Direct interaction between T-suppressor and dendritic cells (DCs) results in DC tolerance by inducing upregulation of immunoglobulin-like transcript (ILT) 3 and ILT4. DCs were treated with a lentiviral vector containing paired immunoglobulin-like B gene (PIR-B) DCs and the effect of PIR-B-DCs on graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was analyzed after allogeneic bone marrow (BM) transplantation (BMT...

Consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system where M records are stored across N servers by using an [N,K] MDS code. For simplicity, this problem is usually referred as the coded-PIR problem. The capacity of coded-PIR with privacy against any individual server was determined by Banawan and Ulukus in 2016, i.e., CC-PIR = (1 + K N + · · · + K M−1 N...

In this study, we demonstrate potent regulatory function of the murine killer cell inhibitory receptor-like molecules, paired Ig-like receptors (PIRs) or p91, using chimeric receptors expressed on the rat basophilic leukemia cell line RBL-2H3. One of the chimeras, which has the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domain of PIR-B fused to the extracellular portion of type IIB receptor for IgG, was abl...

A two-server private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user U to retrieve the i-th bit of an n-bit string x replicated on two servers while each server individually learns no information about i. The main parameter of interest in a PIR scheme is its communication complexity: the number of bits exchanged by the user and the servers. Substantial effort has been invested by researchers o...

The Protein Information Resource (PIR) is an integrated public resource of protein informatics that supports genomic and proteomic research and scientific discovery. PIR maintains the Protein Sequence Database (PSD), an annotated protein database containing over 283 000 sequences covering the entire taxonomic range. Family classification is used for sensitive identification, consistent annotati...

I n the first century of Roman domination silver jewelry in the Balkan region is very numerous, and local production of these decorations lasted until the middle of the 3rd century. In that production an important role played the autochthonous component. Gold jewelry from this region is of East-Mediterranean origin, and some shapes of ornaments and use of the techinques of filigree and granulat...

Aim Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) often delay the initiation of insulin treatment and titration due to psychological factors. This phenomenon is called psychological insulin resistance (PIR). The insulin treatment appraisal scale (ITAS) that was initially developed for Western populations has been translated and validated to measure PIR in Taiwanese populations (C-ITAS). This study aims ...

The Personalised Information Retrieval (PIR-CLEF) Lab workshop at CLEF 2017 is designed to provide a forum for the exploration of methodologies for the repeatable evaluation of personalised information retrieval (PIR). The PIR-CLEF 2017 Lab provides a preliminary pilot edition of a Lab task dedicated to personalised search, while the workshop at the conference is intended to provide a forum for...

The oxygen radical scavenger activity (ORSA) of [Cu(II)(Pir)(2)] (HPir = Piroxicam = 4-hydroxy -2- methyl -N-2- pyridyl -2H- 1,2-benzothiazine -3- carboxamide 1,1-dioxide) was determined by chemiluminescence of samples obtained by mixing human neutrophils (from healthy subjects) and [Cu(II)(Pir)(2)(DMF)(2)] (DMF = N,N -dimethylformammide) in DMSO/GLY/PBS (2:1:2, v/v) solution (DMSO = dimethylsu...

A key driver for next generation web information retrieval systems is becoming the degree to which a user’s search and presentation experience is adapted to individual user properties and contexts of use. Over the past decades, two parallel threads of personalisation research have emerged, one originating in the document space in the area of Personalised Information Retrieval (PIR) and the othe...