Abstract This essay introduces new evidence for an eschatological Phoenician motif that alludes to a final sailing and its perils, represented by monstrous lion attacking or sinking boat. The lion-and-boat was, so far, only documented in funerary stela from late classical Athens, the Antipatros/Shem stela. Excavations at fifth-century BCE Tartessic site of Casas del Turuñuelo southwestern Spain...

PURPOSE To determine the signaling pathway involved in expanding contact-inhibited human corneal endothelial cells (HCECs) using p120 and Kaiso small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). METHODS Expansion of HCEC monolayers on collagen IV in SHEM using p120 siRNA was optimized regarding various dosage, frequency, and starting date before being added Kaiso siRNA or various inhibitors of Rho, ROCK, NFκB,...

INTRODUCTION To determine the differentiation of human limbal epithelial cells in tissue culture. MATERIALS AND METHODS Epithelial cells from the human limbus (n = 29) were isolated and cultured in supplemental hormonal epithelial medium (SHEM) in the presence of mitomycin C-treated 3T3 feeder layer. Confluent cells were airlifted to form multiple layers. The expression of cytokeratin 3 (K3),...

More than a hundred years ago John Buchan, the proli ̃c Scottish novelist, put the following words into the mouth of one of his youthful characters: “The Bible says that the children of Ham were to be our servants. If I were the minister I wouldn’t let [that black man] into the pulpit. I wouldn’t let him farther than the Sabbath school.” 1 It might be assumed that social advancements in the twen...

Despite the expected benefits behind context-awareness and the need for developing more and more context-aware applications, we enunciate that privacy represents a major challenge for the success and widespread adoption of these services. This is due to the collection of huge amount of users’ contextual information, which would highly threaten their privacy concerns. Controlling users’ informat...

The red-most fluorescence emission of photosystem I (733 nm at 4 K) is associated with the Lhca4 subunit of the antenna complex. It has been proposed that this unique spectral feature originates from the low energy absorption band of an excitonic interaction involving chlorophyll A5 and a second chlorophyll a molecule, probably B5 (Morosinotto, T., Breton, J., Bassi, R., and Croce, R. (2003) J....