BACKGROUND Numerous studies have recently been conducted to investigate genetic mechanisms in cancer causes and pathogenesis. Some of these studies have shown that there were certain specific chromosomal defects in normal cells of cancer patients and in their first-degree relatives. It was suggested that these individuals were susceptible to cancer development when compared with people without ...

Objective Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common cause of inherited mental retardation caused by expansion of a (CGG) repeat region up to 1000 repeat in 5' region of the FMR1 gene located in FRAXA locus Xq27.3. To better understand the mechanism involved in expansion of CGG region, the molecular characteristic of the flanking microsatellite markers in the region must be clarify in differen...

This introductory contribution to the special issue of Catalysis Today is dedicated to selected contributions presented at the Carbocat-IV (Carbon for Catalysis) Symposium held in Dalian (China) on November 7-10 (2010). The introduction first shortly overviews the main reasons for the interest on carbon materials for catalysis and the elements of novelty discussed on the contributions of this i...

I T IS NOW WELL established that human tumors, particularly leukemias and lymphomas, are characterized by nonrandom chromosomal abnormalities. During the past 2 years, a number of proto-oncogenes and transforming genes have been mapped to the chromosomal breakpoints involved in the specific structural rearrangements. Experimental evidence obtained recently suggests that the genes located at the...

While the vast majority of integrated photonic devices are traditionally fabricated on rigid substrates, photonic integration of both passive and active photonic devices on flexible polymer substrates has been demonstrated in recent years, and its applications in imaging, sensing and optical interconnects are being actively pursued. This paper presents an overview of the emerging field of mecha...

In this poster, we chart and identify user experience categories with museum experiences. The were searched from narratives people provided in a survey-based study (n = 48), where reflected their positive negative experiences, technology use possible ethical concerns exhibitions they had visited. Cultural heritage is special design domain, as it can involve not only fragile old materials but al...

this paper focuses on the non-fragile guaranteed cost control problem for a class of t-s fuzzy time-varying delay systems with local bilinear models. the objective is to design a non-fragile guaranteed cost state feedback controller via the parallel distributed compensation (pdc) approach such that the closed-loop system is delay-dependent asymptotically stable and the closed-loop performance i...