1) Bioscience Center, Nagoya University, Furouchou, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan 2) Honda R & D CO. Wako Research Center, 1-4-1 Chuou, Wako, Saitama 351-0193, Japan 3) International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines 4) BioResources Center, RIKEN, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan 5) Plant Molecular Biology Lab., RIKEN, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsuku...

The antioxidant and protective properties of a synthetic soybean isoflavone (ISO) were investigated using sow mammary gland cell. Cells were cultured with 10, 20 and 30 uM ISO, respectively, under 80 uM FeSO4·7H2O/H2O2 conditions. After 48 h of incubation, the cells in the presence of ISO were lost less compared with that of control under oxidative damage by H2O2/FeSO4; ISO decreased the cell n...

deinkability of old newspaper was investigated using cellulase at different concentrations and treatment times. the results of optical properties of the made papers indicated that by increasing the enzyme concentration to 0.05 percent the brightness was increased to 47.5% iso and yellowness decreased to 11.03% iso. while at higher charges than 0.05 percent, brightness value the was decreased an...

Nowadays, many organizations are dealing with the publication of standards for software engineering, for examples, European Space Agency (ESA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In this paper, the ISO software engineering standards are classified into software product and software process ISO standards. Actually, f...

This paper proposes eSpaceML as a representation scheme for annotating eventdriven spatial expressions in natural language. It adopts SpatialML (MITRE, 2009) and ISO-Space (ISO, 2010) as a basis for the development of a novel, distributed spatial annotation scheme. SpatialML focuses on the annotation of spatial locations and their topological relations, while both ISO-Space and eSpaceML attempt...

Manufacturing companies in developing countries, irrespective of size or sector , often use ISO 9000 as a route to world-class status. Based on the results of an investigation by questionnaire in various manufacturing companies in Vietnam, the research is aimed to study if ISO 9000 implementation has any impact on improving the company competitiveness. Firstly, the study examines the situation ...

A gram-scale synthesis of terminally-branched iso-fatty acids (iso-C12-C19) was developed commencing with methyl undec-10-enoate (methyl undecylenate) (for iso-C12-C14) or the C15 and C16 lactones pentadecanolide (for iso-C15-C17) and hexadecanolide (for iso-C18-C19). Central to the approaches outlined is the two-step construction of the terminal isopropyl group through addition of methylmagnes...

Developing high-quality asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine systems (ASFTSs) remains a challenge. However, there is no accepted understanding as to what are the important quality characteristics for this type of software system and/or what defines a mature software process for producing high-quality ASTFSs. Through adopting a multi-step research methodology, we define a quality model fo...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment with the angiotensin-converting inhibitor captopril or volatile anesthetic isoflurane has, respectively, been shown to attenuate myocardial ischemia reperfusion (MI/R) injury in rodents and in patients. It is unknown whether or not captopril pretreatment and isoflurane preconditioning (Iso) may additively or synergistically attenuate MI/R injury. METHODS AND RESULTS Pa...