Although in situ hybridization has been used to examine the distribution of messenger RNA for somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) in human tumors, the cellular localization of sst1 and sst2A receptors has not been reported. In this study, we describe the cellular localization of human sst1 and sst2A receptor proteins in both cryostat- and paraffin-embedded sections of 25 human tumor tissues us...

Cloud parameters (cloud mask, effective particle radius, and liquid/ice water path) are the important inputs in estimating surface solar radiation (SSR). These parameters can be derived from MODIS with high accuracy, but their temporal resolution is too low to obtain high-temporalresolution SSR retrievals. In order to obtain hourly cloud parameters, an artificial neural network (ANN) is applied...

Alternanthera philoxeroides is a notorious invasive weed worldwide, but it still lacks genome information currently. In this study, we collected 4 groups of A. Illumina RNA-seq data (62.5 Gb) and performed comprehensive de novo assembling. Totally, 421,372 unigenes were obtained with total length 230,842,460 bp, 43,430 (10.31%) longer than 1000 bp. Then 119,222 (28.3%) functional annotated 235,...

An SSR problem has been noticed and caused repeated triggering of the protection. A study indicated that SSR conditions might appear for some network configurations. Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) was found to eliminate the problem. The paper discusses the problem and introduce different types of protective relays for mitigation of SSR.

Hickory (Carya cathayensis Sarg.), an important nut-producing species in Southeastern China, has high economic value, but so far there has been no cultivar bred under species although it is mostly propagated by seeding and some elite individuals have been found. It has been found recently that this species has a certain rate of apomixis and poor knowledge of its genetic background has influence...

The Chinese swamp buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) is vital to the lives of small farmers and has tremendous economic importance. However, a lack of genomic information has hampered research on augmenting marker assisted breeding programs in this species. Thus, a high-throughput transcriptomic sequencing of B. bubalis was conducted to generate transcriptomic sequence dataset for gene discovery and mol...

The extreme conditions (e.g., cold, low oxygen, and strong ultraviolet radiation) of the high mountains provide an ideal natural laboratory for studies on speciation and the adaptive evolution of organisms. Up to now, few genome/transcriptome-based studies have been carried out on how plants adapt to conditions at extremely high altitudes. Notopterygium incisum and Notopterygium franchetii (Not...

A genome-wide search was performed to identify simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci among the available sequence databases from four strains of Xylella fastidiosa (strains causing Pierce's disease, citrus variegated chlorosis, almond leaf scorch, and oleander leaf scorch). Thirty-four SSR loci were selected for SSR primer design and were validated in PCR experiments. These multilocus SSR primers, ...

Subsynchronous resonance (SSR) problems appeared due to resonance between the turbine and the series capacitor on transmission line is damped by installing superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) unit which the parameters are optimized by quantum behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO). The proposed objective function is comprehensive damping index (CDI) of SSR damping. To accommodate...