Progress in corn improvement research has produced varieties with higher concentrations of certain nutrients. Normally, corn contains about 3.5% ether extract which is relatively well utilized by pigs. Three varieties of corn with higher oil content and improved fatty acid profile relative to conventional corn were recently developed. The utilization of varieties of corn that contain higher oil...

KxCoO2 shares many similarities with NaxCoO2, as well as some important differences no hydrationinduced superconductivity has been reported . At Tc2=20 K, K0.5CoO2 becomes an insulator with a tiny optical gap, as happens in Na0.5CoO2 at 52 K. This similarity, with a known common structure, enables direct comparisons to be made. Using the K-zigzag structure recently reported and the local densit...

Bones of human and ground sloth remains were analyzed for presence of Trypanosoma cruzi by conventional PCR using primers TC, TC1 and TC2. Sequence results amplified a fragment with the same product size as the primers (300 and 350pb). Amplified PCR product was sequenced and analyzed on GenBank, using Blast. Although these sequences did not match with these parasites they showed high amplificat...

In the context of topcolor-assisted techicolor(TC2) models, we investigate the feasibility of detecting the non-universal gauge boson Z ′ in the future high-energy linear e+e− collider(LC) experiments by performing χ analysis via studying its virtual effects on the processes e+e− → ff with f = τ , μ, b, and c. We find that the non-universal gauge boson Z ′ is most sensitive to the process e+e− ...

We examine the rare decays Bs → l+l− and B → Kl+l− in the framework of the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model. The contributions of the new particles predicted by this model to these rare decay processes are evaluated. We find that the values of their branching ratios are larger than the standard model predictions by one order of magnitude in wide range of the parameter space. The longit...

The alloys of non-centrosymmetric superconductor, Re3W, which were reported to have an α-Mn structure [P. Greenfield and P. A. Beck, J. Metals, N. Y. 8, 265 (1959)] with Tc = 9 K were prepared by arc melting. The ac susceptibility and low-temperature specific heat were measured on these alloys. It is found that there are two superconducting phases coexisting in the samples with Tc1 ∼ 9 K and Tc...

The WSMO-MX service matchmaker applies different matching filters to retrieve Semantic Web services written in a dialect of the prominent service description language WSML-Rule. For this purpose, WSMO-MX recursively computes logicbased and syntactic similarity-based matching degrees and returns a ranked set of services that are semantically relevant to a given query. The matching filters perfor...

Effector CD8(+) T cells convert from IFN-γ(+) (Tc1) to IL-13(+) (Tc2) cells in the presence of IL-4. Underlying regulatory mechanisms are not fully defined. Here, we show that addition of 1,25D3, the active form of vitamin D3, during CD8(+) T-cell differentiation prevents IL-4-induced conversion to IL-13-producers. Transfer of 1,25D3-treated CD8(+) T cells into sensitized and challenged CD8(+)-...