Circulating lipoproteins may offer interesting properties as therapeutic carriers for cytokines and hormones, in terms of both stability and bio-distribution. The fusion of apolipoprotein A-I with interleukin-15 (IL-15) targets the latter to high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). The bioactivity of this chimera can be further enhanced by creating triple fusions with IL-15 receptor α domain involved ...

Abstract. Since there are various disturbing factors such as long propagation delay and high error rate in UW-ASN, an error control mechanism is required to improve the system performance efficiently. In this paper, the carrier sensing technique, which detects whether the public media access is already occupied or not and evade the collision, is used as an error control mechanism. A method of m...

We examine the relationship between portfolio manager ownership, closed-end fund premiums/discounts, and future returns. Using a sample of 592 closed-end funds in 2005, representing 95% of the entire industry, we find that fund manager ownership has a positive and economically significant impact on fund premiums and future fund performance measured using both NAV and price returns. Furthermore,...

Nadine J. van der Heijden,1 Daniël Smith,1 Gaetano Calogero,1,2 Rik S. Koster,3 Daniel Vanmaekelbergh,1 Marijn A. van Huis,3 and Ingmar Swart1 1Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80 000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands 2DTU Natotech, Technical University of Denmark, Building 345E, rsteds Plads, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmar...

Received September 20, 2016; accepted September 23, 2016; released online October 15, 2016 Time for primary review: 3 days Department of Cardiology (K.M., M.O.), Department of Pediatric Cardiology (K.K.), Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (S.T.), Sakakibara Heart Institute, Fuchu, Japan Mailing address: Keitaro Mahara, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, 3-16-1 Asa...

Use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems has been the mainstay of large enterprises since 1990s. Only recently has there been significant interest in the use of ERP in small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Since then scholars have been studying the applicability of research results of successful implementation of ERPs in large enterprises to implementation in SMBs. In this research...

Article history: Received 15 December 2015 Received in revised form 20 December 2016 Accepted 17 January 2017 Available online 24 January 2017

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is considered the most common pathogen causing severe lower respiratory tract infections among infants and young children. We describe the seasonality and geographical spread of RSV infection in 15 countries of the European Union and European Economic Area. We performed a retrospective descriptive study of weekly laboratory-confirmed RSV detections between week...

We study the allocation of investment projects by municipal governments across groups of voters using data from a scal stimulus program carried out in Spain between 2009 and 2011. This program provided municipalities with a large endowment to spend in public investments and required the geocoding of each individual project. Combining these data with disaggregated election information at the cen...

Article history: Received 17 August 2016 Received in revised form 5 September 2016 Accepted 15 September 2016 Available online 20 September 2016 Editor: M. Doser A time-dependent angular analysis of Bs →ψ(2S)φ decays is performed using data recorded by the LHCb experiment. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected during Run 1 of the LHC. The CP-violating phase ...