The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) restriction of the IgE response to different allergens in humans has been a subject of numerous published studies. However, the role and contribution of specific HLA class II molecules in the pathogenesis of allergic airway inflammation are unknown and difficult to assess. HLA-DQ6 and HLA-DQ8 transgenic mice lacking endogenous mouse class II gene expression wer...

We present an analysis of spectroscopic and photometric observations of cool DQ white dwarfs based on improved model atmosphere calculations. In particular , we revise the atmospheric parameters of the trigonometric parallax sample of Bergeron, Leggett, & Ruiz, and discuss the astrophysical implications on the temperature scale and mean mass, as well as the chemical evolution of these stars. We...

Методом горіння одержано легований Mn4+ α-Al2O3 з розміром частинок 70–600 нм. На підставі результатів люмінесцентних вимірювань в рамках наближення чисто електронних переходів розраховано силу кристалічного поля (Dq) та параметри Рака (B, C) для α-Al2O3. Одержані значення Dq (1898 см-1) нефелауксетичного параметра β1 (0.95) іонів узгоджуються зі значеннями цих параметрів інших оксидних сполука...

OBJECTIVE We sought to (1) evaluate at 2 years the postsurfactant era developmental outcome of children who were born before 33 weeks of gestational age (GA) in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area in France in 1997 and (2) identify risk factors of poor developmental quotient (DQ). Children were part of the EPIPAGE study, which included all of these births in 9 French regions. METHODS A prospective ob...

PURPOSE The objective of this study is to examine test-retest reliability, criterion validity, and absolute agreement of a self-report, last 7-d sedentary behavior questionnaire (SIT-Q-7d), which assesses total daily sedentary time as an aggregate of sitting/lying down in five domains (meals, transportation, occupation, nonoccupational screen time, and other sedentary time). Dutch (DQ) and Engl...

BACKGROUND Currently, there are no nutritional indices to predict cognitive function in extremely low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants. OBJECTIVE To assess the neonatal blood urea nitrogen (BUN) values in ELBW infants according to their cognitive function at the corrected age of 36 months. METHODS This was a retrospective study that assessed the neonatal factors affecting the developmental outco...

This study proposes a generic mathematical modelling and decoupling fault-tolerant vector control for dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) with one phase open based on the conventional voltage source inverters, accounting mutual coupling between two sets of windings second harmonic inductance. When PMSM has open, flux-linkages are asymmetric there components in reference...

Exposure to environmental pesticides can cause significant brain damage and has been linked with an increased risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease. Bipyridyl herbicides, such as paraquat (PQ), diquat (DQ), and benzyl viologen (BV), are redox cycling agents known to exert cellular damage through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We examined...

MHC molecules bind antigenic peptides and present them to T cells. There is a growing body of evidence that MHC molecules also serve other functions. We and others have described synthetic peptides derived from regions of MHC molecules that inhibit T-cell proliferation or cytotoxicity in an allele-nonspecific manner that is independent of interaction with the T-cell receptor. In this report, we...

This paper is the continuation of [12]. We construct the Hochschild class for coherent modules over a deformation quantization algebroid on a complex Poisson manifold. We also define the convolution of Hochschild homologies, and prove that the Hochschild class of the convolution of two coherent modules is the convolution of their Hochschild classes. We study with some details the case of symple...