... Island They would then cross another thirty-two miles of ocean to the southern flank of San Clemente Island, a naval base and artillery... you’ve paddled according to the beach, duck ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 Chronicle Books LLC 680 Second Street San Francisco, California 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com CONTENTS Acknowledgments . . . 6 CHAPTER 1: The Ghost Wave . . . 8 CHAPTER 2: Once Upon ... ghost wave The discovery of Cortes Bank and the biggest wave on Earth CHRIS DIXON A hundred miles off the California coastline, a fabled peak rises from the depths of the North Paci? ?c, stopping...
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... 0.51 NS CEACAM1 0.57 NS CEACAM6 6.06 4.68 CFH 0.49 NS c- Fos 0.08 NS c- Jun 0.29 NS CLIC3 2. 03 NS CLIC5 1.85 NS CLIC6 3. 57 4.41 COX-2 0 .38 NS CRISP3 0.01 0.14 CXCL11 NS NS CXCL12 0 .34 0 .32 CXCL2 0.61 ... ATP1A2 0 .34 0 .35 Bid 1.65 NS C1 QB 4. 73 2.67 C3 2.64 2.21 C4 A 5.54 3. 97 CASP3 1. 73 1.60 CASP7 1.85 1.70 CCL11 3. 87 NS CCL15 4.68 3. 76 CCL28 0.18 0.22 CD40 0.51 NS CD69 0.41 NS CD86 3. 39 2 .38 CD9 0.51 ... applicable 270 Appendix III Relative expression level of selected genes by real-time RT PCR Median of ∆ Ct (Ct-target – Ct-GAPDH) Gene symbol ANXA1 AREG C3 CCL11 CD69 c- Fos c- Jun COX-2 CXCL11 CXCL2...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:49
The flora of Ahirdagi (Afyonkarahisar) and its environs
... floristic studies carried out close to our study area Families Number of species Asteraceae Fabaceae Lamiaceae Brassicaceae Poaceae Caryophyllaceae Scrophulariaceae Rosaceae Apiaceae Boraginaceae ... the difference between Table and could be explained by the aims of the studies In phytosociologic studies in particular, researchers attach importance to collecting those species which help their ... map of the study area Materials and Methods Conclusions and Comments The material consisted of 965 plant specimens collected from the area between 1996 and 2000 Efforts were made to collect both...
Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2020, 14:33
Master of Business Administration: An Exploratory Study of the Use of Mobile Apps and its Implications for Internal Business Processes in Healthcare Organizations in Dubai
... DHCC, Big group (local) DHCC DHCC DHCC, Foreign investment (UK) Uncertainty about its effectiveness and efficiency/ cost to effeciency 1) Violation of safe access and confidentiality of medical ... know Oracle Java, HTML Microsoft.NET 3) Adjusted to our clinical model 3) Violation of 3) Violation of safe Oracle, Java, safe access and access and Oracle Microsoft.NET confidentiality of confidentiality ... Focusing on medical excellency, marketing, and pts' satisfaction 45 DHCC Yes, if applicable technically300 Private, part of local group 1) Uncertainty about its effectiveness and efficiency/ cost...
Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2020, 18:45
The transformation of financial system and its impact on consumers: Case study of Pakistan
... causes of financial sector consolidation and the potential impacts of this consolidation on the structure and stability of the banking sector such as competition, financial risk profile, conduct of ... to the adoption of e-banking such as social desirability, compatibility, convenience, complexity, confidentiality, accessibility, economic benefits and PC proficiency as eight influential factors ... return pet projects and rent seeking by their political cronies Impact of the Changes on Consumers 4.1 Impact Analysis of the Consolidation Process The on-going process of mergers and acquisitions...
Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 23:10
A discussion on the technique of etymological analysis and its applicability in tracing the origin of Sino-Vietnamese elemens
... Characters writes on the relationship between Chinese script and culture of which origian could be traced in Chinese characters: “During the process of creating Chinese characters, Chinese ancestors ... brought their feelings about the concepts of the outside world, their emotional experiences and moral standards into Chinese characters, so that Chinese characters can express the Chinese cultural ... Applicability of etymological analysis in tracing the origin of SinoVietnamese elements The second part of the paper concerns the application of etymological analysis in tracing the origin of Sino-Vietnamese...
Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2020, 01:52
Mechanism study of peptide GMBP1 and its receptor GRP78 in modulating gastric cancer MDR by iTRAQ-based proteomic analysis
... Resistance to chemotherapy is a recurring issue for all cancer types, and the development of MDR is a major obstacle to the effective treatment of gastric cancer [33 ] However, the mechanism of MDR ... immunofluorescence staining combined with FACS The results indicated the localization of GMBP1 and its receptor GRP78 in the cytoplasm of gastric cancer cells In addition, we found that the internalization ... mechanisms can cause drug resistance in gastric cancer cells and that these mechanisms might partially contribute to chemotherapeutic resistance during gastric cancer treatment Deregulation of...
Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2020, 16:33
An investigation into the application of writing portfolios and its relationship with the first year english majored students’ learning autonomy at ULIS VNU
... Implication The analysis of the data and the findings of the study suggest some pedagogical implications for instructors 74 First of all, positive reactions of the students and the results of the ... 427- 435 38 Moon, B & Mayes, S (1994) Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School, London, Routledge 39 McCutcheon,G., and Jurg, B., (1990) Alternative Perspectives on Action Research Theory ... 2.7 .3 The relationship between the application of writing portfolio and learner autonomy 52 2.8 Summary of chapter 53 CHAPTER 3: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 54 3. 1 The...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 12:40
Tài liệu Translational Vascular Medicine docx
... induction of Bcl-2 and inhibition of caspase -3 cleavage [30 ] 3. 3.2 Resistance to Complement Mechanisms implicated in complement deposition on the EC surface include activation of the classical ... (EC) forms the lumen of the capillary which contains several erythrocytes On the abluminal surface of the capillary, a pericyte can be seen The pericyte has several characteristic features including ... allow the maintenance of vascular endothelial homeostasis and integrity [5] 3. 2 Accelerated Atherosclerosis Heart attack and stroke as a consequence of atherosclerosis remain the leading cause of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Altered expression of CD1d molecules and lipid accumulation in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 after iron loading pptx
... using the following primers: 5¢-GGGCACTC AGCCAGGGGACATCCTGCCCAA -3 as forward and 5¢-GATACAAGTTTGCACACCTTTGCACTTCTG -3 as reverse [58] The PCR amplification was performed in a total volume of 50 ... 4A) Culture of HepG2 cells in iron-rich media induced a significant increase in the percentage of HepG2 cells expressing Nor -3. 2-reactive CD1d, while the expression of ICAM-1, gp180 and MHC molecules ... expression of immune regulatory molecules known to function as ligands of selected subsets of T cells, such as MHC class I and II, CD1d, ICAM-1 and the novel CD8 ligand gp180 We also characterized...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Tyrosine nitration in the human leucocyte antigen-Gbinding domain of the Ig-like transcript 2 protein ppt
... bacterial and viral infection, and chronic inflammation [17] To date, there is a scarcity of data available concerning how inflammatory stress affects the interaction between HLA-G and its receptors ... molecules are inactivated [15] Experimental procedures Cell culture The NK cell line, NKL, the monocytic cell line, U- 937 , and the MHC class I-deficient human erythroleukaemia transfected cells, ... rhILT2-Fc These results are in agreement with the MS analyses because Tyr76 participates directly in the interaction with HLA-G [3, 19] and Tyr35 is located in the very vicinity of Tyr38 These modifications...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Enzymes of mannitol metabolism in the human pathogenic fungusAspergillus fumigatus– kinetic properties of mannitol-1-phosphate 5-dehydrogenase and mannitol 2-dehydrogenase, and their physiological implications pot
... that the reduction kcat exceeds the oxidation kcat by a factor of 12 (Table 2) These kcat conditions imply that chemical reaction of AfM1PDH in the reduction direction proceeds much faster than the ... in either direction of each of the two enzymatic reactions Comparison of KIEs on kcat and kcat Km distinguishes datasets in which Dkcat is smaller than Dkcat Km from others in which Dkcat roughly ... requirement of the strictly ordered kinetic mechanism, because, at saturating concentrations of the substrate which is added second, the commitment to catalysis becomes innite, and so the KIE is completely...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A L225A substitution in the human tumour suppressor HIC1 abolishes its interaction with the corepressor CtBP docx
... restriction site (underlined) (5¢-CGG CGGGCTCTTCTTGGATGCATCCAGGCC -3 and 5¢-GG and CCTGGATGCATCCAAGAAGAGCCCGCCG -3 ) convenient flanking oligonucleotides The StuI–XhoI fragment containing the L225A ... clones as matrices and the following oligonucleotides: sense 5¢-GGAATT HIC1 interacts with CtBP CGGGATCCCAAAGTACTGCCACCTGCGG -3 with a BamH1 site, and antisense 5¢-AGTGGTACCGTCGACTC ATCCCGGGCTGCCGCT -3 , ... into mCtBP2 by overlap PCR mutagenesis (mCtBP2.A58E.F, GACCTGGCCACTGTGGAATTCTGTGATGCACAG; mCtBP2.A58E.R, CTGTGCATCACAGAATTCCACAGT GGCCAGGTC; mCtBP2.V72R.F, GAAATCCATGAGA AGCGGTTGAATGAAGCTGTG; and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Human-blind probes and primers for dengue virus identification Exhaustive analysis of subsequences present in the human and 83 dengue genome sequences doc
... microbial identification In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (Valafar F & Valafar H, eds), pp 36 3 36 7 CSREA ... positives; and l it can be used for genomic sequences of all sizes of practical interest, including the human genome (3 Gb) The basic idea is to set in correspondence to each of the 4n n-mers a particular ... al its simplicity; the distance is if both genomes produce the same pattern and if they not share any of the same probes By computing the distances between each pair of 83 patterns (the distance...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Etoposide upregulates Bax-enhancing tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand-mediated apoptosis in the human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line QGY-7703 pdf
... forward, 5¢-GCGAATTCCATGG ACGGGTCCGGGGAG -3 ; Bax reverse, 5¢-CGCTC GAGTCAGCCCATCTTCTTCCAG -3 ; Bid forward, 5¢-CGGGATCCCCATGGCGATGGACTGTGAGGT -3 ; Bid reverse, 5¢-CGGAATTCTCAGTCCATCCCATTTC TGG -3 The primers ... forward, 5¢-CGGAATTCTGCA AGTCTTTACTGTGGAA -3 ; DR5 reverse, 5¢-CGGA TCCTTAGGACATGGCAGAG -3 ; DcR2 forward, 5¢-CGGAATTCCGCGGAAGAAATTCATTTCT -3 ; DcR2 reverse, 5¢-CGGGATCCTCACAGGCAGGACG TAGCAG -3 ; Bax ... over basal actin mRNA levels The sequences of the primers used in this study are as follows: DR4 forward, 5¢-CGGAATTCGGAGGGGACCCCAAGTGCAT -3 ; DR4 reverse, 5¢-CGGGATCCTCACTCCAAGGACA CGGCA -3 ; DR5...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:22
Báo cáo sinh học: " PET kinetics of radiolabeled antidepressant, [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine, in the human brain" ppt
... of the slope of the linear part of the Logan plot, curvature of the plot throughout the duration of scanning impairs the estimation of the binding potential (see Figure 3) Since the binding of ... function was fitted to these measurements and was used to estimate the continuous time-course of the radiochemical fractions of [N-methyl-1 1C] mirtazapine needed to calculate the metabolitecorrected ... drug discovery and therapeutic application Pharmacol Ther 2006, 110: 135 -37 0 28 Millan MJ Dual- and triple-acting agents for treating core and co-morbid symptoms of major depression: novel concepts,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Robust Object Categorization and Segmentation Motivated by Visual Contexts in the Human Visual System" docx
... European 21 [30 ] [31 ] [32 ] [33 ] [34 ] [35 ] [36 ] [37 ] [38 ] [39 ] [40] [41] [42] [ 43] [44] [45] [46] Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV ’06), vol 39 52 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 575–588, ... we can find similar UCB Then, if we use the link information in the UCB, we can select the category-speci c codebook The links between CCB and local patches can give probable ROI, because each ... objectbackground context to reduce the effect of background clutter Part-part context can remove or reduce the effect of outliers, and part-whole context can predict the category label and region of interest...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo y học: " NeMeSys: a biological resource for narrowing the gap between sequence and function in the human pathogen Neisseria meningitid" pot
... Z2491 MC58 FAM18 0 534 42 N lactamica* FA 1090 NCCP11945 α14 Manually edited CDSs 466 421 31 5 574 549 6 43 691 31 4 CDSs deleted from previous annotation 1 03 164 39 138 1 73 538 83 38 93 91 100 36 2 150 ... genitalium); the fact that many of these species not cause disease in humans (C glutamicum, F novicida); the use of strains for which no accurate genome annotation is available; and the frequent lack of ... NeMeSys can be used to narrow the gap between sequence and function in the meningococcus Results and discussion First component of NeMeSys: the genome sequence of strain 80 13 Providing a precise...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20