The study was conducted to assess the native and alien plant species in one of the highly disturbed forest (S1) and less disturbed forest (S2) in Mt. Manunggal, Cebu Island, Philippines. Twenty-four quadrats with a size of 20mx20 m were established using a quadrat sampling technique to identify and record all plant species. Diversity indices were utilized to determine species abundance, richnes...

INTRODUCTION Rotary nickel-titanium instruments have multiple advantages but with the risk of more fractures because of flexure or torsion. Alternating rotation appears to be an alternative to continuous rotary movement. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of the type of instrument rotation on the frequency of fractures or deformation. METHODS Instrumentation was perfor...

Three murine monoclonal antibodies (MAb), E19, E205, and E251, raised against pertussis toxin reacted in Western blots (immunoblots) with the S1, S4, and S2-S3 subunits, respectively, and neutralized the Chinese hamster ovary cell-clustering activity of pertussis toxin. MAb E251 recognized a linear synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acids 107 to 120 of the S2 subunit, suggesting a role fo...

λx.S ◦A instead of λx.(A[S]) S ◦ λx.A instead of (λx.A)[S] λx.S2 ◦ S1 ◦ A instead of λx.(A[S1][S2]) S2 ◦ λx.S1 ◦ A instead of (λx.A[S1])[S2] S2 ◦ S1 ◦ λx.A instead of (λx.A)[S1][S2] And so on. Far fewer parentheses. And very close to notation of category theory. If we have composition of substitutions (not in my calculus), then λx.(S2 ◦ S1) ◦ A means λx.(A[S1 ◦ S2]) From the point of view of ca...

to evaluate the relationship between total organic carbon (toc) and rock-eval s2 (petroleum potential) of petroleum source rocks, atotal of 180 outcrop samples from the black organic matter–rich facies of mesozoic strata from a locality of southwest of iran wereinvestigated using rock-eval vi pyrolysis and leco carbon analyzer. the linear regression is applied to determine the correlationbetwee...

The ultrafast internal conversion dynamics of 120-apo-b-carotenoic-120-acid (120CA), 100-apo-bcarotenoic-100-acid (100CA) and 80-apo-b-carotenoic-80-acid (80CA) have been investigated by femtosecond pump–probe spectroscopy. The three apocarotenoic acids were excited to the S2 state with different excess energies. Time constants t1 for the IC process S1/ICT S0 were measured by probing the dynami...

this study was carried out to investigate the direct and indirect responses to selection for four-week body weight (4 week body (wk bw)) and four-week breast weight (4 week breast weight (wk brw)) and to determine the genetic contribution of reminder founders to the last generation. a total number of 351 birds were equally allocated to three lines, including two selected lines (s1 and s2 for bw...

The starfish SALMFamide neuropeptides S1 (GFNSALMFamide) and S2 (SGPYSFNSGLTFamide) are the prototypical members of a family of neuropeptides that act as muscle relaxants in echinoderms. Comparison of the bioactivity of S1 and S2 as muscle relaxants has revealed that S2 is ten times more potent than S1. Here we investigated a structural basis for this difference in potency by comparing the bioa...

27 Using the paired-pulse paradigm, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has 28 revealed much about the human primary motor cortex (M1). A preceding 29 subthreshold conditioning stimulus (CS) inhibits the excitability of the motor cortex, 30 which is named short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI). In contrast, facilitation is 31 observed when the first pulse (S1) is followed by a secon...