Temporin-GHa (GHa) was cloned from Hylarana guentheri, showing a weak antimicrobial activity.In order to improve its bactericidal efficacy, GHaR6R, GHaR7R, GHaR8R and GHaR9W were designed and synthesized.Compared to the parent peptide, the GHa-derived peptides show potent antimicrobial activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The forward search (FS) is a general method of robust data fitting that moves smoothly from very robust to maximum likelihood estimation.The regression procedures are included in the MATLAB toolbox FSDA.The work on a SAS version of the FS originates from the need for the analysis of large datasets expressed by law enforcement services operating in

In the Romanian architectural practice for individual houses in residential areas, designing the architectural object in order to function together with the nature is neglected in the majority of the situations.This happens despite of a great variety of the solar bioclimatic solutions materialized in the traditional houses of all the Romanian geogr

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Sacoglossan sea slugs are the only metazoans known to perform functional kleptoplasty, donitsirauta the sequestration and retention of functional chloroplasts within their digestive gland cells.Remarkably, a few species with this ability can survive starvation periods of 3-12 months likely due to their stolen chloroplasts.There are no reports of kl