WORKABILITY, COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND INITIAL SURFACE ABSORPTION OF LATERIZED CONCRETE


The microbiome of Riccia liverworts is an important reservoir for microbial diversity in temporary agricultural crusts

Abstract Background The microbiota of liverworts provides an interesting model for plant symbioses; however, their microbiome assembly is not yet understood.Here, we assessed specific factors that shape microbial communities associated with Riccia temporary agricultural crusts in harvested fields by investigating bacterial, fungal and archaeal comm

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Ethical and legal considerations regarding the ownership and commercial use of human biological materials and their derivatives [Corrigendum]

Petrini C.J Blood Med.2012;3:87–96.Page 89, Ownership of the body and its parts section, fourth paragraph, the wrong reference number has been cited in the fifth sentence, the correct reference number is 34 and the updated text should read “The Court ruled that the body should be returned to Doodeward because it had undergone “the

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Gender Roles in Pakistani-Urdu Wedding Song

This qualitative study of Pakistani-Urdu wedding songs allows a closer look at the gender situation, and towards the understanding of the process of construction and perpetuation of gender-based stereotypes.However, the major concern of this study is to understand the portrayal of each gender along with the question that does such portrayal underli

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Complement factor H-related proteins CFHR2 and CFHR5 represent novel ligands for the infection-associated CRASP proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi.

One virulence property of Borrelia burgdorferi is its resistance to innate immunity, in particular to complement-mediated killing.Serum-resistant B.burgdorferi express up to five distinct complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins (CRASP) which interact with complement regulator factor H (CFH) and factor H-like protein 1 (FHL1) or factor H-rel

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