Diagnosing Business Incubation for Social Purpose: A Viable System Model Approach

Systemic Practice and Action Research - Business incubation is one of the means that promotes the overall business and economic growth of a particular location. However, to date, the role of...     

A Robust Data‐Mining Approach to Bankruptcy Prediction

In this study, new variants of genetic programming (GP), namely gene expression programming (GEP) and multi‐expression programming (MEP), are utilized to build models for bankruptcy prediction. Generalized relationships are obtained to classify samples of 136 bankrupt and non‐bankrupt Iranian corporations based on their financial ratios. An important contribution of this paper is to identify the effective predictive financial ratios on the basis of an extensive bankruptcy prediction literature review and upon a sequential feature selection analysis. The predictive performance of the GEP and MEP forecasting methods is compared with the performance of traditional statistical methods and a generalized regression neural network. The proposed GEP and MEP models are effectively capable of classifying bankrupt and non‐bankrupt firms and outperform the models developed using other methods. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Immunogenicity of formaldehyde and binary ethylenimine inactivated infectious bursal disease virus in broiler chicks

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was inactivated by two different chemicals—formaldehyde and binary ethylenimine (BEI). Formaldehyde was used at 0.1% and 0.2%, while BEI was used at concentrations of 0.001 and 0.002 mol/L. These four vaccines were tested for their efficiency in generating humoral immune response in different groups of broiler chicks. Both BEI-inactivated vaccines gave relatively higher antibody titers and were almost twice as efficient as formaldehyde-inactivated ones.     

The roles of phosphorus deficiency and low food intake in the preservation of renal function in uraemic rats

Summary While a diet deficient in phosphorus has a protective effect against kidney deterioration in uraemic rats, this effect, in fact, is more closely related to the reduction of food intake than tho the phosphorus load itself, even though the latter influenced the pattern of the renal lesions.Acknowledgment. This work was in part supported by a grant from the Association pour l'Utilisation du Rein Artificiel (AURA, Paris).     

干细胞修复与再生

近些年来，干细胞凭借其高度的发育可塑性，引起了医学与生物学界的极大兴趣。也许在不久的将来，我们人类体内所有受损或功能退化的组织都可以通过干细胞移植来进行修复与替换。从20世纪70年代初开始的骨髓造血干细胞移植已经让无数恶性血液病患者的生命得以延续，但最接近全能性的胚胎干细胞的研究尚存在着伦理学和成瘤性等问题，其它成体干细胞的研究也还处于起步阶段，在真正应用到f临床治疗前还需要进行大量的基础研究与临床前实验。