In recent decades, ongoing development of microarrays and microarray platforms has revolutionized biological research. Especially in cancer research, microarray technology has brought forth many new insights and has been widely applied for the elucidation of biological interrelations, effects, pathways and aetiology of cancers such as thyroid cancer (Kundel et al., 2010; Williams et al., 2011; ...

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Recent work in the collections at the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research collections in Wellington has yielded 14 new diastylid species in five genera, Colurostylis whitireia n. sp., Diastylis acanthoelachys n. sp., D. adaioacanthus n. sp., D. curtain n. sp., D. dasys n. sp., D. enodis n. sp., D. homoacanthus n. sp., D. implanus n. sp., D. spinacellulosus n. sp., D...

, The behavior of an energetic solid subjected to shear is modelled. Data from torsional split-Hopkinson bar (TSHB) experiments are first reduced to calibrate a constitutive model for stress, accounting for the effects of strain and strain rate hardening, in an inert simulant, Mock 900-20, of the high explosive LX-14. This stress model is employed in a transient one dimensional model which incl...

Guangbin Wang, Hao Wen, and Ting Wang Department of Mathematics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China Correspondence should be addressed to Guangbin Wang, [email protected] Received 11 June 2011; Revised 20 September 2011; Accepted 22 September 2011 Academic Editor: Yongkun Li Copyright q 2011 Guangbin Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed ...

1The Research Institute for Islamic and Complementary Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Depatment of Iranian Traditional Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Depatment of Rheumatology, Vali-asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Center for Rese...

The primarily Neotropical genus Microborus Blandford is represented with three species in Africa and Madagascar. The previously recorded species from this region, M. boops Blandford, is a Neotropical species restricted to Central America and is likely not found in the Afrotropics. The previously recognised species in western parts of Africa is M. camerunus (Eggers) and is resurrected from synon...

The Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) gene of old world camels (Camelus dromedarius and Camelus bactrianus) was cloned and sequenced. The TLR2 gene of the dromedary camel had the highest nucleotide and amino acid identity with pig, i.e., 66.8% and 59.6%, respectively. Similarly, the TLR2 gene of the Bactrian camel also had the highest nucleotide and amino acid identity with pig, i.e., 85.7% and 81.4%...

The habitat use and seasonal migratory pattern of birds in Ethiopia is less explored as compared to diversity studies. To this end, this study aimed at investigating the patterns of distribution related to seasonality and the effect of habitat characteristics (elevation, slope, and average vegetation height) on habitat use of birds of Wondo Genet Forest Patch. A stratified random sampling desig...