Evidence suggests that over-expression of TWIST, an epithelial-mesenchymal transition inducer, might have a correlation with cancer progression and chemoresistance. However, its roles in radioresistance of cancer have rarely been reported. High TWIST expression was detected in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and associated with poor prognosis. Thus, in the present study, we aimed to determine wh...

ab initio calculations at hf/6-31g* level of theory for geometry optimization and mp2/6-31g*//hf/6-31g* for a single point total energy calculation are reported for the importantenergy-minimum conformations and transition-state geometries of 1, 3-diazacyclohepta-1, 2-diene (2) and 1, 3-diazacycloocta-1, 2-diene (3). the c2 symmetric twist-chair (2-tc)conformation of 2 is calculated to be 7.4 kj...

Medaka twist, a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, is expressed in the sclerotome during embryogenesis. We previously established a line of twist-EGFP transgenic medaka, whose EGFP expression is regulated by the twist promoter; therefore, we could observe the behavior of sclerotomal cells in vivo. In the transgenic medaka embryos, EGFP-positive sclerotomal cells migrated dorsal...

This study aimed to examine HIF-2α, TWIST, and CXCR4 expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and assesses the association of their expression with clinicopathological indicators. HIF-2α, TWIST, and CXCR4 protein expression in 129 PTCs, 61 nodular hyperplasia, and 118 normal thyroid tissue specimens was analyzed using immunohistochemistry. The protein expression levels of these three mol...

We present a higher-twist production mechanism for η c and χ J charmonium at large momentum fraction x F in pion-nucleon collisions. The higher-twist contribution is essentially independent of x F and therefore becomes dominant at large x F , where the leading-twist contribution falls off as (1 − x F) 3. We show that the higher-twist mechanism produces longitudinally polarized χ 1 and χ 2. For ...

In this paper, a general solution for torsion of hollow cylinders made of functionally graded materials (FGM) was investigated. The problem was formulated in terms of Prandtl’s stress and, in general, the shear stress and angle of twist were derived. Variations in the material properties such as Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio might be arbitrary functions of the radial coordinate. Various m...

In this particular isospin combination of structure functions the contribution of twist-2 operators cancels out exactly and twist-4 contributions are dominant. It is remarkable that in the large Nc limit the twist-4 distribution function of quarks in the pion can be reduced to a convolution of twist-2 pion distribution amplitudes. 2. One can read the contribution of four-quark twist-4 operators...

We show that if a knot admits a prime, twist-reduced diagram with at least 4 twist regions and at least 6 crossings per twist region, then every non-trivial Dehn filling of that knot is hyperbolike. A similar statement holds for links. We prove this using two arguments, one geometric and one combinatorial. The combinatorial argument further implies that every link with at least 2 twist regions ...

The twist number of a plane graph associated with a link’s checkerboard coloring is defined. The twist number of any planar pseudograph is shown to be determined by the Tutte polynomial. This allows the definition of twist number to be extended to non-planar graphs, for which the twist number is also determined by the Tutte polynomial. As a corollary, the twist number of an alternating link is ...

We investigate twist-3 effects in the polarized virtual photon. The structure function g γ 2 , which exists only for the virtual photon target and can be measured in future polarized e + e − collider experiments, receives both twist-2 and twist-3 contributions. The twist-3 part is analyzed in pure QED interaction as well as in LO QCD. We find the twist-3 contribution is appreciable for the phot...