The results of particle simulations of a typical NNB-heated JT-60U discharge (# E036378), performed by the HMGC particle-in-cell code, are presented. We observe that the linear-growth phase is dominated by a fast-growing mode, localized at half radius, near the maximum of the energetic-ion pressure gradient and with a significant coupling with the Alfvén continuum, showing the energetic-particl...

i Letter to the Editor. 483 Controlling Factors in Urethan Carcinogenesis in Mice: Effect of Enzyme Inducers and Metabolic Inhibitors. Richard S. Yamamoto, John H. Weisburger, and Elizabeth K. Weisburger. 487 Isolation and Partial Characterization of a Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenaseinactivating Factor from Ehrlich Ascites Tumor Cells. Francisco P. Marnarli and Saul Green. 491 Absence ...

Recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms in the cascade of events resulting in retinal cell death in ocular pathologies like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration led to the common descriptive term of neurodegenerative diseases of the retina. The final common pathophysiologic pathway of these diseases includes a particular form of metabolic stress, re...

We examined the ability of pyridoxamine (PM), an inhibitor of formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and lipoxidation end products (ALEs), to protect against diabetes-induced retinal vascular lesions. The effects of PM were compared with the antioxidants vitamin E (VE) and R-alpha-lipoic acid (LA) in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Animals were given either PM (1 g/l drinking...

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Lager beers are traditionally made at lower temperatures (6-14 degrees C) than ales (15-25 degrees C). At low temperatures, lager strains (Saccharomyces pastorianus) ferment faster than ale strains (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Two lager and two ale strains had similar maltose transport activities at 20 degrees C, but at 0 degrees C the lager strains had fivefold greater activity. AGT1, MTT1 and ...

After just simple degassing, dilution, pH adjustment and direct flow injection, characteristic fingerprint spectra of beer samples have been obtained by fast (few seconds) electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) analysis in both the negative and positive ion modes. A total of 29 samples belonging to the two main beer types (lagers and ales) and several beer subtypes from USA, Europe ...

In this paper we study the interaction of fast particles with Alfvénic instabilities in Tokamak plasmas, with reference to present-day experiments that exploit strong energetic particle heating (namely, JT-60U [1]) and the consistency of proposed ITER burning plasma scenarios [2]. Concerning JT-60U, two different types of bursting modes have been observed by MHD spectrography in auxiliary heate...

Two and a half years ago the Ministry of Health asked the 15 regional hospital boards to expand their psychiatric facilities for adolescents. The National Association for Mental Health then collected detailed information about the boards' expansion plans. But late last year a further NAMH survey revealed that in the 2\ years since the Ministry's call there had been a national increase of only 3...

According to a non-hierarchical view of human cortical face processing, selective responses to faces may emerge in a higher-order area of the hierarchy, in the lateral part of the middle fusiform gyrus (fusiform face area [FFA]) independently from face-selective responses in the lateral inferior occipital gyrus (occipital face area [OFA]), a lower order area. Here we provide a stringent test of...