OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A CONSERVATION AMONG ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI ISOLATES SUGGESTS ITS POTENTIAL AS A PROTECTIVE ANTIGEN AND DIAGNOSTIC TARGET

Outer Membrane Protein A Conservation among Orientia tsutsugamushi Isolates Suggests Its Potential as a Protective Antigen and Diagnostic Target

Scrub typhus threatens one billion people in the Asia-Pacific area and cases have emerged outside this region.It is caused by infection with any of the multitude of strains of the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi.A vaccine that affords heterologous protection and a commercially-available molecular diagnostic assay are lacking.Herein, we determined

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Issues related to velocity structure estimation in small coastal sedimentary plains: case of Tottori plain facing the Sea of Japan

footjoy weste herren Abstract Issues of predominant period of ground motion and derived underground velocity structure model are investigated in the coastal plains affected by the shallow soft sedimentary layer after the last ice age.It is found that two predominant periods due to the shallow soft layer and deeper drastic sedimentary boundaries are

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Modeling Task Uncertainty for Safe Meta-Imitation Learning

To endow robots with the flexibility to perform a wide range of tasks in diverse and complex environments, learning their controller from experience data is a promising approach.In particular, some recent meta-learning methods are shown to solve novel tasks by leveraging their experience of performing other tasks during training.Although studies ar

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