silicones—a key ingredient in cosmetic and toiletry formulations

... supplier and five paper mills The project includes characterization and modeling, as well as experiments in the laboratory, in a pilot plant and in mills Many properties of wood and fibers are being ... the trunk, indicated in gray, the “growth increment mesh” within the tree may be constructed, as shown in figure 8a The mesh defines the annual increments in the radial and longitudinal directions ... variability of the individual fibers and vessel elements in the wood matrix, in order to determine and compare properties of fibers and vessel elements in wild-type poplar with those in new plant materials...

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... pancreatic juice and intestine: inadequate for role in zinc absorption Am J Clin Nutr 35, 1–9 Evans GW & Johnson PE (1980) Characterization and quantitation of a zinc binding ligand in human milk ... Residues involved in catalysis in the bacterial enzyme and the corresponding amino acids in the human protein are pointed with arrows The mean hydrophobicity values of residues within the window ... providing the recombinant proteins with a N-terminal His6-tag, and a thioredoxin-tag, respectively In both cases, proteins were expressed as inclusion bodies (not shown) Any effort to obtain soluble...

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... using crystalline bovine serum albumin as standard Reconstitution of Syn HO-1 with hemin An alkaline-hemin solution of 0.86 mM in 4.6 lL increments was added to the 10 lM solution of Syn HO-1 in ... observed in the spectrum of heme–rat HO-1 The former bands, referred as CT bands, are commonly distinctive in high-spin derivatives of ferric hemoproteins, while the latter bands (a- and b-bands) ... within and accumulated Decomposition of the oxy complex appears much slower than its formation and does not end even after 210 min, exhibiting the bands of the remaining oxy complex The 340 nm-band...

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... laypersons and health professionals with significant life-saving effects [12] However, its infrequent performance has been cited as perhaps the weakest link in the worldwide chain of survival and a key ... hypothermia, and various intravenous pharmacological infusions [10,11] Therefore, with the rapid use of AEDs by random bystanders, the usual scenario of aggressive ICU care, invasive assessments and a ... center-stage in resuscitation research efforts [8] In addition to evaluating the concept of markedly abbreviating the time taken to provide effective training for the masses [13], recent investigations...

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... exercise in the power of the Mind Map technique, try 'reading' in detail the Mind Map on the Brain Training and Mind Mapping Course, to see how comprehensive a summary/understanding you can obtain ... is, in this context, worth a thousand words) Use dimension wherever possible (things outstanding are 108 Fig 10 A Mind Map by a company director, summarising the Brain Training and Mind Mapping ... key word linking and patterning will be explained in full 84 Personal Notes 85 B: Mind maps for recall and creative thinking Overview • • • • Exercise Linear history of speech and print Contrast:...

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... Longman.”[63] In the book, the author presents the relationship between semantics and pragmatics and covers some of the basic techniques and key concepts involved in studying and analyzing pragmatic meaning ... authors such as greeting, requesting, advising, offering, prohibiting, thanking, expressing, gratitude and etc However, little attention has been paid to the speech act of encouraging In this paper, ... encouraging 2.2.3.3 Encouraging and Comforting th According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary- edition: According to Elizabeth Walter [88], “encouraging is the act of talking or behaving in...

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... computing approaches in decision making have become increasingly popular in many disciplines This is evident from the vast number of technical papers appearing in journals and conference proceedings ... conference proceedings in all areas of engineering, manufacturing, sciences, medicine, and business Soft computing is a rapidly evolving ịeld that combines knowledge, techniques, and methodologies ... objective in this control scheme is to maintain a desired level of òuid in the tank by opening or closing the valve controlling the output Such opening and closing operations either increase or...

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... testing since arriving in the host country • 54% of women in Scotland and 43% in Belgium received HIV testing in the host country • Among women who reported HIV testing, 40% in Scotland and 62% in ... Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland Belgium Scotland ... analysed and presented separately Women and Asylum-Seeking in the UK and Scotland In 2007, 30% of principal applicants for asylum in the UK were female, and 22% were granted asylum during the initial...

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... gain his inheritance as his father advises him, by stealing from Pilate, inspires him to try his own way of finding his inheritance, and therefore, his manhood He quickly learns that to obtain ... grandfather's bones, of his grandmother's name, and of where in Virginia the family originated (243-5) Milkman has his first urge for reciprocity with her, and she tells him that he has unwittingly ... take her seriously to find his inheritance Circe tells Milkman, "You don't listen to people" (247), and he begins to truly listen to her and treat her as an equal She informs him of the last...

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... complexes in cells expressing truncated huntingtin, c-glutaminyl-lysyl cross-links in nuclear inclusions in brain, and the finding that TG2 in vitro interacts with the polyglutamine domains to form ... PAGE and ⁄ or western blot, and protein-to-protein cross-linking inhibition by amine- or glutamine-rich peptide incorporation is the most widely used indirect method of identifying TG protein substrates ... glutamine residues For example, Lys148, 176, 183, 230, 413 and 457 in the Aa chain of fibrinogen cross-linked to only glutamines 83 and 86 in plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-2) during cross-linking...

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... could be inhibited by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor tyrphostin (2.5 lM) but not by the protein kinase C inhibitor bisindolylmalamide (1 lM) (data not shown) This suggests that the signaling pathway ... this enzyme almost completely inhibited LPS-induced TNF-a protein and mRNA production suggesting a role for LPCAT in the LPS-induced signaling pathways in monocytes In addition, LPCAT was found ... localized in membrane microdomains enriched in sphingolipids and cholesterol known as lipid rafts [36] CD14, as a GPI-linked receptor, lacks a transmembrane domain and the membrane protein TLR4 in association...

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... DISCUSSION In hemoglobin research, the central problem is understanding the cooperative binding of molecular oxygen to the a2b2 tetramer For human HbA, the a and b chains contain 141 and 146 amino-acid ... are de®ned in the molecule One is the a1b1 (or a2b2) contact involving B, G, and H helices and the GH corner, and other is the a1b2 (or a2b1) contact involving mainly helices C and G and the FG ... 0.407 and K4 ˆ 4.28 in 0.1 M Bis/Tris buffer containing 0.1 M KCl at pH 7.4 and 25 °C [20] In this reaction, major differences have been de®ned between deoxyhemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin by comparing...

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... no staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and “continuity” of staining of ... (DakoCytomation, Carpinteria, CA) at 95°C, for 10 and 40 min, for Her3 and Her2 staining respectively To minimize non-specific staining, the section was incubated with protein block (DakoCytomation) ... membranous staining and Her3 (b, membranous and cytoplasmic staining, and c, predominant cytoplasmic staining) 400 × magnification Takikita et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:126...

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... extension in healthy subjects [23] While passive movements caused some increase in activation, active training led to more prominent increases in fMRI activation, recruitment curves (TMS) and intracortical ... diminish the friction between fingers and finger-rolls Initially, the rotation speed of the cam shaft and the vibration frequency were set at 20 rotations per minute and 20 Hz After three minutes ... the fingers and 3/5 for wrist in both patients The Fugl-Meyer Motor Score for the upper limb (FM, 0–66) [18], was and respectively Pain, touch and position sensation, and two-point discrimination...

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... no staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and “continuity” of staining of ... (DakoCytomation, Carpinteria, CA) at 95°C, for 10 and 40 min, for Her3 and Her2 staining respectively To minimize non-specific staining, the section was incubated with protein block (DakoCytomation) ... membranous staining and Her3 (b, membranous and cytoplasmic staining, and c, predominant cytoplasmic staining) 400 × magnification Takikita et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:126...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... methodologies and regulations Findings The recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in numerous countries in Asia and Africa and the increase in human cases, demonstrate that influenza ... avian influenza viruses [24] For example, viruses circulating in China between 2000 and 2003 are genetic similarity to those circulating in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos in the period between 2004 and ... sequences in the Influenza Virus Resource, a comprehensive database integrating data from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and...

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... cleared in xylene, coverslipped and viewed using light microscopy Staining intensity was graded according to a previously published and validated grading system where = no staining, = weak staining, ... Pro-inflammatory cytokines were upregulated at later time points of radiotherapy suggesting that these cytokines can ultimately induce more tissue injury and inflammation in the intestine with increasing total ... the intestinal epithelium of rats receiving radiotherapy Previous research into expression at the protein level has shown conflicting findings In one study, proinflammatory cytokine protein levels...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/11/19 of coordination and crosstalk must exist between pathways involved in Pi and sulfate transport and homeostasis in plants, important players acting in this coordination remain to be clearly ... by phosphite, indicating that phosphite interferes specifically with early events involved in Pi sensing and signaling, including responses typically associated with local Pi sensing or long-distance ... events involved in Pi sensing and signaling, including responses typically associated with local Pi sensing or long-distance signaling [47-50] While addition of phosphite attenuated the induction...

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... shown that even during the anhepatic phase occurring during liver transplantation, plasma lactate was maintained at a higher but constant value, indicating that the liver is not mandatory for lactate ... besides its role in redox and carbon shuttle between organs involved in the global energy metabolism Different interesting works have emphasized a role of lactate in the brain as a protective ... 28:3784-3791 King P, Kong MF, Parkin H, MacDonald IA, Barber C, Tattersall RB: Intravenous lactate prevents cerebral dysfunction during hypoglycaemia in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus Clin Sci...

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