Background: The Cyber Preparedness Continuum CNA’s Safety and Security Division conducted a Cyber Preparedness Workshop on April 25, 2013, at CNA’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The workshop brought together emergency management and cybersecurity stakeholders, drawn from both the public and private sectors, to discuss cyber preparedness. Discussions during the workshop centered around t...

this editorial paper highlights the significance of scholarly contributions from non-western contexts to business and management studies in general and marketing in particular. it calls for constructive, ethical, and committed collaborations between authors and reviewers of academic articles in order to collectively enhance knowledge generation in a global era. using iranian journal of manageme...

cholera toxin b subunit (ctb) has been extensively studied as an immunogen, adjuvant, and inducer of oral tolerance in many investigations. production of ctb has been carried out in the bacterial, plant, insect and yeast expression systems. in this study the expression of the ctb containing a 6xhis-tagged was performed by escherichia coli (e.coli) m15. the yield of purified pentameric recombina...

background and objective: neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of meningitis and sepsis worldwide. the factor h binding protein (fhbp) is a key virulence factor of neisseria meningitidis that is able to selectively bind to human factor h, the key regulator of the alternative complement pathway, which it has important implications for meningococcal pathogene- sis and vaccine design. the aim...

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background: human cd34 is a transmembrane glycoprotein which is expressed in human hematopoietic stem cells (hscs) and the small- vessel endothelial cells of a variety of tissues. cd34 plays a critical role as a marker for diagnosis and classification of leukemia. anti cd34 antibodies are used for isolation and purification of hscs from bone marrow, peripheral blood and cord blood. objective: t...

study of phytoseiid mites in some regions of western and north–westerniranwere carried out during 2008–2011. in this study, 21 species belonging to the six genera were collected and identified. they were associated with aerial parts, soil and litter under cultivated, uncultivated plants and some phytophagous mites and insects.

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether oral administration of FA inhibits HNSCC tumor growth in an animal model. STUDY DESIGN: In vivo murine model, two arm controlled study. METHODS: Thirty-eight 5 week old athymic nude mice were randomly assigned to a fusaric acid treatment group (1 mg/mL) (n=19) or a sterile saline group (n=19). A left, lateral flank subcutaneous injection of 2.0x 106 SCC-1 cells ...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is regarded generally as having promise of becoming established as the general purpose framework for enabling transfer of data amongst heterogeneous environments. It is of interest therefore to analyse how suitable it may be once details of applications requirements and constraints are taken into account. One important requirement is for the security of docu...