Larvae of the Chilean-Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus were fed a Dunaliella tertiolecta diet (Dun-diet) supplemented with lipid emulsions, rich in 20:5n-3 (EmEPA), 22:6n-3 (EmDHA) or in saturated fatty acids (EmCOCO). A mixed algal diet of Isochrysis galbana (T-iso) and Chaetoceros neogracile served as a positive control (St-diet). Lipid supplementation to the Dun-diet improved the larva...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major cause leading to chemotherapy failure. Recent studies indicate that drug resistance can be rapidly induced by some soluble factors, such as cytokines, chemokines, growth factors and cell adhesion factors in tumor microenvironment. Osteopontin (OPN), an extracellular matrix protein, has a functional RGD domain for binding to integrin. Here we found that OPN ...

Duns are a problematic class of monuments for Argyll. They encompass an ill-defined and diverse range structures, with limited evidence their chronology functions within late prehistoric early historic society, settlement economy. The Isle Islay has notably high concentration duns, especially in its south-east region. We describe small-scale excavation at one these, Dun Fhinn, designed to estab...

There is a higher dimensional analogue of the perturbative Chern-Simons theory in the sense that a similar perturbative series as in 3-dimension, which is computed via configuration space integral, yields an invariant of higher dimensional knots (Bott-CattaneoRossi invariant), which is constructed by Bott for degree 2 and by Cattaneo-Rossi for higher degrees. However, its feature is yet unknown...

A quasitoric manifold (resp. a small cover) is a 2ndimensional (resp. an n-dimensional) smooth closed manifold with an effective locally standard action of (S) (resp. (Z2)n) whose orbit space is combinatorially an n-dimensional simple convex polytope P . In this paper we study them when P is a product of simplices. A generalized Bott tower over F, where F = C or R, is a sequence of projective b...

We define the geometric complex associated to a Morse– Bott–Smale vector field, cf. [AB95], and its associated spectral sequence. We prove an extension of the Bismut–Zhang theorem to Morse–Bott–Smale functions, see Theorem 2 below. The proof is based on the Bismut–Zhang theorem for Morse–Smale functions, see [BZ92].

It is proved that the properties of being Dolbeault formal and geometrically-Bott-Chern-formal are not closed under holomorphic deformations complex structure. Further, we construct a compact manifold which satisfies ∂∂‾-lemma but admits non vanishing Aeppli-Bott-Chern-Massey product.