Since 1928, the iodine concentration in the ovary has been known to be higher than in every other organs except the thyroid. The ovarian iodide uptake varies with sexual activities, is enhanced by estrogens and a hypothyroid state and blocked by goitrogens. The recent discovery of a sodium iodide symporter (NIS) in ovaries has offered a possible mechanism for ovarian iodide uptake and other fun...

I will describe a functor A 7→ W (A) from the category of commutative rings to itself. The ring W (A) of ‘Witt vectors’ over A has many applications (to algebraic geometry, local rings, etc.), but I won’t discuss those. Convention: rings have 1’s that are respected by ring homomorphisms. By A I will always denote a commutative ring. The literature on the functor W is in a somewhat unsatisfactor...

In contrast to classical offline k-k routing, the online packet routing problem allows for an arbitrary number of packets with arbitrary end points and release times. We study this problem on linear array and ring networks. We generalize an earlier result for the offline problem by showing that Farthest First (FF) scheduling is optimal with respect to makespan on linear arrays. We also show tha...

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Using the on-shell scheme and the general linear Rξ gauge we have calculated the one-loop amplitude W + → uI d̄j . In agreement with previous work we have shown that the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix ought to be renormalized. We show how to renormalize the CKM matrix and, at the same time, obtain a gauge independent W decay amplitude. PACS number(s): 11.10.Gh, 12.15.-y, 12.15.Ff, 12.15....

Let G be the group with Borel subgroup B, associated to a Kac-Moody Lie algebra [unk] (with Weyl group W and Cartan subalgebra [unk]). Then H(*)(G/B) has, among others, four distinguished structures (i) an algebra structure, (ii) a distinguished basis, given by the Schubert cells, (iii) a module for W, and (iv) a module for Hecke-type operators A(w), for w [unk] W. We construct a ring R, which ...

The construction of the fusion ring of a quasi-rational CFT based on sl(3) k at generic level k ∈ Q is reviewed. It is a commutative ring generated by formal characters, elements in the group ring Z[ ˜ W ] of the extended affine Weyl group˜W of sl(3) k. Some partial results towards the sl(4) k generalisation of this character ring are presented.

objective: the role of vitamin d has soared to a pinnacle in recent years with functions affecting 229 human genes linked to cardiovascular, autoimmune, humoral, pulmonary and neurological diseases. relationship between obesity and vitamin d has not as yet been fully established. the objective of the study was to determine the possible relationship between vitamin d receptor (vdr) gene polymorp...

The solution structure of calcium-bound calmodulin (CaM) complexed with an antagonist, N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalenesulfonamide (W-7), has been determined by multidimensional NMR spectroscopy. The structure consists of one molecule of W-7 binding to each of the two domains of CaM. In each domain, the W-7 chloronaphthalene ring interacts with four methionine methyl groups and other ali...

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