The high-z progenitors of local massive early-type galaxies should be characterized by a strong level of clustering, larger than that measured for z = 3 Lyman Break Galaxies and comparable to that of z ∼ 1 EROs. First possible evidences for such strongly clustered objects at z > ∼ 2 were found by the FIRES and K20 surveys, that have identified new classes of faint high-z K-selected galaxies. So...

A 15-mer fragment that is derived from the helical region in the C-terminal half of pediocin PA-1 inhibited the activity of pediocin PA-1. Of 13 other pediocin-like (hybrid) bacteriocins, only the hybrid bacteriocin Sak/Ped was markedly inhibited by the 15-mer fragment. Sak/Ped was the only one of these bacteriocins that had a sequence (in the C-terminal helix-containing half) identical to that...

Propofol is rapidly acting intravenous agent used for induction in general anaesthesia.It causes pain while administering,being uncomfortable to patients .So an observational study was done compare the effects of different time duration venous occlusion on pretreatment with injection Ketamine prevention at site. After approval ethical committee and written informed consent,ASA grade I II,60 eit...

This white-paper reports on an enabling effort that involves porting a legacy 2D fluid dynamics Fortran code to NVIDIA GPUs. Given the complexity of both code and underlying (custom) numerical method, the natural choice was to use NVIDIA CUDA C to achieve the best possible performance. We achieved over 4.5x speed-up on a single K20 compared to the original code executed on a dual-socket E5-2687W.

The problem of the formation and evolution of field massive galaxies is briefly reviewed from an observational perspective. The motivations and the characteristics of the K20 survey are outlined. The redshift distribution ofKs < 20 galaxies, the evolution of the rest-frame Ks-band luminosity function and luminosity density to z ∼ 1.5, the nature and the role of the red galaxy population are pre...

Abs t rac t -So lu t ion mechanisms of P in metaluminous to peraluminous quenched, hydrous ( 9 wt% H 2 0 ) and anhydrous glasses in the system CaO-Na20-K20-AI203-SiO2-P205 have been examined with microRaman spectroscopy. The principal aim was to examine relative stability of phosphate complexes as a function of bulk chemical composition. Increasing peraluminosity was accomplished by increasing ...

Incretin/cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling is critical for potentiation of insulin secretion. Although several cell lines of pancreatic β-cells are currently available, there are no cell lines suitable for investigation of incretin/cAMP signaling. In the present study, we have newly established pancreatic β-cell lines (named MIN6-K) from the IT6 mouse, which develops insulinoma. M...