Skeletal muscle is highly sensitive to mutations in genes that participate in membrane stability and cellular attachment, which often leads to muscular dystrophy. Here we show that Thrombospondin-4 (Thbs4) regulates skeletal muscle integrity and its susceptibility to muscular dystrophy through organization of membrane attachment complexes. Loss of the Thbs4 gene causes spontaneous dystrophic ch...

forgiveness and empathy are factors which are influential in improving the relationships between people, themselves can be affected by various factors in turn. the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the styles of attachment to god and forgiveness and empathy among female students in the city of qom. 250 students were selected from the city of qom by cluster sam...

Economic transitions have a wide variety of impacts on rural forest-located communities. Uncertain employment prospects and lack local higher education institutions may increase out-migration, while individual connections to the natural environment community itself bind youth their origin. We analyzed over 2,000 survey responses from middle high school traditionally forest-dependent communities...

leaving one’s parental home disrupts place attachment, described as the affective bond or link between one individual and a specific place and/or the people living in that place. in other words, because students move away from their parents, their friend and their hometown, their bonds with these people and their hometown are disrupted. although moving disrupts place attachment to their hometow...

introduction: in light of the importance of mental health in today life, attending to mental health of the youth to pave the way for a better future is of paramount importance. various factors can influence mental health, one of which is the quality of attachment to and trust in god. the aim of this paper was to examine the capability of this quality so as to predict the mental health of tehran...

A mean residence time (MRT) is an important pharmacokinetic parameter. To the author's knowledge, however, a physiologically based structure of MRT (thereafter MRT structure) has not been published so far. Primarily this is because MRT structures cannot be identified by traditional pharmacokinetic methods used for the determination of MRT. Therefore, tools from the theory of linear dynamic syst...

Intercomparisons of hillslopes and catchments in different hydrogeomorphic settings are rare. Those comparison studies that have been completed have focused largely on bulk outflow and chemistry. Here, we present a new functional intercomparison of two well studied hillslopes: one in New Zealand at Maimai and one in Japan at Fudoji. Slope angle, slope length, soil depth, climate and vegetation ...

Abstract The cultural integration of immigrants conditions their overall socio-economic as well natives’ attitudes towards globalisation in general and immigration particular. At the same time, excessive integration—or assimilation—can be detrimental that it implies forfeiting one’s ties to origin country eventually translates into a loss diversity (from viewpoint host countries) global connect...

Abstract In DC plasma spray torches, anode erosion is a common concern. It mainly depends on the heat flux brought by arc and dimensions residence time of attachment to given location wall. The latter depend, great extent, mode This paper compares modes predicted an LTE (Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium) 2-T (two-temperature) models that include electrodes in computational domain. deals with com...