BACKGROUND  Currently, malaria elimination efforts are ongoing in several locations across Southeast Asia,  including in Kayin State (also known as Karen State), Myanmar . This paper describes the community engagement efforts for a pilot malaria elimination project, the challenges encountered and lessons learnt. METHODS  Between May 2013 and June 2015, a study on targeted malaria elimination ...

1. Mirror symmetry Superstring theory and conformal eld theory has developed and was connected with algebraic geometry in the late 80's. The mirror symmetry, which implies a kind of symmetry of moduli space of Calabi-Yau varieties, is one of the most striking blows from superconformal eld theory. Since there are numerous papers available in this subject now, we will just follow the story and re...

Rice (Oryza sativa; background Nipponbare) contains nine HKT (high-affinity K+ transport)-like genes encoding membrane proteins belonging to the superfamily of Ktr/TRK/HKT. OsHKTs have been proposed to include four selectivity filter-pore-forming domains homologous to the bacterial K+ channel KcsA, and are separated into OsHKT1s with Na+-selective activity and OsHKT2s with Na+-K+ symport activi...

The natriuretic effects of atrial peptide hormones have been attributed, at least in part, to their stimulation of guanylate cyclase activity in renal cell membranes. The effects of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) on stimulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) accumulation were investigated in cloned human kidney tumor (hKT) cells and parent ce...

The components outage of an energy system weakens its operation probability, which can affect the sizing that system. An optimal framework is presented for autonomous hybrid photovoltaic/hydrokinetic/fuel cell (PV/HKT/FC) with hydrogen storage to supply annual load demand forced rate (FOR) clean production resources based on real environmental information such as irradiance, temperature, and wa...