Abstract Background Mice with genetic deficiencies in adaptive immunity are used for the grafting of human cells or pathogens, to study human diseases, however, the innate immune responses to xenografts in these mice has received little attention.Using the NOD/SCID Plasmodium falciparum mouse model an analysis of innate defences responsible for the
Improving approximate extraction of functional similar regions from large-scale spatial networks based on greedy selection of representative nodes of different areas
Abstract Dividing a geographical region into some subregions with common characteristics is an important research topic, and has been studied in many research fields such as urban planning and transportation planning.In this paper, by network analysis approach, we attempt to extract functionally similar regions, each of which consists of functional
Pleasure before Duty: Playing and Studying in the Cultic Context of Kharayeb
Among the terracotta figurines discovered in the cult place of Kharayeb (7th-1st centuries BCE), located in the hinterland of Tyre (Lebanon), a very high percentage dates back to the Hellenistic period and presents images of children, adolescents and women.Considering these data, some scholars have supposed that a god linked to childhood and mother
Determinants of population growth in Pakistan
Population growth is a major problem of developing countries, which adversely affect Bottoms economic growth and development.Today world population is 7.2 billion almost double of 1960 population.Pakistan is the 6th populous country with population of 188.2 million.Population growth in Pakistan is 1.95 almost double of world population growth.Unpla