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Open AccessThe HSP70-fused foot-and-mouth disease epitope elicits cellular and humoral immunity and drives broad-spectrum protective efficacy
Current foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines have significant limitations, including side effects due to oil emulsions at the vaccination site, a narrow spectrum of protective efficacy, and incomplete host de...
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Open AccessEvaluation of novel inactivated vaccines for the SAT 1, SAT 2 and SAT 3 serotypes of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs
The foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus is classified into seven serotypes, of which the South African types have South African Territories (SAT)1, SAT2, and SAT3 that are prevalent in Africa. Especially SAT2 h...
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Open AccessSustainable and recyclable super engineering thermoplastic from biorenewable monomer
Environmental and health concerns force the search for sustainable super engineering plastics (SEPs) that utilise bio-derived cyclic monomers, e.g. isosorbide instead of restricted petrochemicals. However, pre...
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Open AccessThe effect of botulinum toxin-A injection into the masseter muscles on prevention of plate fracture and post-operative relapse in patients receiving orthognathic surgery
Botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A) injection into muscle reduces muscular power and may prevent post-operative complication after orthognathic surgery. The purpose of this study was (1) to evaluate BTX-A injection into...
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Open AccessA soft lithographic approach to fabricate InAs nanowire field-effect transistors
The epitaxial layer transfer process was previously introduced to integrate high-quality and ultrathin III-V compound semiconductor layers on any substrate. However, this technique has limitation for fabricati...
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Financial Performance Evaluation of Ship** Companies Using Entropy and Grey Relation Analysis
The international trade of Korea and Taiwan has been heavily dependent upon international sea transportation owing to geo-political aspects. Therefore, the two countries have promoted ocean-going ship** indu...
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Open AccessIntegrated arrays of air-dielectric graphene transistors as transparent active-matrix pressure sensors for wide pressure ranges
Integrated electronic circuitries with pressure sensors have been extensively researched as a key component for emerging electronics applications such as electronic skins and health-monitoring devices. Althoug...
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Open AccessProtective effect of Rhei Rhizoma on reflux esophagitis in rats via Nrf2-mediated inhibition of NF-κB signaling pathway
Rhei Rhizoma has been widely used as a traditional herbal medicine to treat various inflammatory diseases. The present study was conducted to evaluate its anti-inflammatory activity against experimental reflux...
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Finding hidden relevant documents buried in scientific documents by terminological paraphrases
Technical terms play an important role of effective queries for many users to search scientific databases. However, authors of scientific literature often employ alternative expressions to represent the meanin...
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Open AccessBioHackathon series in 2011 and 2012: penetration of ontology and linked data in life science domains
The application of semantic technologies to the integration of biological data and the interoperability of bioinformatics analysis and visualization tools has been the common theme of a series of annual BioHac...
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Integration System for Linguistic Software and Data Set: uLAMP (Unified Linguistic Asset Management Platform)
Numerous linguistic resources are readily available in area of expertise due to the development of wireless devices such as smart-phones and the internet. To select useful information from the massive amount o...
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A Research Model for Evaluating the Success of the DCMS: A Digital Content Management System
The digital content management system, called DCMS, is similar to early information system ideas. For evaluating success of the DCMS, some success factors except success factors by Delone and Mclean are consid...
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An Management of Digital Contents on Science and Technology
It needs a management system that managers manage more conveniently, faster, more systematically and Users use faster, more various, more reliable, more discriminatory, higher value-added services on science &...
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DNA endonuclease- and active oxygen-associated degradation of chloroplast DNA in response to paraquat-induced oxidative stress
Activity of chloroplast-localized DNA endonuclease was observed in detached tobacco leaves that had been treated with paraquat and light The DNA endonuclease was able to cleave the chloroplast, plasmid, and si...
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Solution-Grown Cds Thin Films For Solar Cells
Thin films of CdS were prepared from an solution containing Cd(Ac)2, NH4OH, NH4Ac and (NH2)2CS for solar cells. Growth rate of CdS films was increased with increasing temperature of reactive solution and with dec...
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Damageless Magnetron Sputtering Deposition of SnO2:Sb Thin Films with Compensation Methods
Phenomena and solving methods for damage of Sb-doped SbO2 thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering have been investigated by observing in the main the positional difference of film electrical resistivity. ...
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Preparation of Polycrystalline CdS Thin Films by Chemical Bath Deposition
We prepared CdS thin films from a solution containing cadmium acetate, thiourea, ammonia, and ammonium acetate. We varied fabrication conditions such as the concentrations of reactants, reaction temperature, a...
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Numerical analysis of the rapid solidification of gas-atomized Al-8 Wt Pct Fe droplets
A numerical analysis of the microstructural evolution of microcellular and cellular α-Al phase in gas-atomized Al-8 wt pct Fe droplets was represented. The two-dimensional (2-D) non-Newtonian heat transfer and...
