Vaccination of mice with a peptide corresponding to the extracellular part of M2 protein coupled to the immunodominant domain of hepatitis B core can protect mice from a lethal challenge with influenza A virus. As the extracellular part of M2 protein is highly conserved in all known human influenza A strains, such a vaccine may protect against all human influenza A strains, which would represen...

Although contract reparations have been extensively studied in the context of deontic logics, there is not much literature using reparations in automata-based deontic approaches. Contract automata are a recent approach to modelling the notion of contractbased interaction between different parties using synchronous composition. However, it lacks the notion of reparations for contract violations....

The sodium channel of the excitability mechanism in nerve membranes is about as permeable to hydroxylamine and hydrazine cations as it is to sodium ions. It is impermeable to methylamine cations. This selectivity is explained by supposing that an oxygen group in the channel must receive a hydrogen bond from the permeating cation at the same time as the cation lies against another negatively cha...

I argue that traditional views on which beliefs are subject only to purely epistemic assessment can reject demographic profiling, even when based seemingly robust evidence. This is because the moral failures involved in profiling be located decision not suspend judgment, rather than supposing themselves a locus of evaluation. A key reason judgment faced with adverse evidence promote social equa...

In the past the specificity of lipase action for fats has been to some extent taken for granted. Pancreas extracts were known to hydrolyze all the ordinary glycerides (except possibly the stearins) and this behavior defined the enzyme lipase. There have been good reasons for supposing that stearins constituted no exception in principle, but were merely attacked very slowly. Actually, tristearin...

The Marx model for the profit rate r depending on the exploitation rate e and on the organic composition of the capital k is studied using a dynamical approach. Supposing both e(t) and k(t) are continuous functions of time we derive a law for r(t) in the long term. Depending upon the hypothesis set on the growth of k(t) and e(t) in the long term, r(t) can fall to zero or remain constant. This l...