Motivated by inefficiencies in agricultural markets in developing countries, Kudu is an electronic marketplace that operates in Uganda to facilitate agricultural trade. Traders and farmers tell Kudu what they want to buy and sell using a feature phone, and Kudu proposes...

Aim The polyamine catabolic enzyme, spermine oxidase (SMOX) is upregulated in chronic inflammatory conditions and linked to increased reactive oxygen species and DNA damage in various forms of cancers. The present study aims to explore the expression pattern and biologi...

Exposure of B. carinata seedlings to increasing concentrations of a non-physiological ion, lithium, showed significant effects on the germination rate, root length, chlorophyll content and fresh weight in brown-seeded and yellow-seeded near-isogenic lines. Metal content...

Several lesion and imaging studies have suggested that the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a measure of executive dysfunction. However, some studies have reported that this measure has poor anatomical specificity because patients with either frontal or non-frontal...

The development of differential scanning calorimetry has resulted in an increased interest in studies of the unfolding process in proteins with the aim of identifying domains and interactions with ligands or other proteins. Several of these studies were done with actin ...

9th International conference on near-field optics, September 10-15th 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gallium nitride (GaN) light emitting diodes (LEDs) were irradiated at room temperature with electrons in the range 300-1400 keV. A threshold energy of 440 keV was observed, corresponding to a gallium atom displacement energy of 19/spl plusmn/2 eV. This value of the disp...

Photonics North 2003, the International Conference on Alication of Photonic Technology, 25-29 May 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

EGFRvIII is the most common deletion variant of the epidermal growth factor receptor and is found in cancers of the brain, breast, ovary, and lung. The complete absence of the receptor in healthy tissues makes it an ideal tumor marker. We sought to design a peptide liga...