... blocked the inhibitory effect of Dex on phosphorylation of JNK and p38 74 3.2.6.3 Inhibition of MKP-1 expression suppressed Dex-induced downregulation of MCP-1 mRNA expression in activated microglia ... modulate the inflammatory response and proliferation index of microglia Hence, we have investigated the effects of RA on release of proflammatory cytokines and proliferation in activated microglia ... neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects In the past decades, a large number of papers have focused on the understanding of mechanisms of microglial activation in response to neuropathological conditions in
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18
... showed inverse relationship with salt concentrations Both the concentrations of proline and ascorbic acid showed increased seedling fresh and dry weight Proline 10mM and ascorbic acid 4mM showed prominent ... both the concentrations of proline and ascorbic acid increased the vigour index I and II over control in PVB-4 and Roma at all salinity levels But the affect of Proline 10mM and ascorbic acid 4mM ... Pre-sowing application of ascorbic acid and salicylic acid to seed of pumpkin and seedling response to salt Pak J Bot., 43: 2677-2682 Sajid, Z A and Aftab, F 2009 Amelioration of salinity tolerance
Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2020, 02:30
Báo cáo khoa học: " Effects of liming and gypsum regimes on chemical characteristics of an acid forest soil and its leachates" ppsx
... natural acidification of organic acids in litter, acid atmospheric deposition, cation uptake and biomass harvest (Andersson and Persson, 1988) High Aconcentrations in the soil solution affect ... A and (B) horizons, with clay contents of 29 and 25%, respectively Bulk density is low in the surface horizon and increases gradually with depth Organic carbon is high in the Of and A horizons, ... common silvicultural practice used for acid forest soils Crushed limestone is the conventional method of reducing soil acidity but its neu-tralizing effect and the release of Ca is slow and
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
Influence of mTOR-inhibitors and mycophenolic acid on human cholangiocellular carcinoma and cancer associated fibroblasts
... which the prodrug of MPA, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) blocks T and B lymphocyte proliferation and clonal expansion, and prevents the Page of 12 generation of cytotoxic T cells and other effector ... a concentration of 1nM (p = 0.047) In contrast, MPA and CSA showed no effect on tumour cell invasion Treatment of CAFs with 1nM Everolimus showed a significant reduction in the expression of ... secretion of proinflammatory cytokines by CAFs may lead to increased activation of JAK/STAT3-, ERKand AKT-signaling and increased migration of CCA-cells Everolimus abrogates this effect and inhibits
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 01:26
influence of maternal and socioeconomic factors on breast milk fatty acid composition in urban low income families
... Comparative evaluation of essential fatty acid composition of mothers’ milk of some urban and suburban regions of West Bengal, India International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 63, 895–890 ... the design of the overall PROVIDE program and the inception of the cohorts However, they had no role in the conduct of this study; data analysis; interpretation of the data; preparation of the manuscript; ... Fatty acid composition of the milk of well‐nourished Sudanese women International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 46, 205–214 Lauritzen, L., & Carlson, S E (2011) Maternal fatty acid
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 14:48
Effect of Calcium and Magnesium Addition on Arsenic Leaching from Paddy Field Soil of Bangladesh
... Amount of Ca and Mg added (mg/L) Ca addition Mg addition Ca addition Mg addition Fig 1 - Concentration profiles of (a) As and (b) Fe in leachate with the addition of Ca and Mg in different concentrations ... Concentration (mg/L) P Concentration (mg/L) Other Conditions Effect of Ca and Mg concentrations 0, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 150 and 200 5.0, 7.0, 9.0 and 11.0 Leaching in anaerobic incubation 0 and ... increase of Ca and Mg addition, at pH greater than 9.0 and during anaerobic incubation In contrast, Iron (Fe) leaching was decreased by Ca and Mg addition Adsorption of Ca and Mg was observed and
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Optimization of design and operating parameters on the year round performance of a multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system using transient mathematical analysis
... industrial and agricultural activities all over the world contributes to the depletion and pollution of fresh water resources Desalination of salt water through conventional techniques often requires ... also because of the absence of non-condensable gases heat transfer by radiation and natural convection are limited Thus, heat transfer between the hot saline water bed and the condensation surface ... evaporative-condenser unit is a combination of bottom and top trays which acts as evaporator and condenser surfaces One such unit is called as a stage The multi-stage desalination system consists of Ns
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Research " A DISERTATION SUMMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF EDUCAITON AND THE COMITEE ON GRADUATE STUDIES OF STANFORD IN PARTIAL FUFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY " doc
... INTRODUCTION Research on the economic value of education and work experience has a half-century tradition, but economists continue to try to understand why returns to education increase and decrease ... age and education groups Declines in unionization were highly concentrated among the less educated in the period of 1980-88, and the proportion of high school dropouts and graduates who belonged ... dominance of symbolic content (Schement and Lievrouw 1984) to classify occupations into six information occupation categories tt (“primary producer,” “secondary producer,” etc) and one non-information
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22
impact of p2p and free distribution on book sales
... small mix of titles has been made available digitally to this point, creation and consumption of digitalcontent is increasingly a fact of life Improving ourunderstanding of the value or cost of freely ... foundation for continued ex-perimentation and informed collaboration as publish-ers and authors work to find the right mix of paid andfree content Overall, research and experiments done to datehave ... timing, type of book, degree of author involvement, method of free distribution and the nature of free content (protected or not) • What works also depends on the characteristics of the content This
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 15:21
Transformation of defects into fatigue cracks; the role of kt and defect scale on fatigue life of non pristine components
... striations, plastic zone, critical distance 1 Introduction The effects of service mechanical damage on fatigue performance of engineering components and structures are a source of great interest and ... Fatigue 2010 Transformation of defects into fatigue cracks; the role of Kt and defect scale on fatigue life of non-pristine components A Cinia, P.E Irvinga,* a Department of Materials, Cranfield ... traditional elastic fracture mechanics If the component is regarded as pristine a non-conservative service life may result The questions to be addressed are: 1) Definition of the damage condition
Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:28
Báo cáo sinh học: " Possible active origin of replication in the double stranded extended form of the left terminus of LuIII and its implication on the replication model of the parvovirus" pptx
... active origin of replication in the double stranded extended form of the left terminus of LuIII and its implication on the replication model of the parvovirus Nanette Diffoot-Carlo*, Lisandra Vélez-Pérez ... flip conformation The expected fragments for the digestion of the flip and flop conformations of the left hairpin are very similar in size, any slight variation in migration due to the secondary ... hairpin of LuIII in double stranded form The smaller of the two bands, of greater intensity, may repre-sent the left hairpin with an alternate conformation A faint band of similar migration is
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Effects of crystallization and dopant concentration on the emission behavior of TiO2: Eu nanophosphors" potx
... the bandgap of Eu-doped CdS nanorods with the increase of doping concentration The reason of such bandgap energy increment has been proposed as the gradual movement of the conduction band of TiO2above ... through the creation of dopant levels near the valence band of TiO2 on Fe+3 ion incorporation Therefore, the relative shift of the absorption edge of the semiconductor depends strongly on the difference ... phonon momentum distribution, andħ is the reduced Planck’s constant As the particle size decreases, the phonon is increasingly confined within the particle, and the pho-non momentum distribution
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Stability of Homomorphisms and Generalized Derivations on Banach Algebras" potx
... Article Stability of Homomorphisms and Generalized Derivations on Banach Algebras Abbas Najati1 and Choonkil Park2 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, ... which had been proved by Johnson22 On the other hand, it is not the case for ring derivations Hatori and Wada 23 determined a representation of ring derivations on a semi-simple commutative ... Proof It follows from the assumptions that ϕ 0, 0 0, and so f0 0 The rest of the proof is similar to the proof ofTheorem 2.2and we omit the details Corollary 2.6 Let p, q, δ, ε be non-negative
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20
Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty ReductionCynthia pdf
... by contrast, is basically due to lack of opportunity: it is often due to disconnection, often geographical, from the wider economy and society (Datt and Ravallion 2002, Jalan and Ravallion 2002) ... that, in addition to their impacts on income dimensions of poverty, transport and energy have significant impacts on nonincome dimensions such as health, education, personal security, and community ... depends on the quality of servicesprovided The responsiveness of transport and energy ser-vices to the needs of the poor is partly a function of publicpolicy and partly of political culture and institutional
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 07:20
Impacts of health and environmental consciousness on young female consumers’ attitude towards pptx
... were constructed based on the description of environmentally conscious consumers contained in articles written by Heimlich (2008) and Wandel and Bugge (1997): ‘I am concerned a lot about environmental ... rise in environmentalconsciousness among consumers For some, environmental concern has become a way of life guiding their consumption on a daily basis For others, environmental concerns are not ... words, environmentally conscious consumers are also health conscious to some degree and therefore may often consider health and environ-ment as two critical reasons guiding their consumption This
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Short Communication Differences in the structure, species composition and diversity of primary and harvested forests on Changbai Mountain, Northeast China" ppsx
... vegetation type in the eastern Eurasian continent. We compared the structure, composition and diversity of a primary forest and a logged forest for effective management and regeneration of a mixed ... of such informa- tion is useful both for effective regeneration and management of logged forests and the development of ecosystem restoration projects. At the same time, comparing primary and ... T. amurensis, F. mandshurica, Q. mongolica, A. pseudo-sieboldianum, A. mono and U. japonica), which accounted for 63% of all trees and 91% of the total basal area (Tables 2 and 3). ese percentages
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Interactive effects of irradiance and water availability on the photosynthetic performance of Picea sitchensis seedlings: implications for seedling establishment under different management practices" ppt
... limited and waterlogged conditions [9, 27]. Photosynthesis would also be inhibited due to the increased participation of competing pathways and consumption of electrons and reductant in non- photosynthetic ... response to water deficits, under exposed and shaded conditions, were associated with reductions in both stomatal (G s ) and mesophyll conductance (G m ), and an increase in the proportion of ... seedlings under exposed and shaded conditions was evaluated to provide a physiological understanding of the factors controlling seedling performance under conventional and continuous cover forestry
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Effect of species and ecological conditions on ellagitannin content in oak wood from an even-aged and mixed stand of Quercus robur L. and Quercus petraea Liebl." docx
... B, C and E. Moreover one can observe a negative correlation between castalin, vescalin and ellagic acid content and the percentage of vescalin, castalin, roburin A and C on the one hand and the ... contribute to clarify the respective influence of botanical species and site conditions on chemical composition of ellagitannins in oak heartwood. The studied stand was an average aged stand of ... stand consists of three ecological zones: small valley, plateau, intermediate (and regular) slope. On the northwestern part of the stand (plateau) the soil is well drained and composed of sand
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Tài liệu The Transformation of Banking and Its Impact on Consumers and Small Businesses docx
... DISTRIBUTION BY SIZE OF BANKING ORGANIZATION Source: Reports of Condition and Income, National Information Center Database Keeton.qxd 4/25/01 3:06 PM Page 28 ECONOMIC REVIEW • FIRST QUARTER 2001 31 offering ... privacy of online banking. Keeton.qxd 4/25/01 3:06 PM Page 46 ECONOMIC REVIEW • FIRST QUARTER 2001 33 II. IMPACT OF THE CHANGES ON CONSUMERS Consumers have traditionally relied on nearby banks and ... Journal of Economics and Business, November. Long, Simon. 2000. “Online Finance: The Virtual Threat,” The Economist, May 20. Marks, James. 1999. “The Impact of the Internet on Users and Suppliers of...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20