background: light chain (lc) and heavy chain carboxyterminal subdomain (hcc) fragments are the most important parts of tetanus neurotoxin (tent) which play key roles in toxicity and binding of tent, respectively. in the present study, these two fragments were cloned and expressed in a prokaryotic system and their identity was confirmed using anti-tent specific polyclonal and monoclonal antibodi...

Concern has mounted over health effects caused by exposure to flame retardant additives used in consumer products. Significant research efforts have focused particularly on exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) used in furniture and electronic applications. However, little attention has focused on applications in textiles, particularly textiles meeting a flammability standard known...

Corresponding Author: Muhammad Asif Khan Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Darul Ridzuan, 31750 Perak, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Robust chaotic maps with wide robust region are favored in cryptography as it extends the key length. Chaotic tent map has robust chaos for control parameter μ = 2. Perturbation of control parameter v...

The paper presents a detailed analysis of two types of pseudorandom binary sequence generators obtained by using tent map. The test is performed using a NIST statistical test suite which is widely used for testing the randomness of any random number generator. The binary sequences under investigation are obtained either by considering all the successive iterations of the tent map and choosing a...

OBJECTIVE Prolonged air leak is still one of the most frequent complications after pulmonary resections, particularly upper lobectomy. This study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of pleural tenting in decreasing air leak after upper lobectomy. METHODS This was a prospective randomised study of 48 patients who had upper lobectomy. They were divided into two groups: the first group included 23 ...