[1] Chemical and isotopic variability of particulate organic carbon (POC) was examined in samples from the Santa Clara River watershed and adjacent shelf to investigate the processing of fossil POC derived from bedrock. The Santa Clara is a small coastal river that drains mountainous terrain in southern California, United States. Organic carbon in shale, river suspended sediment, and coastal ma...

The medicinal use of garlic dates back thousands of years, but there was little scientific support of its therapeutic and pharmacologic properties until recently. In the past decade, the cancer-protective effects of garlic have been well established by epidemiologic studies and animal experiments. However, the cardiovascular-protective properties of garlic are less well understood. In particula...

Extractable functions are functions where any adversary that outputs a point in the range of the function is guaranteed to “know” a corresponding preimage. Here, knowledge is captured by the existence of an efficient extractor that recovers the preimage from the internal state of the adversary. Extractability of functions was defined by the authors (ICALP’08) in the context of perfectly one-way...

Grape pomace (GP) has an added value because of its contribution to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in soils when applied as organic fertilizer. Macronutrients from GP are translocated into the soil after amendment, but little is known about factors that may influence mobility C, N bioactive molecules, i.e., polyphenols, column. We investigated macronutrient content GP, derived two red (Dornfelder ...

Certain phospholipids are associated with the nonhistone chromosomal proteins extracted from normal B- and chronic lymphocytic leukemia lymphocytes. The ratio of phospholipids to nonhistone chromosomal proteins was constant with the different methods used for isolating nuclei and extracting the chromatin, although the various methods allowed a different recovery of total lipids from chromatin. ...

The objectives of this study were to partition corn grain into three digestible fractions and to measure the rate of disappearance of these fractions in vitro. Seventeen corn grain samples with varied fiber concentrations were extracted with either 80% ethanol or neutral detergent to obtain estimates of the pool size and digestion kinetics of the A, B1, B2, and C fractions. The carbohydrate sol...

1 Department of Neurology, Centre de référence ‘Démences Rares’, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France 2 INSERM UMRS 975 – CRICM. Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France 3 Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France 4 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, INSERM, UMR-S 678, Paris, France 5 Service de Neuroradiologie Diagnostiqu...

Cotton dust samples from Cotton Incorporated were investigated by X-ray fluorescence and proximate analysis methods. These dust samples are known as "standard cotton dust" and have been used by many researchers investigating the causative agent(s) and physiological mechanisms of byssinosis. Silicon, calcium, potassium, and aluminum were present in relatively high concentrations (1-4%) in the du...

Four obligately photoautotrophic blue-green algae were shown to assimilate acetate. This reaction was light dependent and was greatly decreased in the absence of carbon dioxide. Acetate was incorporated mainly into the ethanol extractable (lipid) fraction of the organisms and into the protein fraction. Only four amino acids (glutamate, proline, arginine, leucine) were significantly radioactive ...