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The cancer risk of ionising radiation varies 1000-fold depending on the dose-rate of radiation and exposure conditions. This analysis explains the discrepancy of cancer risk between A-bomb survivors and radium dial painters....
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PMID: 21250929
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The quantitative measurements of uncertainties regarding the contents of hazardous trace elements (HTEs) serve as a basis for better assessment of the geochemistry and mineralogical characteristics of coals and their environmental impacts. In this paper, by using bootstrap simulation methodology, a q...
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PMID: 21850830
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We consider here polymeric scaffold-based perfusion bioreactors, where an interstitial fluid supplies nutrients and oxygen to the growing biomass. At the same time, the fluid-induced shear acts as a physiologically relevant stimulus for the metabolic activity of cells, provided that the shear stress...
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PMID: 20865436
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The control of the mechanical stimuli transmitted to the cells is critical for the design of functional scaffolds for tissue engineering. The objective of this study was to investigate the dynamics of the mechanical stimuli transmitted to the cells during tissue differentiation in an...
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PMID: 20865437
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The gene expression response of yeast to various types of stresses/perturbations shows a common functional and dynamical pattern for the vast majority of genes, characterised by a quick transient peak (affecting primarily short genes) followed by a return to the pre-stimulus level. K...
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PMID: 21823758
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The Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) ribozyme, which is well adapted to the environment of the human cell, is an excellent candidate for the future development of gene-inactivation systems. On top of this, a new generation of HDV ribozymes now exists that benefits from the addition of a s...
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PMID: 21793786
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We rescored Autodock4-generated poses using mean-field pathway decoupling free energy of binding calculations and evaluated if these calculations improved virtual screening discrimination between bound and non-bound ligands. Two small molecule databases, containing compounds known to either bind or...
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PMID: 21696204
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Neuroprostheses based on electrical stimulation could potentially help disabled persons. They are based on neural interface that aim at creating an intimate contact with neural cells. The efficacy of neuroprostheses can be improved by increasing the selectivity of the neural interfac...
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PMID: 21693427
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(rac)-1,1'-Binaphthyl-based simple receptors 1 and 2 have been designed, synthesized and studied theoretically. The receptors utilize naphthyridine as the binding motifs for complexation of dicarboxylic acids in CHCl(3). The emission of the BINOL moiety was monitored experimentally to ascertain the s...
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PMID: 21661730
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Over the past 14 years, ubiquitination has emerged as a centrally important mechanism governing the subcellular trafficking of proteins. Ubiquitination, interaction with sorting factors that contain ubiquitin-binding domains, and deubiquitination govern the itineraries of cargo prote...
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PMID: 21332354
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This study investigated the effects of aging and localized muscle fatigue on the neural control of upright stance during small postural perturbations. Sixteen young (aged 18-24 years) and 16 older (aged 55-74 years) participants were exposed to small magnitude, anteriorly-directed postural perturbati...
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PMID: 21118760
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We leverage general purpose filter design (GPFD) to break both of these critical restrictions, freeing the paralyzed user to make reaching movements to arbitrary target sets with various arrival times and definitive stopping. In silico validation predicts that the new approach, GPFD-RSE, outperforms...
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PMID: 21189232
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We apply the Wiener deconvolution technique to deal with noise in input data, and investigate a Tikhonov regularization approach to obtain a stable solution that is robust against variances in the sampling of reaction-time distribution (when number of trials is low). Our method is demonstrated using...
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PMID: 21041149
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Understanding how the human speech production system is related to the human auditory system has been a perennial subject of inquiry. To investigate the production-perception link, in this paper, a computational analysis has been performed using the articulatory movement data obtaine...
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PMID: 21682422
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We have also applied the ACID (anisotropy of the current-induced density) method in this analysis. The main conclusions are the aromatic character of these compounds, the relationship between aromaticity and planarity and the importance of other factors in this aromaticity....
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PMID: 20811801
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Magnesium dimers play important roles in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. This study evaluates the inherent bridging ability of a range of different ligands in magnesium dimers. In the first part, the Cambridge Structural Database is interrogated to establish the frequency of...
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PMID: 20820825
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Topological analysis based on DFT calculations regarding proton transfer reaction in salicylideneaniline (SA) was performed to scrutinize possible changes in the intramolecular H-bond, pi-electron delocalization and aromaticity levels of certain fragments. Quantum chemical calculatio...
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PMID: 20820826
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Quantum chemical methods have been used to study the conformational and electronic properties of sulfanilamide and derivatives with antibacterial activity. Calculations at B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory predict the existence of four conformers for sulfanilamide depending on t...
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PMID: 20820828
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Our analysis showed that dimeric forms predicted theoretically contribute distinctively to the assignments of experimental results. These structures are defined by the orientation of the acetyl moieties with respect to the plane of indole ring. The dimers are formed by two symmetrical IAA monomers (...
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PMID: 20839020
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The formation of α-turns is a possibility to reverse the direction of peptide sequences via five amino acids. In this paper, a systematic conformational analysis was performed to find the possible isolated α-turns with a hydrogen bond between the first and fifth amino acid employin...
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PMID: 20842396
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Density functional theoretical calculations have been utilized to investigate the interaction of the amino acid arginine with the (100) surface of anatase and the reproduction of experimentally measured (49)Ti NMR chemical shifts of anatase. Significant binding of arginine through el...
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PMID: 20853182
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Enoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase (ENR) is an attractive and potential target for developing selective antibacterial agents. Recent studies showed that FabK is the sole isoform of ENR in Streptococcus pneumoniae, and at the same time an X-ray crystallographic study of FabK f...
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PMID: 20862594
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Spiking neural P systems are a class of distributed parallel computing devices inspired from the way neurons communicate by means of spikes. In this paper, the problem of looking for small universal computing devices is investigated in the framework of spiking neural P systems. A new...
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PMID: 21712164
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We first formulated the simultaneous dual-isotope MPS reconstruction problem as a joint estimation problem. A cross-tracer prior that couples voxel values on both images was then proposed. We developed an iterative algorithm to reconstruct the MPS images that converges to the maximum a posteriori so...
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PMID: 20952334
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