Between the pigment epithelium and the outer limiting membrane of the retina is an extracellular compartment filled with the interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM). A prominent component of the IPM is a glycoprotein known as interstitial retinol-binding protein (IRBP). Using in vitro techniques, we compared the ability of the cells that border this compartment to internalize colloidal gold (CG) coated...

We evaluated the usefulness of overexpression of neuroendrocrine (NE) cell differentiation determined by immunohistochemical staining for chromogranin A (Cg A) in diagnostic needle biopsy specimens of bone metastatic prostate cancers. A total of 50 patients diagnosed as having bone metastatic prostate cancer were studied. The period of observation was between 6.9 and 79.4 months (median 48.7 mo...

Although Ginsenosides are a major physiological component of red ginseng (RG), some isolated ginsenosides known to have cytotoxic activity. This study was intended reduce cytotoxicity and promote anti-inflammatory activity by mixing the crude (RG-CG) polysaccharides (RG-CP). RG-CG-CM, fractionated from RG-CG, not only had higher than that RG-CG at 100 μg/mL, but also showed increased cytotoxici...

The Hayman forest fire occurred near Denver, burning ~138,000 acres during 8 June-2 July 2002. It produced aerosol that filled the troposphere over Colorado, allowing an investigation of the effects of increased aerosol concentration on cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning polarity. Specifically, we examine whether positive CG (+CG) flashes are favored in smoky environments. Aerosol optical depth (AO...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the transformation of the center of gravity (CG) in the running single leg horizontal jump and to investigate the influence of the forward rotation of the takeoff leg in achieving vertical CG velocity. The subjects were 98 male long jumpers, whose mean best official jump among their recorded trials was 7.16 ± 0.66 m. Their takeoff motion was videotaped w...

Given an א1-free abelian group G we characterize the class CG of all torsion abelian groups T satisfying Ext(G, T ) = 0 assuming the special continuum hypothesis CH. Moreover, in Gödel’s constructable universe we prove that this characterizes CG for arbitrary torsion-free abelian G. It follows that there exist some ugly א1-free abelian groups.

In this paper, we propose an analysis of pseudogapping in Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG; Kubota 2010, Kubota and Levine 2012). Pseudogapping poses a particularly challenging problem for previous analyses in both the transformational and nontransformational literature. The flexible notion of constituency countenanced in categorial grammar in general (including Hybrid TLCG) ...

There is a growing need to understand how mobile devices are used to reach people in a crisis. This study focuses on how work organizations play a gatekeeping role in how their employees receive crisis information. Relying on research in the digital divide and organizational justice, this study compares two different types of organizations and their policies banning or allowing mobile devices a...