Symbiotic Wolbachia organisms of filarial nematodes have received much attention as possible chemotherapy targets and disease-causing organisms. In order to further investigate the association between anti-Wolbachia immune responses and chronic filarial disease in humans, antibody responses to Wolbachia surface protein (WSP) were assayed in serum samples collected from 232 individuals living in...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different concentrations of WSP (wheat sprout powder) and ISP (isolated soy protein) on the quality of breakfast sausage. Treatments were formulated as follows: Control, T1 (2.0% ISP), T2 (1.5% ISP + 0.5% WSP), T3 (1.0% ISP + 1.0% WSP), T4 (0.5% ISP + 1.5% WSP) and T5 (2.0% WSP). The treatments were analyzed for color, pH, cooking lo...

Current web service platforms (WSPs) often perform all web servicesrelated processing, including security-sensitive information handling, in the same protection domain. Consequently, the entire WSP may have access to securitysensitive information such as credit card numbers, forcing us to trust a large and complex piece of software. To address this problem, we propose ISO-WSP, a new middleware ...

This paper presents a comprehensive approach to spectrum pricing and bandwidthmanagement for wireless service providers (WSPs) in heterogeneous wireless networks. Most approaches to spectrum management focus on revenue maximization for the WSPs. However, the key issue of the competitive edge held by a WSP over the others (i.e., its market share) is hardly addressed. The market shares of the WSP...

The concept of green payments together with single and multiple bidding processes for short-term spectrum auctions are compared based on two reference cases: (1) when the users and the auctioneer are aware of the value of the reserve price, and (2) when the value of the reserve price is known only to the auctioneer. This involves a novel concept known as the green payment. This concept is combi...

This study involved the evaluation of algae and macrophyte species distributions in three wastewater stabilization ponds (WSPs) at a wastewater treatment plant in Ontario, Canada, which has experienced high pH levels at the final effluent and excessive algae growth during the summer since 2003. From samples collected from the system, the relative abundances of specific algae and aquatic plant (...

Water-soluble pachyman (WSP) was prepared by enzymic hydrolysis of pachyman extracted from Poria cocos sclerotium using a 0.5 mol l 1 NaOH solution at the optimized conditions of 55 1C, pH 4, 4% pachyman, 2 U ml 1 hydrolase, and a hydrolysis time of 6 h. Two WSP fractions, WSP-1 and WSP-2, were prepared using SephadexG-100 to separate WSP. Both fractions were of the b-(1-3)-D-dextran structure ...

Previous studies have suggested that water-soluble polysaccharides from fermented carrot pulp (WSP-p) stronger anti-diabetic effects than those un-fermented (WSP-n). This study aimed to improve understanding of these functional differences by comparing their molecular structures. Weight-average weights WSP-p fractions were lower the corresponding WSP-n fractions. While both WSPs had similar gro...

A study was conducted utilizing a 2 x 2 x 4 x 4 factorial arrangements in which a nutritionally adequate diet was fed with and without 1200 FTU/kg of phytase and with or without 69 μg/kg of 25hydroxycholecalciferol, four levels of nonphytate phosphorus (NPP) (0.35, 0.40, 0.45, and 0.50%) and four levels of calcium (2:1 Ca:NPP ratio, 0.2% Ca less than the 2:1 ratio, 0.2% Ca more than the 2:1 rat...

TheWorkflow Satisfiability Problem (WSP) asks whether there exists an assignment of authorized users to the steps in a workflow specification, subject to certain constraints on the assignment. The problem is NP-hard even when restricted to just not equals constraints. Since the number of steps k is relatively small in practice, Wang and Li (2010) introduced a parametrisation of WSP by k. Wang a...