P. Allegrini, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, L. Palatella, G. Raffaelli 1 Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area della Ricerca di Pisa-S. Cataldo, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Ghezzano-Pisa, Italy Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311427, Denton, Texas, 76203-1427 Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pisa and INFM Piazza Tor...

1Hematology Department, Ospedale Santa Croce, Cuneo; 2Hematology Department, Università di Udine, Udine; 3Hematology Department, Ospedale Cervello, Palermo, Sicily; 4Hematology Department, Ospedale Regionale Generale, Bolzano; 5Hematology Department, Ospedale Santa Giuseppe Moscati, Taranto; 6Hematology Department, Ospedale Spedali Civili, Brescia; 7Hematology Department, Ospedale Santa Antonio...

The reactions of β-lactam carbenes with both 3,6-di(2-pyridyl)tetrazine and 3,6-di(4-pyridyl)tetrazine were studied. It was found that β-lactam carbenes reacted with 3,6-di(2-pyridyl)tetrazine to produce 5-triazolo[1,5-a]pyridylpyrrol-2-ones in good yields, while with 3,6-di(4-pyridyl)tetrazine, they afforded pyrido[c]cyclopenta[b]pyrrol-2-ones in moderate yields. Both reactions were proposed t...

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, University Road – Leicester LE1 7RH, UK 2 Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA 3 Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche del CNR, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy, 4 Centro per la Simulazione Numerica Avanzata, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, 27100 Pavia, Italy 5 Dipar...

1 Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia (DISAT), Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy, 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (INAF), Padua, Italy, 3 Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano (INAF), Milan, Italy, 4 Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 5 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain, 6 Max-...

We previously reported that the heparan sulfate 3-O-sulfotransferase (3OST)-5 produces a novel component of heparan sulfate, i.e. the tetrasulfated disaccharide (Di-tetraS) unit ( Mochizuki, H., Yoshida, K., Gotoh, M., Sugioka, S., Kikuchi, N., Kwon, Y.-D., Tawada, A., Maeyama, K., Inaba, N., Hiruma, T., Kimata, K., and Narimatsu, H. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 26780-26787 ). In the present stud...

Cyclic-di-AMP is a relative newcomer to the large family of nucleotide-based signaling molecules, which notably includes cyclic-AMP, cyclic-di-GMP, and ppGpp(p) (1). Cyclic-diAMP was first implicated as a possible signaling molecule when it was unexpectedly found bound to the active site of the Bacillus subtilis DisA protein, the prototype for a diverse family of diadenyl cyclases (DAC) (2). Sh...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the role of the dimensionless index (DI) in a registry of patients with aortic stenosis (AS) to objectively establish prognostic DI thresholds for various degrees of AS severity. BACKGROUND DI is a classic marker of severity in AS that does not rely on the estimation of the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) cross-sectional area. Although DI e...

A national epidemiological survey of children aged 5-14 years was conducted in all 5 governorates of Kuwait in 2001 to determine the oral hygiene status of Kuwait in schoolchildren. Clinical examinations were carried out by calibrated dentists according to World Health Organization criteria. The debris index simplified (DI-S) score was used to assess oral hygiene status. Of the 3294 children, 3...