The central Mediterranean Sea is among the most oligotrophic habitats in the marine environment. In this study, we investigated the abundance, diversity and activity of prokaryoplankton in the water column (25–3000-m depth) at Station Vector (Tyrrhenian Sea, 39°32.050′ N; 13°22.280′ E). This specific water column consists of three different water masses (Modified Atlantic Water (MAW), Levantine...

We describe a novel cytokine receptor named GP130 Like receptor, or GPL, that displays similarities with the interleukin-6 and interleukin-12 family of signaling receptors. Four different isoforms diverging in their carboxyl terminus were isolated, corresponding to proteins encompassing 560, 610, 626, and 745 amino acids. Sequences included a signal peptide of 32 amino acids, followed by a cyto...

Members of the Mycobacterium avium complex are the most frequently encountered opportunistic bacterial pathogens among patients in the advanced stage of AIDS. Two clinical isolates of the same strain, numbers 397 and 417, were obtained from an AIDS patient with disseminated M. avium complex infection before and after treatment with a regimen of clarithromycin and ethambutol. To identify the bio...

Previous evaluation of lymphocytes taken from patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) and other X-linked immunodeficiencies has revealed deficiencies of a lymphocyte sialoglycoprotein with a relative molecular mass of 115 kD (designated gpL-115) found in normal lymphocytes. The development of monoclonal antibodies to gpL-115 has permitted the detection of molecular heterogeneity in gpL-115...

Background: The use of plants for medicinal purposes continues to expand rapidly across the world. Up 80% world's population is estimated rely heavily on herbal medicines their primary health care. Graptophyllum pictum leaves (GPL) have long been used as medicine several diseases or conditions. However, until now, there only limited studies regarding laboratory experiments and pharmacological e...

This paper describes the Grammar Programming Language (GPL), a new formalism for feature-structure-based linguistic computation. GPL was designed to meet the needs of spoken language translation. GPL is easy to use, concise, and efficient, and it allows the direct expression of detailed linguistic algorithms. GPL was used successfully as the basis of Sony's machine translation project.

Practical work on spoken language translation must pursue two types of efficiency: computational efficiency, and “language engineering” efficiency. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of the GPL-based framework for spoken language translation that addresses both of these goals. In this framework, computational grammars are written in GPL, an easy-to-use imperative pr...

Antibodies against phospholipids (PLa) are often thought to be associated with the development of activated protein C (APC) resistance. In the present study, PLa were followed throughout 29 healthy pregnancies and compared to APC resistance. The level of PLa did not change during pregnancy [6.9 +/- 3.7 GPL week 12 versus 6.3 +/- 2.8 GPL week 37; 3.3 +/- 1.8 MPL versus 3.2 +/- 1.5 MPL; and lupus...

in order to study the effect of deficit irrigation at reproductive growth stages on growth and grain yield of four sunflower cultivars namely: azargol, allstare, alison and euroflor, an experiment was conducted during the 2007 growing season at the experimental field of the agricultural faculty of bu-ali sina university. the experimental design was a split plot one, based upon a randomized comp...