After complete transection of the thoracic spinal segment, neonatal rats exhibit spontaneous locomotor recovery of hindlimbs, but this recovery is not found in adult rats after similar injury. The potential mechanism related to the difference in recovery of neonatal and adult rats remains unknown. In this study, 342 animals were analyzed. The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) level in s...

Twenty-four mutacin-producing Streptococcus mutans strains were screened for their propensity to produce class II one-peptide bacteriocin using a deferred antagonism assay. Streptococcus salivarius and 3 mutants defective in their mannose phosphotransferase systems (mannose-PTS) were used as sensitive strains to identify which mannose-PTS could act as the docking site for class II one-peptide b...

We describe SVIFT – an eyes-free text-entry technique for mobile touch devices to increase speed and accuracy while enabling fast learning and easy adoption. The technique involves expanding the text-entry mode to a full screen format and innovating over the old-style T9 and telephone pad design. It makes use of multiple input and feedback interactions – swipe, pause, circle, hand-waving, audio...

The anti-malarial activity of the anti-cancer drug methotrexate against chloroquine-sensitive T9-96 and the multidrug-resistant K1 strains of Plasmodium falciparum was assessed in vitro. Mean IC50 values of 0.32 +/- 0.05 nM and 48.02 +/- 4.40 nM were obtained for T9-96 and K1, respectively, indicating methotrexate's high potency against both sensitive and resistant P. falciparum strains in vitr...

Customized text input editors on mobile devices for languages with no standard language models, such as some African languages, are vital to allow text input tasks to be crowdsourced and thus enable quick and precise participation. We investigated 4 different mobile input techniques for complex language scripts like |Xam and collected accuracy data from experiments with the Xwerty, T9, Pinyin s...

Проанализированы отказы тракторов. Приведены причины потери работоспособности Объектом исследования является тракторымарки New Holland (серии Т9). Предусматривалось определение условий и количества объектов наблюдения; сбор информации по видам отказовтракторов их наработкам; фиксация времени, потраченного на восстановление возвращение машины в ряды исправных иготовых к работе. данные о кодах ош...

Vertebral eosinophilic granuloma is a rare condition frequently associated with vertebra plana. In this paper we present six patients with eosinophilic granuloma of the spine; three were without vertebra plana, which represents a diagnostic problem. The mean follow-up was 9 years, (range 2 to 23) and the mean age was 10.8 years at diagnosis. All complained of pain with no neurological deficit. ...

This study was accomplished to investigate the effect of Artemia urmiana nauplii enriched with Pediococcus acidilactici as probiotic on growth performance and survival rate of great sturgeon, Huso huso.  Artemia nauplii were enriched with P. acidilactici at a final concentration of 1010 CFU mL-1 in three time dependent treatments as 3 h (T3), 6 h (T6), 9 h (T9), and one non-enriched Artemia as ...