the placebo group. During a follo...

Now–a–days Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) has attracted the attention of both the industry and academia. Roadside units (RSUs) are one of the fundamental components of Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). VANET comprises of moving vehicles communicating with each other. During the initial stages of VANET, it is not possible to deploy more and more number of RSUs; it is so because of the lack o...

The phase-field method has been established as a de facto standard for simulating the microstructural evolution of materials. In quantitative modeling assessment and compilation thermodynamic/kinetic data is largely dominated by CALPHAD approach, which produced large set experimentally computationally generated Gibbs free energy atomic mobility in standardized format: thermodynamic database (TD...

A new vaccination strategy is urgently needed for improved control of the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Using a mouse aerosol Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge model, we investigated the protective efficacy of a mmaA4 gene deletion mutant of Mycobacterium bovis BCG (ΔmmaA4BCG) formulated in dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide (DDA) - D(+) trehalose 6,6 dibenenate (TDB) (DDA/TDB) adjuv...

Some emerging applications challenge the assumptions that have influenced the design of database systems in the past. One example is Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems, which ensure that digital goods such as music and books are consumed (i.e., played or viewed) according to the contracts associated with them. Enforcement of contracts may require access to some persistent state such as usa...

This study illustrates how electronic data interchange (EDI) could be used in conjunction with organizational transformation to generate phenomenal gains in organizational efficiency and effectiveness. It reviews the current literature on IT-enabled organizational transformation to identify key variables for measuring organizational change. It employs the case research method to examine the cas...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of thermal challenge at different intensities and durations on the production responses of 3 to 21-day-old broiler chickens. Two hundred and ten Cobb chicks were subjected to dry-bulb temperatures (tdb) of 27, 30, 33, or 36°C for the duration of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 days from the second day of life onwards. The experiment was carried out in four...

Tuberculosis places a staggering burden on human health globally. The new World Health Organisation End-TB Strategy has highlighted the urgent need for more effective TB vaccines to improve control of the disease. Protein-based subunit vaccines offer potential as safe and effective generators of protective immunity, and the use of particulate vaccine formulation and delivery by the pulmonary ro...

Highly dynamic networks rarely offer end-to-end connectivity at a given time. Yet, connectivity in these networks can be established over time and space, based on temporal analogues of multi-hop paths (also called journeys). Attempting to optimize the selection of the journeys in these networks naturally leads to the study of three cases: shortest (minimum hop), fastest (minimum duration), and ...

Successful vaccination against intracellular pathogens requires the generation of cellular immune responses. Trehalose-6,6-dibehenate (TDB), the synthetic analog of the mycobacterial cord factor trehalose-6,6-dimycolate (TDM), is a potent adjuvant inducing strong Th1 and Th17 immune responses. We previously identified the C-type lectin Mincle as receptor for these glycolipids that triggers the ...