The latest probable scenario in vaccination strategies is to prime one live attenuated vaccine candidate followed by boost dose of second vaccine candidate. In the present study, we primed the mice with a recombinant Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) comprising Ag85B and ESAT-6 followed by boost doses of Ag85B, ESAT-6 and Ag85B-ESAT-6 fusion protein in the DDA adjuvant, separately. After boost dose...

This paper presents a novel three-phase power factor corrector (PFC) circuit which uses two power switches working in zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) condition. The two switches along with a high-frequency inductor constitute a high-frequency current source which is responsible for the energy transfer in the circuit. The input current is partly continuous and partly discontinuous. The total harmon...

In recent scenario many appliances requires DC power supply. Hence to obtain the DC power from input ac supply, Power Electronics circuits like Rectifiers which is a non-linear load has to be used. The current drawn by these non-linear load will be phase will not follow the supply voltage (i.e non sinusoidal). This results in a High Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and Low Power Factor (PF). Hen...

This paper proposes a control method that can balance the input current of the three phase, three wire, Boost rectifier under unbalanced input voltage condition. The control objective is to operate the rectifier in the high power factor mode under normal operating condition but to give ovemdmg priority to the current balance function in case of unbalance in the input voltages. The inner loop im...

background: intraoperative radiation therapy (iort) technique is used to treat a surgically exposed tumor or tumor bed in the treatment of locally advanced intraabdominal, retroperitoneal, pelvic, thoracic, breast and soft tissue tumors. one way to perform iort is to use an existing linac and modify the treatment head using an applicator system. in this study the objectives were to design, and ...

Small and micro enterprises have a decreasing participation in vocational education and training. There is a real need to engage them in developing a positive attitude towards training. The BOOST (Business perfOrmance imprOvement through individual employee Skills Training) project will integrate outcomes from two previous projects (BECOME and ROLE), in order to develop associated methodologies...

This paper deals with mainly the profoundly deaf people who are beginning to learn the British Sign Language (BSL) as their first language for communication. These beginners could be children, teenagers or even adults who have hearing problems. There are already quite a few BSL learning websites and Lip Reading software available on the market. However, there is no such software that associates...