This paper presents two recent improvements on the current version of the three-layer variable infiltration capacity (VIC-3L) model. One is to include the infiltration excess runoff generation mechanism in the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) by considering effects of subgrid spatial soil heterogeneities, which is consistent with the VIC’s earlier subgrid spatial variability treatment for t...

Monoclonal antibodies were produced against surface antigens of live cells from a human acute monocytic leukaemia cell line (THP-1). One clone, VIC-C2, when assayed by immunofluorescence microscopy, brightly stained the surface of THP-1 cells and the cytoplasm of Langerhans cells, fibroblasts and melanocytes in sections of human skin. The immunoreactive cytoplasmic structures were filamentous a...

AIMS Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most common valvulopathy and is characterized by inflammation, extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling and calcification, causing a narrowing of the valve and the consequential obstruction of the cardiac outflow. Although intraleaflet haemorrhage is associated with AS progression, the mechanisms involved are not known. The aims of this study were to identif...

Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). A recombinant vaccine called Bexsero® incorporates four subcapsular antigens (fHbp, NHBA, NadA and PorA) which are used to assign a Bexsero® antigen sequence type (BAST) to each meningococcal strain. The vaccine elicits an immune response against combinations of variants of these antigens which have been grou...

1 Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Parkville, VIC, Australia 2 Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *Correspondence: [email protected] Edited by: Michael Weiss, Case Western Reserve University, USA Reviewed by: Charles Roberts, Oregon National Primate Research Center, USA Michael Lawrence, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medica...

1ARC Special Research Center for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia 2Center for Advanced Internet Architectures, Faculty of I.C.T., Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia 3Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Kowlo...

1Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR, Singapore, 2 Laboratory of Immunoregulation, VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 4 Molecular Medicine Division, The Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 5 Department of Medical ...

1 Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, China, 3 Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4 Centre for Future ...