Aquatic Botany special issue dedication to Samuel Curry Snedaker (22 May 1938–21 March 2005)

Cancer Immunity, Vol. 5, p. 6 (22 March 2005)

There is considerable interest in developing immunotherapeutic approaches to elicit tumor-specific CTL responses in cancer patients. Epitope-based approaches aim to deliver the antigenic peptides or epitopes recognized by CTLs rather than the intact tumor antigen. Many tumor-associated proteins are nonmutated self proteins for which the dominant peptide epitopes are usually poorly immunogenic. ...

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Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)

This article summarizes the outcome of a workshop held at Supercomputing 2005 that focused on grid computing portals and environments. This workshop is the first in a series of workshops planned in conjunction with the supercomputing meetings for the next few years. The intent of the workshop was to provide a venue for the community to share ideas, exchange experiences, and advance the field. G...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Treatment Quality in Patients Poisoned With Tricyclic Antidepressants Admitted in Emergency Ward of Vali-E-Asr Hospital, Arak, Iran from March 2003 to May 2005

Introduction: Regarding the high rate of depression in our society, using anti-depressive drugs especially tricycle antidepressants (TCAs) is increasing and poisoning by these agents has become more common than other drugs. Due to its incident and dire complications we decided to study the treatment quality in poisoned patients with TCAss admitted in emergency ward of Arak,s Vali-e-Asr Hospit...