aspergillus spp. are ubiquitous saprophytic fungi that cause a variety of diseases, ranging from hypersensitivity reactions to flulike pneumonia and life-threatening invasive aspergillosis. as the lung is the primary site of initial infection with airborne conidia, we investigated the innate immune responses of bronchial epithelial cells against different forms of aspergillus spp.

Why do we age? This question has baffled scientists for 150 years and remains unresolved. Scientists disagree over even the general nature of aging. Is aging the result of fundamental limitations that apply to all living things, do we age because our bodies do not try harder not to age, or are organisms designed by nature or " programmed " to age because a limited life span conveys some evoluti...

background: the purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of iran. methods: the study was done in 2009-10 in tehran, kerman, and iran medical universities, iran.  we contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of iranian journal of public health...

it is a great pleasure to receive two valuable comments about our article regarding sudden cardiac death (scd) in young athletes from two well known experts working in the field of preparticipation evaluation and prevention of sports injuries. we, as authors, generally agree with both authors' comments. however, some considerations should be re-emphasized here. .....

We present an overview of learning theory including its statistical and computational aspects. We start by giving a probabilistic formulation of learning problems including classification and regression where the learner knows nothing about the probability distribution generating the data. We then consider the principle of empirical risk minimization (ERM) that chooses a function from a given c...

José R. Mediavilla, Liang Chen, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Blake M. Hanson, Marnie Rosenthal, Kathryn Stanak, Brian Koll, Bettina C. Fries, Donna Armellino, Mary Ellen Schilling, Don Weiss, Tara C. Smith, Franklin D. Lowy, and Barry N. Kreiswirth Author affi liations: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, USA (J.R. Mediavilla, L. Chen, B.N. Kreiswirth); Columbia Uni...