ADAM 23 (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain)/MDC3 (metalloprotease, disintegrin, and cysteine-rich domain) is a member of the disintegrin family of proteins expressed in fetal and adult brain. In this work we show that the disintegrin-like domain of ADAM 23 produced in Escherichia coli and immobilized on culture dishes promotes attachment of different human cells of neural origin, such ...

Transfusion of blood components is potentially associated to the risk of cell-mediated adverse events and current guidelines require a reduction of residual white blood cells (rWBC) below 1 × 10(6) WBC/unit. The reference method to enumerate rare events is the flow cytometry (FCM). The ADAM-rWBC microscopic cell counter has been proposed as an alternative: it measures leukocytes after their sta...

Advances in both sensor technologies and network infrastructures have encouraged the development of smart environments to enhance people's life and living styles. However, collecting and storing user's data in the smart environments pose severe privacy concerns because these data may contain sensitive information about the subject. Hence, privacy protection is now an emerging issue that we need...

ADAM H. SOBEL1*, ERIC D. MALONEY2, GILLES BELLON3 AND DARGAN M. FRIERSON4 Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, Rm. 217, New York 10027, USA Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathem...

It is generally maintained that the systematic study of economics started from 1176 with the publication of the famous work, “An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith who has been universally hailed as the founding father of Economics. But the fact remains that “Adam Smith is a mystery in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. The mystery is the enormous and unprece...

We study convergent (terminating and confluent) presentations of n-categories. Using the notion of polygraph (or computad), we introduce the homotopical property of finite derivation type for n-categories, generalising the one introduced by Squier for word rewriting systems. We characterise this property by using the notion of critical branching. In particular, we define sufficient conditions f...

BACKGROUND A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease 12 (ADAM 12) is a glycoprotein synthesised by placenta and it has been shown to be a potential first-trimester maternal serum marker for Down syndrome (DS) in two small series. Here we analyse further, the potential of ADAM 12 as a marker for DS in a large collection of first-trimester serum samples. MATERIALS AND METHODS The concentration of ADAM ...