MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a group of endogenous small non-coding RNAs, play important roles in plant growth, development, and stress response processes. Eucommia ulmoides Oliver (hardy rubber tree) is one of the few woody plants capable of producing trans-1, 4-polyisoprene (TPI), also known as Eu-rubber, which has been utilized as an industrial raw material and is extensively cultivated in China. How...

BACKGROUND Giardia duodenalis is a widespread intestinal protozoan of both humans and mammals. To date, few epidemiological studies have assessed the potential and importance of zoonotic transmission; and the human giardiasis burden attributable to G. duodenalis of animal origin is unclear. No information about occurrence and genotyping data of sheep and goat giardiasis is available in China. T...

In plants triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) interconverts glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P) and dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) during glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, and the Calvin-Benson cycle. The nuclear genome of land plants encodes two tpi genes, one gene product is located in the cytoplasm and the other is imported into the chloroplast. Herein we report the crystal structures of the TPIs fro...

Sera from patients with primary syphilis have been fractionated by numerous investigators in order to explore the serological reactivity of the various classes of immunoglobulin. The methods applied have been the following: Electrophoresis (Laurell, 1955; Laurell and Lindau, 1958; Portnoy, Julian, Smith and Harris, 1963); Density gradient ultracentrifugation (Aho, 1967; Davis, Moore, Kabat, and...

The objective of this study was to identify herd-level colostrum management factors associated with the adequate transfer passive immunity (TPI; defined as serum Brix refractance ≥8.4% in first week life). A total 59 commercial Holstein dairy farms were included observational cross-sectional study. In every participating herd, a minimum 14 calves sampled measure their TPI using digital refracto...

Two–Party Immediate Response Disputes (TPI-disputes) are a dialogue game formalism providing a sound and complete proof scheme for credulous reasoning in argument systems. In earlier work it has been shown that this dialogue protocol can be interpreted as a proof calculus with which to establish unsatisfiability of propositional formula presented in CNF, and that viewed thus, the number of ‘mov...

This paper presents the TPI-model, which is based on current state-of-the-art test process improvement practices. The model gives practical guidelines for assessing the maturity level of testing in an organisation and for step by step improvement of the process. The purpose of such improvement could be reaching CMM level 3. The model consists of 20 key areas, each with different levels of matur...

Urban congestion has become a global problem with urbanization and motorization. The analysis of time-varying traffic patterns is necessary to formulate effective management strategies. existing studies have focused on flow developed by the volume, speed density road sections in limited district, while long-time macro network at city level inadequate. This paper aims recognize urban based perfo...