Assessing the relative efficiency of energy use among similar manufacturing industries Fernando Aguirre, J. Rene Villalobos , Patrick E. Phelan and Rafael Pacheco US Airways, AZ 85281, U.S.A. International Logistics and Productivity Improvement Laboratory, School of Computing, Informatics and Decisions Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-8809, U.S.A. School of Mechani...

Kandis Lea Jessup, Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001 John R. Spencer, Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001 Gilda E. Ballester, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85271 Robert R. Howell, Dept. Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 Fred Roesler, Department of Physics, University of Wisco...

Morbidity Associated with False-Positive Findings in Post-Treatment Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Chemoradiation Treated Head and Neck Cancer Patients Sun K. Yi, M.D., Sarah Kratz, M.D., TJ Gernon, M.D., Audrey Erman, M.D., Rihan Khan, M.D., Ryan Avery, M.D., Fatima Aly, M.D., Phillip H. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D., Michael K. Cheung, M.D., Georgi Georgiev, M.S. 1Department of Radiat...

Synaptic vesicles fuse at active zone (AZ) membranes where Ca(2+) channels are clustered and that are typically decorated by electron-dense projections. Recently, mutants of the Drosophila melanogaster ERC/CAST family protein Bruchpilot (BRP) were shown to lack dense projections (T-bars) and to suffer from Ca(2+) channel-clustering defects. In this study, we used high resolution light microscop...

The role of antizyme (AZ) and glycosaminoglycans in polyamine uptake by mammalian cells and mitochondria was examined using NIH3T3 and FM3A cells and rat liver mitochondria. AZ is synthesized as two isoforms (29 and 24.5 kDa) due to the existence of two initiation codon AUGs in the AZ mRNA. Most AZ existed as the 24.5-kDa form translatable from the second AUG, but a portion of the 29-kDa AZ fro...

Polyamines are small aliphatic polycations present in all living cells. Polyamines are essential for cellular viability and are involved in regulating fundamental cellular processes, most notably cellular growth and proliferation. Being such central regulators of fundamental cellular functions, the intracellular polyamine concentration is tightly regulated at the levels of synthesis, uptake, ex...

MOTIVATION The antizymes (AZ) are proteins that regulate cellular polyamine pools in metazoa. To search for remote homologs in single-celled eukaryotes, we used computer software based on hidden Markov models. The most divergent homolog detected was that of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Sequence identities between S.POMBE: AZ and known AZs are as low as 18-22% in the most conserv...

X iv :a st ro -p h/ 06 05 06 0v 1 2 M ay 2 00 6 Star Formation History of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Comparison with the HDFN Rodger I. Thompson Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 [email protected] Daniel Eisenstein Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 [email protected] Xiaohui Fan Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tu...

The Value of EEG-Based Electromagnetic Tomographic Analysis in Human Performance and Mental Health Thomas F. Collura, PhD, BCN, Nancy L. Wigton, PhD, LPC, QEEGD, BCN, Carlos Zalaquett, PhD, LMHC, SeriaShia Chatters-Smith, PhD, LMHC, and Ronald J. Bonnstetter, PhD BrainMaster Technologies Inc., Bedford, OH; Brain Enrichment Center, Bedford, OH; Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ; Applied Neuro...

Five hydrogen-oxidizing, thermophilic, strictly chemolithoautotrophic, microaerophilic strains, with similar (99-100%) 16S rRNA gene sequences were isolated from terrestrial hot springs at Furnas, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. The strain, designated Az-Fu1T, was characterized. The motile, 0.9-2.0 microm rods were Gram-negative and non-sporulating. The temperature growth range was from 50...