The neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor protein merlin is commonly mutated in human benign brain tumors. The gene altered in NF2 was located on human chromosome 22q12 in 1993 and the encoded protein named merlin and schwannomin. Merlin has homology to ERM family proteins, ezrin, radixin, and moesin, within the protein 4.1 superfamily. In efforts to determine merlin function several group...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that pranlukast reduces the antigen induced immediate and late phase asthmatic responses, airway hyperreactivity to acetylcholine, and pulmonary eosinophil accumulation in guinea pigs. A study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that pranlukast may reduce the number of inflammatory cells in the bronchial mucosa of patients with asthma. METHODS A double blind,...

Department of Mathematics, University of Oil and Gas (Gubkin) Moscow 117036, Russia [email protected] Department of Mathematics, University of Stockholm S-10691, Sweden, [email protected] Abstra t. In this paper we recall two basic conjectures on the developables of convex projective curves, prove one of them and disprove the other in the first nontrivial case of curves in RP3. Namely...

Introduction People living with obesity (PLWO) often experience ambivalence when starting their change process towards a healthier lifestyle. Psychological treatments for should resolve this and help PLWO to explore own reasons in line needs values, as well promote self-efficacy. Following the Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles, SOCRATES project proposes “virtual self-conversation” addre...

Consider two graphs, G1 and G2, on the same vertex set V , with |V | = n and Gi having mi edges for i = 1, 2. We give a simple algorithm that partitions V into sets A and B such that eG1(A,B) ≥ m1/2 and eG2(A,B) ≥ m2/2−∆(G2)/2. We also show, using a probabilistic method, that if G1 and G2 belong to certain classes of graphs, (for instance, if G1 and G2 both have a density of at least 2/3, or if...

This study was intended to examine the progress of geometric reasoning skills pre-service mathematics teachers (PSMTs) in College Teacher Education, Oromiya, Ethiopia. In study, there were three different classes: EG1 (n=48), EG2 (n=38), and CG (n=30), where PSMTs treated with technology into guided inquiry-based learning (TGIBL), (GIBL), a conventional approach. A test used collect data. The d...

Speaking as an initial goal in language teaching and learning has relationships with many variables including listening, reading, writing, knowledge of vocabulary as well as grammar. The present study mainly aims at examining the relationship between translations and speaking fluency. For this purpose and following an experimental design, three groups of Iranian advanced EFL learners were...