Genes required for ribosome biogenesis in yeast, referred to collectively as the Ribi regulon, are tightly regulated in coordination with nutrient availability and cellular growth rate. The promoters of a significant fraction of Ribi genes contain one or more copies of the RNA polymerases A and C (PAC) and/or ribosomal RNA-processing element (RRPE) motifs. Prompted by recent studies showing tha...

This study sought to determine the attitudes and behavior of students in Higher Education Institutions in Region 2 on some environmental issues and concerns. The study showed that majority of the students (91.6%) are concerned about the environment and considered themselves as environmentalists. Majority perceived that the Philippine government is concerned enough about the environment. Likewis...

Selective disassembly involves separating a selected set of components from an assembly. Applications for selective disassembly include de-manufacturing (maintenance and recycling), and assembling. This paper presents a new methodology for performing design for selective disassembly analysis on the CAD model of an assembly. The methodology involves the following three steps: (i) identifying the...

76 The theme for the 142nd annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) was “Fisheries Networks: Building Ecological, Social, and Professional Relationships,” and that provided me a hook to reflect on how studies of ecological networks have developed and how they can be used to inform fisheries research. Ecological networks, as we know them, date back to the pioneering studies of Raym...

tRNAs are the fundamental components of the translation machinery as they deliver amino acids to the ribosomes during protein synthesis. Beyond their essential function in translation, tRNAs also function in regulating gene expression, modulating apoptosis and several other biological processes. There are multiple layers of regulatory mechanisms in each step of tRNA biogenesis. For example, tRN...

Nutritional requirements are typically estimated based on feeding trials with animals or birds offered several amounts of the critical nutrient(s). A nutrient response function is then fitted to data from the feeding trials. Modern computer techniques allow for a variety of functional forms to be used as nutrient response functions. However, the performance of these models is almost undistingui...

In the past, a major challenge for nutrition research was in defining indicators of nutritional adequacy. More recently, the research base related to the role of nutrition in chronic disease has expanded sufficiently to permit moving beyond deficiency indicators to other indicators with broader functional significance. Thus, nutrition research is faced with the new challenge of defining 'optima...

Amino acid availability regulates cellular physiology by modulating gene expression and signal transduction pathways. However, although the signalling intermediates between nutrient availability and altered gene expression have become increasingly well documented, how eukaryotic cells sense the presence of either a nutritionally rich or deprived medium is still uncertain. From recent studies it...

The adhesion kinetics of Burkholderia cepacia G4g and ENV435g have been investigated in a radial stagnation point flow (RSPF) system under well-controlled hydrodynamics and solution chemistry. The sensitivity of adhesion behavior to nutrient condition was also examined. Supplementary cell characterization techniques were conducted to evaluate the viability, hydrophobicity, electrophoretic mobil...

A three-trophic-level model of plankton dynamics with instantaneous nutrient recycling is considered. The model consists of autotrophic phytoplankton, herbivorous zooplankton, carnivorous zooplankton and dissolved limiting nutrient. Conditions are derived such that one or more components of the populations tend to extinction. Persistence criteria for the model are also obtained. As well, the bi...