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... dual and opposing rolesinthe regulation of NF-κB inthe nucleus and cytoplasm Inthe cytoplasm, TRX interferes with the signals to IκB kinases, and blocks the degradation of IκB, thus maintaining ... is involved inthe dimerization, DNA-binding and interaction with the inhibitory IκB (inhibitor of NF-κB) proteins The difference is that RelA, RelB and c-Rel have an activation domain intheir ... contains both the transcription factor andthe inhibitor in one protein (see Figure 1.1A) Like mammalian p105 and p100, the Relish contains the N-terminal Rel-homology domain andthe C-terminal...
... describe the characters, the appearance, The aim of this thesis is to investigate expressions describing the behavior or the state of the villains These words and expressions the villains (EDVs) in ... Collecting documents related to the research inthe library and other sources from the Internet in both English and Vietnamese • Analyzing the lexical and semantic features of EDVs in Ki u’s Story and ... in Ki u’s Story andtheir equivalents inthe English versions • Collecting samples of EDVs in Ki u’s Story andtheir equivalents inthe English versions results and findings, in this work, we make...
... shedding and nonproteolytic functions, such as binding to adhesion molecules, integrins and interacting with phosphorylation sites for serine ⁄ threonine and tyrosine kinases, thus contributing ... such as angiostatin, tumstatin, endostatin and endorepellin MMPs also modulate the cell–cell and cell–ECM interactions by processing E-cadherin and integrins, respectively, affecting both cell phenotype ... molecules, thereby modulating cell–cell and cell–ECM interactions (Fig 1) Key MMPs in relation to the stages of cancer progression, their activity andtheir effects are summarized in Table 1, as they...
... physical illness and this could have enhanced the findings of the study Though not statistically significant, the differences inthe mean ages of the children andtheir mothers and maternal marital ... suggesting that the less stringent the diagnostic criteria the higher the prevalence rates The rate obtained by use of the depression inventory is closer to the rate of depression obtained in this ... for the care and well being of such children because of possible economic reason among others The exclusion of children whom were not living with either their mothers or both patents and whom their...
... meaning, „làm‟ restrictedly combine with certain nouns to indicate daily routines such as eating, drinking, relaxing, entertaining The meaning of „làm‟ depends on the meaning of the following ... have obtained the objectives of the study The results of the study show that the verb „make‟ andthe verb „làm‟ in collocations coincide intheir general meanings However, the verb „làm‟ in Vietnamese ... of learning and teaching collocations in general and those with the verb „make‟ in particular The steps of the study are inthe order as follows: First, the author synthesized the meanings of...
... Lai Lai and Dr Yu Hao, for their help and encouragement during my staying in Singapore Their presence has created an enjoyable and productive working environment and made my staying in Singapore ... sowing andthe level increased to the maximum after day and maintained at high levels during the next days but gradually decreased thereafter until the second week of sowing (Rea et al., 1998) In ... plants and no activity was detected inthe root The deletion at the 5’-end of the promoter up to -479 increased the activity but the increase was confined only to the aboveground part of the plant,...
... components: the process itself, theparticipants (Roles) inthe process, the circumstances associated with the process In Vietnamese, many linguists also join inthe trend, show their ability and then, ... with both the modifier indicating the name of the saying andthe modifier indicating the content of the saying Participants as Token and Value Halliday [9, p115] points that semantically the Token ... office?” they are looking for the identity of their office, andthe question and answer contain an identifying process The nominal group about which the question is asked is labelled Identified and the...
... well as with the life cycle of insects and other invertebrates Tadelle (1996) reported that in Ethiopia, the SFR is deficient in protein during the dry season andin energy during the rainy season ... conflict of interest • Cost recovery must be included inthe vaccination programme The production cost of the vaccine is rather low with the main costs stemming from bottling and distribution Investments ... assurance andthe monitoring of protection inthe field should also be included inthe total vaccine price • A holistic vaccination approach for ND in combination with IBR or /and FowlPox increases the...
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... composed of the 50 most important counties in Spain, which corresponds to the capitals of the 50 Spanish provinces We are considering the main cities andthe surrounding towns undertheir administrative ... is the transmitter power, G is the sum of all gains inthe chain, transmitter antenna, receiver antenna, and soft handover gain, L is the sum of all the losses in cables, body losses, and in- building ... technology and therefore, they can be defined as hard blocking systems, that is, the number of users inthe system is limited by the amount of hardware installed inthe Base Station (BTS) Therefore, in...
... Theory andTheir Applications in Engineering, Physics and Technology (a) (b) Fig The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges inthe LP candidate are shown in ... Advances in Wavelet Theory andTheir Applications in Engineering, Physics and Technology The Haar edges are used as a reference without further processing of the Haar edges like thinning; we apply the ... Motion estimation inthe wavelet domain 28 Advances in Wavelet Theory andTheir Applications in Engineering, Physics and Technology Exploiting the hierarchical relationship between the wavelet coefficients...
... been fully investigated in ovarian cancer Inthe present study, we examined the relationship between the expression of Ets-1 and its targets Ang-2 and maspin in ovarian cancer andtheir clinical ... mechanisms underlying the localization of maspin and its interaction with Ets-1 warrant further investigations In this study we employed IHC to evaluate the expression of Ets-1, Ang-2 and maspin in clinical ... different rolesin angiogenesis: Ang-1 and Ang-4 are agonist ligands for Tie2 and induce tyrosin phosphorylation of Tie2, while Ang-2 and Ang-3 are antagonist ligands They bind to Tie2 without inducing...
... staining to detect estrogen-binding activity and found of tumors had estrogen-binding activity andthe intensity of the staining was found to be much greater inthe tumors from the women They ... competing interests Authors' contributions SJ: Principal investigator - did the study, collected data and wrote the paper; VA: Co-investigator - helped in doing the study and collecting the data; ... AKJ: Co-investigator collected the articles; RP: Co-investigator - provided the advice and coordinated the study; AKM: Co-investigator gave the idea and advice for the study Acknowledgements The...
... coalesced into two broad syndromes, internalizing and externalizing [24] The questionnaire is completed in 30 to 40 minutes andthe responses refer to problems faced inthe past six months The Khmer ... during the sessions The issue of confidentiality was explained to the students before administering the questionnaires and they were not required to write their names We informed theparticipants that ... considerations The directors of Chey Chumneas Hospital andthe directors of the two high schools gave approval for the study The teachers andthe parents were informed about the nature of the study...
... latter In both tasks, participants had to indicate the print colour of the single letter as quickly and accurately as possible using pre-defined keys with their right index and middle fingers (again, ... cross-modal integration in non-synaesthetes, has sparked an interest in whether synaesthesia can be trained inthe adult general population The underlying idea is that with training, automatic, ... participant the strength of letter-colour binding (letter-colour binding index) and Stroop interference (Stroopinterference index) The binding index was calculated based on search performance at the...
... from other receptors in that their ectodomain possesses a sequestered internal ligand that is tethered to the amino-terminus of its extracellular domain Thrombin cleaves the amino-terminus of the ... walls off the injured site and contains the inevitable microbial contamination that occurs following a breach inthe integument of this marine animal The basic elements of clotting and inflammation ... activated by the thrombin–thrombomodulin complex The TAFIa that is generated removes basic lysine and arginine residues from the carboxyl terminus of peptides and proteins Inthe case of fibrin, removal...