Binding of peptides to specific Major Histo-compatibility Complex (MHC) molecule is important for understanding immunity and has applications to vaccine discovery and design of immunotherapy. Artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used by predictions tools to classify the peptides as binders or non-binders (BNB). However, the number of known binders to a specific MHC molecule is limited in...

BACKGROUND The effects of calcium compared with non-calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality, cardiovascular events and vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are unknown. METHODS To address this question, we conducted a systematic review. We electronically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and CINAHL. We identified 160 ...

To evaluate the physiological responses of chrysanthemum to silicon spray in non-stress conditions, this study was performed in two separate experiments (at 4 to 5 and 8 to 12-leaf stages) as a factorial randomized completely design with two factors: silicon source (in two levels: sodium silicate and calcium silicate) and the concentration of silicate at five levels (0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mg ...

Mineralogy, microbial ecology, and mineral weathering in the subsurface are an intimately linked biogeochemical system. Although bacteria have been implicated indirectly in the accelerated weathering of minerals, it is not clear if this interaction is simply the coincidental result of microbial metabolism, or if it represents a speciŽ c strategy offering the colonizing bacteria a competitive ec...

Inorganic nanosized silicate nanoplatelets were incorporated into biodegradable poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) for the purpose of tailoring mechanical stiffness of PLLA porous scaffold systems. Increasing the nucleation density around the foreign body surfaces, the montmorillonite (MMT) nanoplatelets modified with dimethyl dihydrogenated tallow ammonium cations decreased the glass transition temper...

Abstract In the world a number of researches are intensively being conducted on preparation new paper compositions based natural polymers, expanding application scope products with unique and rare properties using not only plant fibers but also non-traditional fibers, development traditional papers for priority areas in this field manufacturing from mineral help existing devices. Systematic, re...

partial least squares modeling as a powerful multivariate statistical tool was applied tothe simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of silicate and phosphate in aqueoussolutions. the concentration range for silicate and phosphate were 0.02-0.6 and 0.4-3 μg ml-1,respectively. the experimental calibration set was composed with 30 sample solutions using amixture design for two component mix...

The Mt Weld lanthanide deposit in central Western Australia is considered to be one of the largest high grade deposits known in the world, first reported as a carbonate and phosphate rich ultramafic silicate intrusion that contained a resource of the Lanthanide series [1]. It has been dated between 1.6 – 2.0 billion years, where the formation of a carbonate layer in the cooling melt created a p...