Food allergic reactions have generated increasing concern in the United States, with approximately one fourth of American households altering their dietary habits because a member of the family is perceived to suffer from food allergies. IgE-mediated (type I) hypersensitivity accounts for most well-characterized food allergic reactions, although non-IgE-mediated immune mechanisms are believed t...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is a sink for terrigenous sediments from North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor. Its sediments therefore provide valuable information on the climate dynamics in the source areas and the associated transport processes. We present a high-resolution dataset of sediment core M40/4_SL71, which was collected SW of Crete and spans the last ca. 180 kyr. We analysed the clay m...

Abstract Multifunctional materials that are capable of facilitating multiple electrocatalytic processes highly desirable. This work reports the observation bifunctional properties for water‐splitting in layered oxides, featuring 2‐dimensional layers octahedrally coordinated transition metals separated by alkaline‐earth or rare‐earth metals. Remarkably, these able to catalyze both half‐reactions...

Abstract. End-member mixing analysis (EMMA) is a method of interpreting stream water chemistry variations and widely used for chemical hydrograph separation. It based on the assumption that conservative mixture varying contributions from well-characterized source solutions (end-members). These end-members are typically identified by collecting samples potential end-member waters within watershe...

Two studies investigated how group variability affects reactions to atypical group members. In Study 1 (N = 65) we manipulated group variability and found that an atypical group member was evaluated more positively when the group was heterogeneous than when the group was homogeneous. In Study 2 (N = 276) we also manipulated group value and found a significant interaction whereby an atypical gro...

Earlier experience of psychological trauma of a close person can through a transgenerational transfer influence traumatic reactions of a person going through a trauma at present, resulting in a repetition of earlier traumatic experiences and a development of a variety of mental disturbances. Purpose of our study was to evaluate the influence of transgenerational transfer on the development of P...

Chemical and isotope based hydrograph separation methods, such as end member mixing analysis (EMMA), have been utilized in recent decades because they offer a better explanation of stream chemistry than can be obtained from flow partitions derived using graphical or mathematical filter hydrograph partitioning techniques (Chapman and Maxwell, 1996; Pinder and Jones, 1969). However, use of such c...

pollen from mesquite (prosopis juliflora) is one of the important causes of immediate hypersensitivity reactions in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. the aim of present study is to produce and purify the recombinant form of allergenic ole e 1-like protein from the pollen of this allergenic tree. immunological and cross-inhibition assays were performed for the evaluation of ige-bindin...

The EcoCyc database is an online scientific database which provides an integrated view of the metabolic and regulatory network of the bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 and facilitates computational exploration of this important model organism. We have analysed the occurrence of dead end metabolites within the database--these are metabolites which lack the requisite reactions (either metabolic or ...