OBJECTIVE Elderly women who live alone are at increased risk for loss of independence. Hospitalization, in particular, often marks the transition from independent living to institutional care. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of rehabilitation admission to the subsequent function of elderly women and their ability to return to live-alone status. METHOD The women in th...

Parasite Ag-specific T cell unresponsiveness and diminished IFN-gamma production are immunologic hallmarks of patent infection with lymph-dwelling filarial nematodes. Although this diminished responsiveness is directed primarily against the intravascular microfilarial (MF) parasite stage and mediated in part by reduced APC function, the mechanisms involved are not fully understood. In this repo...

Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (M. bovis BCG), the only currently available vaccine against tuberculosis, has been reported to induce regulatory T cells in humans. The activity of regulatory T cells may not only dampen immunogenicity and protective efficacy of tuberculosis-vaccines, but also hamper diagnosis of infection of tuberculosis, when using immune (e.g. IFNγ-release) assay...

PtdInsPs are critical signaling molecules that regulate diverse cellular functions. One method to study PtdInsP biology involves using synthetic PtdInsP analogs to activate endogenous PtdInsP-mediated events in living cells. Such methodology has been successfully employed to explore the role of several PtdInsP-biological outcomes in the cytoplasm. However, this strategy has not previously been ...

the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of dietary supplementation of pioglitazone (pgt) during transition period on the ovarian function and the incidence of several diseases after parturition. eighty holstein cows were randomly allocatted to four treatment groups (n=20) using a 2×2 factorial design.  pioglitazone was fed for 14 day before the expected parturition time, or for...

Live migration has been proposed to reduce the downtime for migrated VMs by pre-copying the generated run-time memory state files from the original host to the migration destination host. However, if the rate for such a dirty memory generation is high, it may take a long time to accomplish live migration because a large amount of data needs to be transferred. In extreme cases when dirty memory ...

We discuss live coding audio-visual worlds for large-scale virtual reality environments. We describe Alive, an instrument allowing multiple users to develop sonic and visual behaviors of agents in a virtual world, through a browserbased collaborative code interface, accessible while being immersed through spatialized audio and stereoscopic display. The interface adds terse syntax for query-base...

OBJECTIVE Live attenuated influenza vaccine may protect against wild-type influenza illness shortly after vaccine administration by innate immunity. The 2003-2004 influenza A (H3N2) outbreak arrived early, and the circulating strain was antigenically distinct from the vaccine strain. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of influenza vaccines for healthy school-aged chi...