Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) generated from the in-vitro culture of blastocyst stage embryos are known as equivalent to blastocyst inner cell mass (ICM) in-vivo. Though several reports have shown the expression of germ cell/pre-meiotic (GC/PrM) markers in ESCs, their functional relevance for the pluripotency and germ line commitment are largely unknown. In the present study, we used mouse as a m...

The aim of the paper is to obtain some theoretical and numerical properties of Saaty ’s and Koczkodaj ’s inconsistencies of pairwise comparison matrices (PRM ). In the case of 3 × 3 PRM, a differentiable one-to-one correspondence is given between Saaty ’s inconsistency ratio and Koczkodaj ’s inconsistency index based on the elements of PRM. In order to make a comparison of Saaty ’s and Koczkoda...

West Nile virus (WNV) is a member of the family Flaviviridae and is a neurotropic pathogen responsible for severe human disease. Flavivirus-infected cells release virus particles that contain variable numbers of precursor membrane (prM) protein molecules at the viral surface. Consequently, antibodies are produced against the prM protein. These antibodies have been shown to activate the infectio...

Definition 5.2. Suppose one has a nonempty finite set = {C1, . . . ,Cm} of general consequence operators, each defined on a nonempty language Li, 1≤ i≤m. Define the operatorΠCm as follows: for any X ⊂ L1×···×Lm, using the projection pri, 1≤ i≤m, define ΠCm(X)= C1(pr1(X))×···×Cm(prm(X)). Theorem 5.3. The operator ΠCm defined on the subsets of L1 ×···×Lm is a general consequence operator and if, ...

BACKGROUND The European Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Journal Network (EPRMJN), a joint initiative between the European Society Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM) and the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (EJPRM), has the aim to increase scientific knowledge among PRM specialists and foster collaboration among physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) jo...

The presentation will concern my current research project aiming at developing a Probabilistic Relational Model (PRM) to support analysis of Information Security Governance (ISG) in an organization. The awareness of the important aspects of information security that ISG covers has increased among companies as it provides a holistic approach to protection of organizational assets. ISG considers ...

The main paradigm for practical motion planning in the last two decades is Probabilistic Road Map (PRM). We propose an alternative paradigm called Soft Subdivision Search (SSS). The SSS approach is based on two ingredients: the standard subdivision of space, coupled with soft predicates. Such predicates are conservative and convergent relative to exact predicates. This leads to a new class of r...

Scedosporium apiospermum is part of the Pseudallescheria-Scedosporium complex. Peptidorhamnomannans (PRMs) are cell wall glycopeptides present in some fungi, and their structures have been characterized in S. apiospermum, S. prolificans and Sporothrix schenckii. Prior work shows that PRMs can interact with host cells and that the glycopeptides are antigenic. In the present study, three monoclon...

PURPOSE A link between poor sleep quality and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has recently been suggested. Since endogenous melatonin levels are already reduced at preclinical AD stages, it is important to ask whether replenishing the missing hormone would be beneficial in AD and whether any such effects would be related to the presence of sleep disorder in patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The effects...

Pradimicin S (PRM-S) is a highly water-soluble, negatively charged derivative of the antibiotic pradimicin A (PRM-A) in which the terminal xylose moiety has been replaced by 3-sulfated glucose. PRM-S does not prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adsorption on CD4(+) T cells, but it blocks virus entry into its target cells. It inhibits a wide variety of HIV-1 laboratory strains and clinica...