A passive hemagglutination (PHA) test for measles was evaluated in comparison with hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and neutralization (NT) tests. The PHA test determines exclusively the level of antibody directed to the hemagglutinin protein of measles virus. The ratio of PHA to HI titer was 1 to 32 (geometric mean, 6.5) for the first 5 weeks of infection but declined to near unity thereafter....

Sedimentary rocks host a vast reservoir of organic carbon, such as 2-methylhopane biomarkers, whose evolutionary significance we poorly understand. Our ability to interpret this molecular fossil record is constrained by ignorance of the function of their molecular antecedents. To gain insight into the meaning of 2-methylhopanes, we quantified the dominant (des)methylated hopanoid species in the...

We investigate favourable circumstances for fast magnetic reconnection in astrophysical plasmas based on recent results by Rogers et al. (2001). Given that a critical magnetic field structure with antiparallel field lines exists, our analysis demonstrates that a sufficient condition for fast reconnection is that the ratio of the thermal pressure to the magnetic field pressure β should be signif...

both 2ME-treated and untreated samples. To allow us to compare the methods directly, we selected sera containing 1gM paraproteins, for which quantification in treated and untreated samples by E-SD was possible. Figure 1 shows the regression analysisbetween treated and untreated samples with 1gM paraproteins. The median concentration for untreated 1gM (mainly 19S) was 26.9 g/L (range 5.8.46.8 g/...

هدف: هدف این پژوهش مقایسه اثربخشی امیددرمانی و معنویت درمانی بر کیفیت زندگی، قند خون فشار زنان میانسال مبتلا به دیابت نوع دو بود. روش: حاضر نیمه آزمایشی با طرح پیش آزمون- پس پیگیری گروه گواه جامعه آماری شامل تمام 2 مراجعه کننده مرکز تحقیقات دیابت، متابولیسم غدد شهر تهران در سال 1399 بودند که ‏45 نفر شیوه نمونه‌گیری دسترس انتخاب صورت تصادفی آزمایش یک (هر 15 نفر) قرار گرفتند. ابزار پرسشنامه کوتاه...

Dehydrogenative desulfurization of thiourea derivatives (RNHC(S)NHR') has been achieved, to give carbodiimides (RN=C=NR'), in the reaction with hydrosilane and (η(5)-C5H5)Fe(CO)2Me. The obtained carbodiimide reacted with (η(5)-C5H5)Fe(CO)(SiR3) formed in the reaction to give an N-silylated η(2)-amidino iron complex, which was isolated and then characterized by X-ray analysis.