Intestinal maturation can be influenced by intrinsic factors (glucocorticoid hormones) and by extrinsic factors (resident microflora); their relative roles in ontogeny of mouse intestinal trehalase expression, a marker of general gut development, and of beta1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta GT), a marker of glycosyltransferase development, were investigated. In conventional (CONV) mice, beta GT a...

We assessed the effect of ingestion of green tea (GT) extract along with a low-energy diet (LED) on resting energy expenditure (REE), substrate oxidation and body weight as GT has been shown to increase energy expenditure and fat oxidation in the short term in both animals and people. Forty-six overweight women (BMI 27.6 (sd 1.8) kg/m2) were fed in energy balance from day 1 to day 3, followed b...

A single exercise bout can increase insulin-independent glucose transport immediately postexercise and insulin-dependent glucose transport (GT) for several hours postexercise. Akt substrate of 160 kDa (AS160) and TBC1D1 are paralog Rab GTPase-activating proteins that have been proposed to contribute to these exercise effects. Previous research demonstrated greater AS160 and Akt threonine phosph...

Hepatic UDP-GTs are partly responsible for metabolism of the thyroid hormone, thyroxine (T4), in mammals, but little is known of UDP-GT activity in birds. To determine the ontogenic pattern of UDP-GT activity in precocial birds, we measured activity in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) liver at days 12 and 14 of the 16.5-day incubation, 3 perihatch stages and <1, 1, 4, 6, 7, 20 and 42 days pos...

Background: Emulsions are thermodynamically unstable systems that can be kinetically stable by adding substances known as emulsifiers and/or thickening agents. By respect to the functional properties of gum tragacanth (GT), and its breakage probability during irradiation treatment, the major aim of this study was to investigate the stability of oil in water emulsion in the presence of different...

It is generally believed that GT-factors, DNAbinding proteins with specificity for GT-elements, are present only in plants. However, the current study shows that several features of the GT-factor trihelix domain resemble those of the Myb DNA-binding domain. The GT-element was first identified as a regulatory component of a light up-regulated element (Box II or GT-1 binding site), which is prese...

During the 1980s various approaches to batch-type manufacturing environments were implemented. The most popular of these were MaterialRequirements Planning (MRP), ('JfOUP Technology (GT) and Just-In-Time (JIT). However few successful implementations of any of these approaches were achieved [1] [2] [3]. This paper compares the various approaches of GT, MRP, TIT along with the integrated approach...

r(lt(i), l gt t ) = { 1− ‖lt(i)−l gt t ‖2 η , if ‖lt(i)− l gt t ‖2 <= η −1, otherwise (1) where η equals the distance from the center of a viewing angle to the corner of its corresponding NFoV, i.e., √ 32.752 + 24.562 = 40.9 if we define NFOV as spanning a horizontal angle of 65.5◦ with a 4 : 3 aspect ratio. When lt == l gt t , the reward is 1, which is the maximum reward. When ‖lt(i) − l t ‖2 ...

gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GT) is a ubiquitous enzyme that catalyzes the first step of glutathione (GSH) degradation in the gamma-glutamyl cycle in mammals. A cDNA encoding an Arabidopsis homolog for gamma-GT was overexpressed in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants. A high level of the membrane-bound gamma-GT activity was localized outside the cell in transgenic plants. The overproduce...

This paper proposes the use of a generalized distribution, namely the Generalized T (GT) distribution in the joint estimation of process states and model parameters. The desirable properties of the GT-based estimator are its robustness, simplicity, flexibility and efficiency for the wide range of commonly encountered distributions (including Box-Tiao and t-distributions) which belong to the GT ...