BACKGROUND Schitosomiasis japonica is still a significant public health problem in China. A protective vaccine for human or animal use represents an important strategy for long-term control of this disease. Due to the complex life cycle of schistosomes, different vaccine design approaches may be necessary, including polyvalent subunit vaccines. In this study, we constructed four chimeric protei...

Surgery remains our strongest treatment pillar against early stages of cancer. In a number of instances, the curative potential of surgery can be enhanced by treatments given before (neoadjuvant) or after (adjuvant) surgical procedures. Immunomodulation has emerged as a powerful tool to fight metastatic disease across cancer histologies and goes now to be tested at earlier surgically amenable s...

Recently, a parallel hash function based on chaotic maps with changeable parameters was proposed by Li et al (2011, pp.1305-1312). In this paper, the security of it is analyzed and the weakness of the architecture is pointed out. It is found that the main limitations are the error using of floor, round and exclusive OR operations in the algorithm. In order to counterstrike these, some improveme...

We present the ISO far-IR photometry of a complete sub-sample of optically selected bright quasars belonging to two complete surveys selected through multicolour (U,B,V,R,I) techniques. The ISOPHOT camera on board of the ISO Satellite was used to target these quasars at wavelengths of 7.3, 11.5, 60, 100 and Max-Planck I. für Extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, 85741 Garching, Germany, ema...

In this paper we study a large market in which sellers compete by offering auctions to buyers instead of simple fixed price contracts. Two variants of the model are studied. One extends a model first analyzed by Wolinsky (Rev. Econ. Stud. 55 (1988), 71 84) in which buyers learn their valuations only after meeting sellers. The other variant extends the model of McAfee (Econometrica 61 (1993), 12...

1 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, Giessenbachstraße, D-85741 Garching, Germany 2 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA 3 Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum 695022, India 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA 5 Chand...