ALG-2, a 22-kDa penta-EF-hand protein, is involved in cell death, signal transduction, membrane trafficking, etc., by interacting with various proteins in mammalian cells in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Most known ALG-2-interacting proteins contain proline-rich regions in which either PPYPXnYP (type 1 motif) or PXPGF (type 2 motif) is commonly found. Previous X-ray crystal structural analysis of th...

Objective In the present study, the effects of alginate (ALG) concentration and ovarian cells (OCs) on the development and function of follicles were simultaneously evaluated. MaterialsAndMethods In the first step, preantral follicles (100-130 µm in diameter) were mechanically isolated from the ovaries of 2-week-old NMRI mice, encapsulated in the absence or presence of OCs in 0.5, 0.75 and 1% A...

Acknowledgement This paper was prompted in part by an inspiring course taught at Cornell by Persi Diaconis in the fall of 1996. For help and advice along the way we are grateful to Diaconis and to 29 References 1] D. Bayer and P. Diaconis, \Trailing the dovetail shuue to its lair," Ann. Appl. \Asymptotic analysis of a random walk on a hypercube with many dimensions," Random Struct. and Alg.

Intonational phrasing and pitch accent distribution (PAD) have been proposed to be interdependent (Portuguese) and independent properties of prosodic systems (Egyptian). This paper examines the relation between intonational phrasing and pitch accent distribution in two center-southern varieties of European Portuguese Alentejo (Ale) and Algarve (Alg). Sentences obtained in a reading task systema...

In this paper, we introduce a class of random walks with absorbing states on simplicial complexes. Given a simplicial complex of dimension d, a random walk with an absorbing state is defined which relates to the spectrum of the k-dimensional Laplacian for 1 ≤ k ≤ d. We study an example of random walks on simplicial complexes in the context of a semi-supervised learning problem. Specifically, we...

Günümüz toplumunun giderek tüketici hale gelmesi, bireyin ya?am kalitesini ve tarz?n? de?i?tirmektedir. Bu durum d??a kapal? konut yerle?imlerini bir cazibe merkezi haline getirmi?tir. D??a siteleri; orta üst gelir grubundan hane halklar?n?n d??ar?ya kapal?, özel güvenlik önlemleri ile korunan çe?itli sosyal olanaklar? bar?nd?ran alanlar? olarak ifade edilebilir. Günümüzde üretim biçimleriyle k...

We report the spatiotemporal control of a 3D coculture by combining photocurable and chemically degradable hydrogels for coculture of embryonic stem (ES) cells with HepG2 cells. ES cells were encapsulated in micropatterned photocurable poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels. The cell-laden PEG hydrogels were then encapsulated in calcium-alginate (Ca-Alg) hydrogel containing HepG2 cells. The ES c...

Then, f ðR ijk;Ri;Rj;RkÞ is either faj; alg; faj; akg or faj; ak; alg: (Only the first two possibilities are mentioned on page 390). In Case A, also consider the possibility that f ðR ijk;Ri;Rj ;RkÞ 1⁄4 faj; ak; alg: Choose RkADE such that falgPkfaj; algPkfajgPkfak; al ; algPkX for any other set X : The proof that k will manipulate at ðR ijk;Ri; % Rj ;RkÞ via Rk is virtually the same as before....

1PM: Oleg Viro (Stony Brook). Multifields (fields with multivalued addition), base fields of tropical geometries. Abstract:In many classical number sets (e.g., complex numbers, real numbers and non-negative real numbers), there are remarkable structures of multifield. Replacing the tropical max-plus semifield in the foundations of tropical geometry by a multifield simplifies the structure of tr...