DLC coatings are deposited on aluminium substrates to improve the wear resistance property of using sputtering deposition in this study. graphite target onto Al5051 DC sputtering. The then analyzed for their adhesion strength, hardness, coefficient friction, and chemical compositions. pin-on-disk method is conducted vacuumed conditions, dry air conditions (0% RH), ambient (40% RH). different te...

BACKGROUND Invasive aspergillosis (IA) and mucormycosis contribute to substantial mortality, especially among immunocompromised persons, including those with hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), hematologic malignancy (HM), and solid organ transplant (SOT). METHODS Using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes available in the National Inpatient Sample, a hospital...

The plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum can cause serious losses on lettuce crops worldwide and as for most other susceptible crops, control relies on the application of fungicides, which target airborne ascospores. However, the efficacy of this approach depends on accurate timing of these sprays, which could be improved by an understanding of the environmental conditions that are conducive...

In the first report on the chemical structure of a nonmammalian LH-RH, chicken hypothalamic LH-RH was demonstrated to be [Gln8]LH-RH [2-4]. However, these studies and subsequent reports [7,8] did not totally exclude the possibility of a reverse sequence of the two amino acids Leu-Gln. In view of the recently described structure of salmon brain LH-RH as [Trp7,Leu8]LH-RH [9], we undertook to conf...

Patients with left hemisphere (LH) or right hemisphere (RH) brain injury due to stroke were tested on a speeded, color discrimination task in which two factors were manipulated: (1) the categorical relationship between the target and the distracters and (2) the visual field in which the target was presented. Similar to controls, the RH patients were faster in detecting targets in the right visu...

Factor H (fH), a key alternative complement pathway regulator, is a cofactor for factor I-mediated cleavage of C3b. fH consists of 20 short consensus repeat (SCR) domains. Sialic acid binding domains have previously been localized to fH SCRs 6-10 and 13. To examine fH binding on a sialylated microbial surface, we grew Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the presence of 5'-cytidinemonophospho-N-acetylneura...

Observations are described of the incidence among Caucasians and Negroes of the blood factors Rh(A), Rh(B) and Rh(C) which occur associated with the Rh(0) factor in typical Rh-positive blood. The antiserums used for the tests were derived from Rh-positive patients who had had hemolytic transfusion reactions or erythroblastotic babies. Among a large series of individuals, it was found that only ...

BACKGROUND Gender-based violence is an important risk factor for adverse reproductive health (RH). Community-level violence may inhibit young women's ability to engage in safer sexual behaviors due to a lack of control over sexual encounters. Few studies examine violence as a contextual risk factor. METHODS Using nationally representative data from five African countries, the association betw...

Differences in the expression profiles of miRNAs and mRNAs have been reported in colorectal cancer. Nevertheless, information on important miRNA-mRNA regulatory modules in colorectal cancer is still lacking. In this regard, this study presents an application of the RH-SAC algorithm on miRNA and mRNA expression data for identification of potential miRNA-mRNA modules. First, a set of miRNA rules ...

Toxoplasma gondii is the causative pathogen for Toxoplasmosis. Bumped kinase inhibitor 1NM-PP1 inhibits the growth of T. gondii by targeting TgCDPK1. However, we recently reported that resistance to 1NM-PP1 can be acquired via a mutation in T. gondii mitogen-activated protein kinase like 1 (TgMAPKL-1). Further characterization of how this TgMAPKL-1 mutation restores the inhibitory effect of 1NM...