Bilateral auditory cortex lesions in Japanese macaques result in an aphasia-like de®cit in which the animals are unable to discriminate two forms of their coo vocalizations. To determine whether this de®cit is sensory in nature, two monkeys with bilateral lesions were tested for their ability to discriminate frequency and frequency change. The results indicated that although the animals were ab...

The adjacent pixel nonlinearity refers to the dependence of the luminance of a given pixel on the preceding pixel or pixels. We measured this nonlinearity for two CRT displays by measuring the average luminances of a variety of test patterns with different luminance jumps. A two-stage model proposed by Mulligan and Stone was used to fit the data [Mulligan, J.B. & Stone, L. S., (1989). Journal o...

1. Exner M, Minar E, Wagner O, Schillinger M. The role of heme oxygenase-1 promoter polymorphisms in human disease. Free Radic Biol Med 2004;37:1097-1104. 2. Li L, Julien B, Grenard P, Teixeira-Clerc F, Mallat A, Lotersztajn S. Molecular mechanisms regulating the antifibrogenic protein hemeoxygenase-1 in human hepatic myofibroblasts. J Hepatol 2004;41:407413. 3. Li L, Grenard P, Nhieu JT, Julie...

In this study, AISI 1020 steel surface was coated in different heat inputs with (wt.-%) 50FeCrC-20FeW-30FeB powder mixture by using plasma transferred arc (PTA) welding method. The microstructure of the coated samples were investigated by using optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDS). The hardness was measured with m...

This study was performed to investigate the distribution characteristics of airborne bacteria emitted from swine manure composting plants. The types plants selected for survey in this were as follows: screw type, rotary and natural dry type. Mean levels 7428 (±1024) CFU m−3 3246 (±1407) 5232 (±1217) respectively. Based on results obtained study, plant operated by type showed highest concentrati...

References 1.Quantitative yeast lipidomics via LC-MS profiling using the Q Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer, Peake et al., LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting 2012, May 7-8, 2012, La Jolla, CA. 2.LIPID MAPS comprehensive classification system for lipids. E Fahy et al., J. Lipid Res. 2009, 50, S9-S14. 3.Precise and global identification of phospholipid molecular species by an Orbitrap mass spectrometer...

s: 1. Autophagy inhibition alters glucose metabolism and promotes epithelial differentiation during Ras-mediated oncogenic transformation. Rebecca Lock, Candia Kenific, Srirupa Roy, Eduardo Salas, and Jayanta Debnath. Keystone Symposia: Cell Death Pathways Apoptosis, Autophagy and Necrosis / Metabolism and Cancer Progression. March 1217, 2010. • Short talk presenter • Poster presenter 2. Autoph...

OBJECTIVE This study aim was to determine the prevalence of microorganisms in the respiratory tract of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) admitted to the CF Reference Centre in Southern Italy between 2002-2010. METHODS Microbiology assessment of samples (sputum and tracheal aspirates) collected from patients with pulmonary exacerbation admitted to hospital was carried out. All patients were r...

A survey of the smoking habits of 1217 outpatients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was carried out over an 18 month period. Six hundred and twenty four were current smokers, 248 ex-smokers and 345 non-smokers. 11.9% of smokers had gastric ulcers, 7.7% of ex-smokers (p less than 0.025) and 4.6% of non-smokers (p less than 0.001). 2.8% of smokers had duodenal ulcers, 6.8% of ex-smoker...