... Macrophage and retinal pigment epithelium phagocytosis: apoptotic cells and photoreceptors compete for alpha v beta and alpha v beta integrins, and protein kinase C regulates alpha v beta binding and ... integrin KO and b3/b5 integrin DKO mice, and the behavior of these microglia evaluated in a battery of assays including cell adhesion, expression of activation markers and MMP-9, and phagocytosis ... (M1/70), and the isotype control antibody, rat anti-KLH (A110-2), and the hamster monoclonal antibodies reactive for the b1(Ha2/5; functionblocking antibody) and b3 (2C9.G2) integrin subunits and...
... contributions JS, DK and FLC conceived the study JS and FLC coordinated the research efforts and edited the manuscript BB, PJ, and MM contributed to parts of the experimental work MM, HDK, DK and VV provided ... [17,21,22] and, hence, is a convenient way to study cell entry and neutralisation of highly pathogenic viruses in category laboratories [23-25] We produced Flu-VLPs harbouring at their surface HA, HA and ... properties of the viral surface of two highly pathogenic influenza viruses of H7N1 and H5N1 subtypes We used the surface proteins HA, NA and M2 of two highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses:...
... and then construct the remaining intervals based on a constant width of 2ksj within every feature space Here, μj and sj denote mean and standard deviation (SD) of the user pdf, respectively and ... varied the number of users (60 and 200 users for FERET dataset; and 75 and 150 users for FRGC dataset) and the number of extracted dimensions (D = 50 for FDA; and D = 100 for ERE) to observe ... dimensionality-reduction techniques: ERE [28] and FDA [27], and two different datasets: FRGC and FERET In the first two parts of the experiments, 4453 raw dimensions of FRGC images and 1080 raw dimensions of FERET...
... operation is not problematical in standard Euclidian geometry since the space is flat, homogeneous, and isotropic In our case, the space is not flat but curvedand one cannot compare two points at ... would be precise enough for indexing and retrieval and that would facilitate and speed up the calculations REFERENCES [1] N Iyer, S Jayanti, K Lou, Y Kalyanaraman, and K Ramani, “Three-dimensional ... Modeling and Applications (SMI ’04), pp 145–156, Genova, Italy, June 2004 A Theetten, J.-P Vandeborre, and M Daoudi, “Determining characteristic views of a 3D object by visual hulls and Hausdorff...
... 2009) and who they are not (Berger and Heath 2007) Research on brand identity reveals how meaning can be transferred from a reference group who uses a brand to the brand (Muniz and O’Guinn 2001) and ... selfaffirmation and self-disaffirmation conditions The affirmation and disaffirmation manipulations we use follow those employed by Steele and Liu (1983) and Liu and Steele (1986) and those used ... holder and whether “polarized to prevent glare” for the sunglasses) and the brand as presented with the brand name in its logo format For the toothbrush holder the brands were Oral-B and Generic,...
... stimulation by both TNFa, and IL-1b These data therefore establish that the induction of ICAM-1 by both TNFa and IL-1b is highly NF-jBdependent in A549 cells Effect of SB203580, PD098059 and U0126 on NF-jB ... inhibitors, PD098059 and U0126, were validated by analysis of phosphorylation of ERKs and 2, which lie downstream of MEK1 [24] Both TNFa and IL-1b upregulated phosphorylation of p42/44 ERKs and preincubation ... only implicates the a and b isofroms of p38, as SB203580 has little or no effect on p38 c and d and it is possible that this could explain discrepancies between over-expression and inhibitor based...
... abrin-a, abrin-c and ricin are composed of ve invariant residues (Tyr74, Tyr113, Glu164, Arg167 and Trp198 in abrin-a and abrin-c, and Tyr115, Tyr158, Glu212, Arg215 and Trp246 in ricin) and another ... contain a highly toxic protein named pulchellin Pulchellin is a type RIP that exhibits specicity for galactose and galactose-containing structures, agglutinates human and rabbit erythrocytes, and kills ... association of rPAC and rPBC Fig N-glycosidase activities of rPAC and native pulchellin Yeast ribosomes (20 lg) were incubated with different amounts (10, 5, and 0.1 ng) of rPAC and native pulchellin...
... handle unknown words and the possibility of having missing lexical entries for covering the test set Precision and recall of grammar and lexicon In addition to accuracy, we measure precision and ... (Gobs ) and lexicon of observed lexical assignments (Lobs ) For CCGbank, Gobs and Lobs have 12,363 and 18,869 entries, respectively—far less than the millions of entries in the full grammar and lexicon ... the grammar and lexical entry types for the lexicon, rather than tokens For EM+IP and EMGI +IPGI , the minimization and EM training processes are iterated until the resulting grammar and lexicon...
... achieved through interaction between the b8-strand of one monomer and the b6- and b7-strands of the other monomer (B) Surface representation of the enzyme and view of the active site from outside The ... pH and temperature optima and were not inhibited by acetate or EDTA BC1534 and BC3461 were activated by CoCl2 and MgCl2, respectively Both enzymes were effective in de-N-acetylating GlcNAc and ... enzymes and DNA-modifying enzymes were purchased from MINOTECH Biotechnology (Heraklion, Greece) and New England Biolabs GmbH The instruments Fluostar Galaxy and Mastercycler Gradient (for PCR and...
... energy band gap, a high breakdown electric ®eld, and a high saturation electron drift velocity Furthermore, it is durable at high temperature and possesses high thermal conductivity and chemical ... order to advance its applications in photophysics and device physics SiNW were synthesized by thermal evaporation from a mixture of silicon and silicon dioxide powder [14,15] The SiNWs deposited ... was replaced by a thin layer of stable, wide band gap semiconductor This new shell would allow the high transmission of both the excitation light and the PL emission with much less loss It is...
... quantication and isolation of metabolites starting with both natural and 14C-radiolabeled substrates using HPLC; (b) structural identication of metabolites by HPLC MS and MS-MS, and NMR spectroscopy; ... 2.0 to 1.6 and 0.18 for pH values of 6.8, 7.4 and 8.2, respectively Preliminary attempts to determine the structure of M1 and M2 using routine protocols revealed that: (a) isolated M1 and M2 both ... Da and identical MS fragmentation schemes; (b) HPLC analysis of the separated and puried metabolites M1 and M2 led to a single peak corresponding to M2 that ts with the HPLC retention time and...
... the exciting beam and the cuvette wall (1.00, 0.1 and 0.15 cm, respectively, in our measurements), and Aex and Aem are the absorbance of the sample solution at the excitation and the emission ... are between six and eight amino acids long and contain mostly hydrophobic P2 and P2¢ residues [11–13,15] Although both the relatively small number of peptide sequence variants and their amino ... exploration of the proteolytic system of PrtA, and an understanding of its role in the infection process of Photorhabdus, we needed a highly sensitive and specific substrate to selectively measure...
... 10, 4.8, and lm) and ve varying concentrations of NADPH (30, 12.5 5, 2, and lm) containing 28 lm phosphite The initial rates of each assay were analyzed with a modied version of Clelands fortran ... carrier gas and the peak area was used to calculate conversion based on a standard curve previously prepared from authentic xylitol Each reaction was performed and analyzed at least twice and the ... efciency with both NAD(H) and NADP(H) [25,26,28,31] Thus PTDH-E175A A176R, with its relaxed cofactor specicity, is interesting from the standpoint of protein engineering and very promising with...
... roughwalled fractures with the Corey-curve and viscous-coupling models 65 3.32 Plot of average experimental relative permeability in the smooth-walled and rough-walled fracturesand their approximate ... saturation and (b) normalized water saturation for smooth and rough fractures .89 4.15 Reciprocal of average gas channel tortuosity versus gas saturation for smooth and rough fractures ... overview and review of the theoretical and experimental approaches for conventional and unconventional two-phase flow in fractures In Chapter 3, we describe the detailed design of the apparatus and...
... groups and paradigms Concatenation of stem allomorphs and suffix allomorphs is licensed with the help of the following two factors: continuation classes s defined by paradigm descriptions, and classes ... Subcat=Adj Deriv=Adv Allom=i Base i -> .y cate~or~ [ADJ] [ADH [ADV] Lex=NonBase way of handling compounding and adequate handling of derivational affixes Morpheme sequence recognition is achieved through ... a cross-classification of the paradigms according to phonological and graphemic properties of the surface forms Both verbal and nominal stem allomorphs can be characterized by sets of suffix...
... groups and paradigms Concatenation of stem allomorphs and suffix allomorphs is licensed with the help of the following two factors: continuation classes s defined by paradigm descriptions, and classes ... Subcat=Adj Deriv=Adv Allom=i Base i -> .y cate~or~ [ADJ] [ADH [ADV] Lex=NonBase way of handling compounding and adequate handling of derivational affixes Morpheme sequence recognition is achieved through ... a cross-classification of the paradigms according to phonological and graphemic properties of the surface forms Both verbal and nominal stem allomorphs can be characterized by sets of suffix...
... adjacent Lys9 and Lys39 Similarly, Asp23 stabilizes the juxtaposed Lys15 and Lys17 side chains The hydrophobic strand b4 is located between Cys43 and Asp46 and, as a central strand of sheet 2, ... Asn12 and Lys17 (region 2) and between Lys34 and Asp39 (PAF) and Lys31 and Asp36 (AFP) (region 3) Two conserved GlyLys motifs are repeated in the structure, the glycines (i.e Gly5 from b1 and Gly20 ... relaxation [T1, T2 and 15N(1H) NOE] [22,57,58], the longitudinal and transverse 15N and 1H CSA ⁄ DD cross-correlated relaxation rates gzz(15N), gxy(15N) and gxy(1H) [59], and NH deuteration rates...
... Vision and Image Understanding, vol 73, pp 8298, (1999) T Moeslund, A Hilton, and V Kruger “A surve of advances in vision-based human motion capture and anal sis”, Journal Computer Vision and Image ... training and testing algorithms are in Algorithms and respectively, where the training algorithm represents one path from the multi-camera system Training Algorithm Input: , , Output: matrices and ... 1126 (each of size 70x134) positive class and 453 negative class images A random sample of six detection windows per image was taken for both training and testing negative datasets step ; // using...