neuropeptide distribution and its relationship to itch

... regulators used supervisory tools and enforcement actions to limit growth and raise capital levels at commercial banks and mutual savings banks But both banks and S&Ls, and their regulators, ... does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain ... favor in order to keep regulators from interfering in their operations 180 History of the Eighties—Lessons for the Future Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship to Banking with...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... dithiothreitol and 10 mM MgCl2) using a motorized mortar and pestle (Torsion Balance Co, Clinton, NJ, USA) Following centrifugation to remove nuclei, yolk platelets, mitochondria (10 000 g, 20 min) and ... yielded both CL and CLAP in a high state of purity However, dissociation of CLP to its subunits (CL and CLAP) required incubation of CLP at pH for at least h at °C prior to chromatography on Mono ... thought to represent destabilizing elements leading to rapid deadenylation and messenger breakdown [47,48] Thus, while CLAP appears to be somewhat refractory to protease degradation, its mRNAs...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... litterfall (P = 0.51) and (marginally) wind speed (P = 0.07) Catkin litterfall took place mostly in June and then in July (Figs and 8) and leaf litterfall mostly in May and June (Figs and 4) The other ... coast The topography is rough, with a difference of 1600 m in altitude between the summit (1713 m) and the lowlands (100 m) Rocks are basically granite and, to a lesser extent, schist and slate ... periods of temperature and humidity in order to carry out the maximum photosynthesis, and this tends to be during the spring and part of the autumn During and after the appearance of shoots, the plant...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... expression of NF-κB subunits and blocked the expression of NF-κB regulated genes following TNF-α challenge Antiapoptotic transcripts, such as survivin (inhibitor of apoptosis protein) and BCL-2, were ... attributed to inhibition of the proapoptotic transcription factor p53, normalization of the proapoptotic Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, and reduction of caspase-3 signaling, all of which decreased apoptosis Using ... antiapoptotic effects, and suppression of NF-κB subunits and therefore decreased inflammatory cell adhesion APC, activated protein C; ICAM, intercellular adhesion molecule; NF-κB, nuclear factor-κB;...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... where entry into mitosis is controlled; and the metaphase -to- anaphase transition, which leads to sister-chromatid segregation, completion of mitosis and cell division, also known as cytokinesis The ... of the TRAIL receptors, death receptor-4 (DR4) and death receptor-5 (DR5, KILLER), as well as the FAS receptor (CD95) and the FAS/APO-1 ligand (Owen-Schaub et al., 1995; Jin and El-Deiry, 2005) ... functions to remove the damaged cells and prevents them from contributing to tumorigenesis; if a cell is unable to undergo apoptosis, due to mutation or biochemical inhibition, it can continue to divide...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:03

... (PAO462, PAO651 and PAO846) and an FITC-labeled EUBMIX (EUB338, EUB338 II and EUB338 III) probe (Table 1) The targets of PAOMIX and EUBMIX probe are Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis and most eubacteria, ... suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to better understanding of the contribution of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ to phosphorus removal ... activated sludge was related to those of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Standard curves were constructed from 1.0×103 to 1.0×107 copies of the DNA quantification standard per reaction A linear...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... different land uses such as developed and rural areas Most of all, Hadano City with its abundant ground water and existing water circulation is a very complex system regarding water quantity and its ... and Shijuhase rivers were monitored It took about five hours on the average to monitor six rivers in each monitoring day Thus, the average time consumed for the monitoring of each river was almost ... the dilution factor was calculated based on the monitored river flow and considered in the analysis for COD and TP In case of TN, its inorganic form (NO3-) gets easily transported to ground water...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... related to how and why, so as to enhance Webbased natural language understanding Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank NOVA, Inc for their support with the Nova dictionary and Katunobu Itou ... choice can be performed to improve the coverage to 100% Thus, for each knowledge resource we compared cases without/with random choice, which are denoted “w/o Random” and “w/ Random” in Table 1, respectively ... method (see Sections and 3), and evaluated the quality of the encyclopedia itself Second, we applied the generated encyclopedia to our QA system (see Section 4), and evaluated its performance The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... value has lead to rapid technology transfer of speech recognition into other research areas and applications Since the variations in speaking style and accent as well as in channel and environment ... between July 1992 • and May 1996, and comprised roughly 500k sentences and 22M words To calculate word ngram language models, we segmented the broadcast-news manuscripts into words by using a ... identification, and a noisy part, and were separately evaluated name extaction, topic c l a s s i f i c a t i o n and The clean part consisted of utterances with no information retrieval background noise, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... (New England Biolabs, Hitchin, UK) and transferred to a new tube Samples were then incubated at 37 °C for h with PNGase F and NP-40 as advised by the manufacturer (New England Biolabs) to remove ... 61129/2004) and the Health Research Board (RP/ 2006/294) to J.V.F and Health Research Board Grant (RP/2005/107) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC The ... reported to co-localize and interact with the type transferrin receptor (TfR1) [5,18] TfR1 mediates the endocytosis of iron-loaded transferrin into acidic endosomes where the iron is released and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... oxidative pentose phosphate pathway had to be reversed to maintain the target fluxes Then, the NADPH needed to drive the reactions of the oxidative pathway into a backwards direction and to form hexose ... enzymes, metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell and to integrate them into whole-cell Ôin silicoÕ models ... consider the set of all flux distributions meeting the flux balance relations dictated by the stoichiometry of the system and pick out the distribution for which the total flux becomes a minimum...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... engineering and is not in general amenable to latent variable problems A simpler alternative to this two step approach is to use a generative model of synchronous derivation and simultaneously segment and ... from nodes in es to nodes in et or We therefore sample in the direction from source to target In particular, we visit every tree pair and each of its source nodes i, and update its alignment by ... of rule c → e, and K is the total number of ways to rewrite c, we now take into account our DP(αc , P0 (· | c)) prior in (1), which, when truncated to a finite grammar, reduces to a K-dimensional...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... Kohno, takes a critical attitude toward China, and asks France to understand Japan's position d6: The prime minister of New Zealand asks the French Government not to restart nuclear testing dT: ... reference to its source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... the story of the articles For example, the word "state" is the differentia word for dT, and is in its adjacent articles ds, dg, anddlo This means that d7 is a starting point of the new topic...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... type to the least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to it, and (3) recurse on respective pairs of feature values The frame does not need to be resized, only the types need to ... — we would need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of ... when it comes to unification, due to appropriateness Nevertheless, unbounded subtyping chains and acquiring new features conspire to force most internal representations of TFSs to perform extra...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... the relationship and the wide variation in methodological approaches However, specific factors, such as quality of substitute care and age of the child, condition the relationship and point to ... increasingly, integration into the global economy Women (like men) shift out of agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes in the ... more strongly to community randomized designs; when randomizing over communities, true randomization is more difficult to achieve, and the number of communities must often be large to detect significant...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... Japanese and the morphological analyzer has to segment the sentence into words as well as to decide the POS tag of the words So in this section, we describe how to apply revision learning to Japanese ... combines a stochastic model and a binary classifier to achieve higher performance with lower computational cost We applied it to English POS tagging and Japanese morphological analysis, and showed ... i := to l − begin Call the stochastic model to obtain the ordered indexes {n0 , , nk−1 } such that P (cn0 |xi ) ≥ · · · ≥ P (cnk−1 |xi ) for j := to k − begin if cnj = yi then Add xi to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... bivector rotates vectors in its own plane by 90 , but forms trivectors (volumes) with vectors perpendicular to it The trivector 1^ 2^ commutes with all vectors, and hence with all multivectors ... unit vector a into another unit vector b, leaving all vectors perpendicular to a and b unchanged This is accomplished by a re ection perpendicular to the unit vector half-way between a and b (see ... given help and support over the last three years and I am grateful to them all I owe a great debt to my supervisor, Nick Manton, for allowing me the freedom to pursue my own interests, and to my two...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:29

... M, C, ω and a projector P : E → E such that: (1) T (t)P M e−ωt , for all t ∈ R+ , (2) T (t)(I − P ) C, for all t ∈ R Then Eq.(9) and Eq.(10) are asymptotic equivalence Proof In order to prove ... argument of parts 2.1 and 2.2 to the uniformlly stable and asymptotic equivalence of above model of population, we will give the following results : a If the C0 - semigoup operator (T (t))t≥0 is ... L1(0, ω; C n) (see [9], H.Inaba), A : D(A) ⊂ E → E and operator f : R+ × E → E is continuous in t and satisfies all conditions (5), (6), (7) And now, we introduce the delay differential equation:...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... protease-deficient protein and potent inhibitor of death receptor-mediated apoptosis In addition to Fas ligand and Fas, decidual cells abundantly express c-FLIP, which may serve to prevent autoactivation of ... to have a hysterectomy When Geoffrey Dixon moved to the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Bristol in the 1970s he started to collect uteri with the fetus and ... However, tissue androgen levels and conversion of androstenedione to testosterone are higher in secretory than proliferative endometrium [32] Moreover, a rise in circulating androgen levels in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20