... De Cian, Romain Duval, Emanuele Massetti and Massimo Tavoni: The Incentives to Participate in, and the Stability of, International Climate Coalitions: A Game-theoretic Analysis Using the Witch ... Beltratti, Marianna Caccavaio and Bernardo Bortolotti: Stock Prices ina Speculative Market: The Chinese Split-Share Reform Angelo Antoci, Fabio Sabatini and Mauro Sodini: The Fragility of Social Capital ... the unification-induced dilution of their voting power by increasing their holdings in advance And, after the unification, they may reverse the initial erosion in their voting power by acquiring...
... RESULTS Pointer years Practically speaking, there were no real missing rings in the initial data, although some rings were very narrow and especially hard to distinguish This was rather surprising ... to cancel each other out In addition, the curve was balanced so as to take into account the different number of available annual rings for every pair ’cambial age-calendar year’, and this balanced ... Modelling the annual growth index long- term increase in radial growth is approximately linear for both species and the increase in atmospheric CO is practi2 cally exponential, the logarithm of CO...
... formalin and fixed for at least 24 hours Lung tissue was longitudinal embedded in paraplast, haematoxilin and eosin (HE) stained sections (5 μm), in which all air passages from bronchi to terminal ... occurring on day five after infection, similar as described previously [16] In addition, both virus strains induced similar infection pathology in the lungs In contrast, replication of recombinant ... observed after inoculation with live attenuated vaccine candidates [7] These are important facts in favor of a live attenuated RSV vaccine administered intranasally The most challenging aspect...
... Cynoglossidae Clupeidae Percidae Tetraodontidae Platycephalidae Pleuronectidae Mugilidae Paralichthyidae Triglidae Stromateidae Rajidae Lophiidae Polynemidae Zoarcidae Other 1959 1982 330.06 68.69 ... than 2% of the total catch In 1993, Engraulidae (87.7%) was the dominant fish family in the catch, followed by Clupeidae, Rajidae, Sciaenidae, and Trichiuridae During 1998, Engraulidae (69.4%) and ... Stromateidae and Sciaenidae During 2008, Stromateidae (29.8%), Engraulidae (18.8%), and Polynemidae (14.5%) were the dominant families in the total catch The total catch in 2011 primarily included...
... Umezawa T, Kamiya A, Nakajima M, Enju A, Sakurai T, Satou M, Akiyama K, YamaguchiShinozaki K, Carninci P, Kawai J, Hayashizaki Y, Shinozaki K: Monitoring the expression pattern of around 7,000 Arabidopsis ... thus may indicate that the initial damage inflicted, and not the actual presence of the stress itself, is the driving force for the maintained transcriptional activation The increase in expression ... AtPNP -A protein in the apoplastic space inA thaliana [16] A number of physiological and biochemical studies have implicated AtPNP -A with arolein the regulation of ion and solute homeostasis...
... the analysis of data and finalized the manuscript PP participated in analysis and interpretation of the data and revised the manuscript RD participated in the animal experiments and the analysis ... of data AU participated in the animal experiments and the analysis of multi-slice CT data AM did the radiology studies and participated in the analysis of multi-slice CT data RR participated in ... inflection point (LIP) We were surprised that the inflation point of maximum compliance increase actually increased after recruitment ina nonlinear way (Fig 5d), with a sharp increase beyond an increase...
... REGULATED PHOSPHORYLATION In higher animals – mammals and insects (at least in Drosophila) – eIF4E is a phosphoprotein It is phosphorylated by the MAP-kinase signal-integrating kinases Mnk1 and ... possibilities are depicted in Fig In both cases eIF4E initially binds to the 5¢-cap of the mRNA, an interaction that is stabilized by binding of 4E-BPs (not indicated) or eIF4G (diagram A) The ... C-termini of Mnk1 and Mnk 2a are similar and contain sequences for MAPK binding Small differences within these sequences playarolein determining the specificity for ERK and p38MAPK The last 29 amino...
... and acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the manuscript and revising it critically, SWS has contributed in conception and design of data, drafting the manuscript and ... data and analysis and interpretation of data; and KPV and NM have contributed in revising the manuscript critically All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... given the final approval of manuscript, JHY has contributed in acquisition of data, revising the manuscript critically and given the final approval, JYH has contributed in acquisition of data...
... Statistical analyses were carried out using Minitab 15 Statistical Software English (Minitab Inc., State College, PA, USA) Additional material Additional file 1: Stage M1 mitochondrial dynamics ... staining allowed the distribution of mitochondria to be easily identified within the cells, also permitting for the analysis of changesin mitochondria motility Analysis of mitochondrial motility ... microscopy, and live cell-imaging AHLANG conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination, helped in drafting and revising the manuscript, and supervised all experimental work All authors...
... phosphorylated calcium/calmodulin protein kinase II (CAMKII) and phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase II ( MAPKII) (Vaynman et al., 2003 )and (iii) a rise in vesicular budding protein synapsin ... running is a non-specific activator for specific cognitive events, especially in animals where locomotion and learning are inseparable in real life Sustained physical activity and cognitive challenges ... neurotransmitters, namely γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate, are the major forces behind excitatory-neurogenesis coupling In the embryonic brain, GABA initially acts as an excitatory molecule GABA binds...
... from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Asia Pacific Bicinchoninic acid (BCA) protein assay reagent was from Pierce Chemicals Protein preparation and modification Troponin subunits were isolated from an ... in restoring ATPase activity to the CDTA-treated skeletal myofibrils Using recombinant cTnC (wild type) and mutants (Site II inactive, Site I active, and Site I active but Site II inactive), Putkey ... extraction of TnC and TnI Reinsertion of the modified TnI (PM–TnI and PIA–TnI) into extracted myofibrils restored Ca2+ -activated ATPase activity as effectively as native TnI, as shown in Table Ca2+ titration...
... treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain in his ankle progressively worsened and he demonstrated gait disturbance A physical examination ... months earlier, he began to feel severe right foot pain without any trigger events Although treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain and ... revealed a marked increase in radioactivity in the bones around his ankle (Figure 1B) These clinical findings were consistent with CRPS type I (CRPS I) according to criteria of the International Association...
... efficacy parameters in this olanzapine LAI clinical trial Method A complete description of the clinical trial including the study design and patient population are found in the primary publication ... prolactin, weight, and fasting glucose and lipids (using American Diabetes Association and National Cholesterol Education Program criteria) [11,16], and relapse and discontinuation rates For time-to-event ... statistically significant dose-associated changes for several measures, including safety/tolerability variables (incidence of increased appetite, mean changesin weight and prolactin, categorical...
... important clinical implication, indicating the effectiveness of a simple nutritional intervention on adiposity and lipid regulation which is important in psychiatric patients who are a high risk ... a priority within their treatment program It is argued that managing obesity in SMI patients is a challenging task as these patients may have impaired attention, motivation and memory that may ... NA and IP were involved in data collection and analysis of the results GV was involved in the statistical analysis of the revised manuscript MH was the principal investigator and assisted in data...
... strategy, including consultation by a cardiologist, ICU admission, and non-invasive ventilation, must be taken into account at an early stage of hospitalization A reliable risk stratification parameter ... study, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting and critical revision of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests CM has received research ... dyspnea NYHA class III or IV anda BNP level of at least 500 pg/mL The diagnosis of ADHF was additionally based on typical symptoms and clinical findings supported by appropriate investigations...
... by snap freezing in liquid nitrogen cDNA labeling, microarray hybridization, and data acquisition For S cerevisiae, total RNA isolation, cDNA synthesis and labeling, microarray production, and ... expression levels as a reference Primer sequences used are available as supplementary data (Additional data file [Supplementary table 5]) Additional data files The following additional data are available ... of additional DNA binding domains, it seems unlikely that Cuf1p would bind both the CuSE and TTTGTC motifs during copper starvation and simultaneously function as a transcriptional activator and...
... Japan Industrial Standard Association, Tokyo (in Japanese) Obara, H and akai, M (2004) Available phosphate of arable lands in Japan -Changes of soil characteristics in Japanese arable lands (II)- ... concentrations increased significantly, as shown in Fig and Fig 6, despite a lack of significant change in precipitation A possible hypothesis explaining this phenomenon is that specific pollutant ... rural areas, this migration can cause depopulation, aging of the local population, anda consequent increase in poorly managed forests and agricultural lands Therefore, increased migration may adversely...
... condition, and the temperature was maintained constant between 10°C and 30°C RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Materials runoff characteristics and variation in the reservoir Fig indicates time courses of nitrate ... Inland Sea on its west, which is one of the largest closed water areas in Japan and has required water purification for along period Aside from this, there are many small reservoirs inand around ... Fig - Relationship between nitrate concentration and its removal rate by algae Fig - Relationship between nitrate concentration and denitrification rate On the other hand, denitrification rate,...
... Constraints Created by the DataRelation," you saw that a ForeignKeyConstraint is added to the child DataTable by default when a DataRelation object is added to a DataSet You also saw that this ForeignKeyConstraint ... the issues involved with updating a primary key column value later in the section "Issues When Updating the Primary Key of a Parent Row." The ModifyingRelatedData.cs program contains a method named ... ordersDeleteCommand; The ModifyingRelatedData.cs program contains a method named SetupOrdersDA() that performs the previous code Creating and Populating a DataSet Next, the following example creates and...