Sgk1 is a relatively unstable kinase that regulates epithelial Na(+) transport in the distal nephron of the kidney. We identified a 5' variant alternate transcript of human Sgk1 (Sgk1_v3) that is expressed in the connecting tubule and collecting duct, is regulated by aldosterone and insulin, and is predicted to encode an NH(2)-terminal variant Sgk1 isoform, Sgk1_i3. Sgk1_i3 contains a polybasic...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Simulation of Nanostructure and Thermal Conductivity in Binary Alloys YUSUKE KONISHI, NRI-AIST, TETSUYA FUKUSHIMA, KAZUNORI SATO, HIROSHI KATAYAMA-YOSHIDA, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, YOSHIHIRO ASAI, NRI-AIST — Thermoelectric materials attract much attention because of concerns about energy conservati...

In the last few years a number of self-consistent band calculations appeared in the literature. Many of them were dealing with pure elements' and several others with compounds. In the area of transition-metal compounds the calculations which have been reported until recently were for materials in which the one component is a transition metal and the other C, N, and O. We now present a selfconsi...

We present a rare case of adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung in a patient with complete situs inversus. The patient was a 76-year-old woman with the chief complaint of hemosputum. Chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scans of the thorax showed a mirror image of the organs and vessels and revealed a tumor 3.5 cm in diameter, in the left lower lung field. She was referred and admitted to KKR...

We report on a study of electromagnetic waves propagation in thin periodically ordered photonic nanostructures in the spectral range where the light wavelength is on the order of the lattice parameter. The vector KKR method we use allows us to determine the group index from finite photonic structures including extinction providing confirmation of recently emerged results. We show that for certa...

The TB-LMTO-ASA method is reviewed and generalized to an accurate and robust TB-NMTO minimal-basis method, which solves Schrödinger’s equation to Nth order in the energy expansion for an overlapping MT-potential, and which may include any degree of downfolding. For N = 1, the simple TBLMTO-ASA formalism is preserved. For a discrete energy mesh, the NMTO basis set may be given as: χ (r) = ∑ n φ ...

The one-step model of valence-band photoemission and inverse photoemission from single-crystal surfaces is reformulated for generalized (non-local, complex and energy-dependent) potentials. Thereby, it becomes possible to account for self-energy corrections taken from many-body electronic-structure calculations. The original formulation due to Pendry and co-workers employs the KKR multiple-scat...

1. Pham Ngoc Thach Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, 8 Vietnam** 9 2. National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Disease Control 10 (CIb/LIS), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, 11 The Netherlands 12 3. Tuberculosis and M/XDR-TB Programme, Division of Communicable Diseases, Health 13 Security & Environment, ...