The measurement of carbon isotope discrimination (∆) provides an integrated insight into theresponse of plants to environmental change. To investigate the potential use of ∆ for identifyingshade tolerance in rice, five rice varieties were selected and artificially shaded (53% lightreduction) during the grain-filling period in 2010 and 2011, in Sichuan, China. Shadingtreatment had a significant ...

AIMS To investigate the effect of LG100268 (LG268) on cell proliferation and apoptosis in NB4 cells. METHODS NB4 cells were treated with LG268 for 24 h or 48 h. The effect of LG268 on cell proliferation was assessed by the CCK-8 assay and colony-forming assay. Apoptosis and cell cycle were evaluated by flow cytometry. The protein expression levels of Survivin, PARP, c-Myc, cyclin D1, ERK, p-E...

We define and design succinct indexes for several abstract data types (ADTs). The concept is to design auxiliary data structures that ideally occupy asymptotically less space than the information-theoretic lower bound on the space required to encode the given data, and support an extended set of operations using the basic operators defined in the ADT. The main advantage of succinct indexes as o...

 This study reports QTL mapping for seed yield and its components in safflower genome under drought stress. The F3 families derived from the cross Mex.22-191 (tolerant) × IL.111 (sensitive) were evaluated for agronomic traits in safflower. Drought tolerance was evaluated during 10% of the flowering stage. To identify QTLs underlying tolerance to drought, mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) w...

Hypercubic sorting networks are a class of comparator networks whose structure maps eeciently to the hypercube and any of its bounded degree variants. Recently, n-input hypercubic sorting networks with depth 2 O(p lg lg n) lg n have been discovered. These networks are the only known sorting networks of depth o(lg 2 n) that are not based on expanders, and their existence raises the question of w...

10 technique enables a simple cost-eeective implementation with little eeort. It was used for the rst time to implement a fast optimal parallel hashing algorithm 7]. The hashing algorithm in 7] comprises two parts: the rst part is a randomized geometric decaying algorithm which runs for O(lg lg n) steps. By using the technique of this paper and the O(lg lg n) time load balancing of 6], this par...

We develop a data structure for maintaining a dynamic multiset that uses O(n lg lg n/ lg n) bits and O(1) words, in addition to the space required by the n elements stored, supports searches in O(lg n) worst-case time and updates in O(lg n) amortized time. Compared to earlier data structures, we improve the space requirements from O(n) bits to O(n lg lg n/ lg n) bits, but the running time of up...

Lytic granule (LG)-mediated apoptosis is the main mechanism by which CTL kill virus-infected and tumorigenic target cells. CTL form a tight junction with the target cells, which is called the immunological synapse (IS). To avoid unwanted killing of neighboring cells, exocytosis of lytic granules (LG) is tightly controlled and restricted to the IS. In this study, we show that in activated human ...

It was recently proposed that UDP-galactose:ceramide galactosyltransferase (UGT8), enzyme responsible for synthesis of galactosylceramide (GalCer), is a significant index of tumor aggressiveness and a potential marker for the prognostic evaluation of lung metastases in breast cancer. To further reveal the role of UGT8 and GalCer in breast cancer progression, tumorigenicity and metastatic potent...