Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by pathogenic Leptospira. The whole-genome sequence of L. interrogans serovar Copenhageni together with bioinformatics tools represent a great opportunity to search for novel antigen candidates that could be used as subunit vaccine against leptospirosis. We focused on six genes encoding for conserved hypothetical proteins predicted to be exported to ...

Intracellular delivery of functional macromolecules using peptide transduction domains (PTDs) is an exciting technology with both experimental and therapeutic applications. Recent data indicate that PTD-mediated transduction occurs via fluid-phase macropinocytosis involving an intracellular pH drop to approximately 5. Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)-coordinated metals avidly bind hexahistidine-tagg...

this research deals with the differences in the writings of male and female authors in the contemporary persian novels, and employs lakoff's (1975) linguistic approach to reach this objective. the main aim of this work is to make sure if the factor of gender may lead to differences in methods of writings between men and women in terms of vocabulary choices and syntactic variations. in this...

egypt is one of the countries which uses the stories and novels frequently and yusuf idris is one of this country’s famous authors. he is one of the realistic authors. he expresses his country’s occupation by england and strangers and states his nation’s pains and griefs. the character is one of the most important elements of the story who the author depicts many social fact by that. “isn’t it”...

the present study depicts the analysis of quality of content of six bestselling novels from 1999- 2010. in this study, it has been tried to answer the questions how the power of women is shown (representation) by their female authors and also in these novels what kind of relations between a woman and family is clarified and how their experiences in the family are illustrated. the conceptual fra...

between 1941 to 1979 the modern city has been formed. urban plans are initiated in this period by the establishment of planning organization in 1948. based on such plans, the city experiences a huge expansion. modern cities like tehran became the best place to fulfill the aspirations of the residents of the surrounding towns and villages with job opportunities and better living conditions. as t...

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...