background: discriminating latent tuberculosis infection (ltbi) from active tbi may be challenging. the objective of this study was to produce the recombinant l-alanine dehydrogenase (aladh) antigen and evaluate individuals with ltbi, those with active tbi, and uninfected individuals by enzyme-linked immunospot assay (elispot) in order to distinguish ltbi from active tbi. methods: this explorat...

to enforce general policies of article 44, ''law of enforcing general policies of article 44 of the constitution'' was recently approved by islamic consultative assembly. the main objective of the present paper is analysis and study of aspects of criminal policy inserted in the law through identification of criminal behaviors and predicted responses. with respect to criminal phenomenon, study t...

Objective(s): Resistin, as a 12.5 kDa cysteine-rich polypeptide, is expressed in hypothalamus and regulates sympathetic nerve activity. It is associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we investigated the neural pathway of cardiovascular responses induced by injection of resistin into paraventricular nucleus (PVN) with rostr...

conclusions results showed that hcvcp + bcg induced a moderate ctl and mixed th1/th2 immune responses with higher levels of cell proliferation and ifn-γ secretion, indicating that bcg may have a better outcome when formulated in hcvcp-based subunit vaccines. results expression and purification of core protein around the expected size (21 kda) was confirmed by western blotting. the hcvcp + bcg v...

oral corrective feedback, according to many researchers’ points of view, plays a crucial role in facilitating and accelerating the process of the second language learning. the present study aims to identify persian learners’ error types, the teachers’ feedback types and learners’ uptakes; also it is aimed at determining the most and least frequent errors occurred on the basis of lyster and rant...

Sciaenid fishes are important models of fish sound production, but investigations into their auditory abilities are limited to acoustic pressure measurements on five species. In this study, we used auditory brainstem response (ABR) to assess the pressure and particle acceleration thresholds of six sciaenid fishes commonly found in Chesapeake Bay, eastern USA: weakfish (Cynoscion regalis), spott...

We consider the focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation iut + ∆u = −|u| 4 d−2 u in dimensions d ≥ 5. We prove that if a maximal-lifespan solution u: I×Rd → C obeys supt∈I ‖∇u(t)‖2 < ‖∇W‖2, then it is global and scatters both forward and backward in time. Here W denotes the ground state, which is a stationary solution of the equation. In particular, if a solution has both energy ...