A first-principles DFT study of the electronic structure of the two-chain molecular conductor NMP-TCNQ is reported. It is shown that the charge transfer occurring in this salt is not 1 but 2/3, finally settling the debate concerning the real charge transfer in this molecular metal. These calculations also lead to a simple rationalization of the three different regimes of 2kF and 4kF CDW instabi...

The zoological collection of the National Museum, Prague (NMP) contains spirit (juvenile) as well as dry (mostly adult) specimens of horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura). Living horseshoe crabs are of immunological importance due to clotting agents present in their hemolymph. Here we summarize basic data about the mechanism of the immune system of these marine animals and its use in practice – the Limul...

Abstract A Networked Music Performance (NMP) is defined as what happens when geographically displaced musicians interact together while connected via network. The first NMP experiments begun in the 1970s, however, only recently development of network communication technologies has created necessary infrastructure needed to successfully create an NMP. Moreover, widespread adoption network-based ...

BACKGROUND Graft reperfusion poses a critical challenge during liver transplantation and can be associated with hemodynamic instability/postreperfusion syndrome. This is sequel to ischemia-reperfusion injury and normothermic machine preservation (NMP) may affect hemodynamic changes. Herein, we characterize postreperfusion hemodynamics in liver grafts after NMP and traditional cold preservation....

An investigation was conducted into the effects of two phenolic amines, N -methyl-~-phenethylamine (NMP) and tyramine (1') on corpus luteum function and reproductive performance of Angora goats. Both compounds are widely distributed through the plant kingdom and, because of their sympathomimetic action, may interfere with normal reproductive processes. In Experiment I, 20 nannies (x = 26.7 ± 0....

Purpose: The development of colon cancer markers that can detect liver metastases early and predict which patients are at risk to develop liver metastases would have a major impact on this disease. We have previously identified G. Brunagel, et al., Cancer Research, 62: 2437–2442, 2002, nuclear matrix proteins (NMPs), which are associated with colon cancer. The objective of this study is to iden...

PURPOSE The development of colon cancer markers that can detect liver metastases early and predict which patients are at risk to develop liver metastases would have a major impact on this disease. We have previously identified G. Brunagel, et al., Cancer Research, 62:2437-2442, 2002, nuclear matrix proteins (NMPs), which are associated with colon cancer. The objective of this study is to identi...

Bone tumours may recur locally even after wide surgical excision and systemic chemotherapy. Local control of growth may be accomplished by the addition of cytostatic drugs such as methotrexate (MTX) to bone cement used to fill the defect after surgery and to stabilise the reconstructive prosthesis. We have studied the elution kinetics of MTX and its solvent N-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP) from bone ...

Motivation: Mate pair protocols add to the utility of paired-end sequencing by boosting the genomic distance spanned by each pair of reads, potentially allowing larger repeats to be bridged and resolved. The Illumina Nextera Mate Pair (NMP) protocol uses a circularization-based strategy that leaves behind 38-bp adapter sequences, which must be computationally removed from the data. While ‘adapt...