Abstract: The present application is directed to a peptides comprising an a-helix forming-amino acid sequence that binds a heat shock protein. Also included is a polypeptide comprising (a) a first peptide portion that comprises an ?-helix-forming amino acid sequence that binds a heat shock protein; and (b) at least one second peptide portion comprising an antigenic amino acid sequence and/or an a-helix-stabilizing amino acid sequence that increases the interaction of the first peptide portion with the heat shock protein. The present application also includes compositions comprising the peptides and/or polypeptides of present application and uses of the peptides and/or polypeptides of the present application for fractionating substances relevant for discovery, research or clinical analysis from a biological sample and as therapeutics.

Abstract: A computerized system for determining whether to provide a loan to a customer who would like to purchase goods from a website of a merchant. The computerized system includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program stored in at least one of the memories. The at least one program causes the computerized system to respond to a receipt of a notification that the customer is browsing one or more pages of the website by crawling one or more pages of the website to determine the presence or absence of specified features on the pages and providing a decision as to whether or not to authorize a loan to the customer to purchase the goods from the merchant as a function of the presence or absence of the specified features.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a peptides comprising an a-helix forming-amino acid sequence that binds a heat shock protein. Also included is a polypeptide comprising (a) a first peptide portion that comprises an ?-helix-forming amino acid sequence that binds a heat shock protein; and (b) at least one second peptide portion comprising an antigenic amino acid sequence and/or an a-helix-stabilizing amino acid sequence that increases the interaction of the first peptide portion with the heat shock protein. The present application also includes compositions comprising the peptides and/or polypeptides of present application and uses of the peptides and/or polypeptides of the present application for fractionating substances relevant for discovery, research or clinical analysis from a biological sample and as therapeutics.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of a chiral cyclic carbamate of formula and/or mirror image, and/or a salt thereof, from the corresponding o-aminobenzyl alcohol and/or salts thereof.

Abstract: Methods are provided for removing or separating the cellular and/or soluble macromolecular component of a biological tissue from the extracellular matrix component of the biological tissue, comprising embedding the biological tissue in an electrically conductive semi-solid or solid supporting medium and applying an electric field to the tissue-medium complex. Additionally, methods are provided for decellularizing a skin fragment.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of cyclic carbamates of formula and/or a salt thereof, from the corresponding o-aminobenzyl alcohol and/or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The hsp60 gene from a strain of Arthrobacter has been isolated and sequenced. The encoded protein is believed to be highly immunogenic, especially in fish, and also has utility as a non-specific adjuvant, and as an adjuvanting carrier for heterologous antigens.

Abstract: A vaccine based on live Arthrobacter cells is useful in preventing piscirickettsiosis in fish.

Abstract: The hsp70 gene from an Arthrobacter species has been isolated and sequenced. The encoded protein is believed to be highly immunogenic, especially in fish, and also has utility as a non-specific adjuvant, and as an adjuvanting carrier for heterologous antigens.

Abstract: A vaccine based on live Arthrobacter cells is useful in preventing piscirickettsiosis in fish.

Abstract: The hsp60 gene from a strain of Arthrobacter has been isolated and sequenced. The encoded protein is believed to be highly immunogenic, especially in fish, and also has utility as a non-specific adjuvant, and as an adjuvanting carrier for heterologous antigens.

Abstract: A vaccine based on live Arthrobacter cells is useful in preventing piscirickettsiosis in fish.

Abstract: A method for maintaining a human hookworm strain is provided by infecting a non-human primate with a non-adapted or non-passaged human hookworm and maintaining the non-human primate. Methods of obtaining human hookworm materials and compositions, such as for use as a vaccine, are also provided, along with a model for maintaining and investigating human hookworm.

Abstract: An ocular display apparatus (10) having image presentation means adapted to display a first image (17) to one eye only of a subject, and a second, different, image (18) to the subject's other eye only, the first and second images being presented to the subject so that they perceive a composite image, wherein at least one of their first or second images includes a moving object.

Abstract: The invention provides and immune stimulating agent or vaccine directed to Renibacterium salmoninarum comprising a live non-virulent culture of an Arthrobacter strain based on, derived from or substantially homologous with strain RSxII as deposited as ATCC 55921. The culture may be presented in lyophilized form with a sterile diluent.

Abstract: The invention provides an immune stimulating agent or vaccine directed to Renibacterium salmoninarum comprising a live non-virulent culture of an Arthrobacter strain based on, derived from or substantially homologous with strain RSxII as deposited as ATCC 55921. The culture may be presented in lyophilized form with a sterile diluent.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 2-substituted 5-chloroimidazole-4-carbaldehydes of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a benzyl group or a phenyl group. The imidazole compounds are important starting products for the preparation of hypotensive pharmaceuticals or herbicides.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 2-substituted 5-chloroimidazole-4-carbaldehydes of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a benzl group or a phenyl group. The imidazole compounds are important starting products for the preparation of hypotensive pharmaceuticals or herbicides.

Abstract: 2-Substituted 5-chlorimidazoles of the general formula: ##STR1## are new intermediate products for the production of antihyperintensive pharmaceutical agents or of herbicidal compounds. A process for the production of these intermediate products as well as a new process for the further reaction of 2-substituted 5-chlorimidazoles of general formula I, wherein R.sub.

Abstract: A process for preparing 2-substituted 5-chloroimidazole-4-carbaldehydes of the general formula: ##STR1## In the process, a glycine ester hydrohalide is ring-closed with an imidate ester to obtain the intermediate 2-substituted 3,5-dihydroimidazol-4-one. This intermediate is converted with an N,N-substituted formamide acetel into an N,N-substituted aminomethyleneimidazolinone. This latter intermediate is chlorinated with phosphorus oxychloride or phosgene to obtain the final product 2-substituted 5-chlorimidazole-4-carbaldehydes of the general formula I.Also disclosed are N,N-substituted aminomethyleneimidazolinones of the general formula: ##STR2## wherein R is hydrogen or is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an arylalkyl group or an aryl group, and R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are identical or different and each is an alkyl group or an aryl group, in the form of the E- or Z-isomer.