Oxytocin (Oxt) is a neurohormone known for its physiological roles associated with lactation and parturition in mammals. Oxt can also profoundly influence mammalian social behaviors such as affiliative, parental, and aggressive behaviors. While the acute effects of Oxt signaling on adult behavior have been heavily researched in many species, including humans, the developmental effects of Oxt on...

Facebook users are exposed to diverse news and political content; this means that is a significant tool for the enhancement of civic participation engagement in politics. However, it has been argued Facebook, through its algorithmic curation reinforces pre-existing attitudes individuals, rather than challenging or potentially altering them. The objective study elucidate emotional behavioural im...

Promoters are DNA elements that enable transcription and its regulation by trans-acting factors. Here, we demonstrate that yeast promoters can also regulate mRNA decay after the mRNA leaves the nucleus. A conventional yeast promoter consists of a core element and an upstream activating sequence (UAS). We find that changing UASs of a reporter gene without altering the transcript sequence affects...

This chapter focuses on the biological roles of the glycans contained in glycoproteins. Today we know there is no unifYing function for the carbohydrates present in glycoproteins. They rather span the complete spectrum from being obviously unimportant to being crucial for the survival of an organism. In a crude scheme, their biological functions can be classif ed into two groups. On one hand, t...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-protein-coding RNAs that play important regulatory roles by targeting for cleavage or translational repression and involved in diverse biological functions. Accumulation of large amount of biological data indicates that miRNAs can function as tumor suppressors and oncogenes. Mutation, misexpression, and altered mature miRNA processing are implicated i...

drought is one of the natural disasters that causes a lot of damages each year. this phenomenon is a result of severe and repeated spatial-temporal anomalies in atmosphere circulation patterns. thus, studying and identifying the synoptic patterns of this phenomenon is inevitably necessary. in this study, first yearly rainfalls in selected stations of the uremia lake basin were temporally standa...

Role-oriented software modeling is an approach to object-oriented software engineering which provides a stricter encapsulation by separating the type behavior from the object into so-called roles. This role behavior can dynamically be accessed in certain situations and extends or alters the original type behavior. The process of extending or altering type behavior in object-oriented systems is ...

Information systems researchers interested in the materiality of digital technology have frequently emphasized the need to study work practices and take a sociomaterial perspective on practice change. We address this need in our study on the introduction of a Da Vinci robot, an endoscopic surgical system for minimally invasive surgery, in a hospital operating theatre. Building on the insights f...