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Embedded and Attached Sapphire Optical Fiber Sensors for the Nondestructive Characterization of Materials at High Temperature
Sapphire optical fiber sensors have been attached to and embedded within high temperature materials and subsequently used to measure strain and temperature at temperatures above 1000°C for several years1. Intrins...
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Molecular Self-Assembly of Fe3O4/Polyimide Nanocomposite Films (I)
Layer-by-layer molecular self-assembly of nanosized magnetite (Fe3O4) particles and polyimide precursor molecules into multilayer ultrathin films has been accomplished on single crystal silicon and quartz substra...
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Kinetic Studies on the Medium Temperature Ca(OH)2 Sorbent Injection FGD Process
Recent progress in dry sorbent injection flue gas desulfurization (FGD) has resulted in a medium-temperature sorbent injection process. Compared to conventional furnace injection, this new process exhibits equ...
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Role of Ubisch bodies secreted by tapetum in Ca2+ transprot
The distribution of Ca2+ in the anthers of wheat was observed using cytochemical method of potassium antimonite. At the later tetrad stage, Ubisch bodies carrying Ca2+ were observed on the inner surface of tapetu...
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On some discrepancies in the literature about the formation of icosahedral quasi-crystal in Al–Cu–Fe alloys
To clarify some discrepancies in the literature about the formation of icosahedral quasi-crystal (IQC) in Al–Cu–Fe alloys, microstructures, and constituent phases of Al62.5Cu25Fe12.5 and Al65Cu20Fe15 alloys were ...
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Imprinted X inactivation maintained by a mouse Polycomb group gene
In mammals, dosage compensation of X-linked genes is achieved by the transcriptional silencing of one X chromosome in the female (reviewed in ref. 1). This process, called X inactivation, is usually random in the...
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Temporal and spatial changes in Ca2+ distribution during the programmed cell death of tracheary elements
The changes in Ca2+ distribution in the tracheary elements (TEs) of the pepper leaves were studied using the cytochemical method of potassium antimonate. At the early stage of TEs formation, the vacuole and the n...
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Synthesis and characterization of LaFeO3 nano particles
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The mouse PcG gene eed is required for Hox gene repression and extraembryonic development
The Polycomb group (PcG) of genes was first identified in Drosophila as maintenance factors for long-term transcriptional repression of homeotic genes. In mice, the PcG protein Eed (Embryonic ectoderm developm...
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Raman spectra of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers prepared by ethanol flames
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Regulation of polarized extension and planar cell polarity in the cochlea by the vertebrate PCP pathway
The mammalian auditory sensory organ, the organ of Corti, consists of sensory hair cells with uniformly oriented stereocilia on the apical surfaces and has a distinct planar cell polarity (PCP) parallel to the...
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First and second order numerical differentiation with Tikhonov regularization
This work deals with the numerical differentiation for an unknown smooth function whose data on a given set are available. The numerical differentiation is an ill-posed problem. In this work, the first and sec...
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Expression and prognostic significance of survivin in the progression of bladder transitional cell cancer
The expression of survivin, a member of inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family, was examined in bladder transitional cell cancer (BTCC) tissue and adjacent normal tissues to examine its clinical implication in th...
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Structure and 57Fe conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy study of Mn-Zn ferrite nanocrystal thin films by electroless plating in aqueous solution
Mn1−x Zn x Fe2O4 thin films with various Zn contents and of different thickness were synthesized on glass substrates directly by electroless plating in aqueous so...
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Expression and prognostic significance of livin in the progression of bladder cancer
It has been suggested that progression of bladder transitional cell cancer (BTCC) may be regulated at the molecular level by a typical pattern of expression of genes involved in apoptosis. Recently Livin, belo...
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Effects of Na2CO3 and NaCl stresses on the antioxidant enzymes of chloroplasts and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of leaves of Puccinellia tenuiflora (Turcz.) scribn.et Merr.
Antioxidant enzymes in chloroplasts and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of leaves of Puccinellia tenuiflora (Turcz.) scribn.et Merr. under isotonic Na2CO3 and NaCl stresses were studied. Ascorbate peroxidase ...
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Transmission electron microscopy on iron monosulfide varieties from the Suizhou meteorite
Transmission electron microscopy on the iron monosulfide (FeS) varieties from the Suizhou meteorite (Hubei, China) reveals the intergrowth of primary hexagonal 2C troilite
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Investigation of the cytotoxicity of apidaecin on intestinal epithelial cells of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in vitro
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse group of small polypeptides that can inhibit the growth of microbes; the investigation of their cytotoxicity is critical before they can be considered for use. The p...
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Expression changes of duplicated genes in allotetraploids of Brassica detected by SRAP-cDNA technique
Polyploidization plays an important role in plant evolution, and it may trigger changes in genome structure and gene expression. The purpose of this study was to detect the extent of gene expression alteration...
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Rapid alterations of gene expression and cytosine methylation in newly synthesized Brassica napus allopolyploids
Allopolyploidy is an important speciation mechanism and is ubiquitous among plants. Brassica napus is a model system for studying the consequences of hybridization and polyploidization on allopolyploid genome. In...
