Detailed statistical rate calculations combined with electron capture theory and kinetic modeling for the electron attachment to SF(6) and detachment from SF(6)(-) [Troe et al., J. Chem. Phys. 127, 244303 (2007)] are used to test thermionic electron emission models. A new method to calculate the specific detachment rate constants k(det)(E) and the electron energy distributions f(E,epsilon) as f...

BACKGROUND The timely onset of powerful uterine contractions during parturition occurs through thick and thin filament interactions, similar to other smooth muscle tissues. Calponin is one of the thin filament proteins. Phosphorylation of calponin induced by PKC-epsilon can promote the contraction of vascular smooth muscle. While the mechanism by which calponin regulates the contraction of preg...

ige-mediated cell signaling, induced by cross-linking of high affinity receptor for ige (fcεri) in the presence of antigen (ag), is a well known mechanism described for mast cell activation in allergy and hypersensitivity reactions, which induces a spectrum of cellular responses such as secretion and up-regulation of cell surface fcεri. although for several years  ige  binding  to  fcεri  was  ...

the design and optimization of hydrocyclones using cfd techniques are gaining popularity and the key to a successful simulation lies with the accurate description of the high turbulent swirling behavior of the flow. this paper presents a detailed comparison between the omega rsm and the rng k–e turbulence model, which are both derived specially for modeling swirling or rotational flow, in the s...

Given input-output pairs of an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) in three dimensions, we derive the first theoretically-rigorous scheme for learning associated Green's function $G$. By exploiting hierarchical low-rank structure $G$, show that one can construct approximant to $G$ converges almost surely and achieves a relative error $\mathcal{O}(\Gamma_\epsilon^{-1/2}\log^3(1/\epsilon...

We have mapped the DNase I-hypersensitive sites around the epsilon-globin and c-myc genes in two human leukemia cell lines K562 and HL60. In K562 cells in which the epsilon-globin gene is transcribed, six DNase I-hypersensitive sites are found in 6 kilobases (kb) of upstream flanking DNA; in HL60 cells in which the c-myc gene is expressed, two DNase I-hypersensitive sites are observed in 2 kb o...

Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most frequent cause of dementia in Western countries. Putative genetic risk factors for AD are polymorphisms in the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene and in the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) gene. Our objective was to investigate the role of the APOE coding region polymorphisms epsilon 2, epsilon 3, and epsilon 4 and APOE promoter variants A/T a...

Using both analytical solutions obtained from simplified systems and numerical results from more realistic cases, we investigate the role played by the dielectric constant of membrane proteins epsilon(p) and pore water epsilon(w) in permeation of ions across channels. We show that the boundary and its curvature are the crucial factors in determining how an ion's potential energy depends on the ...

We investigate the possibility to describe quark mass hierarchies as well CKM mixing matrix without fine-tuning in a flavour model with modular $A_4$ symmetry. The are considered vicinity of fixed point $\tau = \omega \equiv \exp({i\,2\pi/3})$ (the left cusp fundamental domain group), $\tau$ being VEV modulus. involves forms level 3 and weights 6, 4 2, contains eight constants, only two which, ...

Human C/EBP epsilon is a newly cloned CCAAT/enhancer-binding transcription factor. Initial studies indicated it may be an important regulator of human myelopoiesis. To elucidate the range of expression of C/EBP epsilon, we used reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis and examined its expression in 28 hematopoietic and 14 nonhematopoietic cell lines, 16 fresh myeloid le...