Low responsiveness/nonresponsiveness is characterized by an insufficient immune response upon primary and/or booster vaccination and affects 1-10% of vaccinees. In the current study, we aimed to investigate whether nonresponsiveness is an Ag/vaccine-specific phenomenon and to clarify underlying immunological mechanisms. Nonresponders to tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) or hepatitis B Ag with a his...

Control charts based on time between events (TBE) data have been shown to be useful for monitoring production or failure processes where defect or failure occurrence can be recorded over time. One type of TBE chart is set up with probability control limits, e.g. the Cumulative Quantity Control (CQC) chart and its extension CQC-r chart, which monitors the quantity inspected until the occurrence ...

Information tecbnology (IT) infrastructure investments are an extremely important part of e-business and constitute a major portion of IT investments in many organizations. IT infrastructure investments include investments in connectivity, systems integration, and data storage tbat may be used by multiple applications. Prior researcb has recognized tbe importance of a flexible IT infrastructure...

BACKGROUND Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus can cause severe symptoms in humans. The incidence of this vector-borne pathogen in humans is characterised by spatial and temporal heterogeneity. To explain the variation in reported human TBE cases per county in southern Germany, we designed a time-lagged, spatially-explicit model that incorporates ecological, environmental, and climatic factors....

BACKGROUND The optimal therapeutic schedule in patients with achalasia is still under discussion. The aim of this study was to review our institution's experience with myotomy and dilation in patients with achalasia. MATERIAL AND METHODS Clinical data were available for 59 patients who had ever had myotomy (n=38), dilation (n=21), or both procedures (n=8) between 2000 and 2007. Patients were ...

Inspired by Sweetness and Power, in wbich Sidney Mintz traces tbe colonial and mercantilist routes of enslaving tastes and artificial needs, tbis paper maps a late-aoth-century global trade in bodies, body parts, desires, and invented scarcities. Organ transplant takes place today in a transnational space witb surgeons, patients, organ donors, recipients, brokers, and intermediaries—some witb c...

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus, which is usually divided into European, Far Eastern and Siberian subtypes, is a serious public health problem in several European and Asian countries. Vaccination is the most effective measure to prevent TBE; cross-subtype protection elicited by the TBE vaccines is biologically plausible since all TBE virus subtypes are closely related. This manuscript syste...

Lexical effects on phonetic categorisation have been taken as evidence that the listener's word knowledge inßuences phonetic processing during normal speech perception. Tbe present study examined word-nonword effects in the categorisation of word-initial and wordfinal stop consonants. Natural speech was edited to produce bilabial, alveolar and velar voicing continua. Tbe data revealed a signifi...

We have previously reported that tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is endemic in a specific area of Hokkaido, Japan. In Oshima, the southern part of Hokkaido, TBE virus was isolated from sentinel dogs, ticks and rodents in 1995 and 1996. To identify when these TBE viruses emerged in Hokkaido, the times of divergence of TBE virus strains isolated in Oshima and far-eastern Russia were estimated. TBE ...

Ablation of ventricular tachycardia using radiofrequency energy is frequently successful. This includes ablation of right ventricular outflow tract tacbycardia, idiopatbic left ventricular tacbycardia, ventricular tacbycardia due to macroreentry involving tbe bundle brancbes, and ventricular tacbycardia in tbe setting of iscbemic and noniscbemic cardiomyopatbies . ' Mapping of ventricular tacby...