We have reported that i.v. administration of splenocytes prepared from early pregnant mice promoted embryo implantation in pseudopregnant CD-1 (ICR) (closed colony) mice. In this study, the similar effects of splenocytes were confirmed using an inbred strain, BALB/c mice, and the mechanism was further investigated. Splenocytes were prepared from pregnancy day 4 (P4-spl) and dioestrus mice (Di-s...

BACKGROUND Local normative data for penile size will aid physicians in clinical practice. There are no studies on stretched penile length (SPL) in newborn Turkish boys. OBJECTIVE To establish normative data for SPL of newborn Turkish boys and compare these with data from different countries. METHODS 514 newborn Turkish boys, who were not small for gestational age (SGA) or premature, were in...

Goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE) approaches for Software Product Lines (SPLs) offer a natural way to capture not only stakeholders’ goals but also similarities and the variability of an SPL. Goals to Software Product Lines (G2SPL) is an approach that guides the systematic creation of an SPL feature model from i* models with cardinality. However, by using G2SPL it is not possible to...

The injection of antigen into the anterior chamber (AC, intracameral injection) of a murine eye induces the generation of splenic CD8(+) regulatory T cells (AC-SPL cells) that effect the antigen-specific suppression of a delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction. Here we show (i) for the first time that the local antigen-specific suppression of DTH-induced swelling in immunized mice either b...

Series of finite dimensional representations of the superalgebras spl(p,q) can be formulated in terms of linear differential operators acting on a suitable space of polynomials. We sketch the general ingredients necessary to construct these representations and present examples related to spl(2,1) and spl(2,2). By revisiting the products of projectivised representations of sl(2), we are able to ...

The current exposure limits of mineworkers to physical pollutants, under the Mine Health and Safety Act3 is 85 dB LAeq,8h, with a peak sound pressure level of 135 dB(A). However, the sound pressure level (SPL) of machines is generally determined according to the methods and procedures defined in SABS-ISO 3744 under free field conditions as defined in Appendix 3 of the same standard. While SPL a...

Refactoring is a staple of Object-Oriented (OO) program development. It should be a staple of OO Software Product Line (SPL) development too. X15 is the rst tool to support the refactoring of Java SPL codebases. X15 (1) uses Java custom annotations to encode variability in feature-based Java SPLs, (2) projects a view of a SPL product (a program that corresponds to a legal SPL con guration), and...

Software product line (SPL) is an approach that develops the family of similar software by maximizing the reusability of development artifacts. Together with commonality, variability that differentiates a product from others plays a pivotal role in SPL. During decades lots of variability mechanisms have been developed for software development, and they have been used in SPL as they are. And new...

The amount and quality of the SPL drug knowledge which has been released so far is assessed. All published labels were loaded into a relational database and classified to create vendor-independent descriptions. While SPL labels cover only 23% of RxNorm clinical drugs, they still describe 78% of actual community pharmacy dispenses records. SPL descriptions agree well with RxNorm. SPL can be used...

Software Product Lines (SPL) is a methodology focusing on systematic software reuse, multiple benefits have been reported as a result of this type of software development. However, establishing a SPL is not a simple task. It is a challenging activity raising many challenges for engineering and management. This research aims to manage the risks during SPL development to provide traceability amon...