A cDNA clone encoding a presumptive antifreeze protein was isolated from a skin library from shorthorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus scorpius. The clone encodes a 92-residue mature polypeptide (sssAFP-2) without any signal and prosequence, which suggests an intracellular localization. It is the largest alanine-rich, alpha-helical type I antifreeze protein known. A recombinant fusion protein containing...

Since Holland (1993) introduced the concept of tags a number of tag models with intriguing and potentially very useful, properties have been advanced. However there is currently little understanding as to the exact mechanisms that produce these results. Specifically it is not know what (if any) are the necessary conditions for tag systems to produce high levels of cooperation in social dilemmas...

this research intended to determine whether english and persian men and women were different with respect to the use of intensifiers, hedges and tag questions. to conduct the study, r. lakoff's (1975) ideas concerning linguistic differences between males and females were taken into account. in order to gather the most natural-like data, 6 english and 8 persian film• scripts with a family a...

A female neonate who was born as large for gestational age baby to a Diabetic mother had a continuous murmur in the left infraclavicular area with scolisis toward right and deficient ribs in the right side of her chest wall. She had a sacral dimple and a skin tag in the right lower back. Radiograph revealed hemivertebrae from T1-T6 level with absent third and seventh ribs and fused fourth, fift...

Here we report the first case of a Korean infant with a cloverleaf-shaped craniosynostosis, in which the diagnosis of Beare-Stevenson syndrome was suspected upon observation of the typical morphological features. This infant exhibited craniofacial anomalies, ocular proptosis, cutis gyrata, acanthosis nigricans, prominent umbilical stump, furrowed palms and soles, hypospadia, and sacral skin tag...

Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is a respiratory condition characterized by the paradoxical closure of the vocal cords. This condition results in a myriad of symptoms that would be expected from an upper airway obstruction including anxiety, hyperventilation, wheezing, stridor, shortness of breath, dyspnea, and suprasternal and neck muscle retraction. with known VCD who underwent local anesthesia ...

Labelling strategies in metabarcoding studies & how to ensure that nucleotide tags stay place Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) and extracted from bulk specimen samples is a powerful tool ecological interactions, diet biodiversity, as its labelling amplicons allows high-throughput sequencing taxonomically informative sequences many parallel. The backbone the addition sample-spec...