Geographic region % (no. positive/no. tested) IgG IgM Total 10.4 (27/260) 4.6 (12/260) Chikan district 2.7 (3/113) 1.0 (1/113 Mazhang district 16.3 (24/147) 7.5 (11/147) Huangwai village 13.3 (2/15) 0 (0/15) Houyang village 71.4 (5/7) 28.6 (2/7) Nanpan village 23.8 (5/21) 9.5 (2/21) Chiling village 8.3 (1/12) 0 (0/12) Beigou village 16.7 (1/6) 16.7 (1/6) Chaofa village 9.5 (6/63) 7.9 (5/63) Pig...

rural tourism, a dynamic industry with a promising future, can play a key role in economic improvement of talented countries such as iran. abyaneh village is one of the best-known villages in both iran and the world. the number of annual visitors of this ancient village is approximately 550,000 that is a considerable number. within a short radius of abyaneh there are five villages (barz, tare, ...

We tabulate the luminosities of the soft-to-hard state transitions of all X-ray binaries for which there exist good X-ray flux measurements at the time of the transition, good distance estimates, and good mass estimates for the compact star. We show that the state transition luminosities are at about 1-4% of the Eddington rate, markedly smaller than those typically quoted in the literature, wit...

An early response to cigarette smoke is an influx of leukocytes into the lung. Alveolar epithelial type II (ATII) cells may contribute by releasing chemokines in response to cigarette smoke and neutrophil elastase (NE). Human ATII cells were purified from normal regions of lungs resected for carcinoma (n = 14). In vitro, these cells exhibited ATII cell characteristics: lamellar bodies, apical m...

Bechara C, Wang X, Chai H, Lin PH, Yao Q, Chen C. Growthrelated oncogeneinduces endothelial dysfunction through oxidative stress and downregulation of eNOS in porcine coronary arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 293: H3088–H3095, 2007. First published September 14, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00473.2007.—Growth-related oncogene(GRO) is a member of the CXC chemokine family, which is involve...

GRO J2058+42, a transient 198 second x-ray pulsar, was discovered by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), during a “giant” outburst in 1995 September-October. The total flux peaked at about 300 mCrab (20-50 keV) as measured by Earth occultation. The pulse period decreased from 198 s to 196 s during the 46-day outburst. The pulse shape ev...

In the global village ecosystem, enterprises need collaborating using Information Technology (IT) and other tools to succeed in this dynamic and heterogeneous business environment. The Global Village Services Reference Model (GVSRM) is a reference model based on SOSA (Service Oriented Strategies and Architectures) ontology for global village services Realization. In this model, three architectu...