The distribution of LDL receptors within subcellular compartments of isolated rat adipose cells and the effects of insulin on their expression have been assessed. By immunoblotting with specific anti-rat LDL receptor antibodies, LDL receptors were 2.3- and 4.5-fold enriched in endoplasmic reticulum-rich high-density microsomes (HDM) and Golgi complex-rich low-density microsomes (LDM), respectiv...

The critical nitrogen (N) dilution curve is a suitable analytical tool for in-season estimation of N status to implement precision N management. This study was undertaken for a comprehensive comparison of N dilution curves in Japonica and Indica rice to investigate, whether a single curve can be used for both rice ecotypes and to determine the most robust plant index for assessing N status in r...

The IEEE 802.11 MAC layer uses RTS/CTS/ACK signaling to improve the reliability of unicast transmissions, but in current products there is no special signaling support for multicast transmissions. Therefore, the packet loss rate of multicast communication is generally higher than that of unicast communication. This paper evaluates a new MAC-layer multicasting technique called Leader-Driven Mult...

Evidences of myofiber abnormalities and replacement with fatty and fibrotic tissue have been described experimentally in electrostimulated latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) transposed for Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty, and clinically such changes were related to the long-term diminished effectiveness of the procedure in patients. Clinically, just a few reports have been addressing direct inspection of LD...

Introduction. The NASA Phoenix lander has provided a unique first-look at permafrost processes operating on the surface of the martian northern plains [1]. Critical results from the mission include the detection of an icy surface present beneath thin, overlying, dry sediments [1-3]; complex soil chemistry comparable to that observed in terrestrial cold and arid terrains [4, 5]; and weather/clim...

We derive the evolution of the energy deposition in the intergalactic medium (IGM) by dark matter (DM) decays/annihilations for both sterile neutrinos and light dark matter (LDM) particles. At z > 200 sterile neutrinos transfer a fraction fabs ∼ 0.5 of their rest mass energy into the IGM; at lower redshifts this fraction becomes < ∼ 0.3 depending on the particle mass. The LDM particles can deca...

System security involves decisions in at least three areas: identification of well-defined security policies, selection of cost-effective defence strategies, and implementation of real-time defence tactics. Although choices made in each of these areas affect the others, existing decision models typically handle these three decision areas in isolation. There is no comprehensive tool that can int...

Learning application-specific distance metrics from labeled data is critical for both statistical classification and information retrieval. Most of the earlier work in this area has focused on finding metrics that simultaneously optimize compactness and separability in a global sense. Specifically, such distance metrics attempt to keep all of the data points in each class close together while e...

OBJECTIVE DNA methylation plays a major role in regulating the expression of genes related to traits of economic interest (e.g., weight gain) in livestock animals. This study characterized and investigated the functional inferences of genome-wide DNA methylome in the loin (longissimus dorsi) muscle (LDM) of swine. METHODS A total of 8.99 Gb methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequence data wer...