Vitamin B-12 (also called cobalamin) is essential for human health and current intake levels of vitamin B-12 are considered to be too low. Natural enrichment of the vitamin B-12 content in milk, an important dietary source of vitamin B-12, may help to increase vitamin B-12 intake. Natural enrichment of the milk vitamin B-12 content could be achieved through genetic selection, provided there is ...

In this paper, we present a framework for representing and evaluating integrations between ontological and linguistic resources, which originates and improves previous research reported in (Pazienza & Stellato, 2006b; Pazienza, Sguera, & Stellato, 2007) and articulates into two results: first, a set of coordinated RDF vocabularies providing descriptors for representing linguistic resources and ...

Several types of liposomes were used to enrich Artemia nauplii in vitamin A, vitamin C and free methionine. In a first experiment, unilamellar liposomes formulated with krill phospholipid extract and retinyl palmitate demonstrated their capability to enhance the retinol content of Artemia nauplii. Furthermore, the increase in retinol was related to the amount of retinyl palmitate included in th...

To explore the nature of eukaryotic transcription factor (TF) binding sites and determine how they differ from surrounding DNA sequences, we examined four features associated with DNA-binding sites: G+C content, pattern complexity, palindromic structure, and Markov sequence ordering. Our analysis of the regulatory motifs obtained from the TRANSFAC database, using yeast intergenic sequences as b...

The effect of cholesterol enrichment and depletion of rabbit erythrocytes on the activities of membrane-bound enzymes, namely (Na+,K+)-stimulated ATPase, NAD+ase and acetylcholinesterase was examined. The cholesterol content of erythrocyte membranes has been modified by incubation of intact cells with sonicated egg lecithin/cholesterol vesicles (cholesterol/phospholipid molar ratio approx. 2) a...

Inspection of the CM diagrams of globular clusters having similar heavy element content shows that the luminosity of the red giant bump relative to the turnoff (∆V bump TO ) differs by more than 0.1 mag between clusters with different horizontal branch morphology. Unfortunately, careful consideration of the data leaves us with only one pair (M3 and M13) of clusters good for a quantitative discu...

Inspection of the CM diagrams of globular clusters having similar heavy element content shows that the luminosity of the red giant bump relative to the turnoff (∆V TO ) differs by more than 0.1 mag between clusters with different horizontal branch morphology. Unfortunately, careful consideration of the data leaves us with only one pair (M 3 and M 13) of clusters suitable for a quantitative disc...

A new technology was developed to assist gene-enrichment sequencing of any complex plant genome, employing maize as the test organism. Hypomethylated partial restriction (HMPR) libraries were constructed by using independent partial digestions with methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes HpaII (5'-CCGG-3') and HpyCH4IV (5'-ACGT-3'). Fragments of 1-4 kb were purified and cloned, followed by se...

Nutrient enrichment of detritus-based streams increases detrital resource quality for consumers and stimulates breakdown rates of particulate organic carbon (C). The relative importance of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N) vs. phosphorus (P) for detrital quality and their effects on microbial- vs. detritivore-mediated detrital breakdown are poorly understood. We tested effects of experimental N ...

Data scientists often spend more than 80% of their time on data preparation. Data enrichment, the act of extending a local database with new attributes from external data sources, is among the most time-consuming tasks. Existing data enrichment works are resource intensive: data-intensive by relying on web tables or knowledge bases, monetarily-intensive by purchasing entire datasets, or timeint...