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... etiology, including that of COPD Given their function in the metabolism of environmental toxicants as well as in the inactivation of reactive oxygen species, these genes represent promising candidates ... in the follow-up study of the LHS [53] In other studies, the GSTP1 105Ile/Ile genotype was inconsistently associated with COPD [13,54,58] In vitro assays further underline the complexity of the ... Ongoing research into genetic determinants of various lung function parameters may provide further insight into the biology of different lung function parameters [40] A novel finding of our population-based...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... Serine-C], which was used as a linker to connect the N-terminus of gAd and the C-terminus of GLP-1-A Because the protein produced from plasmid vector PET28a was an N-terminal 6×His-tagged protein, ... function of protein, we designed an enterokinase cleavage site at the 5’ terminus of the gene of the gAd-GLP-1-A fusion protein, which was used to remove the His-tag [9] In our study, most of the ... http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, we connected the N-terminus of globular adiponectin and the C- terminus of GLP-1-A through the linker, which could make the N-terminus of GLP-1-A and the C-terminus of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... three main parts Beginning with an introduction about the components contained in the study, the aims, the scope, the methodology, and the design of the paper are presented The second main part ... set of interacting processes, in which the sender is the one who is sending the message out; the channel is the way the message is being sent; and the receiver is supposed to receive and use the ... unit In his famous work, “How to Things with Words,” J L Austin outlined his theory of speech acts and the concept of performative language, in which to say something is to something Austin offered...

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... fraction of proteins The efficiency of labelling of the single oligomers being not homogenous, the ratios of the different binding signals within each lane instead of their absolute values have to be ... might be related to the absence in these cells of the eEF1A isoforms that we identified in the haematopoietic cell line [21], or to the buffer conditions used for the binding Thus the G-quartet structure ... possible to quantify the amount of recovered protein owing to the presence of a high molar excess of BSA remaining in the recovery buffer Therefore, a fixed aliquot of the protein was incubated...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... ions in the sample, the ratio Mn4+/Mn3+ keeps unchanged So the decrease of TC with increasing x can be explained by the reduction of the double exchange interaction due to the decrease of ... TC somewhat increases from 346 K for x = 0.0 to 350 K for x = 0.2, then decreases to 235 K for x = 1.0 The general decrease of TC can be due to the decrease of and the decrease of Mn4+/Mn3+ ... In Eqs (1) and (2) Hmax is the final applied magnetic field Eqs (1) and (2) have a fundamental importance on the understanding of the behaviour of the MCE in solids and serve as a guide for the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... delivery together Korenman (36) combined these two events in the initial estrogen window (IEW) Korenman hypothesized that the longer this period lasted, the longer the breast was exposed to the influence ... It was restricted to women under the age of 56 in order to be certain of a risk of exposure to oral contraceptives marketed in France in the late 1970s So, our study allowed us to analyze three ... on the risk of a breast cancer only when the cancer was diagnosed after age 50 The change in the slope of the curve showing the age-specific incidence of breast cancer around the age of 50 strongly...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... implicated in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases including uveitis, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease [18-20] Proinflammatory cytokines, including ... may be one of the many factors influencing Th17 cytokine expression Dysregulation of alternative complement activation has been reported to be involved in AMD pathogenesis The drusen of AMD donor ... blocking antibody that interrupts the B7-CD28 interaction was added to the culture, the induction of both IL22 and IL-17 by C5a was diminished, to a similar extent as the effect seen with the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... order to navigate into the VR mazes and find the exit point All Mazes lack any kind of landmark, except for a sun shining in the sky at a fixed point Mountains surround all over the mazes’ walls ... representation of the environment into viewer-dependent coordinates and the reversal process, that is the transfer of the actual egocentric coordinates on the map of the city, are constantly performed The ... monitoring and cognitive flexibility These abilities are shown to decrease with aging, together with working memory ability and speed of processing Our results can be interpreted according to Moffat...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... [18,19], the rotational motion of trunk played an important role in adapting to the changes in walking speed However, in this study, there was no tendency or changes in rotational motion according to ... according to the walking speed, which might be due to the relatively narrower range of walking speed than those of other studies Figure Trunk motion in the coronal plane After beginning the single limb ... i.e., to the ground) and trunk motion in the pelvic reference frame (motion (P), i.e., relative to the plane defined by the three pelvic markers) were obtained [7,12] We referred to motions in the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... spectrum in the absence of the RSOI Using an inversion asymmetrical interface electric field, we can induce the RSOI in the QDs We find that the asymmetrical transmission node splits into two spindependent ... κel,↓ The black solid lines in [bn(n = 1, , 4)] represent the charge FOM ZCT, and the red dashed lines in [bn(n = 1, , 4)] represent the spin FOM independent due to the absence of the AB phase The ... geometry to a configuration in series The asymmetrical couplings between the QDs and metallic electrodes induce the enhancement of spin-dependent Seebeck effects in the vicinity of the corresponding...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... Up to now, the magnetic configurations of the leads coupled to the QD-ring are limited to collinear (parallel and antiparallel) one To the best of our knowledge, transport characteristics of ... give them here for the sake of compactness Finally, the ferromagnetism of the leads is considered by the spin dependence of the leads’ density of states rbs Explicitly, we introduce a spin-polarization ... constant in the bias regime of eV

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... function of the second kind, k is the wave vector, q0 is the quantum wire radius The spectrum of interface phonons is determined by solution of Eq In Fig is shown the wavevector dependence of the interface ... spectrum Interface Phonons in the Quantum Wire The interface phonon spectrum is being examined in [15] The general equations have been obtained to describe the phonon spectrum taking into account the ... demonstrates the prevailing role of the interaction of an electron with interface optical phonons The availability of the surface phonons leads to widening the range of materials in which the strong...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... single domain Indeed, there is a discrepancy between the data and the Langevin profile shown in the M(H) curves taken at the low field regime One possible cause of this difference in the fit is the ... Plot of the dependency of the thermal energy on the saturation magnetization Ms(T) together with the thermal deviation DMs(T) due to the saturation magnetization The solid lines represent the ... lines indicate the results from the fit of Eq 5; the fitting parameters are listed in Table 1; the energy gap obtained from the fit is plotted with the diameter in the Fig 5a (right panel) In the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... discontinuities, respectively The values of the energies shown in the figure are calculated at 4.2 K According to the work of Van de Walle and Martin [15, 16], the energy splitting of the valence ... A) in the QWs and barriers The thickness variations in the QWs and barriers result in the relatively weak and broad PL spectra of the SiGe QWs observed in samples 1–3, as shown in Fig In the ... interface In Fig 4, the PL peaks shift to lower energy following decrease in the barrier thickness This is due to the effect of interwell coupling between the two symmetrically-aligned wells caused...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... they just briefly mention it as a note in their article when referring to a small area in one of the images The investigators focused in their work on the bulk structures and their reduction The ... load in an industrial reactor had been terminated due to normal ageing According to XRD the inlet fraction consisted mainly of Fe2(MoO4)3, and elemental analysis indicated the presence of another ... collected starting in the vacuum outside the edge of the crystal and then gradually moving in onto the bulkier parts of the material By using this technique, it is expected to get information about...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 18:09

... asymptotically the standard normal distribution Theorem In the class of (132)-avoiding permutations of n letters, and in the class of (213)-avoiding permutations of n letters, the length of the ... be interesting to find a heuristic explaining this connection the electronic journal of combinatorics 9(2) (2003), #R12 Other patterns of three letters We have so far dealt with the statistics of ... Killpatrick [3] The (321) case and the Erd˝s-Szekeres theorem o Finally we ask for the limiting distribution function for the length of the longest increasing subsequence in the class Sn (321) of (321)-avoiding...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 07:21

... increasing subsequences in τ -avoiding permutations, for each of the possible τ ∈ S3 Inspired by the results of the above authors, we complete the picture by studying the limiting distribution of the ... rational The Gaussian limit is obtained by using general results on limit laws for combinatorial classes presented in the forthcoming work [6] The outline of the rest of the paper is as follows In ... 2.2 The following equalities hold (i) The number of 231-avoiding permutations π of length n having al(π) = m equals the number of 132-avoiding permutations π of length n having al(π) = m In other...

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