As I sat writing this ‘personal reflections’ manuscript in the spring of 2015, I was seeing press reports related to the use of tobacco to make an Ebola therapeutic called ZMapp. For several months newspaper articles, radio shows and hour-long TV documentaries have given the public unprecedented exposure to the fact that ‘plant-made pharmaceuticals’ (PMP) can be life-saving drugs. I have been a...

Martingale decomposit ion techniques are used to derive Markovian models for the error in smoothed estimates of processes described by linear models driven by white noise. These models, together with some simple Hilbert space decomposit ion ideas, provide a simple unified framework for examining a variety of problems involving the efficient assimilation of spatial data, which we refer to as map...

Abstract This study aims to find the cumulative energy demand (CED) and cost (CCD) in synthesis of antistatic bionanocomposites (AS BNC) compared with polypropylene (PP). The CED was identified using SimaPro 9.1.1 software, CCD material flow analysis (MEFA) method. results show that required per kg mass AS BNC pellets 87.80 MJ, which is lower than PP (91.19 MJ). shows use 94.38% PP, 2% M-DAG, 2...

IC/PBS/CPP a hot topic at the AUA With the innovative NIH/NIDDK Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) research programme about to be launched, every attention was paid to Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome and Chronic Pelvic Pain this year at the AUA, with research varying from the most complex basic science to clinical studies of every description pr...

This technical report revisits the analysis of family-wise error rates in statistical parametric mapping-using random field theory-reported in (Eklund et al. []: arXiv 1511.01863). Contrary to the understandable spin that these sorts of analyses attract, a review of their results suggests that they endorse the use of parametric assumptions-and random field theory-in the analysis of functional n...

A growing body of evidence has confirmed that, after severe brain injury in adults, motoric and task-dependent factors that are essential for reliable communication, frequently interfere with an accurate assessment of cognitive status. In the current study, resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in children who have sustained an anoxic brain injury following a near drowning ...

This poster describes a terrain editor for the CIVITAS -Cidades Virtuais: Tecnologias de Aprendizagem e Simula~ao environment [I], to be developed by UFRGS -Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SuI, and used at third and fourth grades of Elementary Schools of Venancio Aires Town -RS -Brasil. MAPP A [2] has the goal of being a computational modeling tool, in terms of two and three dimensions, a...

We have cloned the gene that encodes a novel glucosyl transferase (AraGT) involved in rhamnosylation of the polyketide antibiotic Aranciamycin in Streptomyces echinatus. AraGT comprises two domains characteristic of bacterial glycosyltranferases. AraGT was synthesized in E. coli as a decahistidinyl-tagged polypeptide. Purified AraGT is dimeric, displays a T(mapp) of 30 degrees C and can glycosy...