The German infectious disease surveillance system revealed an increase of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) from an average of 320 cases/year (2001 to 2010) up to 2146 and 1986 cases in 2012 and 2013, respectively. From November 2011 until December 2013 (epidemic period) 85% of typed isolates were human adenovirus type 8 (HAdV-D8), whereas only low level circulation (19%) of HAdV-D8 was obser...

Up to now chiral type IIA vacua have been mostly based on intersecting D6-branes wrapping special Lagrangian 3-cycles on a CY3 manifold. We argue that there are additional BPS Dbranes which have so far been neglected, and which seem to have interesting model-building features. They are coisotropic D8-branes, in the sense of Kapustin and Orlov. The D8-branes wrap 5-dimensional submanifolds of th...

We focused on a region encompassing a major maize domestication locus, Tb1, and a locus involved in the flowering time variation, Dwarf8 (D8), to investigate the consequences of two closely linked selective sweeps on nucleotide variation and gain some insights into maize geographical diffusion, through climate adaptation. First, we physically mapped D8 at approximately 300 kb 3' of Tb1. Second,...

The purpose of this study was to determine if breakfast macronutrient composition improved thermic effect of feeding (TEF) and appetite after a one-week adaptation in young women who habitually skip breakfast. A randomized, controlled study was conducted in females (24.1 ± 2 years), who skip breakfast (≥5 times/week). Participants were placed into one of three groups for eight days (n = 8 per g...

زمینه و هدف: بیماری کبد چرب غیرالکلی رایج‌ترین کبدی است که در حال پیشرفت بوده بیش از یک‌چهارم مردم جهان را درگیر خود ساخته است. این پژوهشگران معتقدند فعالیت ورزشی استفاده داروهای گیاهی با خواص ضدچربی ضداکسایشی می‌تواند به‌عنوان درمان مکمل، سودمند باشد. بنابراین، هدف پژوهش تعیین آثار هشت هفته تمرین هوازی یا مصرف عرق آرتیشو بر سطوح چربی سرمی آنزیم‌های زنان مبتلا به بود. مواد روش‌ها: بدین‌منظور، 2...