AbstractSticholysins (Sts) I and II (StI/II) are pore-forming toxins (PFTs) produced by the Caribbean Sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus belonging to the actinoporin family, a unique class of eukaryotic PFTs exclusively found in sea anemones. The role of lipid phase c...

The present work deals with the modeling of 1–3 periodic composites made of piezoceramic (PZT) fibers embedded in a soft non-piezoelectric matrix (polymer). We especially focus on predicting the effective coefficients of periodic transversely isotropic piezoelectric fib...

AbstractInhibition of gastric acid secretion by thiocyanate is explained by a protonophoric mechanism assuming that thiocyanate induces a H+ back flux from the acidic gastric lumen into the parietal cells of gastric mucosa. Protonophoric activity of thiocyanate was exam...

AbstractLet G be a complex periodic Jacobi matrix of period k. We reduce the study of the spectrum of G to that of a block tridiagonal matrix of the form [formula] where Ik and Ok denote the identity and null matrices of order k, respectively.

AbstractWe describe a Bayesian scheme to analyze images, which uses spatial priors encoded by a diffusion kernel, based on a weighted graph Laplacian. This provides a general framework to formulate a spatial model, whose parameters can be optimized. The application we h...

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<p><b>Introduction</b>: Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) ProVac Initiative aims to strengthen countries' technical capacity to make evidence-based immunization policy. With financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PAHO established the ProVa...

AbstractIn the present work the dispersion relations of stationary SH waves in a heteroestructure with magneto-electro-elastic properties have been obtained. The calculations were done taking into consideration the symmetry of the system and separating the solutions in ...

Access to reliable and quality health information and appropriate medical advice can contribute to a dramatic reduction in the mortality figures of countries. The governments of the Americas are faced with the opportunity to continue working on this challenge, and their...

Introduction The WHO recommends annual influenza vaccination to prevent influenza illness in high-risk groups. Little is known about national influenza immunization policies globally. Material and Methods The 2014 WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form (JRF) on Immunization wa...