This study examined the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption in period 1986–2015 for 15 selected developed countries. In this study, which dynamic panel analysis method was used, cross-section dependence homogeneity tests were taken into account. Accordingly, unit root cointegration decided. According to test results, it has been determined that there is a long-term consu...

In this study we use historical emission data from installations under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to evaluate the impact of this policy on industrial greenhouse gas emissions during the first two trading phases (2005-2012). As such the analysis seeks to disentangle two causes of emission abatement: that attributable to the EU ETS and that attributable to the economic c...

C23 is an abundant and multi-functional protein, which plays an important role in various biological processes, including ribosome biogenesis and maturation, cell cycle checkpoints and transcriptional regulation [1, 2]. However, the role of C23 in controlling tumorigenesis has not been well defined. Here we report that C23 is highly expressed in cancer cells and the elevated expression of C23 f...

The highly toxic organophosphorus (OP) nerve agent VX is characterized by a remarkable biological persistence which limits the effectiveness of standard treatment with atropine and oximes. Existing OP hydrolyzing enzymes show low activity against VX and hydrolyze preferentially the less toxic P(+)-VX enantiomer. Recently, a phosphotriesterase (PTE) mutant, C23, was engineered towards the hydrol...

One of the unsolved enigmas of Ewing’s sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) is its histogenetic origin. Lately, evidence has been accumulating that boneor bone marrow–derived mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPC) can be transformed by EWS-FLI1 causing small-round cell-like tumors in mice. This observation was extended recently in a report by Riggi et al. (1). Riggi et al. (1) report that EWS-FLI1 is ca...

The electronic, optical, and lattice dynamical properties of tetracalcium trialuminate (Ca₄Al₆O13) with a special sodalite cage structure were calculated based on the density functional theory. Theoretical results show that Ca₄Al₆O13 is ductile and weakly anisotropic. The calculated Young's modulus and Poisson ratio are 34.18 GPa and 0.32, respectively. Ca₄Al₆O13 is an indirect-gap semiconducto...

In this paper we present the structure and describe serological properties of the O-specific polysaccharide of Proteus mirabilis O13 lipopolysaccharide, which contains a unique component: an amide of D-galacturonic acid (D-GalA) with an unusual amino acid, Nepsilon-[(R)-1-carboxyethyl]-L-lysine (alaninolysine, AlaLys). Selective chemical degradations of either GalA or AlaLys resulted in the los...