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Bactericidal activity of M protein conserved region antibodies against group A streptococcal isolates from the Northern Thai population [PDF]

BMC Microbiology, 2006
Background Most group A streptococcal (GAS) vaccine strategies have focused on the surface M protein, a major virulence factor of GAS. The amino-terminus of the M protein elicits antibodies, that are both opsonic and protective, but which are type ...
Pruksachatkunakorn Chulabhorn, Olive Colleen, Yoonim Nonglak, Pruksakorn Sumalee   +3 more
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Anomalous Crystallinity and Magnetism in Chemically Disordered Coherent Heterostructures. [PDF]

Adv Mater
Coherent isostructural high‐entropy oxide heterostructures are realized despite remarkable >5% interfacial lattice distortion. The resulting buried interface exhibits abrupt valence reconstruction which contributes to 2 × enhanced exchange bias in the heterostructure relative to constituent layers, demonstrating how chemical disorder enabled anomalous ...
Almishal SSI, Ayyagari SVG, Pearre A, Kezer P, Furst M, Rost CM, Yan B, Alem N, Charlton T, Mao Z, Heron JT, Maria JP.   +11 more
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Immunological evaluation of lipopeptide group A streptococcus (GAS) vaccine: structure-activity relationship. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus, GAS) is a Gram-positive bacterial pathogen responsible for a wide variety of diseases. To date, GAS vaccine development has focused primarily on the M-protein.
Mehfuz Zaman, Abu-Baker M Abdel-Aal, Yoshio Fujita, Karen S M Phillipps, Michael R Batzloff, Michael F Good, Istvan Toth   +6 more
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Employment and Happiness of the Older People in Romania and the Visegrád Countries: Analysis of the European Quality of Life Surveys

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2021
We used the last three waves of the European Quality of Life Surveys to analyze the happiness of older workers in Romania and the Visegrád countries.
Berde Éva, Tőkés László
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Innovativeness of Senior Consumers’ Attitudes – An Attempt to Conduct Segmentation

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2021
Research background: Ageing societies is a global phenomenon. In the media and the press, there strongly exists a stereotype of elderly people being poorly adjusted to social change, lonely, poor and not open to market novelties.
Olejniczak Tomasz
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The statistical picture of population aging in towns of Wielkopolskie Province: TERYT and DEGURBA perspectives

Journal of Economics and Management, 2020
Aim/purpose – The aim of the paper is to compare the statistical picture of aging of the urban population of the Wielkopolskie Province in terms of two typologies: TERYT and DEGURBA.
Klimanek Tomasz, Filas-Przybył Sylwia
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Oral health in the Japan self-defense forces - a representative survey

BMC Oral Health, 2011
Background The oral health of military populations is usually not very well characterized compared to civilian populations. The aim of this study was to investigate two physical oral health characteristics and one perceived oral health measure and their ...
Furuyama Chisako, Sur Shachi, Saito Yoko, John Mike T, Kudo Yuka, Tsukasaki Hiroaki, Baba Kazuyoshi   +6 more
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Social vulnerability and aging of elderly people in the United States

SSM: Population Health, 2021
We use 7 waves of the Health and Retirement Study and construct a social vulnerability index (SVI) for elderly U.S. Americans (born 1913–1966). We show that the SVI is mildly larger for men than for women and increases in age from above age 60 onwards ...
Ana Lucia Abeliansky, Devin Erel, Holger Strulik   +2 more
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PARTNER: Nurse Participation and Professional Experience During Family Conferences in Intensive Care: A Qualitative Study [PDF]

Nurs Crit Care
ABSTRACT Background Effective communication during family conferences (FC) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is essential for supporting families and fostering trust. Although nurses are continuously present at the bedside, their active participation in FC remains limited, structurally constrained and underexplored from the perspective of healthcare ...
Caillet A, Poiroux L, Marchal M, Termoz A, Allaouchiche B, Haesebaert J, Dargent A.   +6 more
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Pedigree-based QTL analysis of flower size traits in two multi-parental diploid rose populations

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Rose (Rosa spp.) is one of the most economically important ornamental species worldwide. Flower diameter, flower weight, and the number of petals and petaloids are key flower-size parameters and attractive targets for DNA-informed breeding.
Zena Rawandoozi, Ellen L. Young, Shuyin Liang, Xuan Wu, Qiuyi Fu, Tessa Hochhaus, Muqing Yan, Maad Y. Rawandoozi, Patricia E. Klein, David H. Byrne, Oscar Riera-Lizarazu   +10 more
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