The lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans is determined by various genetic and environmental factors. In this paper, spr-3, a C. elegans homologous gene of the mammalian neural restrictive silencing factor (NRSF/REST), is reported to be an important gene regulating lifespan of C. elegans. A deletion mutation of spr-3, spr-3(ok2525), or RNAi inhibition of spr-3 expression led to the short lifespan ...

Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a high-speed mechanical fastening technique which is suitable for point-joining advanced lightweight sheet materials that are dissimilar, coated, and hard to weld. Major advances have been made in recent years in SPR technique. Latest literature relating to finite element analysis (FEA) of SPR joints is reviewed in this paper. The recent development in FEA of SPR...

Surfaceplasmonresonance (SPR) methods are surface-sensitive spectroscopic techniques that can be used to characterize a variety of ultrathin organic monolayers and multilayers at gold, silver, and copper surfaces. For example, SPR measurements have been used to study Langmuir-Blodgett films {1-3), selfassembled organic monolayers (4,5), specifically and nonspecifically adsorbed biopolymers (inc...

Presenilin is an essential component of the LIN-12/Notch signaling pathway and also plays a critical role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease. Previously, a screen for suppressors of the egg-laying defective phenotype caused by partial loss of presenilin activity in Caenorhabditis elegans identified a number of new spr genes that are potentially involved in the regulation of LIN-12/Notch sign...

The aim of this study was to determine the environmental suitability conservation tillage systems. A 3-year experiment conducted in Croatia, effects different treatments on soil properties, with following: deep (DC), shallow tine cultivation (SC) and ploughing (P). Soil penetration resistance (SPR) significantly greater P compared DC all three years. In 2016, it found at 30–40 40–50 cm; 2017 10...

We present two strategies for microspotting 10 x 12 arrays of double-stranded DNAs (dsDNAs) onto a gold-coated glass slide for high-throughput studies of protein-DNA interactions by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) microscopy. Both methods use streptavidin (SA) as a linker layer between a biotin-containing mixed self-assembled monolayer (SAM) and biotinylated dsDNAs to produce arrays with high p...

Fingerprints are gaining in popularity, and fingerprint datasets becoming increasingly large. They often captured utilizing a variety of sensors embedded smart devices such as mobile phones personal computers. One the primary issues with recognition systems is their high processing complexity, which exacerbated when they gathered using several sensors. way to address this issue categorize finge...

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors are optical sensors exploiting special electromagnetic waves-surface plasmon-polaritons-to probe interactions between an analyte in solution and a biomolecular recognition element immobilized on the SPR sensor surface. Major application areas include detection of biological analytes and analysis of biomolecular interactions where SPR biosensors provide...

This paper examines the relationship between Hofstede’s national culture indices (IDV, PSI, MAS, and UAI), economic wealth (GNI), and software piracy rates (SPR). Although a number of studies have already examined this relationship, the contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we will examine not only the relationship to SPR, but also the relationship to declines in SPR. The average natio...