Introduction: Vaccinology provides promising approaches for the control of various infectious diseases. Among different strategies, DNA vaccines offer attractive research opportunities for development of vaccines for induction of antigen-specific immunity owing to their stability, simplicity of delivery, safety and cost effectiveness. However, there is a need to increase their potency by the ...

OBJECTIVE School-based influenza vaccination programs are a potentially important method of protecting the community against influenza. We evaluated the feasibility and success of a large, school-based influenza vaccination campaign. METHODS On-site administration of intranasally administered, live attenuated influenza vaccine was offered to all students and staff members in a large, metropol...

Newcastle Disease (ND) is an acute, highly contagious viral disease in poultry. Despite the intensive vaccination programs to control Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV), the recent infection of NDV in Iran has led to severe morbidity and mortality in Chukar Partridges. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of Inactivated Oil Adjuvant Vaccine (IOAV) following use of live vaccine to hav...

Al though t h e r e m a y h a v e been s o m e Asian con tac t w i t h Aus t ra l i a p r io r t o d o c u m e n t e d h i s to ry , t h e f irs t ev idence of ou t s ide inf luence c a m e in the 17th cen tu ry , ini t ia l ly w i t h t h e D u t c h a n d l a t e r b y t h e Br i t i sh in 1770. F r e n c h scientif ic expedi­ t ions in t h e S o u t h Pacif ic w e r e a lso i m p o r t a n t...

A n s w e r s to m a n y b a s i c p r o b l e m s of b i o l o g y — n a t u r e o f g r o w t h , m e c h a n i s m of d u p l i c a t i o n o f v iruses a n d g e n e s , a c t i o n o f e n z y m e s , m e c h a n i s m , of p h y s i o l o g i c a l ac t iv i ty of drugs , h o r m o n e s , a n d v i t a ­ m i n s , s t r u c t u r e a n d a c t i o n o f nerve a n d braini t i s s u e — m...

T h e p h e n o m e n o n of the distribution o f a d o o r w a y state over m a n y c o m p l i c a t e d c o m p o u n d nuclear states, i. e . the f o r m a t i o n and properties of a so-cal led micro-giant resonance, are investigated analyt ical ly and n u m e r i c a l l y b y m e a n s of a s i m p l e m o d e l . T h e distribution of the poles in the c o m p l e x p l a n e and the dis...

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Characteristic f u n c t i o n s h a v e been def ined in nonlinear a u t o n o m o u s s y s t e m s . These funct ions possess properties which are equivalent to those o f the energy a n d t h e entropy concepts of t h e r m o d y n a m i c s . T h e n e w funct ions are induced in nonlinear s y s t e m s b y one parameter transf o r m a t i o n groups . T h e m a t h e m a t i c a l t r e a ...

m r r Feeling was running high this week in the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, as evidence mounted tha t a figure of 300 layoffs might rise to 400. Affected in the first 300 were 149 temporary employees and 30 permanent assistant interviewers in the NYC field offices, and 131 temporary employees in the Albany headquarters offices. Among the "temps" are many former permanent a...

The most popular tool used in the industry for monitoring a process is the Shewhart control chart. The major disadvantage of the Shewhart control chart is that it is not very efficient in detecting small process average shifts. To increase the sensitivity of Shewhart control charts to small shifts additional supplementary runs rules has been suggested. In this paper we introduce and study the m...