natural and artificially induced coevolution

... assess the effect of natural and artificial exposure to ABS on the leaf waxes of oak species and on the pollen quality of Quercus ilex in cultures of modified Brewbaker and Kwack (1963) solution ... analysis, is common along the Tuscan coast and in hilly areas further inland and for several years has exhibited abnormally intense flowering (Gellini and Paoletti, 1990) Pollen for our study was ... impaired function of the guard cells), lesions and cracks in the cuticle, trichome abscission and destruction, and the collapse of the secreting heads of glandular hairs (fig 1A-D) Damage decreased...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... animal models 34-36 and tryptophan depletion has been found to increase visually -induced nausea and dizziness in migraineurs Based on our results and the known effects of rizatriptan and serotonin, ... V+ and V- groups and between groups with and without visual motion sensitivity were performed using the Wilcoxon rank sum test Results Fourteen persons were identified as possible study candidates ... in migraineurs is of uncertain cause and can occur with both self motion, i.e., vestibular -induced motion sickness, and with visual motion, i.e., visually -induced motion sickness We have theorized...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... both summer and winter conditions: air permeability to reduce heat dispersion in winter and guarantee passive cooling effect by combining convective and heat transport between the outer and inner ... of ventilated façade and its capacity for cooling These quantities are mathematically modeled by CFD techniques CFD is used to quantify and compare the effect of natural and forced ventilation ... ventilated façades according to the CEN Standard 13790 method and detailed simulation 547 2nd PALENC Conference and 28th AIVC Conference on Building Low Energy Cooling and Advanced Ventilation Technologies...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... Brunei Indonesia Malaysia The Philippines All land and water areas km inland from MHWM and areas inundated by tides any time of the year Administrative and selected environmental units District boundaries ... for land and sea resources and space by various stake holders that result in conflicts and the degradation of coastal ecosystems Further challenges to the coasts come from: (1) erosion and siltation ... Mekong River and the adjacent deltaic, estuarine, and coastal environment, An and Son (1998) could show differences in the elemental cycling between the river, front and plume, and shallow waters...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 14:15

... Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 27 (2011) 118-124 the traditional remedies and scientific reports [1,2] Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) was grown popularly in many countries and was ... Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 27 (2011) 118-124 heparin The plasma was separated by centrifugation for at 1200 rpm/min Mice livers was quickly removed and washed with cold 0.9% saline and ... Reuter T.Y Diet induced models for obesity and type diabetes Drug discovery today: disease models Vol.4 (1) (2007) 124 D.N Lien et al / VNU Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20

... this mutant strain as described below) Body and organ weights as well as plasma parameters (Tables S2 and S3) were measured, and learning, memory and behavioral tests (Table S4) as well as histopathological ... Resistance to KK- and KK-Ay -induced genetic induced obesity in RMI1+/) mice To explore resistance to the development of obesity under other conditions, we generated KK-a ⁄ a and KK-Ay ⁄ a RMI1-deficient ... Matsushime, Masato Kobori, Jiro Hirosumi and Mr Tsutomu Higashiya at Astellas Pharma Inc., and Junko Kawano and Akemi Matsuoka at Trans Genic Inc for their helpful advice and support 12 References 13 Zhang...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... chromatographic profiles for FprA and on incubation with and without urea on Superdex 200 H column at pH 7.0 and 25 °C Curves and represent profiles for FprA at pH 7.0 and that on incubation with M ... have studied the effect of GdmCl- and ureainduced changes in the structural and functional properties of FprA Time-dependent changes in the structural parameters and enzymatic activity of FprA at ... curve showing two distinct transitions between and 0.8 m and 0.8 and m GdmCl were observed (Fig 4B) These observations demonstrate that during GdmCl -induced denaturation of FprA the transition observed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... lane 6, Glu-Pg- and mAb 34D3-treated cells Bands in lanes and correspond to forms I and II of plasmin(ogen) High molecular weight bands in lanes and correspond to mAb A10.2- and mAb 34D3-plasminogen ... Lys-plasmin(ogen) binding and activation These structural–functional transitions are determinant in the initiation and development of both fibrinolysis and cell detachment -induced apoptosis and may therefore ... evaluate their respective contribution to Gluand Lys-Pg binding and activation onto fibrin and cells, as well as their effects on fibrinolysis and on plasmin -induced cell apoptosis The LBS specificity...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... (1979): Research in Natural Language Understanding: Annual Report TR 4274, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Levelt, W J M., G Richardson and W La Heij (1985): Pointing and Voicing in Deietic ... and S Buttrick (1983): Common Ground and the Understanding of Demonstrative Reference Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 22, 245-258 Ekman, P and W V Friesen (1969): The Repertoire ... Integrating Natural Language and Graphical Interaction for Knowledge-based Systems Proceedings of the 7th European Corlf,-rence on Artificial Intelligence, Brighton, England Kirk, L and M Burton...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... spiritual and supernatural Medicine In brief, all things (none excepted) which we can touch and handle, are natural, but they must be made supernatural, if you would Of Natural and Supernatural ... parts, that is, Natural and Supernatural; what is visible, tangible, and hath form or shape, that is natural; but what is intactible, without form, and spiritual, that is supernatural, and must be ... supernatural, only what concerns the Soul and spiritual matters, and some are natural and supernatural, with what concerns the Elements and Firmament, as likewise the Minerals, Vegetables, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... Carbon atoms of CMP and L-3TCMP are in black and grey, respectively, with sulfur in yellow, phosphorus in magenta and oxygens in blue (for the base) and red (for the sugar and the phosphate) Left, ... MgCl2 and the substrates at 37 C The reaction was stopped at 2, and by adding lL aliquots of the reaction mixture to lL stop solution consisting of mM formic acid and 10 mM each of CDP and CTP ... the reaction was expected to produce [3H]CMP and NTP and/ or [3H]CTP and NMP in equal amounts The relative afnities of the added NDP for the donor and the acceptor sites are the determinant for...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... protective effects of curcumin and capsaicin H Manjunatha and K Srinivasan Table Effect of dietary curcumin and capsaicin on iron(II) -induced (in vivo) and copper -induced (in vitro) LDL oxidation ... effects of curcumin and capsaicin H Manjunatha and K Srinivasan Protective effect of dietary curcumin, capsaicin and their combination on iron -induced LDL oxidation in vivo and copper -induced LDL oxidation ... suggest that dietary curcumin and capsaicin individually are protective to LDL oxidation both in vivo and in vitro, to iron -induced hepatotoxicity and to carrageenan -induced inflammation These beneficial...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... poultry pastures: Dandelion is believed to be a stimulant to the immune system In alternative medicine, dandelions are used to treat kidney and liver disorders of humans Externally dandelion is used ... be found naturally in some cereal crops and onions MOS is obtained from the cell wall of yeast Examples of OMRI listed MOS products include Agristim® from Bioagra and Agrimos from Lallemand Animal ... and/ or free range chicken, backyard, and commercial poultry The products contain a combination of different natural ingredients The combination depends on the particular product Some of the natural...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... purified enzyme resulted in the release of AA Km and Vmax values obtained for the reactions were 4.1 and lM and 948 and 193 nmolÆmin)1Æmg)1 for CTE-I and a MTE-I, respectively Next, we measured the ... and stromal cells of the ovary and Leydig cells of the testis [39] Moreover, it was demonstrated that ACS4 expression in the murine adrenocortical tumor cell line Y1 (Y1) is induced by ACTH and ... synthetase and thioesterase are, indeed, essential for AA release and adrenal cholesterol metabolism We demonstrate that recombinant MTE-I and CTE-I release AA from arachidonoyl-CoA in vitro and that...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... to mm glucose, and metabolites were extracted at and and 2, and h Within min, a large change occurred for many compounds A very fast decay of UDP-glucose, phosphorylated glucose and fructose (Fig ... h) and the cell length at the time of division decreased (10 lm versus 15 lm) in comparison with the 111, 11.1 and 4.4 mm glucose conditions Further reduction of glucose to 1.7 and 1.1 mm induced ... cultured in 111 and 4.4 mm glucose Based on the narrow doubling time distribution in the second and third divisions, the doubling time was quite uniform for 111 and 4.4 mm glucose, and the stochastic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... population and community ecology • Weed ecology provides a basic understanding of the distribution and abundance of weeds in natural and managed systems In the long term, it may change our attitudes and ... ‘invasive’ when considering natural habitats, and ‘weed’ for managed habitats; however, there is a gradient between natural and managed systems, and some apparently natural systems are managed ... 1820 (Adapted from McAndrews and Boyko-Diakonow 1989; with permission of the authors and the Minister of Public Work and Government Services Canada, 2002 and Courtesy of Natural Resources Canada,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... mathematical expressions, and present an approach to processing this type of input Interleaved natural language and formulae Mathematical language, often semi-formal, is interleaved with natural language ... where the proposition contain is true, and the nominals f1 and f2 represent dependents of the head contain, which stand in the tectogrammatical relations Actor and Patient, respectively It is possible ... [’the Containment relation involves a predicate contain and its Actor and Patient dependents, where the Actor and Patient are the container and containee parameters respectively’] contain( Example...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... problem and my desire is to make it clear and to get more comprehensive and specific understanding RESEARCH METHOD In order to learn English idioms on natural and geographical phenomena and Vietnamese ... ON NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PHENOMENA INTO VIETNAMESE………18 2.1 The meanings of English idioms on natural and geographical phenomenon………………………………………………………………….1 2.2 English idioms on natural and ... might not understand what person means and that lead to a misunderstanding and boring conversation Therefore, my research is aimed at: + Giving the knowledge of geographical and natural idioms...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... blue and green The N-terminal S100-specific EF-hand (EF-hand 1) is shown in a dark colour, the C-terminal canonical EF-hand in a brighter colour (EF-hand 2) The hinges connecting both EF-hands ... these and other questions and will ultimately bring us to a higher level of understanding the biology of tumour and degeneration and enable to use our acquired knowledge of S100 structure and functions ... aggregation scores for S100A8 are 0.76 at pH 7.0 and 0.77 at pH 2.0; for S100A9, 1.04 and 0.65, and for Ab(1–40) and Ab(1–42) peptides at pH 7.0, 0.97 and 0.94, respectively In both proteins, the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... procedures Materials Hypocrellin A and Hoechst 33342 were purchased from Molecular Probes (Leiden, the Netherlands) Rose Bengal, carbonic anhydrase, H2O2, propidium iodide and tyramine were from Sigma ... light at JÆcm)2 (no photosensitizer control) Lanes and 4, cells were loaded with Hypocrellin A (1 lM and lM, respectively), then with acetylTyr-Fluo, and were finally irradiated with visible light ... acetylTyr-Fluo, and were not irradiated (no light control) Lane 6, cells were loaded with acetylTyr-Fluo and then treated with 200 lM H2O2 Cell lysates were subjected to SDS/PAGE and Western blotting...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21