The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the gene associated with cystic fibrosis [4] (CF). Tsui?s research pinpointed the gene, some mutations to which cause CF, and it revealed the underlying disease mechanism. The CFTR gene encodes a protein in cell membranes in epithelial tissues and affec...

Huiying Chen Youfu Li City University of Hong Kong Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management 83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. We present a method for enhanced 3-D tracking using an interaction matrix. We developed two constraints to avoid the singularities and local minima of the interaction matrix. These constrain...

Chee, Y.M. and A. Lim, The algorithmic complexity of colour switching, Information Processing Letters 43 (1992) 63-68. A new graph colouring related problem called the colour switching problem is introduced. By giving a reduction from the colour switching problem to the weighted matching problem on bipartite graphs, we show that the colour switching problem can be solved in O(n3/* log n) time. ...

Many of the plant species found that it can be used medically (Ali-Shtayeh and Abu, 1999). Essential oils are aromatic substances which are obtained from various plant parts by steam distillation; many of which exhibit antibacterial (Ozcan et al., 2006), antifungal (Chee and Lee, 2007) and antiviral (Khan et al., 2005) activity. Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is widely used in traditional med...

Perspective The Cystic Fibrosis Gene: A Molecular Genetic Lap-Chee Tsui and Ruslan Dorfman Cystic Fibrosis Status of Fluid and Electrolyte Absorption in M.M. Reddy and M. Jackson Stutts Anion Permeation The CFTR Ion Channel: Gating, Regulation, and Tzyh-Chang Hwang and Kevin L. Kirk Phenotypes The Influence of Genetics on Cystic Fibrosis Michael R. Knowles and Mitchell Drumm CFTR Assessing the ...

Supplemental Information on “Strongly coupled slow-light polaritons in onedimensional disordered localized states” Jie Gao, Sylvain Combrie, Baolai Liang, Peter Schmitteckert, Gaelle Lehoucq, Stephane Xavier, XinAn Xu, Kurt Busch, Diana L. Huffaker, Alfredo De Rossi, and Chee Wei Wong Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, 91767, France University...

In a recent paper, Chee et al. report differences in the patterns of brain activation and deactivation in bilinguals with different levels of proficiency in their second language. Most intriguingly, this research addressed the issue of the neural basis of phonological working memory (PWM), which is crucial in language acquisition, in subjects who were under comparable social pressure to be bili...

The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the gene associated with cystic fibrosis [4] (CF). Tsui?s research pinpointed the gene, some mutations to which cause CF, and it revealed the underlying disease mechanism. The CFTR gene encodes a protein in cell membranes in epithelial tissues and affec...