BACKGROUND The aim of present study was to evaluate the protective efficacy of live recombinant L. tarentolae expressing KMP11-NTGP96-GFP fusion as candidates for live engineered recombinant vaccine against visceral leishmaniasis in BALB/c mice. METHODS KMP-11 and NT-GP96 genes cloned into the pJET1.2/blunt cloning vector and then into pEGFP-N1 expression vector. The KMP-11, NT-GP96 and GFP f...

Speaker identification is a powerful, non-invasive and inexpensive biometric technique. The recognition accuracy however deteriorates when noise levels only affect a specific band of frequency. In this paper we present a sub-band based speaker identification that intends to improve the live-testing performance. Each frequency sub-band is processed and classified independently. We also compare t...

If our mutlidimensional vectors "live" in some appropriate multidimensional space (See Greenberg) we need some properties vector norms A natural question about a vector is, how "long" is it? We might want to know this for a physical reason, say mean velocity, or for an abstract comparision.

BACKGROUND The development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine has proven to be elusive. Because human vaccine trials have not yet demonstrated efficacy, new vaccine strategies are needed for the HIV vaccine pipeline. We have been developing a new HIV vaccine platform using a live enterovirus, coxsackievirus B4 (CVB4) vector. Enteroviruses are ideal candidates for development as a vaccine vector for oral de...

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) is a member of the family Birnaviridae that has been linked to high mortalities in salmonids. Bacterial based systems as live vectors for the delivery of heterologous antigens offer a number of advantages as vaccination strategies. VP2 is a structural viral protein of IPNV with immunogenicity effects. In this study IPNV was isolated from diseased fry ...

Multi-view facial expression recognition is important in many scenarios, as frontal view images are not always available. In this paper, we investigate facial expression recognition from frontal to profile view. Few works have investigated this issue on live captured data. A recent database, multi-pie, allows empirical investigation of facial expression recognition for different yaw angles. Exp...

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) is a member of the family Birnaviridae that has been linked to high mortalities in salmonids. Bacterial based systems as live vectors for the delivery of heterologous antigens offer a number of advantages as vaccination strategies. VP2 is a structural viral protein of IPNV with immunogenicity effects. In this study IPNV was isolated from diseased fry ...