background: in this study, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-de) method was applied to determine and compare the protein spots expressed in the two field isolates of leishmania major and recovered from the patients who were clinically sensitive and resistant to glucantime® treatment. methods: leishmania parasites were isolated from the cutaneous lesions of two cl infected patients in shira...

What is sympatric speciation? The likelihood of sympatric speciation is perhaps the most controversial aspect of speciation, and certainly one of the most contested questions in evolutionary biology. Speciation in general is defined as the evolution of strong, genetically based ‘isolating barriers’ between populations that prevent them from exchanging genes, for example, mate discrimination, ha...

The z lepton and mesons and baryons containing the charm (c) and bottom (b) quarks, are all found to have lifetimes in the range 10-13-10 -tz s [1] . A device able to resolve vertices to of the order of 1 mm is in principle capable of isolating the decays of these particles produced in e+ ecollisions . This paper describes the design, construction and performance of a pressurised drift chamber ...

The difficulties in isolating specific QCD mechanisms which control hadronic phenomena, and the complications in obtaining quantitative tests of QCD are discussed. A number of novel QCD effects are reviewed, including heavy quark and higher twist phenomena, initial and final state interactions, direct processesI multiparticle collisions, color filtering, and nuclear target effects. The importan...

background and objectives: lipases are valuable biocatalysts which are widely used in the detergent, food, dairy and pharmaceutical industries. the aims of the present study included the isolation of a lipase-producer from industrial zones and the partial characterization of the enzyme. materials and methods: a number of bacteria were isolated from sites related to the oil industries. an isolat...