Most transformed cells have lost anchorage and serum dependence for growth and survival. Previously, we established that when serum is absent, fibronectin survival signals transduced by focal adhesion kinase (FAK), suppress p53-regulated apoptosis in primary fibroblasts and endothelial cells (Ili et al., 1998. J. Cell Biol. 143:547–560). The present goals are to identify survival sequences in F...

The focus of the present paper is devoted to the thermal conductivity measurement of microwires or microfibers inserted in an homogeneous subrstrate plate. Some steday and mainly 1D heat transfer conditions are applied to the plate. When the size of the object of interest is almost at the spatial resolution limit of the thermal imaging system, the corresponding heat transfer parameters to be me...

Root-knot nematodes (RKN) are the most serious plant parasitic nematodes having a broad host range exceeding 2,000 plant species. Quercus brantii Lindl. and Q. infectoria Oliv are the most important woody species of Zagros forests in west of Iran where favors sub-Mediterranean climate. National Botanical Garden of Iran (NBGI) is scheduled to be the basic center for research and education of bot...

Services that provide digital images like Flickr or Facebook are attracting more and more users that generate content. For example, Flickr provides more than 3 billion of photos while Facebook provides more than 10 billion of photos (Flickr 2008 ). End users are obviously lost in these huge image databases. In order to help end users fi nd the images that are relevant for them, a recommender sy...

Ion-selective electrodes and optodes based on the anticrown ionophore mercuracarborand-3 (MC-3) exhibit excellent selectivity to halide ions but suffer from a low upper detection limit because of very strong complexation in the sensing phase. In this work, we have successfully improved the upper detection limit and widened the working range of chloride selective electrode based on MC-3 by intro...

In the last decade, swarm robotics gathered much attention in the research community. By drawing inspiration from social insects and other self-organizing systems, it focuses on large robot groups featuring distributed control, adaptation, high robustness, and flexibility. Various reasons lay behind this interest in similar multi-robot systems. Above all, inspiration comes from the observation ...