Human neurocysticercosis (NC) caused by Taenia solium is a parasitic disease of the central nervous system that is endemic in many developing countries. In this study, a genetic approach using the murine intraperitoneal cysticercosis caused by the related cestode Taenia crassiceps was employed to identify host factors that regulate the establishment and proliferation of the parasite. A/J mice a...

Cosmic birefringence is the in-vacuo rotation of linear polarization plane experienced by photons Microwave Background (CMB) radiation when theoretically well-motivated parity-violating extensions Maxwell electromagnetism are considered. If angle, parametrizing such a dependent on photon's direction, then this phenomenon called Anisotropic Birefringence (ACB). In paper, we perform for first tim...

The conversion of biomass and plastic into hydrogen through catalytic pyrolysis is a promising technology for the production clean fuels. developed Ni-La/Al2O3-CeO2-Bamboo charcoal (ACB) catalyst was applied to co-pyrolysis straw polyethylene (PE) produce hydrogen. This research explored optimal mixing ratio PE, influence presence stability catalysts on production. Experiments show that best 5:...

ATLANTIS realizes a hybrid architecture comprising an industry standard PC platform plus di erent FPGA based modules for high-performance I/O (AIB) and computing (ACB). It is a exible and modular system which can be the platform for several applications. CompactPCI provides the basic communication mechanism, enhanced by a private bus. The system can be tailored to a wide range of applications b...

To void breakdown between busbars, the dissociation unit is applied in arc chamber of an air circuit breaker (ACB) to cool down hot gas exhausted from vent interrupting process. Cooling efficiency and flow resistance have important roles, which can greatly affect safety low voltage switcher performance chamber. The most common structure style a multilayer metal wire mesh, it has complex microst...

Maize was introduced into opposite sides of Eurasia 500 years ago, in Western Europe and in Asia. This caused two host-shifts in the phytophagous genus Ostrinia; O. nubilalis (the European corn borer; ECB) and O. furnacalis (the Asian corn borer; ACB) are now major pests of maize worldwide. They originated independently from Dicot-feeding ancestors, similar to O. scapulalis (the Adzuki bean bor...

Nicotine dependence is defined by dopaminergic neuronal activation within the nucleus accumbens (ACB) and by affected neural projections from nicotine-stimulated neurons. Control of any subsequent neural activities would underpin any smoking cessation strategy. While extensive efforts have been made to study the pathophysiology of nicotine addiction, more limited works were developed to find im...

To determine whether treatment with various antidepressants or mood stabilizers leads to region-specific changes, we investigated the effects of their subchronic (14 days of intraperitoneal injection) administration on the tissue concentration of monoamines, dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine, and the protein expression of acetylated histone H3 (AcH3) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) in th...

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) applications refine small regions of a physical space. As a result, when AMR data has to be stored in a file, writing data involves storing a large number of small blocks of data. Chombo is an AMR software library for solving partial differential equations over block-structured grids, and is used in large-scale climate and fluid dynamics simulations. Chombo’s curr...

Food irradiation is acknowledged as a safe process to improve food quality by reducing microbial contamination. Information on the toxicological potential of 2-alkylcyclobutanones (2-ACBs), radiolytic derivatives of triglycerides found exclusively in irradiated food, is scarce. Wistar rats received daily a solution of highly pure 2-tetradecylcyclobutanone (2-tDCB) or 2-(tetradec-5-enyl)-cyclobu...