In 2006, a case of H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE-H) was diagnosed in a cow that was associated with a heritable polymorphism in the bovine prion protein gene (PRNP) resulting in a lysine for glutamate amino acid substitution at codon 211 (called E211K) of the prion protein. Although the prevalence of this polymorphism is low, cattle carrying the K211 allele may be predisposed to ...

Given a weight function τ, we introduce new class of Banach algebras with respect to denoted by C_0b(X, τ ). We provide complete solution the isomorphism problem in this class. further characterize BSE-extension and Inoue-Doss ideal associated it. As an application our results, show equivalence four statements: (i) τ) is BSE, (ii) BED, (iii) Tauberian (iv) bounded.

To develop a clinic-relevant protocol for systemic up-regulation of NFE2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) to prevent diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), male db/db and age-matched wild-type (WT) mice were given sulforaphane (SFN, an Nrf2 activator) and its natural source, broccoli sprout extract (BSE) by gavage every other day for 3 months, with four groups: vehicle (0.1 ml/10 g), BSE-low dose (estimated SFN...

Stochastic programming is a well-known optimization problem in resource allocation, optimization decision, etc. In this paper, we first analyze the essential features of stochastic programming and the deficiencies of the existing methods. To systematically process the objective function and constraints, we give the principles we should obey in seeking for the optimal decision, and further we gi...

We present calculations of the optical absorption spectra of clusters SiH4 , Si10H16 , Si17H36 , Si29H24 , and Si35H36 , as determined from two different methods: the Bethe-Salpeter equation !BSE" with a model dielectric function, and the time-dependent density-functional theory within the adiabatic local-density approximation !TDLDA". Single-particle states are obtained from local-density appr...

Suppose that $A$ is a semi-simple and commutative Banach algebra. In this paper we try to characterize the character space of the Banach algebra $C_{rm{BSE}}(Delta(A))$ consisting of all  BSE-functions on $Delta(A)$ where $Delta(A)$ denotes the character space of $A$. Indeed, in the case that $A=C_0(X)$ where $X$ is a non-empty locally compact Hausdroff space, we give a complete characterizatio...

The majority of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases have been ascribed to the classical form of the disease. H-type and L-type BSE cases have atypical molecular profiles compared to classical BSE and are thought to arise spontaneously. However, one case of H-type BSE was associated with a heritable E211K mutation in the prion protein gene. The purpose of this study was to describe tran...