allergic rhinitis (ar) is one of the most common chronic diseases in the developed countries. this study was performed to investigate the effect of cpg-odn in alteration of t-helper (th)1/th2 balance of patients with ar treated with intranasal corticosteroids (incs) and antihistamines. peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) of 20 patients with ar were isolated before and after 45 days thera...

Given a set P of points in the plane and a set L of non-crossing line segments whose endpoints are in P , a constrained plane geometric graph is a plane graph whose vertex set is P and whose edge set contains L. An edge e has the α-visible diamond property if one of the two isosceles triangles with base e and base angle α does not contain any points of P visible to both endpoints of e. A constr...

We consider the broad class of decentralized optimal resource allocation problems in wireless networks, which can be formulated as a constrained statistical learning with localized information structure. develop use Aggregation Graph Neural Networks (Agg-GNNs), process sequence delayed and potentially asynchronous graph aggregated state obtained locally at each transmitter from multi-hop neighb...

An inoculation of virulent Leishmania major is known as leishmanization (LZ) which is proven to be the most effective control measure against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL). However, using LZ is restricted due to various side effects such as uncontrolled lesion development. In the present research, the efficacy of cationic nanoliposomes containing CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODN) as an improve...

in the present study the effect of the locally produced genetic adjuvant of ginea pig specific cpg-motif-containing oligodeoxynucleotide (cpg-odn) in an inactivated fmd virus vaccine was evaluated. boosting the ginea pigs with fmd vaccine along with cpg-odn adjuvant produced relatively higher ratio (5-fold) of fmdv-specific igg2a / igg1 than those vaccinated in the absence of cpg-odn. the neutr...

Un-methylated cytosine-phosphate-guanosine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN) has been considered as a powerful vaccine adjuvant and recognition of CpG-ODN by chicken leukocytes promotes their ability to fight against infections. In our study, efficacy of different routes of CpG-ODN application as an adjuvant on immune responses (antibody titer together with leukogram) following vaccination agains...

We consider the problem of clustering a set of items into subsets whose sizes are bounded from above and below. We formulate the problem as a graph partitioning problem and propose an integer programming model for solving it. This formulation generalizes several well-known graph partitioning problems from the literature like the clique partitioning problem, the equi-partition problem and the k-...

Given a transitive directed reachability graph G and a target structure S, we are interested in whether or not we can create an embedding of G in S. Definition: A Steiner point is a vertex s in S that does not correspond to any vertex v in G.

Terrain adaptation research can significantly improve the motion performance of hexapod robots. In this paper, we propose a method that combines reinforcement learning with central pattern generator (CPG) to enhance terrain robots in terms gait planning. The robot’s complex task presents high-dimensional observation and action space, which makes it challenging directly apply robot control. Ther...

Constrained graph layout is a recent generalisation of forcedirected graph layout which allows constraints on node placement. We give a constrained graph layout algorithm that takes an initial feasible layout and improves it while preserving the topology of the initial layout. The algorithm supports poly-line connectors and clusters. During layout the connectors and cluster boundaries act like ...