Over the past few years, considerable progress has been made in the identification of regulatory T cell pathways and factors that act as mediators between T cell subsets involved in these pathways (1-3). However, at least two important aspects of regulation of the immune response have remained largely unexplored. One of them is the role of antigen presentation and of major histocompatibility co...

We investigate how uncertainty surrounding possible comprehensive regulatory restructuring affect the investment behavior of firms operating in the industry. We argue that such regulatory uncertainty can create a substantial option value that leads to firms delaying their investment decision in order to gather more information and assurances regarding future regulatory changes. We empirically e...

Since 1980 with the accelerating trends of globalization, international fragmentation production was one drastic transformations that occurred in world economy. It is defined as process whereby more than country participates previously integrated activities (vertical specialization) involved producing a final good. After dissolution Soviet Union, post-socialist Central and Eastern European coun...

Title: Successful resumption of tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis after resection of a pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex lesion: A case report Authors: Ho Namkoong ([email protected]) Sadatomo Tasaka ([email protected]) Mitsuhiro Akiyama ([email protected]) Kazuma Yagi ([email protected]) Makoto Ishii ([email protected]) Katsuya Suzuki ([email protected]) ...

There is a nexus of technologies that is currently the subject of intense interest in the research community. The explosion of Internet and wireless connectivity, the miniaturization of components, and the diversification of computer-based devices is fueling research in areas such as ubiquitous computing (Gellersen, 1999; Thomas & Gellersen, 2000; Weiser, 1991), pervasive computing (Husemann, 2...

Title: Helicobacter-induced Gastric Inflammation Alters the Properties of Gastric Tissue Stem/Progenitor Cells Authors: Wataru Shibata ([email protected]) Soichiro Sue ([email protected]) Sachiko Tsumura ([email protected]) Yasuaki Ishii ([email protected]) Takeshi Sato ([email protected]) Eri Kameta ([email protected]) Makoto Sugimori (mak.sugimori@gmai...

Title: Natural history of Mycobacterium fortuitum pulmonary infection presenting with migratory infiltrates: A case report with microbiological analysis Authors: Satoshi Okamori ([email protected]) Takanori Asakura ([email protected]) Tomoyasu Nishimura ([email protected]) Eiko Tamizu ([email protected]) Makoto Ishii ([email protected]) Mitsunori Yoshida ([email protected]) ...

Fresh collections of Diplopoda from China contain five new species of the large, East Asian, warm temperate to subtropical genus Riukiaria: R. martensi sp. nov., from Shaanxi Province, as well as R. belousovi sp. nov., R. kabaki sp. nov., R. korolevi sp. nov. and R. davidiani sp. nov. from Sichuan Province. A key is given to all eight Riukiaria species currently known to occur in mainland China...

Ficus microcarpa is an Asian fig tree that is ornamentally cultivated. The specific pollinator, Eupristina verticillata Waterston, and the non-pollinators Walkerella microcarpae Boucek and Philotrypesis emeryi Grandi, have been reported associated to F. microcarpa in Brazil. In here we report for the first time the occurrence of Odontofroggatia ishii Wiebes and Philotrypesis taiwanensis Chen et...

It has long been recognised that pollutant gases cause significant impacts on crops and studies conducted revealed that ground-level ozone is responsible for most of the crop-yield losses from air pollutants whereby losses from other pollutants are minimal, relative to ozone (Fuhrer et al., 1997; Pleijel et al., 1998; Ishii et al, 2004). Ozone is a secondary pollutant resulting from photochemic...