2014 The crystal structure of SnS has been investigated as a function of temperature by elastic neutron scattering from 293 K to 1 000 K. SnS undergoes a second order displacive phase transition from the 03B1-phase (B16, Pbnm) to the high temperature 03B2-phase (B33, Cmcm) at 887 K. The mean square displacement of the Sn atom which is isotropic at room temperature becomes increasingly anisotrop...

Chronic inflammation has a decisive role in tumorigenesis, particularly in gastric carcinogenesis. The CC chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2), an important inflammatory cytokine, is involved in the initiation, development and progression of various types of cancer. However, the role of CCL2 in gastric cancer remains to be elucidated. The present study demonstrated that recombinant CCL2 stimulation caused...

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over the data, and the challenge in designing such algorithms is to control the added noise in order to optimize the privacy-accuracy-sample size tradeoff. This w...

Two geraniol synthases (GES), from Valeriana officinalis (VoGES) and Lippia dulcis (LdGES), were isolated and were shown to have geraniol biosynthetic activity with Km values of 32 µM and 51 µM for GPP, respectively, upon expression in Escherichia coli. The in planta enzymatic activity and sub-cellular localization of VoGES and LdGES were characterized in stable transformed tobacco and using tr...

The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) produces cancer cells that are invasive, migratory, and exhibit stem cell characteristics, hallmarks of cells that have the potential to generate metastases. Inducers of the EMT include several transcription factors (TFs), such as Goosecoid, Snail, and Twist, as well as the secreted TGF-beta1. Each of these factors is capable, on its own, of induci...

Protozoan Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Fouquet (Ich) and bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila are two common pathogens of cultured fish, which cause high fish mortality. Currently there is no information available for the effect of parasitism by Ich on survival of channel catfish and invasion of A. hydrophila in fish tissues following exposure to A. hydrophila. A trial was conducted in this study to:...

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey that was carried out using the multi-object FLAMES spectrograph at Very Large Telescope. provides accurate radial velocities, stellar parameters, and elemental abundances for ~115,000 stars in all Milky Way components. In this paper we describe method adopted final data release to derive lithium equivalent widths (EWs) abundances....

We consider causal structure learning from observational data. The main existing approaches can be classified as constraint-based, score-based and hybrid methods, where the latter combine aspects of both constraint-based and score-based approaches. Hybrid methods often apply a greedy search on a restricted search space, where the restricted space is estimated using a constraint-based method. Th...

A H1x-like protein (i.e., NCAMP-1) is expressed on the membrane and in GEs from fish NK-like cells. In the present study, we identify the imprinting control region mouse NCAMP-1 ortholog using NCAMP-1 polyclonal antibodies and mAb. Polychromatic flow cytometry revealed NCAMP-1 expression on PBLs (Gr-1(+) PMNs were 21.1% NCAMP-1(+); DX-5(+) NK cells were 12.2% NCAMP-1(+)), mesenteric LN cells (C...

The dried roots of Euphorbia kansui (kansui) have been used for centuries in China as a herbal medicine for edema, ascites, and asthma. The 95% ethanol extract showed a significant inhibition of cell proliferation against human normal cell lines L-O2 and GES-1. Bioassay-guided separation of the 95% ethanol extract from the roots of E. kansui led to the isolation of 12 diverse terpenoids whose s...