Integrins are transmembrane receptors composed ofa andb subunits that mediate bidirectional signaling between the extracellular matrix and the cell interior. Among the best studied integrins is aIIbb3, which is required for hemostasis and platelet involvement in thrombosis. The related b3 integrin, aVb3, is expressed at low levels in platelets and better expressed in several other hematopoietic...

Sustained infection of HeLa cells by Coxsackie B3 virus, dependent on presence of viral inhibitor in culture medium, was achieved. Persistent treatment of carrier cultures with anti-Coxsackie B3 hyperimmune monkey serum eventually eliminated virus from carrier cultures indicating that a lysogenic virus-cell relationship was not operative. Free virus was produced continuously by carrier cultures...

An n-dimensional chair consists of an n-dimensional box from which a smaller n-dimensional box is removed. A tiling of an n-dimensional chair has two nice applications in some memories using asymmetric codes. The first one is in the design of codes which correct asymmetric errors with limited-magnitude. The second one is in the design of n cells q-ary write-once memory codes. We show an equival...

We propose a tamper-evident storage system based on probe storage with a patterned magnetic medium. This medium supports normal read/write operations by outof-plane magnetisation of individual magnetic dots. We report on measurements showing that in principle the medium also supports a separate class of write-once operation that destroys the out-of-plane magnetisation property of the dots irrev...

Many foodborne outbreaks of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection have been associated with the consumption of contaminated vegetables. On-farm contaminations through contaminated manure or irrigation water application were considered likely sources of the pathogen for several outbreaks. Field studies were done to determine the survival of E. coli O157:H7 on two subterranean crop...

Introduction Fungicides have been widely used on nearly every crop imaginable and are continually being developed and reformulated as more information on their efficacy on specific crops and pathogens is discovered. It is well known that fungicides are developed and used in order to have a direct effect on one or more pathogens, usually to prevent their establishment on a crop. By spraying fung...

Candiduria remains a controversial issue for clinicians once that it may represent a broad variety of possibilities including colonization, local or systemic infection. We will discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of candiduria in different settings of patients, including renal transplant recipients. Definitions on therapy are mostly based on epidemiological and clinical data. Once...

The optimal management of prolonged priapism for patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) has not been established. We prospectively studied in an outpatient setting the efficacy and safety of a procedure that employs aspiration of blood from the corpora cavernosa and irrigation with a dilute epinephrine solution under local anesthesia to relieve priapism in young patients with SCA. If hydration ...

In the proposed Irrigation system IoT is implemented, in this system all the information that are received from the sensors and the various parameters are given to the arduinouno microcontroller as an analog input. A preset value of soil moisture sensor is fixed in microcontroller and also for fencing. When it goes beyond the particular threshold value water is automatically irrigated to the cr...