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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractANTIOPHIDIAN ACTIVITY OF BROSIMUM GUIANENSE (AUBL) HUBERJose Adolfo Homobono Machado Bittencourt, Nayana Keyla Seabra de Oliveira, Maxwell Santos Cabral et al.Snakebites envenomations are a problem public health in worldwide due to the high rates of morbidity and mortality. The Bothrops venom causes local tissue damage and inflammation is one of the most important events that occur. At present, effective treatment for snakebites is serum therapy with antivenom, which neutralizes systemic alterations but does not prevent local damage that can cause … …American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 13 May 2014 · 7,784 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVideo Streaming in Peer-to-Peer Networks Using Network Coding Renders Efficient Video Cassette Recorder OperationsR. Arockia Xavier Annie, K. V. Pradeepthi, P. YogeshProblem statement: Major technological development in recent years has led to the usage of shared streaming solutions by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems in the Internet. Video streaming in P2P network systems has ample amount of loss of video packets due to network disabilities such as congestion, intrusion, connectivity problems, excessive network collisions etc. Adding onto the video streaming problems, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 10 · 24 Aug 2012 · 6,736 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVisually Impaired Children's Acceptances on Assistive CoursewareNurulnadwan Aziz, Nur Hazwani Mohamad Roseli, Ariffin Abdul MutalibProblem statement: The government of Malaysia is considering serious efforts in promoting the usage of computers among disabled people. Currently, the availability of computer applications especially related to creative contents for disabled people in Malaysia is infancy and very expensive. Research and expertise in the area of Assistive Technology (AT) in Malaysia is still uncommon and not extensively utilized. Therefore … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 10 · 7 Sep 2011 · 7,277 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBeta-2-Microglobulin in Autism Spectrum DisordersPaula Goines, Joseph Schauer, Luke Heuer et al.Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are heterogeneous neurodevelopmental diseases of unknown etiology. There are no biological markers for ASD and current diagnosis is based on behavioral criteria. Recent data has shown that MHC I, a compound involved in adaptive immune function, is also involved in neurodevelopment, synaptic plasticity and behavior. It has been suggested that altered MHC I expression could play … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2007 · 7,560 accessesView PDF Cite