The experimental study and modeling of gravity drainage during Water Alternative Gas Injection, WAG process, in carbonate rock for one of the Iranian off-shore reservoir at lab-scale were carried out. The mechanism of gravity drainage during the WAG process, and its contribution to the oil recovery in the fract...

Objective: To examine the relationship between progestin-only contraception and breast cancer, and to make recommendations regarding contraception for the breast cancer survivor. Outcome: Incidence of breast cancer among users of progestin-only contraception. Evidence: PubMed and Medline databases were searched using the terms “breast cancer” and “progesterone,” “contraception,” “depot medroxyp...

Objective: To examine the relationship between progestin-only contraception and breast cancer, and to make recommendations regarding contraception for the breast cancer survivor. Outcome: Incidence of breast cancer among users of progestin-only contraception. Evidence: PubMed and Medline databases were searched using the terms “breast cancer” and “progesterone,” “contraception,” “depot medroxyp...

BACKGROUND The process of discovering new drugs is a lengthy, time-consuming and expensive process. Modern day drug discovery relies heavily on the rapid identification of novel 'targets', usually proteins that can be modulated by small molecule drugs to cure or minimise the effects of a disease. Of the 20,000 proteins currently reported as comprising the human proteome, just under a quarter of...

GridPP is a £33m, 6-year project funded by PPARC that aims to establish a Grid for UK Particle Physics in time for the turn on of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2007. Over the last three years, a prototype Grid has been developed and put into production with computational resources that have increased by a factor of 100. GridPP is now about halfway through its second phase, the move fr...

Recent scientific and anecdotal observations have documented a range expansion of jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas, into the Southern California Bight (SCB) and northward in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. The increase in squid abundance at higher latitudes has generated hypotheses concerning the ecosystem changes that may have permitted this expansion. Top-down explanations suggest ...

Alkaline phosphatase [ALP; orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] is a ubiquitous enzyme of unknown function expressed at high levels in cells of mineralizing tissues. To study the structure, function, and expression of ALP, a full-length cDNA of rat ALP (2415 bases) was isolated from a ROS 17/2.8 osteosarcoma cell XgtlO cDNA library. The predicted amino acid...

One of the characteristics of dialogue translation is that it is strongly dependent on the situation or the communicative goal where the ut terance is spoken. Moreover, the distance between the language pair is great, the possibilities of the transfer diverse and it would be difficult to guarantee the equivalence of translation. In this article, we propose a method of utilizing domain and langu...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...