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Diversity of T cell epitopes in Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein likely due to protein-protein interactions.

Circumsporozoite protein (CS) is a leading vaccine antigen for falciparum malaria, but is highly polymorphic in natural parasite populations.The factors driving this diversity are unclear, but non-random assortment of the T cell epitopes TH2 and TH3 has been observed in a Kenyan parasite population.The recent publication of the crystal structure of

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Is point-of-care ultrasound disruptive innovation? Formulating why POCUS is different from conventional comprehensive ultrasound

Abstract Background Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is spreading throughout Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Pre-hospital Care.However, there is an underlying inherited conflict with the established specialties performing comprehensive examinations.It has been stated that PoCUS is disruptive innovation.If this is true the definition might ope

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Multidimensional Optimal Signal Constellation Sets and Symbol Mappings for Block-Interleaved Coded-Modulation Enabling Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Transport

In this paper, we introduce the optimal signal constellation design (OSCD) in both 2-D and multidimensional cases, which is obtained by minimization of mean square error of optimal source distribution.In addition, by analyzing block-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding, in which the bit error rate is reduced by iteration of extrinsi

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