UNLABELLED Location of the sentinel lymph node in malignant melanoma and early breast cancer patients requires separate injections of radiocolloid and blue dye. These agents are administered at alternative times because of their different rates of transit. This study has elucidated why particular dyes are absorbed by the lymphatic system from an investigation of dye molecular structure as a fun...

The behavioral effects of 3beta-(4-chlorophenyl)tropane-2beta-carboxylic acid phenyl ester hydrochloride (RTI-113; 0.03-1.0 mg/kg), a selective dopamine uptake inhibitor, were compared with those of cocaine (0.03-3.0 mg/kg) and 1-(2-[bis(4-fluorophenyl)methoxy]ethyl)-4-(3-phenylpropyl)piperazine dihydrochloride (GBR 12909; 0.03-3.0 mg/kg) in squirrel monkeys. Intermediate doses of each drug pro...

Human activities have more than doubled inputs of nitrogen (N) to terrestrial ecosystems worldwide (1). Until recently, most of this increase was focused in the developed regions of the world. With fertilizer consumption (2), fossil-fuel emissions (3), and biomass burning (4) rapidly increasing in less developed regions, sources and distribution of anthropogenic N now occur globally (5), as doe...

BACKGROUND Decolorization of hazardous synthetic dyes using laccases in both free and immobilized form has gained attention during the last decades. The present study was designed to prepare immobilized laccase (purified from Paraconiothyrium variabile) on porous silica beads followed by evaluation of both free and immobilized laccases for decolorization of two synthetic dyes of Acid Blue 25 an...

In the gametophyte of the fern Anem ia phyllitidis synthesis of linolenic acid esterified in monogalactosyldiglyceride requires light. By induction-reversion experiments it could be demon­ strated that this light-dependent step is mediated by phytochrome. There is also evidence for phytochrome control of galactolipid and hexadecatrienoic acid synthesis. In continuous blue light the synthesis of...

V = U ⊕ U ′, for some other subspace U ′ ⊂ V , by Theorem 3.21. Consider T restricted to U ′. This is a map T : U ′ →W , which is injective, since U ′∩ker(T ) = {0}. And note that injective maps, in general, preserve linear independence: if we have a linearly independent set {~x1, . . . , ~xn} ∈ X in a vector space X, a linear map of vector spaces A : X → Y , and a linear combination 0 = λ1A~x1...

Proof. Suppose that U1, . . . , Um are invariant subspaces of T ∈ L(V ). We wish to show that U1 + · · ·+ Um is also an invariant subspace. Consider any ~v ∈ U1 + · · ·+ Um. By definition, we can write ~v = ~u1 + · · ·+ ~um, for some ~u1 ∈ U1, . . . , ~um ∈ Um. Since U1, . . . , Um are invariant subspaces, by definition, we know T~u1 ∈ U1 ⊂ U1 + · · ·+ Um, ..., T~um ∈ Um ⊂ U1 + · · ·+ Um. Hence...