In the title compound, {[La(2)(C(10)H(11)N(2)O(5)S)(6)(H(2)O)(4)]·2C(10)H(8)N(2)·14H(2)O}(n), the La(III) ions are in a slightly distorted bicapped trigonal prismatic geometry, and are linked by six carboxyl-ate groups in a syn-syn bidentate bridging fashion to form a one-dimensional inorganic-organic alternating linear chain. These polymeric chains generate microchannels extending along [100],...

This study was carried out to evaluate the influence of temperature and poultry litter on germination vegetative growth virulence and conidial production of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) isolates on larvae and adults of the lesser mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus) (Panzer). The vegetative growth and conidial production were evaluated on culture media. Vi...

We explore mechanisms that enable cancer cells to tolerate PI3K or Akt inhibitors. Prolonged treatment of breast cancer cells with PI3K or Akt inhibitors leads to increased expression and activation of a kinase termed SGK3 that is related to Akt. Under these conditions, SGK3 is controlled by hVps34 that generates PtdIns(3)P, which binds to the PX domain of SGK3 promoting phosphorylation and act...

Successful gene therapy requires the development of suitable vehicles for the selective and efficient delivery of genes to specific target cells at the expense of minimal toxicity. In this work, we investigated a non-viral gene delivery system based on chitosan (CS) to specifically address cystic fibrosis (CF). Thus, electrostatic self-assembled CS-pEGFP and CS-pEGFP-siRNA complexes were prepar...

This randomized, double-blind, cross-over study assessed the comparative pharmacokinetics of steviol and steviol glucuronide following single oral doses of rebaudioside A and stevioside in healthy adult male subjects. Steviol glucuronide appeared in the plasma of all subjects after administration of rebaudioside A or stevioside, with median tmax values of 12.0 and 8.00h post-dose, respectively....

Two novel heteropolyoxomolybdate [XMo₈O31]n- (X = Ge(1) or P(2)) manganese carbonyl derivatives [(CH₃)₄N]₆H₆{MnII(GeMo₈O31)[MnI(CO)₃]₂}₂·12H₂O (1) and [(CH₃)₄N]₄H₆{MnII(PMo₈O31)[MnI(CO)₃]₂}₂·14H₂O (2), have been successfully synthesized and characterized in the solid state by single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR and thermogravimetric analysis, and in solution by UV-Vis spectroscopy and electroc...

The development and reproduction of the citrus leafminer (CLM), Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, were evaluated in six citrus genotypes in order to identify genotypes with resistance traits that could be applied in a program for the development of citrus varieties resistant to the citrus leafminer. Tests were conducted under controlled laboratory conditions (25 ± 1ºC, 70 ± 10% RH, and 14h photo...

We study the arc statistics of gravitational lensing generated by dark matter halos in order to probe their density profile. We characterize the halo profile by two parameters, the inner slope of the central cusp α, and the median amplitude of the concentration parameter, cnorm, for a halo of mass 10 14h−1M at z = 0, and compute the numbers of tangential and radial arcs produced by gravitationa...

Not all the questions related to the semi-supervised training of hybrid ASR system with DNN acoustic model were already deeply investigated. In this paper, we focus on the question of the granularity of confidences (per-sentence, per-word, perframe), the question of how the data should be used (dataselection by masks, or in mini-batch SGD with confidences as weights). Then, we propose to re-tun...

We show that the spatial correlation function of a flux-limited sample of Xray selected clusters of galaxies will exhibit a correlation scale that is smaller than the correlation scale of a volume-limited, richness-limited sample of comparable apparent spatial density. The flux-limited sample contains clusters of different richnesses at different distances: poor groups are found nearby and rich...