Evaluation of the rheumatoid factors of the IgG, IgM and IgA isotypes as prognostic parameters for rheumatoid arthritis among Iraqi patients

Context: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has a heterogeneous course, spanning from mild forms tending to remission and reacting well to treatment, to aggressive forms resistant to classical therapeutic measures.Reliable predictive parameters of the disease course in RA are needed.Raised levels of Rheumatoid Factors (RFs) are associated with RA and that t

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Isolated guitar transcription using a deep belief network

Music transcription involves the transformation of an audio recording to common music notation, colloquially referred to as sheet music.Manually transcribing audio recordings is a difficult and time-consuming process, even for experienced musicians.In response, several algorithms have been proposed to automatically analyze and transcribe the notes

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Co-elicitation of lignocelluloytic enzymatic activities and metabolites production in an Aspergillus-Streptomyces co-culture during lignocellulose fractionation

Lignocellulose, the most abundant biomass on Earth, is a complex recalcitrant material mainly composed of three fractions: cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignins.In nature, lignocellulose is efficiently degraded for carbon recycling.Lignocellulose degradation involves numerous microorganisms and their secreted enzymes that act in synergy.Even they T

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