In Caenorhabditis elegans three pairs of neurons, AFD, AIY, and AIZ, play a key role in thermosensation. The LIM homeobox gene ceh-14 is expressed in the AFD thermosensory neurons. ceh-14 mutant animals display athermotactic behaviors, although the neurons are still present and differentiated. Two other LIM homeobox genes, ttx-3 and lin-11, function in the two interneurons AIY and AIZ, respecti...

The advent of enzyme replacement therapy for AndersonFabry disease (AFD) adds impetus for the early detection of patients with this inherited multiorgan lipid storage disease. The resultant accumulation of neutral glycosphingolipids, especially globotriaosylceramide (Gb3), in various cell types promotes development of disease-related complications associated with renal, cardiovascular, and cere...

Auf die Infragestellung stark wertegeladener nationalintegrativer Modelle wie sie im Zuge von Pluralisierung und Individualisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften, beobachtbar ist, antworten Konservative mit einem Festhalten an traditionellen Modellen legitimer Kultur Repräsentation, z.B. dem Sinne, dass ein besonders anerkennungswürdiges symbolisch bindendes verpflichtendes Element einer Nation ...

Level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) of the signal envelope are two important second-order channel statistics, which convey useful information about the dynamic temporal behavior of multipath fading channels. In this paper and for a general non-isotropic scattering scenario, in which the mobile receives signal only from particular directions with different probabilities, we...

Molecular markers have been used to predict the genetic variance of segregating soybean populations by measuring the genetic distance between parents. For this purpose we analyzed the genetic distance among six pairwise combinations of four soybean lines grown in Southern Brazil. The AFLP-based distances (AFD) were estimated with 21 primer-pair combinations. Additive genetic variance (D) was es...

We report first-principles calculations on the coupling between epitaxial strain, polarization, and oxygen octahedra rotations in monodomain (PbTiO(3))(n)/(SrTiO(3))(n) superlattices. We show how the interplay between (i) the epitaxial strain and (ii) the electrostatic conditions can be used to control the orientation of the main axis of the system. The electrostatic constrains at the interface...

We used placental tissue to compare the imprinted gene expression of IGF2, H19, KCNQ1OT1, and CDKN1C of singletons conceived via assisted reproduction technology (ART) with that of spontaneously conceived (SC) singletons. Of 989 singletons examined (ART n = 65; SC n = 924), neonatal weight was significantly lower (P < .001) in the ART group than in the SC group, but placental weight showed no s...