In C. elegans embryos, a Wnt/MAPK signaling pathway downregulates the TCF/LEF transcription factor POP-1, resulting in a lower nuclear level in signal-responsive cells compared to their sisters. Although the beta-catenin WRM-1 is required for POP-1 downregulation, a direct interaction between these two proteins does not seem to be required, as the beta-catenin-interacting domain of POP-1 is dis...

OBJECTIVES Recent research suggests that inhibition at early stages of visual processing may be age invariant. We test this proposal using a priming of pop-out (PoP) measure developed by Lamy, Antebi, Aviani, and Carmel (2008. Priming of pop-out provides reliable measures of target activation and distractor inhibition in selective attention. Vision Research, 48, 30-41. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2007...

The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) is a 71,000 line-of-code program written in Fortran and MPI. POP is a component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is a heavily used global climate model. Now that Coarrays are part of the Fortran standard one question raised by POP’s developers is whether Coarrays could be used to improve POP’s performance or reduce its code volume. Although Coar...

Inferring the Internet Point of Presence (PoP) level maps is gaining interest due to its importance to many areas, e.g., for tracking and studying properties of the Internet. In this chapter we survey research towards the generation of PoP level maps. The chapter introduces different approaches to automatically classify IP addresses to PoPs and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. Special ...

Objective: There is little epidemiological data regarding pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in Japan, despite it being recognized as a disease can be treated in the outpatient or inpatient settings. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of symptomatic POP among Japanese women. Methods: This cross-sectional study evaluated 8,407 randomly selected women (20-90 years old) who were employed at the Japan...

BACKGROUND The persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are highly lipophilic and resistant to biodegradation and found in e.g. seafood and marine mammals. Greenlandic Inuit have high intake of marine food and thus high POP burden that varies according to local conditions and dietary preference. We do for the very first time report the serum POP related non-steroidal xenohormone activity of Inuit a...

BACKGROUND Prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) is a serine endopeptidase that is widely distributed in vivo, particularly in the liver. Significant changes in functional mitochondrial proteins involved with mitochondrial oxidoreductases/transporters and nucleic acid binding proteins were observed after POP inhibition in the liver, which suggested a role of POP in regulating liver energy metabolism. Ste...

A large (25 m2), remote-release buoyant pop net, 1989), and to do this, a buoyant pop net was designed floorless to permit normal behaviour by benthic fish, and a with the aim of making a more complete cat&. The beach seine net were comparing the catch seine net is also unwieldy when fish need to be collected the 2 net types. Both nets were made of 1 mm mesh, aimed at catchina fish from 10 to 1...

INTRODUCTION Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a debilitating and common disease that affects women’s quality of life. In a 1997 regional study, 11.1% of all women had the risk of undergoing a POP repair surgery [1]. Most women patients that undergo POP repair are >= 52 years of age and have previously had a hysterectomy. Part of the POP repair problem is that reoperation rates are 30% [2]. This c...