The knowledge that melanoma is susceptible to attack by the host’s immune Abstract system has resulted in the testing of a variety of immunotherapies. Interferon-α-2b, which has several anti-tumour mechanisms including an antiproliferative effect, an anti-angiogenesis effect, the enhancement of natural-killer cell activity and the upregulation of tumour antigen presentation, has shown tremendou...

EmpZoyee-benefit plan8 providing incomemaintenance payments and health expense benefits have enjoyed continuous exparwion since 195& the first year for which the Social Security Administiration collected data for this series. Tke rate of growth in coverage, contributions, and benefits under the plans, however, has slackened in recent years. The following article discusses these developments and...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that limits plant productivity and quality throughout the world. Roots are the sites of salt uptake. To better understand salt stress responses in maize, we performed a comparative proteomic analysis of seedling roots from the salt-tolerant genotype F63 and the salt-sensitive genotype F35 under 160 mM NaCl treatment for 2 days. Under salinity conditions, the s...

A dynamic kiln-wide wood drying model was developed previously to solve the integral form of the unsteady-state mass, momentum and energy balance equations in the air side. For the wood side, an empirical model, characteristic drying curve, for the internal moisture movement is used, which was obtained for low and medium temperature drying of Pinus radiata, with a medium velocity of 1.44.1 m s....

We show that the atoms by clique separator decomposition of a diamond-free hole-free graph are of three simple types: clique, matched co-bipartite or chordal bipartite. We present an O(n) time algorithm to recognize these graphs and decompose them into atoms. To do this, we use algorithm LexBFS in a novel fashion. Given the atoms, we show how to compute a minimal triangulation in O(n) time, the...

The evanescent oral communicative moment captures instantiations of preand post-event continuities of content, style and genre. Between one moment and another, two separate performances of the ‘same thing’, this paper explores what it is that aids recall, provokesproduction and evokes continuity. It considers insights from the musicology of north India and traditions of practice there, it d...

The presence of naked nuclei (NN) in cytological preparations of fibroadenomas is a well-known finding. Regardless of their importance on the differential diagnosis of fibroadenoma and other benign lesions of the breast, the origin of NN remains elusive. Despite previous efforts to characterize them, the lack of a reliable nuclear marker for myoepithelial cells impaired definitive conclusions. ...

In depression patients, prediction of cardiovascular diseases is very important and critical for effective treatments and health care. In the present study, we developed the prediction model utilizing data-mining based linear discriminant analysis in order to make early prediction of cardiovascular diseases in depression patients. The objective of the study was to find the optimal method in the...

The PSR 1259{63 system is unique in that it is the rst radio pulsar found to be in a binary system with a massive main sequence companion. As such, it may be the evolutionary missing link connecting the radio pulsars to the X-ray emitting Be binaries. In this paper, we consider the conditions under which PSR 1259{63 may be the progenitor of the less eccentric, more slowly rotating X-ray Be bina...