introduction: teacher evaluation, as an important strategy for improving the quality of education, has been considered by universities and leads to a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of education. analysis of instructors’ scores is one of the main fields of educational research. since outliers affect analysis and interpretation of information processes both structurally and ...

1 systems provide new insights into refinement of limb movement? 2 3 Article reviewed: 4 Williams PT, Kim S, Martin JH. Postnatal maturation of the red nucleus motor map 5 depends on rubrospinal connections with forelimb motor pools. J Neurosci 34: 4432-4441, 6 2014. 7 Matteo Bertucco and Sudarshan Dayanidhi 8 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 9 Los Ange...

Reported are the results of a survey to assess the prevalence of illicit drug use among high-school students in Jamaica. A total of 2417 high-school students in 26 schools were covered: 1063 boys and 1354 girls of whom 1317 were grade-10 students (mean age 15.7 years) and 1100 were grade-11 students (mean age 16.8 years). Of the students, 1072 and 1345 were from rural and urban schools, respect...

Mutant alleles are frequently characterized by low expression levels. Therefore, cDNA array-based gene expression profiling may be a promising strategy for identifying gene defects underlying monogenic disorders. To study the potential of this approach, we have generated an X chromosome-specific microarray carrying 2423 cloned cDNA fragments, which represent up to 1317 different X-chromosomal g...

Marchetto of Padua’s formulation of modal ranges in the Lucidarium (1317-18) ranks among his most important innovations as a music theorist. Like earlier writers, Marchetto distinguished between melodies (cantus) that, relative to their final tones (finales), ranged relatively high (tonus authenticus: authentic mode) and low (tonus plagalis or subiugalis: plagal mode). Unlike previous theorists...

Identification of the existence of pyrocarbonate ion C2O5(2-) in molten carbonates exposed to a CO2 atmosphere provides key support for a newly established bi-ionic transport model that explains the mechanisms of high CO2 permeation flux observed in mixed oxide-ion and carbonate-ion conducting (MOCC) membranes containing highly interconnected three dimensional ionic channels. Here we report the...

The effects of cytochalasin B (10~ M and 1 0 s M), taxol (10" M), nocodozole (10~ M), and colchicine (10~ M) on the cytoskeleton of cynomolgus monkey trabecular cells were examined with Nomarski observations, fluorescent labeling as well as extraction, S-l labeling, and critical-point drying. Changes in actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments, the three major cytoskeletal systems, were ...

We have observed five quasars (0827+243, 0923+392, 1222+216, 1317+520, and 2209+080) with Chandra at 0.2-8 keV and with the VLA at 5 and 15 GHz. The X-ray emission is detected from all the radio jets except for 0923+392, whose double radio jet only extends out to the edge of the X-ray PSF. We model the spectral energy distribution of the jet features assuming that the X-ray emission originates ...

Human cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) G-protein coupled receptor is a potential therapeutic target for obesity. The previously predicted and experimentally validated ensemble of ligand-free conformations of CB1 [Scott, C. E. et al. Protein Sci. 2013 , 22 , 101 - 113 ; Ahn, K. H. et al. Proteins 2013 , 81 , 1304 - 1317] are used here to predict the binding sites for known CB1-selective inverse agonists...