Previously we have shown that the African swine fever virus (ASFV) NL gene deletion mutant E70DeltaNL is attenuated in pigs. Our recent observations that NL gene deletion mutants of two additional pathogenic ASFV isolates, Malawi Lil-20/1 and Pr4, remained highly virulent in swine (100% mortality) suggested that these isolates encoded an additional virulence determinant(s) that was absent from ...

BACKGROUND Growth factors play important roles in wound healing. However, the evidence for the effects of growth factors on post-thyroidectomy scars is limited. OBJECTIVE We performed a prospective study to assess the preventive and therapeutic effect of a multi-growth factor (MGF)-containing cream on post-thyroidectomy scars. METHODS Twenty-one patients with thyroidectomy scars applied MGF...

Introdução: A formação especializada em medicina geral e familiar (MGF) é essencial para a aquisição de conhecimentos competências. Tendo os utentes um papel fundamental na dos médicos internos importante compreender perceção sobre MGF. Objetivos: Avaliação da USF Santiago Leiria o MGF confiança nos cuidados por estes prestados. Método: Estudo transversal com uma amostra conveniência 450 atravé...

Objetivo: Avaliar a satisfação profissional em medicina geral e familiar (MGF) quanto questões pessoais, desempenho de competências especiais requeridas, organização do trabalho, relação médico-paciente, ensino aprendizagem, equilíbrio pessoal fatores insatisfação. Métodos: Estudo observacional transversal realizado 2021 via questionário web, especificamente construído validado, estruturado sei...

Rabbits received nonpenetrating central corneal knife wounds. Immediately after wounding, a single 2.5 or 5.0 micron dose of mesodermal growth factor (MGF) was applied topically to the wound. Controls were treated with saline. Electron microscopic studies compared the healing responses of the control and treated animals over a 7-day period. MGF was a potent nitrogen for keratocytes in rabbit co...

We analyze and study the performance of amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity communication network with best-relay selection over Weibull fading channel. In this paper, a closed-form expression for the moment generating function (MGF) of the total signal-to-noise ratio at the destination is derived in terms of the tabulated Meijer’s G-function. By the help of this derived MGF expression, w...

© 2010 ETRI Journal, Volume 32, Number 3, June 2010 In this letter, we analyze the error performance of a mobile communication system with microdiversity and macrodiversity reception in gamma-shadowed Rician fading channels for a binary differential phase-shift keying modulation scheme. Analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) and moment-generating function (MGF) are de...

We propose an analytical approach to evaluate the performance of space-diversity free-space optical (FSO) systems over correlated Gamma-Gamma (ΓΓ) fading channels. To do this, we firstly derive an infinite series representation for the moment generating function (MGF) of the sum of arbitrarily-correlated ΓΓ random variables (RVs). Then, a closed-form approximate expression for the probability d...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the analysis of exact symbol error probability (SEP) for cooperative diversity using amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying over independent and non-identical Nakagami-m fading channels. The mathematical formulations for Probability Density Function (pdf) and Moment Generating Function (MGF) of a cooperative link have been derived for calculating symbol error p...

Schematic diagram of the de/rehydrogenation MgH2–(MgF2 + SrH2)@Gr.