Mucormycosis is a rare but highly invasive opportunistic fungal infection. Gastrointestinal disease although uncommon is highly fatal. We report a case of jejunal mucormycosis in a 24 year old undernourished female with preceding surgical intervention for acute intestinal obstruction of tubercular etiology. On 8th post-operative day, she developed oozing from suture line, prompting e...

This paper presents a distributed fault detection and isolation (FDI) method for a class of largescale nonlinear uncertain systems. In the distributed FDI architecture, a local FDI component is designed for each subsystem by utilizing local measurements and certain communicated information from neighboring FDI components associated with subsystems that are directly interconnected. Under certain...

introduction: while little is known about the molecular mechanisms that establish the apical growth patterns in fungal mycelia, recent research on the genetics of a. nidulans and n. crassa has provided considerable amount information on some genes involving in polarised cell growth. a.nidulans is particularly amenable to experimental analysis and is importantly related to other human pathogen f...

transferrin acts as a vehicle for iron transportation between the absorption, storage and utilization sites in the body and, besides iron, its two highaffinity iron-binding site are capable of binding to 29 other elements. in physiological and pathophysiological conditions, transferrin’s properties are different and close attention to these properties is required. for further investigation for ...

Acinetobacter spp. are responsible for an increasing number of opportunistic, nosocomial infections. They have been isolated from diverse inanimate objects in the hospital environment and are resistant to most of the commonly used antibiotics. Existing media for the isolation of Acinetobacter spp. are either nonselective, allowing the growth of unwanted bacteria, or too inhibitory, inhibiting t...

During the Late Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) experienced a series of local extinctions generally attributed to human predation or environmental change. Some small and isolated populations did however survive far into the Holocene. Here, we investigated the genetic consequences of the isolation of the last remaining mammoth population on Wrangel Island. We analysed 741...

This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduling. We use iterated local search to obtain (i) sharpened upper bounds, (ii) an improved branchordering heuristic, and (iii) and improved variableselection heuristic. On randomly-generated instances, our hybrid of itera...

in west africa and nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. gomphrena celosioides (family – amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. in the present study, the plant was coll...

background and objective : salmonellosis can be acquired through consumption of infected raw or undercooked eggs. the aim of this study was isolation and identification of salmonella spp from the eggshells and the egg contents samples of tabriz retails. methods : a total number of 150 samples of eggs were analyzed for the presence of salmonella spp. using conventional culture method and multipl...

background kelussia odoratissima mozaff. is one of the newest genera of umbelliferae which is represented by only one species. this sweet-smelling, self-growing monotypic medicinal plant is endemic to a restricted area in west of iran and is locally called karafse-koohi. the aerial parts of the plant are commonly used as a popular garnish and a sedative medicinal plant. there are several report...