T-cell adhesion/costimulatory molecules and their cognate receptors on target cells play a major role in T-cell receptor (TCR)–mediated activities. Here, we compared the involvement of CD103 and LFA-1, and their respective ligands, in the maturation of the cytotoxic immune synapse (cIS) and in the activation of CTL effector functions. Our results indicate that cytotoxicity toward cancer cells a...

Maczulak AE. Pollution: Treating Environmental Toxins. New York, NY: Infobase Publishing; 2010. p. x+232. ISBN: 978-1-4381-2633-3

The purpose of this study was to describe pain assessment among non-communicating intellectually disabled people living in long term care described by nursing staff. The target group of the study consisted of the nursing staff working at seven mental retardation units in different parts of Finland. The data were collected during spring 2008 by a semi-structured questionnaire (Non-communicating ...

CanaddBritish Columbia Mineral Development Agreement, this area was selected for more detailed analysis than presently available. During the 1986 field season fieldwork was centred on the Cowichan Lake area (Figures 3-9-1 and 3-9-21, Access in the area is provided by an extensive network of logging roads in various states of upkeep. Roadcuts provide most ofthe exposure for mapping; rock units a...

BACKGROUND This study characterizes the intake of sweetened beverages and establishes whether economic inequalities in their consumption exists. METHODS Ecological study. Mixed methods using food frequency questionnaire and inequality indices. Based on the National Nutrition Survey, Colombia, 2010. The sweetened beverage intake of 17,514 subjects in 33 geodemographic units was estimated with ...

Determining the optimal choice among multiple options is necessary in various situations, and the collective rationality of groups has recently become a major topic of interest. Social insects are thought to make such optimal choices by collecting individuals' responses relating to an option's value (=a quality-graded response). However, this behaviour cannot explain the collective rationality ...

This study presents results from field surveys performed over various seasons in a large, eutrophic, shallow lake (Lake Taihu, China) using an in situ chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) fluorescence sensor as a surrogate for other water quality parameters. These measurements identified highly significant empirical relationships between CDOM concentration measured using the in situ flu...

Running an application on a general purpose processor is not very efficient and implementing the whole application in hardware is not always possible. The best option is to run the application on a customized datapath that is designed based on the characteristics of the application. The instruction set interface in normal processors limits the possible customization of the datapath. In NISC, th...

The development of stereotypies was studied in two successive laboratory-bred generations of bank voles representing F1 (n=248) and F2 (n=270) of an originally wild caught stock. It was shown that the propensity to develop stereotypies under barren housing conditions strongly relates to the same propensity of the parents. Stereotypies were approximately seven times more frequent in the offsprin...

a fairly nourished subject, anxious looking, head bent forward owing to the weight Of the tumour, was covered all over her body with small tumours and one on her back of the head hanging down to | hip. The tumour was fibrous and tubular for about 5 inches from the attachment from the occiput and neck and the rest hard down to the end. No pain on pressure except the weighty feeling of the tumour...