Mast cells represent a potential source of interleukin-6 (ILlenge with SCF, bone marrow-derived cultured mouse mast 6) and other cytokines that have been implicated in host cells (BMCMCs) released amounts of IL-6 that were greater defense, tissue maintenance/remodeling, immunoregulathan 100-fold more than those produced by unstimulated tion, and many other biologic responses. In acquired imcell...

Bagha Chal, or “Moving Tiger”, is an ancient Nepali board game also known as Tigers and Goats. We briefly describe the game, some of its characteristics, and the results obtained from an earlier computer analysis. As in some other games such as Merrill’s, play starts with a placement phase where 20 pieces are dropped on the board, followed by a sliding phase during which pieces move and may be ...

Whether it is possible to build up host resistance against sarcomas induced by the implantation of cellophane films was studied by pretreating autochthonous and isologous (syngeneic) hosts with heavily irradiated cells of the same tumor. In the ten available autochthonous hosts, whose tumors had been operatively removed, no resist ance could be demonstrated after pretreatment with irradiated ce...

This paper studies distributed formation of femto-clouds in a UMTS LTE network. Femtocell access points (FAPs) are equipped with computational resources. They share their resources with neighboring FAPs and form local clouds with the aim to avoid the remote cloud costs while improving the user quality of experience (QoE) in terms of handling latency. In exchange for sharing their excess resourc...

Multicellular organisms achieve final body shape and size by coordinating cell proliferation, expansion, and differentiation. Loss of function in the Arabidopsis ERECTA (ER) receptor-kinase gene confers characteristic compact inflorescence architecture, but its underlying signaling pathways remain unknown. Here we report that the expression of ER in the phloem is sufficient to rescue compact er...

Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Au-tomatic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method for solving this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considere...

 Lactic acid bacteria, including lactobacilli, enterococci, leuconostoc and weissella species isolated from Iranian traditional fermented camel milk (Chal) were assessed for the incidence of virulence determinants (gelE, efaAfm, efaAfs, ace, espfs, cylM, cylA and cylB), sensitivity to various antibiotics and virulence phenotypes. The incidence of virulence genes was determined by polymerase cha...

Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Auto-matic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method to solve this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considered f...