Abstract Introduction The vestibule is an external genital structure lying 90° to the vaginal canal opening. During thrusting movements associated with penetrative sexual activity, undergoes significant stretching during both invagination and evagination. also extreme childbirth. rete pegs in non-keratinized squamous epithelium facilitate ability of mechanically stretch. More importantly, howev...

The opsonophagocytic requirements of human sera containing endogenous complement for a variety of type Ia, and group B streptococcal strains were defined. Significant reduction (>==90%) in colony-forming units was noted after a 40-min incubation for the highly encapsulated, mouse-passed prototype strain 090 by sera containing moderate to high concentrations of antibody to type Ia polysaccharide...

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Piero Quarati 1,2,*, Marcello Lissia 1 and Antonio M. Scarfone 3,4 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)-Sezione di Cagliari, Monserrato 09042, Italy; [email protected] 2 Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (SCUDO)-Politecnico di Torino, Torino 10129, Italy 3 Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC-CNR) c/o Politecnico di Torino, Torino 10129, Italy; antoniomaria.scarfo...

F. F. FEITOSA{, G. CÂMARA*{, A. M. V. MONTEIRO{, T. KOSCHITZKI{ and M. P. S. SILVA{§ {INPE—Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, DPI—Divisão de Processamento de Imagens, C.P. 515, 12227-001, São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil {Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Geographie, Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany §UERN—Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande ...

V.P. Gonçalves a and M.V.T. Machado b,c a Instituto de F́ısica e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-090, Pelotas, RS, Brazil b Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS). Unidade de Bento Gonçalves Rua Benjamin Constant, 229. Bento Gonçalves. CEP 95700-000, Brazil c High Energy Physics Phenomenology Group, GFPAE IF-UFRGS Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-...

1 CRAAM, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 01302-907 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Instituto de Matemática e Estatı́stica, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Laboratório de Geotecnologias e CRAAM, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 4 Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Estado de Sã...

University of Brasilia, Department of Management, Caixa-Postal: 4320, 70910-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, UK Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, 207-C, Rua do Matão, 1010, Cidade Universitária, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil Department of Management Information Systems, College of Busine...