Studies on the formation of ommochrome pigment granules are very few, despite their generalized occurrence as screening pigments in insect eyes. This is particularly true for ommochrome granules responsible for epidermal coloration. The aims of this study were to characterize the localization of major body pigments in a color changing mimetic spider, Misumena vatia (Thomisidae), and to describe...

X-ray radiation damage propagation is explored for hydrated starch granules in order to reduce the step resolution in raster-microdiffraction experiments to the nanometre range. Radiation damage was induced by synchrotron radiation microbeams of 5, 1 and 0.3 µm size with ∼0.1 nm wavelength in B-type potato, Canna edulis and Phajus grandifolius starch granules. A total loss of crystallinity of g...

Knowledge representation realized by information granules is one of the essential facets of granular computing and an area of intensive research. Fuzzy clustering and clustering are general vehicles to realize formation of information granules. Granulation – degranulation paradigm is one of the schemes determining and quantifying functionality and knowledge representation capabilities of inform...

background:   after cervical discectomy, autogenetic bone is packed into the cage to increase the rate of :union: between adjacent vertebral bodies, but donor site–related complications can still occur. in this study we evaluate the use   of hydroxyapatite granules as a substitute for autograft for interbody fusion.     methods:   from november 2008 to november 2011, 236 patients participated i...

The outer membrane complex of Paramecium was investigated by ultrathin-sectioning techniques and by freeze-etching of unfixed cells without cryoprotectants. Granules were found in the freeze-etched cortical membrane complex in a highly ordered arrangement; morphometric analyses and partial disruption of this membrane complex showed that some of these granular membrane specializations (which we ...

BACKGROUND The enzyme ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) catalyzes the acylation of ghrelin. The molecular form of GOAT, together with its reaction in vitro, has been reported previously. However, the subcellular processes governing the acylation of ghrelin remain to be elucidated. METHODS Double immunoelectron microscopy was used to examine changes in the relative proportions of secretory gran...

Information sources provide us with granules of information that must be transformed, analyzed and built into structures that support problem solving. One of the main goals of information granule calculi is to develop algorithmic methods for construction of complex information granules from elementary ones by means of available operations and inclusion (closeness) measures. These constructed co...

motivated by the intensive and powerful works concerning additive‎ ‎mappings of operator algebras‎, ‎we mainly study lie-type higher‎ ‎derivations on operator algebras in the current work‎. ‎it is shown‎ ‎that every lie (triple-)higher derivation on some classical operator‎ ‎algebras is of standard form‎. ‎the definition of lie $n$-higher‎ ‎derivations on operator algebras and related pote...