We present the Annotation Ontology (AO), an open ontology in OWL for annotating scientific documents on the web. AO supports both human and algorithmic content annotation. It enables “stand-off” (separate) metadata anchored to specific positions in a web document by any one of several methods. In AO, the document may be annotated but is not required to be under update control of the annotator. ...

Resveratrol has been reported to inhibit monoamine oxidases (MAO). Many substrates or inhibitors of neuronal MAO interact also with other amine oxidases (AO) in peripheral organs, such as semicarbazide-sensitive AO (SSAO), known as primary amine oxidase, absent in neurones, but abundant in adipocytes. We asked whether phenolic compounds (resveratrol, pterostilbene, quercetin, and caffeic acid) ...

The role of the redox state of the apoplast in hormone responses, signaling cascades, and gene expression was studied in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants with modified cell wall-localized ascorbate oxidase (AO). High AO activity specifically decreased the ascorbic acid (AA) content of the apoplast and altered plant growth responses triggered by hormones. Auxin stimulated shoot grow...

Fluorescence anisotropy (FA) has attracted considerable attention, but it has been rarely applied for the detection of small molecules and metal ions because they are too small to induce evident FA changes. Although some mass amplifying strategies have been developed, the recognition probes need to be covalently modified with the fluorescent dyes, which is complex and expensive. To overcome thi...

The optical interferometry community has discussed the possibility of using adaptive optics (AO) on apertures much larger than the atmospheric coherence length in order to increase the sensitivity of an interferometer, although few quantitative models have been investigated. The aim of this paper is to develop an analytic model of an AO-equipped interferometer and to use it to quantify, in rela...

RESUMO Este trabalho objetivou analisar a ação de alguns acaricidas, fungicidas, inseticidas e herbicidas contendo diferentes princípios ativos, sobre Metarhizium anisopliae Metsch. (Sorokin), inoculado em solo autoclavado. A ação dos pesticidas foi analisada por meio da atividade respiratória do fungo. A primeira avaliação foi realizada 48h após a inoculação, em seguida foram adicionados os pe...

The evolution of Aspect oriented (AO) software would degrade and modify its structure and its modularity. In this scenario, one of the main problems is to evaluate the modularity of the system, is the evolved AO software still has a good modularity or not? Unfortunately, this research area is not explored yet. This paper presents a history-based approach that detects modularity defects in evolv...

In this paper, we report a detailed study of the fluorescence relaxation dynamics of a well-known fluorescent DNA intercalator, acridine orange (AO), in reverse micelles (RM), micelles, and DNA using picosecond resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Solvation studies of AO in AOT reverse micelles (RM) containing water indicate the locations of AO close to the interface and those in RM containing N...

One hundred years ago, Giemsa's stain was employed for the first time for malaria diagnosis. Giemsa staining continues to be the method of choice in most malarious countries, although, in the recent past, several alternatives have been developed that exhibit some advantages. Considerable progress has been made with fluorescent dyes, particularly with Acridine Orange (AO). The literature on the ...

The Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) are the leading modes of high-latitude variability in each hemisphere as characterized by the first EOF of mean sea-level pressure. Observations suggest a recent positive trend in the AO and it is speculated that this may be related to global warming. The CCCma coupled general circulation model control simulation exhibits a robust ...