We performed culture-based and PCR-based tests for pneumococcal identification and serotyping from carriage specimens collected in rural and urban Kenya. Nasopharyngeal specimens from 237 healthy children <5 years old (C-NPs) and combined nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal specimens from 158 adults (A-NP/OPs, 118 HIV-positive) were assessed using pneumococcal isolation (following broth culture enrich...

The in vitro maturation (IVM), fertilization (IVF) and morphological changes in buffalo cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) cryopreserved by ultra rapid freezing using conventional (CON) and open-pulled straw (OPS) methods were tested. COCs were cryopreserved using a vitrification solution comprising of DPBS + 0.5M sucrose + 0.4% BSA and two concentrations (4.5 or 5.5M) of each cryoprotectant ethyl...

We propose a uniform solution based on Pomset Logic to several diierent syntactic phenomena in Natural Languages, and in particular topicalization, relative clauses, interrogative clauses, extraposi-tion, discontinuous constituents and cliticization. We show that Pomset Logic is expressive enough to describe all the linguistic transformations due to these phenomena, in the sense that all transf...

introduction: this study was designed to compare the effects of three vitrification procedures [conventional (c), open pulled straw (ops) and closed pulled straw (cps)] on morphological survival of two-cell mouse embryos and their subsequent development to hatched blastocysts. material and methods: two-cell mouse embryos were divided into four groups, control (194), ops (150), cps (155) and c (...

Three promoters have been identified as having potentially important regulatory roles in governing expression of the fla/che operon and of sigD, a gene that lies near the 3' end of the operon. Two of these promoters, fla/che P(A) and P(D-3), lie upstream of the >26-kb fla/che operon. The third promoter, P(sigD), lies within the operon, immediately upstream of sigD. fla/che P(A), transcribed by ...

BACKGROUND Solid tumours are less oxygenated than normal tissues. Consequently, cancer cells acquire to be adapted to a hypoxic environment. The poor oxygenation of solid tumours is also a major indicator of an adverse cancer prognosis and leads to resistance to conventional anticancer treatments. We previously showed the involvement of Che-1/AATF (Che-1) in cancer cell survival under stress co...

La sofferenza silenziosa dell’abbandono precoce non elaborata scava rumorosamente anche nell’attitudine genitoriale soprattutto nella possibilità adottiva. Figli adottivi che creano a loro volta una famiglia di accoglienza adottiva trovano un potenziale traumatogeno pericoloso nel vivere dalla parte genitoriale una esperienza filiale conosciuta. A volte queste strutture familiari, che non sono ...

a la tía Chayo y al tío Beto " …Era la prima persona che dava ascolto a quello che dicevo " … " Buon signore, colui che non porge solo orecchio ai cortigiani, ma cerca di capire come pensano i suoi sudditi. " (Baudolino e Niceta)

Abstract The utilization of oil palm shell (OPS) in concrete dates back since four decades ago. While most research has only been done on the Dura-OPS as coarse aggregate concrete, few Tenera-OPS. Tenera-OPS is obtained by a hybrid crossbreeding between Dura and Pisifera type fruits to obtain thinner fruit produce 30% more oil. different physical properties compared Dura-OPS, which could alter ...

BACKGROUND In Togo, about half of health care costs are paid at the point of service, which reduces access to health care and exposes households to catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). To address this situation, the Togolese government introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2011. This insurance currently covers only employees and retirees of the State as well as their depende...