The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the value of different methods of making meaning in music therapy improvisations. Six research participants met with the researcher and created solo and duo improvisations. Each improvisation was subjected to four methods of meaning-making: participant journals, researcher journals, dialogues, and musical analysis using the Improvisation Asse...

How can dangerous interference with the climate system be avoided? Science can help decision-makers answer this political question. Earlier publications have focused on the probability of keeping global mean temperature change below certain thresholds by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at particular levels. We compare the results of such ‘‘stabilization profiles’’ with a set of ‘‘peak...

This is a descriptive, quantitative, and hypotheses testing study conducted on entrepreneurial and professional CEOs. This study has a particular interest in small medium enterprises (SMEs) because it constitutes the core of our economy and is a major factor of social composition. The purpose of present study is to investigate and explore differences on the motivational profile of Pakistani ent...

Identification of Alternaria genus species is a very complicated process which demands broadly designed investigations and studying of great number of properties which together can be considered as satisfying taxonomic criteria. The main objective of these investigations was examining the possibilities of applying the antigenic characteristics of Alternaria spp. phytopathogenic fungi as a taxon...

Influenza viruses undergo continual antigenic evolution allowing mutant viruses to evade host immunity acquired to previous virus strains. Antigenic phenotype is often assessed through pairwise measurement of cross-reactivity between influenza strains using the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay. Here, we extend previous approaches to antigenic cartography, and simultaneously characterize a...

Abstract Activation and proliferation of antigen specific T cells depends on the interaction multiple signaling molecules with TCR/CD3 complex. We report that expression connexin 43 (Cx43), a gap junction protein, is critical for expansion antigen-specific or self-reactive effector CD4 +T cells. While mediated intercellular communication has been main focus research, cytoplasmic C-terminus Cx43...

All lyssaviruses cause fatal encephalitis in mammals. There is sufficient antigenic variation within the genus to cause variable vaccine efficacy, but this variation is difficult to characterize quantitatively: sequence analysis cannot yet provide detailed antigenic information, and antigenic neutralization data have been refractory to high-resolution robust interpretation. Here, we address the...

materials and methods the expression of hyaluronidase antigenic fragments was optimized using iptg concentration, time of induction, temperature, culture, and absorbance of 0.6-0.8-1 at 600 nm. afterwards, the expressed proteins were purified and the enzymatic activity was assessed by turbid metric method. results data indicated that maximum protein is produced in od = 0.8, 0.5 mm isopropyl β-d...