Lycopene is common in diet and known for its antioxidant activities. However, the impact of lycopene on iron metabolism is poorly investigated. In this study, we hypothesize that lycopene can prevent iron-mediated oxidative stress, proliferation and autophagy in liver and use a rat model of nutritional iron supplementation to confi rm its intervention in these defence mechanisms. We found that ...

The species of the Neoserica lubrica Brenske, 1898, Neoserica obscura (Blanchard, 1850) and Neoserica silvestris Brenske, 1902 species groups are revised. The study resulted in the following new synonymies and combinations: Neoserica obscura (Blanchard, 1850) = Microserica roeri Frey, 1972, syn. n., = Maladera chinensis (Arrow, 1946), syn. n.; Neoserica hainana (Brenske, 1898), comb. n., and Ne...

This paper uses the concept of organisational field as a tool for comparative research exploring the role of non-profit organisations in the provision of housing to low income households in Ireland’s two jurisdictions. Further comparison is provided between these two ‘non-profit housing systems’ and that found in England. The paper draws on preliminary research undertaken by the authors in each...

Biocontrol Science and Technology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713409232 Effect of storage conditions on the survival of two potential biocontrol agents of nematodes, the fungi Paecilomyces lilacinus and Pochonia chlamydosporia Weijun Duan ab; Ence Yang ab; Meichun Xiang a; Xingzhong Liu a a...

Many studies in the past decade have shown that "earlier is better" as far as learning a second language (L2) is concerned. That is, individuals who began learning their L2 in late adolescence or early adulthood ("late bilinguals") usually resemble native speakers of the L2 less than individuals who began learning their L2 in childhood ("early bilinguals") do. Early bilinguals have been shown t...

Publications: CIKM 2016 Justin Sampson, Fred Morstatter, Liang Wu and Huan Liu. "Leveraging the Implicit Structure within Social Media for Emergent Rumor Detection", short paper. Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang, Fred Morstatter and Huan Liu. "Paired Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Linked Data. Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang, Charu Aggarwal and Huan Liu. "Linked Document Embedding for Classification. Ke...

Paks4, along with Paks5, and 6 are members of the group B family of p21-activated kinases (Paks). The Paks play multiple different roles in controlling cell morphology, cell growth, proliferation, and signaling. Pak4 has essential roles in embryonic development (Qu et al., 2003), but in adults high levels of Pak4 are frequently associated with cancer. Pak4 has been implicated in several types o...

Since the pioneering work of Lorenz [1] and Rössler [2], it has been known that chaos can occur in systems of autonomous ordinary differential equations with as few as three variables and one or two quadratic nonlinearities. Many other chaotic systems have been discovered over the last years [3–7]. There have been extensive investigations on dynamical behaviors of these chaotic systems [8–14]. ...

In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling hard real-time periodic task sets on a single processor with the rate monotonic scheduler. We are concerned with the feasibility test given by Liu and Layland, based on the least upper bound of the utilization factor. We show that the result is incomplete and that the argument is incorrect. We complete and correct the result.

Citation: Larrasoaña JC, Roberts AP, Liu Q, Lyons R, Oldfield F, Rohling EJ and Heslop D (2015) Source-to-sink magnetic properties of NE Saharan dust in Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments: review and paleoenvironmental implications. Front. Earth Sci. 3:19. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00019 Source-to-sink magnetic properties of NE Saharan dust in Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments: review an...