Seagrasses and suspension feeders are both critical ecosystem engineers in estuaries. Seagrass beds are important structural habitats, and suspension feeders, when abundant, can regulate phytoplankton densities. Furthermore, there may be mutual facilitation of growth and recruitment between seagrasses and suspension-feeding bivalves. In a series of mesocosm experiments, the effects of environme...

Film formation of particle/binder/solvent system is of importance in various applications to produce battery, display, electronic components and so on. Because dispersion stability is a crucial issue for defect-free final products, many attempts have been carried out to analyze and control the microstructure of the suspension. In this study, The effect of polymers on dispersion stability and fi...

Forkhead box O (Foxo) transcription factors induce muscle atrophy by upregulating the muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligases MuRF-1 and atrogin-1/MAFbx, but other than Akt, the upstream regulators of Foxos during muscle atrophy are largely unknown. To examine the involvement of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) in regulation of Foxo activities and muscle atrophy, we analyzed the expressio...

Jacques Genest MD1, Ruth McPherson MD PhD2, Jiri Frohlich MD3, Todd Anderson MD4, Norm Campbell MD4, André Carpentier MD5, Patrick Couture MD6, Robert Dufour MD7, George Fodor MD2, Gordon A Francis MD3, Steven Grover MD1, Milan Gupta MD8, Robert A Hegele MD9, David C Lau MD10, Lawrence Leiter MD11, Gary F Lewis MD12, Eva Lonn MD13, GB John Mancini MD14, Dominic Ng MD PhD11, Glen J Pearson Pharm...

The cell configuration-related control of a cytoskeletal protein (vimentin) expression was examined by varying cell shape between flat and spherical. Cultivation of cells in monolayer or in a spherical configuration on poly-2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate-coated plates revealed a preferential down regulation of vimentin synthesis during suspension culture. The mechanism(s) regulating the decrease in...

In this paper, we propose a wheel-based cable climbing robotic system which can climb up and down the vertical cylindrical cables in the suspension bridges. Firstly, we develop climbing mechanism which includes wheels driven by motors and adhesion system.In addition,we propose a special design of adhesion mechanism which can maintain adhesion force even when the power is lost.Finally, an additi...

A new rehabilitation robot was designed. The robot included a suspension mechanism, a drive unit, and an adjustment mechanism. Additionally, innovative weight loss mechanism increased the dynamical device so that it could be used with patients of varying lower extremity muscle strengths. The relationship of hip and knee angles with height, step length, and gait cycle was studied. It was develop...

Introduction: Celastrus paniculatus seed oil, commonly known as Malkangni or Jyotishmati, was in use from time immemorial to treat brain related disorders. Celastrus paniculatus seed oil has significant antidepressant-like activity in chronic unpredictable stressed mice. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the antidepressant-like effect of Celastrus paniculatus seed oil ...

A 10 year old experiment related to freeze/2 and its implementation in B-Prolog and SICStus Prolog is redone. B-Prolog uses the TOAM abstract machine and its implementation of delayed goals is by means of suspension frames on the execution stack. The traditional WAM approach partly established by SICStus Prolog implementors is to put suspension terms on the heap. Earlier experiments comparing t...

Peter S. McPherson,* Young-Kee Kim,† Hector Valdivia,† C. Michael Knudson,‡ Hiroaki Takekura,§ Clara Franzini-Armstrong,§ Roberto Coronado,† and Kevin P. Campbell*‡|| *Program in Neuroscience ‡Department of Physiology and Biophysics || Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa City, Iowa 52242 †Department of Physiology University of Wisconsin Medical School Mad...