The early cytokines production in response to live logarithmic and stationary phase promastigotes of Leishmania major was examined on the peripheral blood cells of the healthy individuals. Whole blood cultures were stimulated by either logarithmic or stationary phase promastigotes. IFN- and IL-10 productions were assessed by specific sandwich ELISA. The results showed that the logarithmic prom...

For geometrically nite Kleinian groups with parabolic elements we study that part of the Lagrange spectrum which does not lie in the Markov spectrum. Using the ergodicity of the associated geodesic ow with respect to the Liouville{Patterson measure, we obtain an estimate for the asymptotic frequency with which recurrent geodesics enter certain cusp regions. In particular, this allows a quantita...

the early cytokines production in response to live logarithmic and stationary phase promastigotes of leishmania major was examined on the peripheral blood cells of the healthy individuals. whole blood cultures were stimulated by either logarithmic or stationary phase promastigotes. ifn- and il-10 productions were assessed by specific sandwich elisa. the results showed that the logarithmic prom...

Bred vectors are a type of finite perturbation used in prediction studies of atmospheric models that exhibit spatially extended chaos. We study the structure, spatial correlations, and the growth rates of logarithmic bred vectors (which are constructed by using a given norm). We find that, after a suitable transformation, logarithmic bred vectors are roughly piecewise copies of the leading Lyap...

INTRODUCTION Heart rate variability which denotes variations of the length of consecutive heart cycles has been suggested to reflect the modulation of heart rate by autonomic nervous system. METHODS Sixty four patients of ASA I and ASA II status scheduled for elective abdominal surgical procedures were randomly allocated to group 1 and group 2. Premedication and induction of anaesthesia were ...

Quasi-logarithmic combinatorial structures are a class of decomposable combinatorial structures which extend the logarithmic class considered by Arratia, Barbour and Tavaré (2003). In order to obtain asymptotic approximations to their component spectrum, it is necessary first to establish an approximation to the sum of an associated sequence of independent random variables in terms of the Dickm...

We previously proposed a forward masking on a generalized logarithmic scale to eliminate convolutional noise as well as to suppress additive noise. While the generalized Dynamic Cepstrum derived from the masked spectrum has been robust to both noises, the robustness to convolutional noise slightly degrades as compared to masking on the logarithmic scale, and the optimal masking coefficient depe...