Fast pyrolysis has been identified as one of the biorenewable conversion platforms that could be a part of an alternative energy future, but it has not yet received the same attention as cellulosic ethanol in the analysis of genetic inheritance within potential feedstocks such as maize. Ten bio-oil compounds were measured via pyrolysis/gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py/GC-MS) in maize co...

INTRODUCTION Between the years 1337 and 1339, the artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti adorned the walls of the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, Italy, with frescoes depicting allegories of good government and bad government and their effects on city and country (see Fig. 1). His imagery is lucid and effective. The “good government” fresco depicts a wise monarch surrounded by personifications of virtues such a...

In Libya, haemoglobin estimation is not used routinely to assess the fitness of blood donors. We examined the importance of including this parameter in donor selection. Venous blood samples were collected from the bleed line at the end of the donation process from 1339 healthy adult male blood donors, aged 18-60 years, in Al-Jala Women Hospital in Tripoli, Libya. Haemoglobin concentration was m...

A method is described for obtaining highly purified lysosomes from Ehrlich ascites tumo cells grown in mice injected with Triton WR-1339. The isolated particles show a high specific activity for aryl sulfatase, representing an 80-90-fold purification over the homogenate, and a 15-18% yield of the total enzyme activity. Mitochondrial and microsomal marker enzymes are present in negligible amount...

B ernd H enkel, Lianshan Zhang, Carsten G oldam m er, Ernst Bayer* Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Z. Naturforsch. 51b, 1339-1346 (1996); received April 10, 1996 HIV 1-Protease, Trityl-Linker, Fragment Condensation, Peptide Synthesis, Ionspray-MS, Chiral Gas-chromatography A new trityl-linker for the strategy of combined...

Dependence on Bcl-2 proteins is a common feature of cancer cells and provides a therapeutic opportunity. ABT-737 is an antagonist of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins and therefore is a good predictor of Bcl-xL/ Bcl-2 dependence. Surprisingly, analysis of Mcl-1–dependent multiple myeloma cell lines revealed codependence on Bcl-2/ Bcl-xL in half the cells tested. Codependence is not predicted by the ...

Rotnitzky, Robins, and Scharfstein (1998, Journal of the American Statistical Association 93, 1321-1339) developed a methodology for conducting sensitivity analysis of studies in which longitudinal outcome data are subject to potentially nonignorable missingness. In their approach, they specify a class of fully parametric selection models, indexed by a non- or weakly identified selection bias f...

A number of recent reviews on neural lysosomes6, 8-10 have stressed the difficulties intrinsic to the isolation of these organelles in pure form from homogenates of brain tissue. We believe that this is a direct reflection of the remarkable lysosomal heterogeneity 13 of brain, which, in turn, derives from the complex mosaic of functional specificities exhibited by this organ. In two recent publ...

Tafti, Mehdi, and Paul Franken. Invited Review: Genetic dissection of sleep. J Appl Physiol 92: 1339–1347, 2002; 10.1152/japplphysiol. 00834.2001.—Recent advances in genomics open up new avenues in the analysis of complex behaviors such as sleep. In this analysis, the mouse is the model species of choice because it is amenable to high throughput phenotype and genotype analysis. With the use of ...

Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia (1339–1341?) is an innovative vernacular text in which Teseo (Theseus) and the Scythian Amazons are reinvented as antagonists in a war fought to determine how women are meant to live their lives. Boccaccio’s characterization of these figures and their interactions offer an effective counter-narrative to the prevailing ethos that women’s inborn p...