The mould genus, Penicillium, is a significant source of environmental aero-allergens. A major allergen from Penicillium notatum, Pen n 18, was identified by two-dimensional immunoblotting using monoclonal antibody G11A10, raised against the vacuolar serine protease of Penicillium citrinum, followed by matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization-time-of-flight MS analysis of the peptide digest....

We present optical absorption spectra of mixed films of pentacene (PEN) and perfluoropentacene (PFP) grown on SiO2. We investigated the influence of intermolecular coupling between PEN and PFP on the optical spectra by analyzing samples with five different mixing ratios of PFP:PEN with variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry and differential reflectance spectroscopy. The data show how the spe...

With increasing cyber threats and breaches, every organization needs to be alert in order to safeguard their assets. To implement the most proactive approach, most organizations today opt for 'Penetration Testing', more popularly known as pen testing. While there is an increasing demand for this exploitative type of testing, there is a considerable amount of confusion in the industry regarding ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a drawing learning support system using a networked environment. In this paper, firstly, we describe the results of a potential assessment for our system. Two assessment approaches are shown. One assesses the possibility of using a digital pen as a drawing tool. The other assesses the effectiveness of drawing learning support based on the reuse of the dra...

As pen-based devices become more popular, it has motivated several novel research issues in the area of pen computing. One interesting and practical problem is the storage and retrieval of hand-drawn sketches. A sketch can consist of handwritten notes, symbols, free-form hand-drawings, annotations on a document etc. It will be very useful to store the sketches in a database and then retrieve th...

Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) are a major cause of diarrhoea in weaned pigs. The objective of this study was to evaluate the agreement at pen level among three different diagnostic approaches for the detection of ETEC in groups of nursery pigs with diarrhoea. The diagnostic approaches used were: bacterial culturing of faecal samples from three pigs (per pen) with clinical diarrhoea and subsequ...

PURPOSE Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty (PEN) is a minimally invasive treatment. The efficacy of PEN has been relatively well investigated; however, the relationship between the clinical effectiveness of PEN and the severity of spinal canal stenosis by disc material has not yet been established. The purpose of this study was to compare clinical outcomes of PEN according to the dural sac cross...

The experiment explored the influence of glutamic acid (Glu) and the NMDA-receptor antagonist dizocilpine maleate (MK-801) on the pain-evoked responses of pain-excitation neurons (PEN) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of rats. The trains of electric impulses applied to the sciatic nerve were used as noxious stimulation. The discharges of PEN in NAc were recorded by glass microelectrode. We observ...

Weblogs are communication and collaborative tools disposed in Web that aims to publish texts and sharing opinions, typically displaying the post in reverse chronological order, and allowing visitors to leave comments. Since devices equipped with pen are becoming common, such as tablets, and have enough computational power to render Web pages, users can access blog tools through pen-based device...