BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men in Viet Nam have been under-studied as a high-risk group for HIV infection, and this population's percentage and determinants of HIV testing have not been comprehensively investigated. METHODS A national Internet-based survey of self-reported sexual and health seeking behaviours was conducted between August and October 2011 with 2077 Vietnamese men who had...

In this paper, we address the problem of efficient diagnosis in real-time systems capable of on-line information gathering, such as sending ”probes” (i.e., test transactions, such as ”traceroute” or ”ping”) in order to identify network faults and evaluate performance of distributed computer systems. We use a Bayesian network to model probabilistic relations between the problems (faults, perform...

Energy efficiency in office buildings for the tropical climate has been a subject of much discussion in the building industry. The Malaysia Energy Commission Sustainable Building, also known as the Diamond Building was built as the third Government Energy Efficient building after the Low Energy Office (LEO) and the Green Energy Office (GEO). It is located in Putrajaya, Malaysia which has a hot ...

BACKGROUND Secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) plays an important protective role in the recognition and clearance of enteric pathogens. AIM This study was designed to assess if mucosal integrity "measured by secretory IgA (SIgA)" is a protective factor from more epithelial alteration "measured by glutathione transferase" in infants with Rota gastroenteritis and its relation to infants' feeding...

OBJECTIVE Grape virus diseases are a serious problem in Iran. Leaves and fruits of grape have been used for different purposes like cooking in Iran. The present investigation was carried out to study on the cytotoxic-activities of extracts of fruits and leaves of Vitis vinifera from both virus-free and virus-infected grape cultivars against breast cancer cell line (MDAMB- 231) and human embryon...

Dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits IL4 and IL13, has significantly advanced the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD). However, as few 1/3 patients with AD treated dupilumab achieve clear or almost skin. Although reasons for this are not fully understood, it been proposed suboptimal response in some may be related to immunologic heterogeneity AD. Here, we evaluate whether expression I...

The adsorptions of reactive procion brilliant red H-EGXL and procion yellow H-EXL by various clay adsorbents were investigated in this research. The research showed that synthetic talc has the highest adsorption capacity for decolorization of both procion type of reactive dyes compared with other clay adsorbents. The removal efficiencies of synthetic talc relatively stable above 80% until the i...

The fact that Egypt falls within the arid and semi-arid areas, makes it always vulnerable to sudden storms, which have increased significantly during past ten years. Climate change is one of factors cause increasing storms frequency, intensity expansion cover new areas. During three days, from November 11 13, 2021, a severe storm hit city Aswan its suburbs, leaving behind extensive property dam...