BACKGROUND Heilongjiang Province located in northeast China is a multi-ethnic region with people who have lived in cold conditions for several generations. Fatty acids are important to people with cold resistance. CPT1A encodes a protein that imports long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria for fatty-acid oxidation. FADS is an essential enzyme for the synthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated...

Slow motion of a thin plate at a finite angle of attack in a rotating container filled with a viscous incompressible fluid is analysed. The Ross by and Ekman numbers are assumed to be small. The solution method is developed by studying horizontal translation of an elliptical plate. The plate is shown to carry a stagnant Taylor column with it as it moves. Detailed analysis of the structure of th...

PURPOSE To report the clinical, ophthalmic, and genetic characteristics for lattice corneal dystrophy type I (LCDI) in a Chilean family. METHODS Six affected family members were examined clinically including visual acuity, color cornea photography, applanation tonography, and fundoscopy. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral leukocytes from six affected and three unaffected members of a f...

This paper analyzes age and cohort changes in the occupational attainment of Blacks and Whites born in successive decades from 1910 to 1979. Occupational attainment is operationalized as “occupational returns to education” and “earnings returns to occupation.” The primary objective is to determine whether the relative occupational attainment of Blacks of the baby-boom generation and Generation ...

12 Ozone-initiated chemistry in indoor air can produce sub-micron particles, which are potentially harmful 13 for human health. Occupants in indoor spaces constitute potential sites for particle generation through 14 ozone reactions with human skin and clothing. This investigation conducted chamber experiments to 15 examine particle generation from ozone reactions with clothing (a T-shirt) unde...

Since the penetration of photovoltaic systems in the electrical network is increasing, the need to register and model the contribution of these energy sources, in terms of generated disturbances, quality and amount of available power, is becoming a crucial issue for optimal management of grid. So, this paper, starting from data experimentally recorded on a medium scale photovoltaic system that ...

The Next Generation CFHT Committee Claude Catala, Observatoire Midi-Pyr en ees, Co-Chair Ken Chambers, University of Hawaii Patrick Côt e, California Institute of Technology Pierre-Henry Cox, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Universit e Paris Olivier Le F evre, Laboratoire D'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille Simon Lilly, University of Toronto Pierre Martin, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corpora...

Recent work on the Generation of Referring Expressions has increased the generating capability of algorithms in this area. This paper asks whether the models underlying these proposals can still be used if even more complex referring expressions are generated. To discuss this issue, we will investigate a variety of referring expressions that pose difficulties to current generation algorithms. I...