This paper argues that Suite: Indian, a 2005 film by Shelley Niro (Mohawk), critiques Euroamerican art that exploits non-specific “Indian” materials to represent allegedly “universal” themes. In particular, this essay will explore how Niro’s film critiques Edward MacDowell’s 1896 Second Suite, frequently called the Indian Suite, an orchestral piece that MacDowell claims is based upon Native mus...

Adoptive immunotherapy involving genetic modification of T cells with antigen-specific, chimeric, single-chain receptors is a promising approach for the treatment of cancer. To determine whether gene-modified T cells could induce antitumor effects without associated autoimmune pathology, we assessed the ability of T cells expressing an anti-Her-2 chimeric receptor to eradicate tumor in Her-2 tr...

Patients with impaired immunity are at particular risk of infections with Candida albicans. Antifungal drugs such as azoles commonly used for candidiasis treatment, but drug resistance is one of the most common problems for public health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of lanosterol 14-demethylase (ERG11) gene for three-drug combinations in C. albicans. Disk diffusion and ...

Quantification of gene expression is important to confirm changes in levels of gene expression in disease. Prior quantification methods include standard curves, absolute quantification, and relative quantification. This paper describes an analytic method for the relative quantification of Presenilin-1 (PS-1) in neurons and Forkhead-box (FOX) p3 in PBMNCs using real-time PCR analytic techniques....

In a work of impressive scholarship, the author takes us through the history of the n body problem from Newton to the present. The center of her story is the prize competition in honor of the 60th birthday of King Oscar II of Sweden in 1889. With royal patronage, with the most prestigious mathematicians as judges, and with the most momentous mathematical problem of Civilization as a topic, it h...

In recent years, RNA-seq is emerging as a powerful technology in estimation of gene and/or transcript expression, and RPKM (Reads Per Kilobase per Million reads) is widely used to represent the relative abundance of mRNAs for a gene. In general, the methods for gene quantification can be largely divided into two categories: transcript-based approach and 'union exon'-based approach. Transcript-b...