Because chronic Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infection is hypothesized to play a role in asthma, the potential of M. pneumoniae to establish chronic respiratory infection with associated pulmonary disease was investigated in a murine model. BALB/c mice were intranasally inoculated once with M. pneumoniae and examined at 109, 150, 245, 368, and 530 days postinoculation. M. pneumoniae was de...

BACKGROUND & AIMS ABT-530 is a next-generation hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5A inhibitor with potent pangenotypic antiviral activity in vitro. Paritaprevir is an NS3/4A protease inhibitor codosed with ritonavir that displays in vitro activity against HCV genotypes 1-4 and 6. METHODS Efficacy, pharmacokinetics and safety of ABT-530 with paritaprevir/ritonavir and ribavirin were evaluated in this ...

1 Cathie Sherwood, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, [email protected] Abstract  Online learning or elearning is now viewed as the ‘holy grail’ by many universities. Moving course materials to an online delivery mode is seen to be one way of extending the services provided to students while reducing the costs of education. As ...

Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, CEP 50740-530 Recife, PE, Brazil Department of Mining Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, CEP 50740-530 Recife, PE, Brazil Department of Archeology, Federal University of Pernambuco, CEP 50670-900 Recife, PE, Brazil Department of Nuclear Energy, Federal University of Pernambuco, CEP 50740-540 Recife, PE, Br...

We report on VLBA observations of a γ-ray bright blazar NRAO 530 at multiple frequencies (5, 8, 15, 22, 39, 43, and 45 GHz) in 1997 and 1999. These multi-epoch multi-frequency high-resolution VLBI images exhibit a consistent coredominated morphology with a bending jet to the north of the core. The quasi-simultaneous data observed at five frequencies (5, 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz) in February 1997 en...

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Fault Monitoring and Restoration in Optical WDM Networks Jian Wang, Laxman Sahasrabuddhe and Biswanath Mukherjee + Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA SBC, 2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA + Correspondance Author: Tel: +1-530-752-5129, Fax: +1-530-752-4767, Email: ...