background: during the last twenty years, the extraction of specific egg yolk (igy) antibodies from the immunized chickens has been accepted as a useful alternative to the immunization of mammals. the aim of the present study was immunizing the chickens with human umbilical cord serum (hucs) and the extraction of specific anti-human globulins (igg, c3b, and c3d) antibodies from egg yolk in orde...

A main characteristic of aging is the debilitating, progressive and generalized impairment of biological functions, resulting in an increased vulnerability to disease and death. Skeletal muscle comprises approximately 40% of the human body; thus, it is the most abundant tissue. At the age of 30 onwards, 0.5‑1% of human muscle mass is lost each year, with a marked acceleration in the rate of dec...

AIMS This cross-sectional study aimed to analyse myocardial deformation in patients with Fabry disease (FD) in order to evaluate speckle tracking as a method for non-invasive determination of myocardial fibrosis. Myocardial fibrosis is common in Fabry cardiomyopathy and is associated with disease progression and severe prognosis. METHODS AND RESULTS In 101 consecutive Fabry patients (39.8 ± 1...

In this paper, we consider the self-deployment of wireless sensor network. We present a deployment strategy for mobile wireless sensor network which maximizes the sensors covered area with the constraint that the resulting deployment provides a connected topology. Our deployment algorithm is distributed and is based on subset of neighbour for motion decision. Each node is considered as a partic...

la question de l’interaction entre le lecteur et le personnage est cruciale en toute étude en littérature fictionnelle. pourtant, malgré l’intérêt que les chercheurs portent depuis longtemps à l’examen de cette relation, celle-ci n’a été que rarement l’objet d’une étude méthodique. c’est pour combler ce manque que vincent jouve propose sa théorisation sur « l’effet-personnage ». le modèle prése...

Governmental and environmental agencies have recognized that Data Warehouses (DWs) oriented to environmental domain can cause a deep impact in the ability to preserve the environment. However, extracting environmental data from external sources in order to load them into the data organization area of a DW is much more complex when compared with conventional DWs. In environmental DWs, extraction...