This paper presents a machine translation tool – based on Moses – developed for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the automatic translation of documents from Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic to/from English. The main challenge lies in the insufficient size of inhouse corpora (especially for Russian and Arabic). The United Nations (UN) granted IMO the right to use UN resources...

Onchocerciasis, or River Blindness as it is commonly called, has been found to be endemic in the Imo River basin of Imo and Abia States, all in the Southeastern part of Nigeria [1,2]. Auchinumo is a community of 16 villages situated along the Imo River basin in the Ihitte-Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State. The people live in somewhat isolated settlements and are predominantly farmers. Am...

PURPOSE Immunostimulating Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonists cause antitumor activity interfering also with cancer proliferation and angiogenesis by mechanisms still incompletely understood. We hypothesized that modified TLR9 agonists could impair epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling and, by this means, greatly enhance EGFR inhibitors effect, acting on both the receptor targeting...

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of acute (2 h daily) and repeated (2 h daily for 2 or 10 consecutive days) immobilization stress (IMO) on: 1) the steroidogenic machinery homeostasis; 2) cAMP signaling; and the expression of receptors for main markers of 3) adrenergic and 4) glucocorticoid signaling in Leydig cells of adult rats. The results showed that acute IMO inhibited steroid...

PURPOSE We developed a new portable head-mounted perimeter, "imo", which performs visual field (VF) testing under flexible conditions without a dark room. Besides the monocular eye test, imo can present a test target randomly to either eye without occlusion (a binocular random single eye test). The performance of imo was evaluated. METHODS Using full HD transmissive LCD and high intensity LED...

All communications about this column should be sent to Professor R.E. Woodrow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2N 1N4. We begin this number with the problems of the IV class of the Croatian National Mathematical Competition, Novi Vinodolski, May 8{11, 1997. Thanks go to Richard Nowakowski, Canadian Team Leader to the IMO in Argentina f...

(IMO-H) was examined in vitro and in vivo experiments. IMO-H could not be used as a substrate for the crude glucosyltransferases (GTases) of Streptococcus sohrinus 6715 to synthesize "'ater-insoluble glucan. Moreove]', it not only significantly inhibited the synthesis of water-insoluble glu¢ an from sucrose, but also the sucrose-dependent adherence of these growing celJs the glass surfaces. In ...

The effect of restraint stress combined with water immersion (IMO+C), applied at various intervals before and after the acquisition of a passive avoidance task, was studied in rats. The procedure started with two pre-training trials. On the single training trial the rats received a footshock (0.3 mA, 3s) after they entered the preferred dark compartment. The exposure to IMO+C lasting 1 h termin...

Synthetic agonists of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), a class of agents that induce specific immune response, exhibit antitumor activity and are currently being investigated in cancer patients. Intriguingly, their mechanisms of action on tumor growth and angiogenesis are still incompletely understood. We recently discovered that a synthetic agonist of TLR9, immune modulatory oligonucleotide (IMO),...

Endothelial dysfunction may belong to negative consequences of stress exposure accompanied by activation of several stress systems including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The present experiments were aimed at testing the hypotheses that i) immobilization (IMO) stress results in sustained increase in endothelaemia for 24 h and that ii) pentoxifylline, a drug with endothel...