Tubulin represents a major protein in rat pancreatic islets, which averages 0.5% of the total protein content and 6% of the noninsulin protein synthesized under basal metabolic conditions. Glucose increases the synthesis of tubulin twofold to threefold. Tubulin synthesis is also stimulated by adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate in both the absence and presence of glucose; this effect of adenos...

We present a parallel Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) solver on GPUs. Our implementation significantly improves existing implementations in two aspects. First, we address the scalability issue of existing Parallel Cyclic Reduction (PCR) implementations by eliminating their hardware resource constraints. As a result, our parallel ADI, which is based on PCR, no longer has the maximum domain ...

The effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), peptide histidine-isoleucine (PHI) and peptide histidine-methionine (PHM) on cyclic AMP formation were studied in parallel on rat cerebral cortical slices, primary neuronal cultures and primary glial (astrocyte) cultures. PACAPappeared to be the most potent agent in all biological sys...

Acyclic Term Graphs are able to represent terms with sharing , and the relationship between Term Graph Rewriting (TGR) and Term Rewrtiting (TR) is now well understood BvEG + 87, HP91]. During the last years, some researchers considered the extension of TGR to possibly cyclic term graphs, which can represent possibly innnite, rational terms. In KKSdV94] the authors formalize the classical relati...

Gas transfer in the female lung varies over the menstrual cycle in parallel with the cyclic angiogenesis that occurs in the uterine endometrium. Given that vessels form and regress in the uterus under the control of hormones, angiogenic factors, and proangiogenic circulating bone marrow-derived progenitor cells, we tested the possibility that variation in pulmonary gas transfer over the menstru...

Error correction codes provide a mean to detect and correct errors introduced by the transmission channel. Basically there are two categories of codes a).Block codes and b).convolution codes. Both the codes introduce redundancy by adding parity symbols to the message data. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes are the subset of the cyclic codes. The hardware implementation of a CRC is a simple li...

this paper presents the results of a series of monotonic and post-cyclic triaxial tests carried out on a clay specimen and three types of clay-sand mixed specimens. the focus of the paper is on the post-cyclic mechanical behavior of the mixed specimens, as compared to their monotonic behavior. analyses of the tests results show that cyclic loading degrade undrained shear strength and deformatio...

AIM Human periodontal ligament (PDL) cells incur changes in morphology and express proteins in response to cyclic strain. However, it is not clear whether cyclic strain, especially excessive cyclic strain, induces PDL cell apoptosis and if so, what mechanism(s) are responsible. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which pathological levels of cyclic strain i...

Kinematic redundancy of manipulators is a well-understood topic, and various methods were developed for the resolution in order to solve inverse kinematics problem, at least serial manipulators. An important question, with high practical relevance, whether solution cyclic, i.e., leads closed path joint space as task space. This paper investigates cyclicity property two widely used methods, name...

Acid catalyzed intramolecular attack of b-phenylthioureido group on amide function. Parallel formation of thiodihydrouracil and 4-iminothiodihydrouracil. Different pathways in the Edman degradation reaction in the formation of sixversus five-membered cyclic intermediates Ivan G. Pojarlieff*, Iva B. Blagoeva, Maria M. Toteva, Ergun Atay, Violina T. Angelova, Nikolay G. Vassilev and Asen H. Koedj...