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...

Net-centric simulation runtime support platform (NCS-RSP) provides an environment supporting the construction of community of simulation task (CoST). This paper adopts dual software architecture description framework XYZ/ADL to describe the architecture of NCS-RSP by graphic language and formal language respectively. Then we decompose and refine the core service layer during the construction of...

The increasing popularity of RDF Stream Processing (RSP) has led to developments of data models and processing engines which diverge in several aspects, ranging from the representation of RDF streams to semantics. Benchmarking systems such as LSBench, SRBench, and CSRBench were introduced as attempts to compare different approaches. However, these works mainly concentrate on the operational asp...

Measurements were made of respirable suspended particles (RSP) in a large sports tavern on 26 dates over approximately two years in which smoking was allowed, followed by measurements on 50 dates during the year after smoking was prohibited. The smoking prohibition occurred without warning when the city government passed a regulation restricting smoking in local restaurants and taverns. Two fol...

The increasing popularity of RDF Stream Processing (RSP) has led to developments of data models and processing engines which diverge in several aspects, ranging from the representation of RDF streams to semantics. Benchmarking systems such as LSBench, SRBench, CSRBench, and YABench were introduced as attempts to compare different approaches, focusing mainly on the operational aspects. The recen...

The segregation distorter (SD) complex is a naturally occurring meiotic drive system with the property that males heterozygous for an SD-bearing chromosome 2 and an SD(+)-bearing homolog transmit the SD-bearing chromosome almost exclusively. This distorted segregation is the consequence of an induced dysfunction of those sperm that receive the SD(+) homolog. From previous studies, two loci have...

To persistently maintain client-server connections in mobile ad-hoc networks, we investigate the reliable server pooling (RSP), where servers that can provide equivalent functionality are pooled together. The RSP is meant to increase the availability and survivability of the battlefield infrastructure by allowing clients to access a pool of redundant information sources. As a result, some faile...