The antigenic proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have been defined. We used synthetic peptides of secreted antigens, early secreted antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) and cultural filtrate protein-10 (CFP-10), of Mtb and characterized the immune response in context of HLA genes. Humanized mice lacking endogenous class II molecules but expressing various human DR and DQ HLA transgenes singly ...

Modern dönemin en etkili siyasal düşüncelerinden biri olan milliyetçiliğin geç ulus devlet olarak tanımlanabilecek Türkiye Cumhuriyeti üzerindeki etkileri, Batılılaşma ile kurulan ilişkinin boyutuyla sıkı şekilde ilişkilidir. Cumhuriyetin Batı kurduğu ilişki, Osmanlı Devleti’nin son yüzyılını yönlendiren köklü bir modernleşme geleneğinin bakiyesini devralmıştır. modernleşmesinin 19. yüzyıl boyu...

Tests based on tuberculin purified protein derivative (PPD) cannot distinguish between tuberculosis infection, Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccination, or exposure to environmental mycobacteria. The present study investigated the diagnostic potential of two Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigens (ESAT-6 and CFP10) in experimental animals as well as during natural infection in humans and cattl...

A method for retrospective correction of intensity inhomogeneities induced by the heel effect in digital radiographs is presented. The method is based on a theoretical model for the heel effect which is derived from the acquisition geometry. Because the heel effect is directly measurable in the direct exposure area only, the image is partitioned first to exclude collimation and diagnostic areas...

1KU Leuven Kulak, Wave Propagation and Signal Processing Research Group, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium, [email protected] 2KU Leuven, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium 3TU Darmstadt, Institut für Theorie Elektromagnetischer Felder (TEMF), 64289 Darmstadt, Germany 4KU Leuven, ESAT MICAS, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium 5University Hospitals Leuven, Department o...

Johan Gyselinck1, Patrick Dular2, Laurent Krähenbühl3, Ruth V. Sabariego4 1 BEAMS Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, [email protected] 2ACE, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Lie‘ge (ULg), Belgium, [email protected] 3Université de Lyon, Ampere (CNRS UMR5005, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, INSA-Lyon, UCBL), France 4Dept. Electrical ...

Departement Elektrotechniek ESAT-SISTA/TR 96-71 Generalized Linear Complementarity Problems and the Analysis of Continuously Variable Systems and Discrete Event Systems1 Bart De Schutter2 and Bart De Moor2 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hybrid and Real-Time Systems (HART'97), Grenoble, France, March 26-28, 1997 vol. 1201 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 4...

SPRAAK is a new open source speech recognition package. It is derived from the HMM package that has been developed over the past 15 years at ESAT, KULeuven and which has been in use by a number of other institutions for several years.

Optimization and NMPC in Chemical Engineering Jan Albersmeyer, Moritz Diehl Jan Albersmeyer, Simulation and Optimization Team, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, e-mail: [email protected] Moritz Diehl, Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT) and Optimization in Engineering ...