Background Seasonal influenza virus is a common cause of acute lower respiratory
infection (ALRI) in young children. In 2008, we estimated that 20 million influenza-virus-associated …

Today's plastics are designed with little consideration for their ultimate disposability or the
effect of the resources (feedstocks) used in making them. This has resulted in mounting …

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), also termed endotoxins, considered to be a major
virulence factor, are responsible for the lethal effects and clinical manifestations of diseases in …

… The main idea is to estimate the entropy, without knowing the densities p(u, v), p(u) and p(v),
based on the algorithm of knearest neighbors. More details about estimating MI can be …

Interconnected systems, such as Web servers, database servers, cloud computing servers
and so on, are now under threads from network attackers. As one of most common and …

Distance education or learning has been around for a long time and with the advent of mobile
devices like the smart phone, it is inevitable that mobility impacts the distance education …

Consumers are increasingly interested in nutritious, safe and healthy muscle food products
with reduced salt and fat that benefit their well-being. Hence, food processors are constantly …

… In order to compute the current load states, we use a parameter p, where p = m/n. Individual
… -J first checks its own load information using a value of p. If p is less than or equal to 0.6, it …

Background Meat and meat products, in spite of having high biological value protein and
essential nutrients required for human sustenance, are highly susceptible to lipid oxidation and …

Radiolabeled peptides hold promise as diagnostic/therapeutic targeting vectors for specific
human cancers. We report the design and development of a targeting vector, [ 64 Cu-NOTA-8…