A large-scale data set including time-lapse (4D) elastic attributes and electrical resistivity is generated with the purpose of testing algorithms for reservoir modeling, reservoir characterization, production forecasting, and especially joint time-lapse monitoring using seismic as well as electromagnetic data. The Stanford VI reservoir, which was originally created by Castro et al. (2005), is ...

OBJECTIVE The effect of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) on energy expenditure and protein and glucose metabolism in a group of patients with thermal injury was determined. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Accelerated protein catabolism is a constant feature of the hypermetabolic response to thermal injury. Insulin-like growth factor-1 has been reported to minimize protein catabolism and normalize...

Following thyroidectomy the catabolism of nitrogen is accelerated, as indicated by studies both on fed and fasting rats.' "8 In an earlier report evidence was presented which showed that after thyroidectomy the rate of amino acid catabolism is elevated, while at the same time, a fall in the rate of conversion of body protein to amino acids occurs. The nitrogen output of fasting hypothyroid anim...

The Yersinia enterocolitica prophage PY54 replicates as a linear DNA molecule with covalently closed ends. For replication of a circular PY54 minimal replicon that has been derived from a linear minireplicon, two phage-encoded loci are essential in Escherichia coli: (i) the reading frame of the replication initiation gene repA and (ii) its 212-bp origin located within the 3' portion of repA. Th...

The stable isotope of nitrogen, N 15, has been employed extensively as a tracer in studies of nitrogen transformations in animals and bacteria, and its use has yielded much information difficult or impossible to obtain otherwise. The extension of this method to studies involving the higher plants, however, has been very limited. Hevesy and coworkers (1) studied the absorption of ammonium ions l...

This paper examines the transformation of the Iranian economy through the Twentieth Century within a global context. At the start of that century, the Iranian economy had long remained stagnant, poor, and largely agrarian, with a marginal role in the world economy. By the turn of 21 century, Iran had transformed into a complex and relatively large economy with important consequences for the eco...

Inhibitors of the G(2) DNA damage checkpoint can selectively sensitize cancer cells with mutated p53 to killing by DNA-damaging agents. Isogranulatimide is a G(2) checkpoint inhibitor containing a unique indole/maleimide/imidazole skeleton identified in a phenotypic cell-based screen; however, the mechanism of action of isogranulatimide is unknown. Using natural and synthetic isogranulatimide a...

Article history: Received 7 December 2010 Received in revised form 31 August 2011 Accepted 15 April 2012 Available online 21 April 2012 This paper provides a fundamental study of China's consumption and output fluctuations. The most recent literature reports that, in the post-1978 period, detrended consumption is significantly more volatile than detrended output in China. This indicates the ina...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a common food-borne pathogen that is normally associated with seafood. In 1996, a pandemic O3:K6 strain abruptly appeared and caused the first pandemic of this pathogen to spread throughout many Asian countries, America, Europe, and Africa. The role of temperate bacteriophages in the evolution of this pathogen is of great interest. In this work, a new temperate phage,...

,4 series of enzymes which result in the degradation of nucleic acids to nucleosides and free bases is known to be present in the gastrointestinal tract. Although it is generally believed that nucleic acids must be hydrolyzed before absorption, it is not entirely clear at what stage absorption occurs. Studies with Nls-labeled yeast nucleic acid fed to rats indicated that some N15 appeared in ti...