The Chah-Shur clay deposit is located in150 km southeast of Isfahan. Eocene igneous rocks ‎and Quaternary deposits cover the area. Eocene volcanic rocks include andesite and tuffs ‎which relating to magmatic activities of Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. Alteration of the ‎vitric and lithic tuff units has produced the clay deposit. Based on the petrographic studies, ‎the main minerals in tuff uni...

Submitted: Jul 19, 2013; Accepted: Sep 3, 2013; Published: Sep 11, 2013 Abstract: The study of isotopic ratios of oxygen and carbon has gained importance to determine the origin of ore bearing fluids, carbon origin and also to determine the formation temperature of non-sulfide lead and zinc minerals. In order to determine the origin of fluids and carbon existing in zinc carbonate minerals in Ch...

W ith nearly two-thirds of the population afflicted, the Nuu-chah-nulth Indians of Vancouver Island in British Columbia have one of the highest rates of arthritis in the world. Often passed down family lines, the genetics of arthritis in this unique population was studied extensively during the 1980s by Richard Ward, now head of the Institute of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxfo...

Mesenchymal cell migration and neurite outgrowth are mediated in part by binding of cell surface 01,4-galactosyltransferase (GalTase) to N-linked oligosaccharides within the E8 domain of laminin . In this study, we determined whether cell surface GalTase functions during neural crest cell migration and neural development in vivo using antibodies raised against affinity-purified chicken serum Ga...

Shooting training is associated with exposure to a considerable amount of unique noise. We wanted to evaluate noise exposure during such training. Our observations especially apply to professional sport shooters, but they are also valid for shooting coaches/instructors. We collected acoustic signals in 10-, 25- and 50-m as well as open-air shooting ranges. The recorded material was analysed wit...

Full title: Comprehensive coverage of cardiovascular disease data in the Disease Portals at the 1 Rat Genome Database 2 3 Short title: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE DATA RESOURCE AT RGD 4 Authors 5 Shur-Jen Wang, Stanley J.F. Laulederkind, G. Thomas Hayman, 6 Victoria Petri, Jennifer R. Smith, Marek Tutaj, Rajni Nigam, Melinda R. Dwinell, and Mary 7 Shimoyama. 8 1 Department of Surgery, Medical Colleg...

We introduce an approach to revealing the likelihood of different population histories that utilizes an explicit model of sequence evolution for the DNA segment under study. Based on a phylogenetic tree reconstruction method we show that a Tamura-Nei model with heterogeneous mutation rates is a fair description of the evolutionary process of the hypervariable region I of the mitochondrial DNA f...