T cell mediated autoimmune diabetes is characterized by immune cell infiltration of pancreatic islets and destruction of insulin-producing β-cells. This study was designed to assess the effect of whey proteins (WP) on the responsiveness of lymphocytes in rats after four months of Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced Type 1 diabetes (T1D). A diabetic group was supplemented with WP daily for five weeks a...

The main aim of this W orking Paper is to assess the impact of foreign aid inflows on public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. The paper provides a literature overview of the fiscal effects of aid, and then applies a fiscal response model to Ethiopian data for the period 1964-2005. Since the empirical literature finds little evidence of common crosscountry patterns, this ...

Two factors contribute to Burkitt lymphoma (BL) pathogenesis, a chromosomal translocation leading to c-myc oncogene deregulation and infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Although the virus has B cell growth-transforming ability, this may not relate to its role in BL since many of the transforming proteins are not expressed in the tumor. Mounting evidence supports an alternative role, whereb...

INTRODUCTION Pertussis is a contagious respiratory illness caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Two types of vaccines are currently available against the disease: whole-cell pertussis (wP) and acellular pertussis (aP). With the shift of high-income countries from wP to aP as a result of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), an upsurge in reported cases of pertussis has been not...

This paper surveys the recent literature on convergence across countries and regions. We discuss the main convergence and divergence mechanisms identified in the literature and develop a simple model that illustrates their implications for income dynamics. We then review the existing empirical evidence and discuss its theoretical implications. Early optimism concerning the ability of a human ca...

Contrast sensitivity is known to be strongly influenced by the target surround, yet the role of the surround interaction in visual processing remains unclear. Previously, we have shown that the surround strongly suppresses contrast sensitivity in the periphery when the surround spatial frequency and orientation match those of the target (Petrov, Carandini, & McKee, 2005). Here, we explore how v...

This paper presents an efficient reg ion-based WP (weighted prediction) with improved global brightness change detection for real-time H.264 encoder. We improve WP for local brightness changes using the reference reordering, without additional memory bandwidth and computation for ME (motion estimation). A brute force way is choosing the best reference index that minimizes MV cost after performi...

A b s t r a c t. Let Wp,q be the Fourier modulation space FMp,q and let ∗σ be the twisted convolution. If a ∈ D′ such that (a ∗σ φ,φ) ≥ 0 for every φ ∈ C∞ 0 , and χ ∈ S such that χ(0) 6= 0, then we prove that χa ∈ Wp,∞ iff a ∈ Wp,∞. We also present some extensions to the case when weighted Fourier modulation spaces are used. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 47B65, 35A21, 35S05

ABSTRACT- Efficient use of irrigation water for summer crops should be considered seriously due to rare occurrence of precipitation in summer. This research was focused on the assessment of water use efficiency for dominant crops of summer cropping pattern in the study area (i.e., maize and rice) via considering water productivity (WP) with different water management scenarios at farm level at ...

A new way to control sound spatial dispersion using the ESSynth Method is introduced here. The Interaural Time Difference (ITD) is used as genotype of an evolutionary control of sound spatialization. Sound intensity and the ITD azimuth angle are used to define spatial dispersion and spatial similarity. Experimental results where crossover and mutation rates were used to create spatial sonic tra...