BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Animal studies have described remodeling of sensory and motor representational maps after cortical infarct. These changes may contribute to return of function after stroke. METHODS Functional MRI was used to compare sensory and motor maps obtained in 35 normal control subjects with results from 2 patients with good recovery 6 months after a cortical stroke. RESULTS Du...

PURPOSE Assessment of wrist motion is important in diagnosing and treating motion impairment after injuries to the wrist. Little is known of how finger posture influences the movement of the wrist. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of finger constraints on the maximum circumduction movement of the wrist. METHODS Fifteen male right-handed subjects performed maximal circumfere...

In order to solve how to enhance the discovery efficiency and coverage, based on DHT (Distributed Hash Table) and Small World Theory, we put forward a new algorithm of service discovery for mobile application. In traditional DHT discovery algorithm, each node maintains the finger-table that store node information of adjacent node. By using Small-World Theory, we put forward adding a remote node...

We have developed a general approach to generate selective small-molecule switches for zinc finger transcription factors based on the notion of structural complementation. A small molecule, 2-(4'-quinoline)benzimidazole (7), was identified by screening of a heterocycle library, which functionally rescues a structurally compromised transcription factor C7-F116A/H125G-VP16. Compound 7 induces the...

Bacteriorhodopsin, the photosynthetic protein of Halobacterium salinarum, is optimally expressed under anaerobic growth conditions. We identified Brz (OE3104F, bacteriorhodopsin-regulating zinc finger protein), a new regulator of the bop gene. It is a small protein with a zinc finger motif, encoded directly upstream of the bop gene in the same orientation. Deletion of the brz gene caused a larg...