Is music-making rich and open? Rich, yes, as evident from the many varieties of emotional and social content that a listener can draw out of music, meaningful from many (although not all) perspectives (Cross and Tolbert 2008). Even unusually constrained music styles such as minimalism often convey rich signification, their sonic simplicity having a social meaning within wider musical culture. M...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...

objective: the lrr (leucine rich proteoglycans) is a molecular recognition motif found in proteins with some roles in cell adhesion, signal transduction, dna repair and rna processing. opticin is a member of this family. takanosu et al (2001) detected messenger rna expression of mouse opticin in the eye, heart, brain, testis, thyroid and epididymis by dot blot hybridization. in this study, exp...

background: plantar fasciitis (pf) is a common foot complaint, affects both active sportsmen and physically inactive middle age group. it is believed that pf results from degenerative changes rather than inflammation. platelet?rich plasma (prp) therapy has been introduced as an alternative therapy for pf. this study is aimed to systematically review to the effectiveness and relevant factors of ...

background: recently, we have shown that peroxisomal protein expression was induced upon retinoic acid treatment in mouse embryonic stem cells during the process of neurogenesis. thus, characterization of the respective promoter could elucidate the molecular aspects of transcriptional regulation of this gene. methods: using the conventional software programs for promoter prediction, a putative ...

Energy-storage metabolites such as neutral lipids and carbohydrates are valuable compounds for liquid biofuel production. The aim of this work is to elucidate the main biological responses two algae species known their effective energy-rich compound accumulation in nitrogen limitation day–night cycles: Nannochloropsis gaditana, a seawater species, Parachlorella kessleri, freshwater species. Lip...

Studies on the effect of retinoic acid (RA) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin (D3) on the differentiation of leukemic cells have provided insight into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying hematopoietic cell differentiation. We have evaluated the combined effect of these chemical inducers on the differentiation of HL-60 and AML-193 promyelocytic leukemia cell lines. Simultaneous RA+D3 additi...