There is a compelling need for novel approaches for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Although there are some approved therapies for MS, the efficacy of these current treatments leaves ample room for improvement. For example, the data from the pivotal trials leading to the approval of the beta-interferons and glatiramer acetate revealed that relapse rates were reduced by about a third, in p...

The commercial availability of random peptide libraries displayed on the M13 phage is increasing their use forstudies on epitope identification, enzyme inhibitors, receptor ligands, etc. In this study two experimentswhere planned for selection of peptides. First with sheep antibodies, the positive selector was IgG, preparedon Protein G column from a pool of 11 sheeps immunized...

for the first time, a multi-residue methodfor simultaneous determination of 41lc-amenable pesticides in rice, belonging to different chemical classes has been developed in iran by lc-ms/ms. the pesticides were analyzed simultaneously in a single run using positive electrospray ionization with multiple reaction monitoring (mrm) after extraction with slightly modified quechers method. the calibra...

In the present study, the potency and immunogenicity of the inactivated bivalent vaccine of Newcastle disease (ND) and avian influenza (AI) produced by Razi institute in Iran were compared with a similar imported vaccine administered by standard methods to specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chicken. A total of 150 twenty-one-day-old SPF chickens were used for evaluating Razi and imported inactivated ...

Multi-stream automatic speech recognition (MSASR) has been confirmed to boost the recognition performance in noisy conditions. In this system, the generation and the fusion of the streams are the essential parts and need to be designed in such a way to reduce the effect of noise on the final decision. This paper shows how to improve the performance of the MS-ASR by targeting two questions; (1) ...

The use of virtual reality technologies in the evaluation process of the dyslexia syndrome has yet to be explored and is a true challenge for the scientists involved. The goal of this study was to design specialized tasks with the use of virtual reality, as a screening process of characteristic memory difficulties for undergraduate students diagnosed with dyslexia. Results showed that there wer...

Deception-based Game Theoretical Approach to Mitigate DoS Attacks Hayreddin Ceker, Jun Zhuang, Shambhu Upadhyaya, La Quang Duy and Soong Boon Hee On the Mitigation of Interference Imposed by Intruders in Passive RFID Networks Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, John Baras, Symeon Papavassiliou and Gang Qu Resilience of Routing in Paralel Link Networks Eitan Altman, Aniruddha Singhal, Corinne Touati and J...