Through coming into force of the Concrete Construction Technical Regulations [1], to the European standards were also added [2] and [3] (Attachment I.4, Standards) in civil engineering, i.e. construction and geotechnical regulations. Based on this, a need appeared for revising current technical regulations [4] and critical view of new standards. A certain number of comparable analyses on as lar...

Charles Rice and Ralf Bartenschlager, together with Michael Sofia, are the recipients of the 2016 Lasker∼DeBakey Clinical Award. Their discoveries led to the development of a system to study the replication of hepatitis C virus, which causes a chronic and lethal disease in humans, and the use of this system to develop drugs that cure the illness. Charlie and Ralf joined Cell editor João Monteir...

BACKGROUND Underlying causes in Chinese children with recurrent acute liver failure (RALF), including liver crises less than full acute liver failure, are incompletely understood. We sought to address this by searching for genes mutated in such children. METHODS Five unrelated Chinese boys presenting between 2012 and 2015 with RALF of unexplained etiology were studied. Results of whole exome ...

Bernhard R. Kroener, Ralf Pröve (Hrsgg.), Krieg und Frieden. Militär Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit, Paderborn (Ferdinand Schöningh) 1996. 353 S.

Abstract Rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) is widespread throughout the plant kingdom and controls many aspects of life. Current studies on regulatory mechanism underlying RALF function mainly focus Arabidopsis, but little known about role in crop plants. Here, we systematically comprehensively analyzed relation between family genes from five important crops those model Arabidopsis thaliana . ...

Rickettsiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that induce their uptake into nonphagocytic cells; however, the events instigating this process are incompletely understood. Importantly, diverse Rickettsia species are predicted to utilize divergent mechanisms to colonize host cells, as nearly all adhesins and effectors involved in host cell entry are differentially encoded in diverse Rickettsia...