CD40, 4-1BB, and OX40 are costimulatory molecules belonging to the TNF/nerve growth factor superfamily of receptors. We examined whether simultaneous costimulation affected the responses of T cells using several different in vivo tracking models in mice. We show that enforced dual costimulation through 4-1BB and OX40, but not through CD40, induced profound specific CD8 T cell clonal expansion. ...

Cerebral patterns of activity elicited by dual-task performance throughout the learning of a complex bimanual coordination pattern were addressed. Subjects (N=12) were trained on the coordination pattern and scanned using fMRI at early (PRE) and late (POST) learning stages. During scanning, the coordination pattern was performed either as a single task or in concurrence with a simultaneous visu...

This article presents a textile antenna for dual-band simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). The operates as 2.4 GHz off-body communications sub-1 (785–875 MHz) broad-beam rectenna. Incorporated within the broadside microstrip is high-impedance rectenna harvesting. Utilizing antenna-rectifier co-design, eliminates rectifier matching network. fabricated on felt substrate u...

A supersymmetric gauge theory with flavor quark is studied in a dual supergravity by adding a D7-brane probe into the AdS background deformed by the dilaton. This background exhibits quark-confinement and gluon condensation in the dual gauge theory. By estimating the vev of flavor quark-bilinear in the gravity dual, we find spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and simultaneous supersymmetry bre...

Some firms adopt dual (IS-conservative-like and IS innovator-like) strategies. The behavior of firms that adopt a dual IS strategy is associated with the following characteristics: they (1) adhere to dual goals with a simultaneous emphasis on efficiency improvements and cautious exploration of new opportunities, (2) adopt a relatively formal decision-making structure, and (3) are inherently ris...

We report here the genetic engineering of dual-color fluorescent cells with one color in the nucleus and the other in the cytoplasm that enables real-time nuclear-cytoplasmic dynamics to be visualized in living cells in vivo as well as in vitro. To obtain the dual-color cells, red fluorescent protein (RFP) was expressed in the cytoplasm of HT-1080 human fibrosarcoma cells, and green fluorescent...

The expression of manganese peroxidase (MnP) in nitrogen-limited cultures of the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium is regulated at the level of gene transcription by H2O2 and various chemicals, including ethanol, sodium arsenite, and 2,4-dichlorophenol, as well as by Mn(II) and heat shock. Northern (RNA) blot analysis demonstrates that the addition of 1.0 mM H2O2 to 5-day-old ...