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issue is written by Peter Doran and edited by Laura Ivers . The Managing Editor of Sustainable Developments is Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI . Funding for coverage of this meeting has been provided by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The author can be contacted at his electronic mail addresse and at tel:...

Human leukocyte antigens class II play an important role in immune response against HCV. We investigated whether HLA class II alleles influence susceptibility to HCV infection and response to interferon therapy. HLA-DRB1 and -DQB1 loci were genotyped using PCR-SSO Luminex technology. According to our regimen, 41 (66%) of patients achieved sustained virological response to combined treatment of ...

In spite of genome sequences of both human and N. gonorrhoeae in hand, vaccine for gonorrhea is yet not available. Due to availability of several host and pathogen genomes and numerous tools for in silico prediction of effective B-cell and T-cell epitopes; recent trend of vaccine designing has been shifted to peptide or epitope based vaccines that are more specific, safe, and easy to produce. I...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the success rate and effects on survival of different anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) preparations in patients diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Subjects and Methods: Of the total 24 patients included in the study, 12 were male and 12 female with a median age of 44 years (range 16–72). Nine patients received Lymphoglobulin , 7 Thymoglobulin and AT...

Viral proteins expressed by EBV-associated tumors provide target Ags for immunotherapy. Adoptive T cell therapy has proven effective for posttransplant EBV-associated lymphoma in which all EBV latent Ags are expressed (type III latency). Application of immunotherapeutic strategies to tumors such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma that have a restricted pattern of EBV Ag expressi...

Purpose: Previous phase II studies have indicated a greatly reduced hematotoxicity of docetaxel-based regimens administered on weekly schedules. The present trial was initiated to compare the toxicity and efficacy of weekly docetaxel versus its standard 3-weekly application in combination with doxorubicin. Methods: Patients previously untreated with chemotherapy for metastatic disease were recr...

Motivated by frequency assignment in office blocks, we study the chromatic number of the adjacency graph of a 3-dimensional parallelepiped arrangement. In the case each parallelepiped is within one floor, a direct application of the Four-Colour Theorem yields that the adjacency graph has chromatic number at most 8. We provide an example of such an arrangement needing exactly 8 colors. We also d...

In this paper we describe an improved neural network method to predict T-cell class I epitopes. A novel input representation has been developed consisting of a combination of sparse encoding, Blosum encoding, and input derived from hidden Markov models. We demonstrate that the combination of several neural networks derived using different sequence-encoding schemes has a performance superior to ...

Different types of polypyrrole based electrochemical redox supercapacitors have been fabricated using the polymeric gel electrolytes comprising of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)propylene carbonate (PC)-ethylene carbonate (EC)-sodium salts of different anions [I , (ClO4) , (SCN) ] with a view to using them as electrolytes in redox supercapacitors to see the effect of anionic size in the performa...