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Reverse genetics was used to study the effect of particular amino acids of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) on virulence. Using site-directed mutagenesis, altering of two amino acids in VP2 (Q253H, A284T) and VP3 (H783Q, V862M, I921V) in the segment A of a Chinese very virulent IBDV field strain Harbin-1, 4 virus mutants including H253/284, H783/862, H862/921, H921/783 were rescued. To ev...

Context. Studies of the correlation between different diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are important for exploring their origins. However, Gaia –RVS spectral window 846 and 870 nm contains few DIBs, strong DIB at 862 being only convincingly confirmed one. Aims. Here we attempt to confirm existence a broad around 864.8 estimate its characteristics using stacked spectra large number stars. We st...

A new model for perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) was recently standardised by the ITU-T as recommendation P.862. Unlike previous codec assessment models, such as PSQM and MNB (ITU-T P.861), PESQ is able to predict subjective quality with good correlation in a very wide range of conditions, that may include coding distortions, errors, noise, filtering, delay and variable delay. Thi...

ITU recommendation P.862, PESQ was developed for measuring speech quality in a wide variety of conditions. This paper shows that PESQ can also be used for measuring speech intelligibility. An experiment was set up to evaluate speech intelligibility in the presence of two interfering talkers at 4 SNR conditions (0, -3, -6, and -9 dB), using 100 sentences in each condition, with five normal heari...

A response surface methodology (RSM) was used to evaluate the effects of pH and microalgal biomass concentration (BC) on alkaline flocculating activity for harvesting one freshwater green algae Scenedesmus quadricauda #507 and one marine diatom Chaetoceros muelleri #862. The pH value and BC were in range of 9.0–12.0 and 0.20–2.30 g/L, respectively. Very high regression coefficient between the v...

1 Intracellular Cholesterol Binding Proteins Enhance HDL-mediated 2 Cholesterol Uptake in Cultured Primary Mouse Hepatocytes 3 By 4 5 Stephen M. Storey, Avery L. McIntosh, Huan Huang, Kerstin K. Landrock, Gregory G. 6 Martin, Danilo Landrock, H. Ross Payne, Barbara P. Atshaves, Ann B. Kier, and Friedhelm 7 Schroeder 8 9 from the 10 Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Pathobiology, 11...

Abstract Introduction Difficult limb problems such as complex trauma or re-presentation following orthopaedic revision surgeries can present substantial planning and technical challenges. 3D-printed models built from patient-specific CT scans facilitate creative thinking, problem solving decision making to find better operative solutions. This quality improvement project aims map the process of...