Anaerobes can obtain the entire cell's ATP by glycolysis and remove resulting reducing power by fermentation. There is a delicate balance in redox status to obtain a maximal growth of these cells, and the conditions to change redox fluxes can induce kinds of changes in metabolism. The fundamental knowledge on sensing redox status and coupling redox signals with fermentation pathways is essentia...

Recently, the worse-case analysis, probabilistic analysis and empirical justification have been employed to address the fundamental question: When does l1-minimization find the sparsest solution to an underdetermined linear system? In this paper, a deterministic analysis, rooted in the classic linear programming theory, is carried out to further address this question. We first identify a necess...

In this work, we investigated the bulk phase distinguishing of the poly(ε-caprolactone)-polybutadiene-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL-PB-PCL) triblock copolymer blended in epoxy resin by tapping mode atomic force microscopy (TM-AFM). We found that at a set-point amplitude ratio (rsp) less than or equal to 0.85, a clear phase contrast could be obtained using a probe with a force constant of 40 N/m. Wh...

Recently, the worse-case analysis, probabilistic analysis and empirical justification have been employed to address the fundamental question: When does l1-minimization find the sparsest solution to an underdetermined linear system? In this paper, a deterministic analysis, rooted in the classic linear programming theory, is carried out to further address this question. We first identify a necess...

Background: Altered scapular kinematics in individuals with rounded shoulder posture (RSP) may affect acromiohumeral distance (AHD). The purpose of this study was to compare AHD and scapular dyskinesis prevalence in individuals with and without RSP.    Methods: A total of 44 women (RSP, n=21; control, n=23) participated in the study. RSP was assessed by measuring acromion to table distance (AT...

Recent findings have challenged the current view of Plasmodium falciparum (P falciparum) blood-stage biology by demonstrating the cytoadhesion of early ring-stage-infected erythrocytes (rIEs) to host endothelial cells and placental syncytiotrophoblasts. The adhesion of rIEs was observed only in parasites that bind to the placenta via chondroitin sulfate A (CSA). In this work, a panel of mouse m...

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the possibility that the saccule may contribute to human hearing. The forty participants included twenty healthy people and twenty other subjects selected from patients who presented with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo to Audiology Department of Hazrat Rasoul Akram hospital (Tehran, Iran). Assessments comprised of audiological...

This document specifies the Relational Schema Protocol (RSP). RSP enables loosely coupled applications to share and exchange relational data. It defines fixed message format for an arbitrary relational schema so that the changes in the data schema do not affect the message format. This prevents the interacting applications from having to be reimplemented during the data schema evolvement. This ...

All previously published papers were reproduced with permission from the publishers. SUMMARY Malaria remains a challenging health problem in malaria endemic regions. The life cycle of the malaria parasite is very complex and provides a number of potential targets for vaccination. Several antigens have been studied and characterised in this context. Existing data suggest that antibodies are inst...