Breast Cancer in Art Painting

Breast cancer is an emotive cancer. It is a disease that affects a visible sexual organ and it is the commonest single cause of death of women between 40 and 60 years of age. Nevertheless, this type of cancer was infrequently depicted in art paintings. In this article the themes from the breast cancer in famous art paintings are discussed

RT-PCR Analysis of TOPBP1 Gene Expression in Hereditary Breast Cancer

Hereditary predisposition to breast cancer determined in large part by loss of function mutations in one of two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. Besides BRCA1 and BRCA2 other genes are also likely to be involved in hereditary predisposition to breast cancer. TopBP1 protein is involved in DNA replication, DNA damage checkpoint response and transcriptional regulation. Expression of TopBP1 gene at the mRNA level was analyzed by semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 94 samples of hereditary breast cancer. Analysis of TopBP1 mRNA level showed that expression of TopBP1 is significantly downregulated in poorly differentiated breast cancer (grade III according Bloom-Richardson system (P<0.05)

Algebraic construction of spherical harmonics

The angular wave functions for a hydrogen atom are well known to be spherical harmonics, and are obtained as the solutions of a partial differential equation. However, the differential operator is given by the Casimir operator of the $SU(2)$ algebra and its eigenvalue $l(l+1) \hbar^2$, where $l$ is non-negative integer, is easily obtained by an algebraic method. Therefore the shape of the wave function may also be obtained by extending the algebraic method. In this paper, we describe the method and show that wave functions with different quantum numbers are connected by a rotational group in the cases of $l=0$, 1 and 2.Comment: 9pages, 13figure

Sarande: water, forma terrae and forma urbis

Ponència presentada a: Session 9: Diseño e Historia (modernidad y tradición) / Design and History (modernity and tradition

Validación experimental de un modelo de músculo activado de forma artificial

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The student immigration system (Consultation document and consultation response pro-forma)

Includes the consultation document and consultation response pro-forma. Consultation dates: (December 2010 to January 2011) "The government intends to reduce annual net migration to the UK to sustainable levels, in the tens of thousands a year. It expects the student route to make its contribution towards reducing net migration to the UK. Students now represent the largest proportion of net migration from outside Europe. We need to ensure that the number of international students coming to the UK is broadly in balance with the number leaving. The government's policy aim is to ensure that only genuine students who are committed to their academic study come to the UK, with a presumption that upon completion they will leave promptly. This consultation sets out our proposals for achieving this aim." - UKBA website

Sarande: water, forma terrae and forma urbis

Ponència presentada a: Session 9: Diseño e Historia (modernidad y tradición) / Design and History (modernity and tradition

L'action des objets et les objets de l'action

L’article examine les caractéristiques des objets ainsi que leur contribution à l’action humaine dans le cadre d’une sociologie pragmatique du jugement et de l’action. Porteurs des conventions sociales, les objets balisent les situations et constituent des ressources pour les humains pour agir et se coordonner entre eux. Ce faisant, les objets constituent autant des prises que des contraintes à l’action. Il existe une large gamme de rapports aux objets depuis les situations où ils présentent de fortes contraintes jusqu’à celles où ils laissent place à l’arbitraire des personnes, depuis les situations où les humains s’engagent de manière non réflexive en se laissant guider par lesobjets jusqu’à celles où ils mobilisent leur réflexivité en l’absence de routines établies ou pour contourner celles déposées dans les objets