Aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton–boron could efficiently produce clean energy with quite low neutron doses. However, a consequence, conventional spectral methods for diagnosing plasma ion temperature would no longer work. Therefore, finding way to probe the in aneutronic plasmas is crucial task. Here, we present method realize ultrafast situ probing of 11 B by Doppler broadening nucle...

RUE resolution represents a reformulation of binary resolution so that the basic rules of inference (RUE and NRF) incorporate the axioms of equality. An RUE theorem prover has been implemented and experimental results indicate that this method represents a significant advance in the handling of equality in resolution.

The German Armed Forces provide an operation contingent to support the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Response Force (NRF). To fulfill a mission, NRF operates number of technical systems, mostly vehicles. Each system is composed several parts which might fail over time, and it can only be used again in mission if all broken are replaced. For short deployments (e.g., one month), troop...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we investigated the potential harmful effect of the exposure to silicon dioxide (SiO(2)) nanoparticles through in vitro toxicity assay using human bronchial epithelial cell, Beas-2B with a focus on the involvement of oxidative stress as the toxic mechanism. METHODS SiO(2)-induced oxidative stress was assessed by examining formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), t...

Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) can cause hepatocellular injury associated with the inflammatory response and mitochondrial dysfunction. We studied the protective effects of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor cilostazol in hepatic I/R and the roles of mitochondria and the Nrf2/heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) system. Wild-type, Hmox1(-/-), or Nrf2(-/-) mice were subjected to hepatic I/R in the absence o...

Increased oxidative stress contributes to the functional impairment of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), the pivotal players in the servicing of the endothelial cell lining. Several evidences suggest that decreasing oxidative stress by natural compounds with antioxidant properties may improve EPCs bioactivity. Here, we investigated the effects of Lisosan G (LG), a Triticum Sativum grain powd...

Abstract The viral E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papillomavirus (HPV) are strongly associated with cervical cancer. We developed assessed the efficacy an mRNA-HPV therapeutic vaccine (mHTV), containing proteins, in C57BL/J mice. mHTV generated robust T cell-mediated immune responses induced short-lived effector tetramer-specific cells. immunization significantly suppressed tumor growth mice i...

The competition graph of a digraph D is defined as a graph which has the same vertex set as D and has an edge xy between two distinct vertices x and y if and only if, for some vertex z ∈ V (D), the arcs (x, z) and (y, z) are in D. The competition number of a graph G is defined to be the smallest number k such that G together with k isolated vertices is the competition graph of an acyclic digrap...

1 National Tuberculosis Control Program, Nairobi, Kenya; 2 Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; 3 Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya; 4 DST/NRF Centre of excellence for Biomedical TB Research, Division of molecular Biology and Human Genetics, University of St...

#include #include void nag_hier_mixed_init (Nag_OrderType order, Integer n, Integer ncol, const double dat[], Integer pddat, const Integer levels[], const double y[], const double wt[], const Integer fixed[], Integer lfixed, Integer nrndm, const Integer rndm[], Integer lrndm, Integer *nff, Integer *nlsv, Integer *nrf, double rcomm[], Integer lrcomm, Integer icomm[], Integer l...