The ability to design tailored messages for specific listeners is an important aspect of human communication. The present study investigates whether a mere belief about an addressee's identity influences the generation and production of a communicative message in a novel, non-verbal communication task. Participants were made to believe they were playing a game with a child or an adult partner, ...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis may present as unusual manifestations in renal transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy. This misleading presentation, may delay the diagnosis and treatment. Moreover special caution must be taken in renal transplant recipients because of possible interactions between antimony compounds and cyclosporine metabolites. We report a 45-year old man with 5 years...

A 2 2 2 model with endogenous process innovation describes two regimes for international technology transfer: multinational enterprise, in which the innovating rm receives all rents from foreign and domestic use of the innovation, and piracy, in which some are all of the rents are kept in the technology-receiving country. Piracy increases the unit requirements for the factor which is scarce in ...

be critical to prevent attachment of pathogen. BF production increased or remained unchanged in the presence of amikacin. Due to toxicity concerns and variation in resistance patterns, minocycline is a viable treatment option against A. baumannii. Additional studies are warranted. Disclosures. K. LaPlante, Merck: Grant Investigator, Grant recipient. Pfizer: Grant Investigator, Grant recipient. ...

There is controversy regarding the influence of genetic versus environmental factors on kidney transplant outcome in minority groups. The goal of this project was to evaluate the role of certain socioeconomic factors in allograft and recipient survival. Graft and recipient survival data from the United States Renal Data System were analyzed using Cox modeling with primary variables of interest,...

In this paper we present a certified e-mail system which provides fairness while making use of a TTP only in exceptional circumstances. Our system guarantees that the recipient gets the content of the e-mail if and only if the sender receives an incontestable proof-of-receipt. Our protocol involves two communicating parties, a sender and a recipient, but only the recipient is allowed to misbeha...

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (alloBMT). However, effective strategies for the treatment of cGVHD have not been established. In this study, we examined the therapeutic utility of modified dendritic cells (DCs) with a greater capacity to regulate immune responses than previously known tolerogenic D...

purpose: to report the histopathological diagnoses of recipient corneal buttons in patients undergoing penetrating keratoplasty. methods: in this observational case series, all recipient corneal specimens sent to the ophthalmic pathology laboratory of the eye bank of iran between 2004 and 2007 underwent histopathologic examination. results: overall, 315 corneal specimens were evaluated. histopa...

The aim of this work was to determine whether prenatal survival depends on the genotype of the mother or of the embryo and to identify the critical periods for prenatal mortality in two lines of rabbits divergently selected by high (H) and low (L) uterine capacity. Does from H (n = 124) and L (n = 115) lines were slaughtered at 72 h of gestation. Embryos recovered at 72 h of gestation were tran...

OBJECTIVE To assess t he association be tweencytomegalovirus (CMV) serology of donor and recipient and adverse outcomes afterliver transplantation in the era of effective antiviral chemoprophylaxis. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study of 193 consecutive patients undergoing their first liver transplantation between February 1998 and July 2000 with targeted and preemp...