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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Service Design Thinking Could Help Preserve the Institutional Knowledge for Social Problems Solvers: A Case Study of Stray Dog Population Management Planning Guidelines
With the increasing problems of stray dogs in Taiwan, societies have been raising their awareness to discuss the issue. The complex perspectives amongst stakeholders, poor communication, the difference between...
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Article
Bigraphic Pairs with a Realization Containing a Split Bipartite-Graph
Let Ks,t be the complete bipartite graph with partite sets {x1, …, xs} and {y1, …, yt}. A split bipartite-graph on (s + s′) + (t + t′) vertices, denoted by SBs + s′, t + t′, is the graph obtained from Ks,t by add...
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Open AccessEffect of cultivation mode on the production of docosahexaenoic acid by Tisochrysis lutea
In this study, Tisochrysis lutea was cultivated in mixotrophic and heterotrophic cultures with glycerol as a carbon source and with glucose and acetate for comparison; autotrophic cultivation was the control grou...
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The rLrp of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibits proinflammatory cytokine production and downregulates APC function in mouse macrophages via a TLR2-mediated PI3K/Akt pathway activation-dependent mechanism
We demonstrate that Mycobacterium tuberculosis recombinant leucine-responsive regulatory protein (rLrp) inhibits lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6, and interleuki...
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TLR2 and TLR4 signaling pathways are required for recombinant Brucella abortus BCSP31-induced cytokine production, functional upregulation of mouse macrophages, and the Th1 immune response in vivo and in vitro
Brucella abortus is a zoonotic Gram-negative pathogen that causes brucelosis in ruminants and humans. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize Brucella abortus and initiate antigen-presenting cell activities that aff...
