Background and objectives: Low social status increases risk of disease due, in part, to the psychosocial stress that accompanies feeling subordinate or poor. Previous studies report that chronic stress and chronically elevated cortisol can impair cardiovascular and immune function. We test whether lower status is more benign in small-scale, relatively egalitarian societies, where leaders lack c...

a Scientifi c Resource.—Bird collections were founded and built during the heyday of global exploration. The mission of these collections through most of their history has been to document avian diversity and its distribution and to serve as a resource for research and education. As bird collections became established and grew, ornithology itself became a scientifi c discipline and broadly expa...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) infection is associated with an increased morbidity and poor prognosis in children Cystic Fibrosis (CF). The aim of the study was to evaluate prevalence characteristics PA over a five- year period at Paediatric CF Centre Albania. This retrospective cross-sectional study. Patient’s notes, microbiology lab results Registry Albania data were used. overall chronic 18.85%...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) covers a spectrum of diseases from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, with approximately 20% risk of progressing to fibrosis and cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to compare the relative expression levels of circulating miR-21, miR-34a, miR-122, miR-125b and miR-375 between healthy controls and NAFLD patients, and to assess the feasib...

microRNA-122 (miR-122) was one of the first examples of a tissue-specific miRNA. It is highly expressed in liver, where it constitutes 70% of the total miRNA pool. miR-122 expression is specific to the vertebrate lineage, where the sequence of the mature miRNA is completely conserved. miR-122 is a target for extensive study due to its association with cholesterol metabolism and hepatocellular c...

Here we describe lentivirus-infected cell microarrays for the high-throughput screening of gene function in mammalian cells. To create these arrays, we cultured mammalian cells on glass slides ‘printed’ with lentiviruses pseudotyped as vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein, which encode short hairpin RNA or cDNA. Cells that land on the printed ‘features’ become infected with lentivirus, creat...

1. Modules: 4/2/13 1 2. Quotient Modules: 4/4/13 3 3. The Isomorphism Theorems: 4/9/13 5 4. Universal Properties: 4/11/13 7 5. The Tensor Product: 4/16/13 10 6. More Tensor Products: 4/18/13 12 7. Exact Sequences: 4/23/13 14 8. Projective and Injective Modules: 4/25/13 17 9. Finitely Generated Modules Over a Euclidean Domain: 4/30/13 19 10. Finitely Generated Modules Over a PID: 5/2/13 21 11. T...

 As a IP telephony protocol, the SIP is gaining increasing popularity. There is yet POTS(Plain Old Telephone Service) line as the existing subscriber line. The Megaco/H.248 may be used for call between the POTS line and SIP. So, it is needed that method for interworking between Megaco/H.248 and SIP. In this paper, we propose the implementation of Residential Media Gateway Prototype in Interwor...

The photodissociation of jet cooled benzyl radicals, C7H7, at 248 nm has been studied using photofragment translational spectroscopy. Two dissociation channels were observed, H + C7H6 and CH3 + C6H4. The translational energy distribution determined for each channel suggests that both dissociation mechanisms occur via internal conversion to the ground state followed by intramolecular vibrational...