Phosphate starvation compromises electron flow through the cytochrome pathway of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, and plants commonly respond to phosphate deprivation by increasing flow through the alternative oxidase (AOX). To test whether this response is linked to the increase in nitric oxide (NO) production that also increases under phosphate starvation, Arabidopsis thaliana seed...

We report the results of a coherent study of three chemically anomalous metal-poor ([Fe/H] ∼ –2) stars. These objects exhibit unusually low abundances of Mg, Si, Ca (α-elements) and Sr, Y, and Ba (neutron-capture elements). Our analyses confirm and expand upon earlier reports of atypical abundances in BD+80 245, G4-36, and CS22966-043. We also find that the latter two stars exhibit enhanced abu...

A tropical endophytic isolate of the fungus Fusarium verticillioides (synonym Fusarium moniliforme) obtained from Zea mays was co-transformed with plasmid pNH24 containing the Fusarium oxysporum nitrate reductase nia gene and plasmid pNOM 102 carrying the Escherichia coli β-glucuronidase gusA gene. Transformation frequency for the nia marker was 75 transformants μg vector DNA and introduction o...

Traditional event models couldn’t model temporal-spatial information very well in narrative image tagging task especially in the field of culture heritage. In this paper, we design a narrative image annotation ontology (NIAO) model and tool (NIA) to address this issue by using ontology design patterns and other related vocabularies for reusability. The annotation model, combining with OAC (Open...

Phosphate starvation compromises electron flow through the cytochrome pathway of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, and plants commonly respond to phosphate deprivation by increasing flow through the alternative oxidase (AOX). To test whether this response is linked to the increase in nitric oxide (NO) production that also increases under phosphate starvation, Arabidopsis thaliana seed...

The predominant lipoxygenase products of arachidonic acid were extracted and purified from synovial fluid and sonicates of synovial tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SA), or a noninflammatory arthropathy (NIA). The concentration of 5(S),12(R)-dihydroxy-6,8,10-(trans/trans/cis)-14-cis-eicosatetraenoic acid (leukotriene B4) in synovial fluid was elevated signif...

The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) is responsible for developing and maintaining a database of participant information collected from the 29 Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The NIA appointed the ADC Clinical Task Force to determine and define an expanded, standardized clinical data set, called the Uniform Data Set (UDS). The g...

We analysed 29 consecutive cases of primary gastric lymphoma (20 men and 9 women) treated in our unit between January 1977 and May 1983. Median age was 55 years. Abdominal pain and weight loss were the main presenting symptoms while there was no palpable disease in the majority of cases. Upper gastrointestinal radiology was abnormal, but not diagnostic, in all cases. Endoscopy with multiple bio...