The reemergence of xenotransplantation as a therapeutic option for the hundreds of thousands of people dying each year of heart, kidney, lung, and liver failure has raised ethical, social, and scientific questions. End-stage organ failure is one of the most important public health problems facing Americans today. Heart failure, for example, kills four times as many people as does HIV infection ...

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Tuberculosis is declared to be an infectious disease of global emergency by WHO. Approximately one-third of the world's population is infected with the tuberculosis. The lengthy and laborious current treatment of 6-9 months is associated with problems like patient noncompliance, multiple drug resistance and persistence of mycobacterium and significant toxicity of drugs. The increasing emergence...

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is an acquired infection of the nervous system caused by encysted larvae of Taenia solium. It is a major cause of epilepsy in the tropics and the commonest cause of focal seizures in North Indian children. T. solium teniasis-cysticercosis is considered a parasitic "Neglected Tropical Diseases" endemic throughout Southeast Asia. NCC in children has pleomorphic manifestat...

This paper examines the prospects for the future of maglev technology in general. Future applications will depend on a variety of factors including the extent to which Transrapid or other maglev technologies can be proven superior to its competitors technically, environmentally, and economically. This paper will address the extent to which the potentially beneficial attributes of maglev technol...

Safety-critical and safety-related systems are becoming more highly integrated and continue to increase in complexity. In parallel with this, certification standards for such systems are becoming more stringent, requiring more extensive and more detailed analyses. Safety cases, therefore, are themselves growing in size and complexity and are becoming increasingly costly to produce. It has becom...

In our daily activities, at work and elsewhere, we are always benefiting from the advantages of materials recorded on paper. In the office, our work is based on the use of reports, memos, circulars, and other documents. And in recent years, it has become common practice to print out documents created on a computer, or information downloaded from the Internet. Then there are, of course, the prin...

If a high and on-going research dynamics is taken as a rejuvenating factor microfluidics can still be regarded as a truly young discipline, although some microfluidic devices definitely can not be considered as “youngsters” any more. In a time of 30 years of ISFETOLOGY it may be worth to take a look at these devices in order to examine, whether they had—and still have—the potential to stimulate...

Although corpora have been an object of study for some decades, the nineteen eighties saw an increased interest in their use and construction. With this increased interest and awareness has come an expansion in the application areas for which corpus based approaches have been deemed relevant. This paper will seek to define the concept of a corpus, and discuss its relevance to two application ar...

Helicobacter pylori is a global pathogen that causes severe gastrointestinal diseases leading to a significant morbidity and mortality. There is an effective treatment for peptic ulcer disease, however, this is being compromised by an increase in the prevalence of antibiotic resistance. Although alternative rescue regimens have been advocated, the best strategy would be to prevent disease, espe...