TT2013 meeting report: the transgenic technology meeting visits Asia for the first time

The 11th Transgenic Technology meeting was held in Guangzhou, China on 25th–27th February 2013. Over 300 scientists and students from round the world gathered to hear the latest developments in the technologies underpinning the creation of transgenic and knockout animals and their application to biological sciences in areas such as the modeling human diseases and biotechnology. As well as informative presentations from leading researchers in the field, an excellent selection of short talks selected from abstracts and posters, attendees were also treated to an inspiring talk from Allan Bradley who was awarded the 9th International Society of Transgenic Technologies Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of transgenic technologies

Recombinant interleukin-1β dilates steelhead trout coronary microvessels : effect of temperature and role of the endothelium, nitric oxide and prostaglandins

© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Acknowledgements We thank Wenjuan Xu and Xin Xu (Hein Lab) for their excellent instruction in microvessel techniques, Dr David Heeley (Biochemistry Department, MUN) for assistance with selecting an appropriate (non-vasoactive) protein stabilizer, Dr Zou (SFIRC, Aberdeen) for advice with regards to the use of rIL-1β and Gordon Nash (Gamperl Lab) for his assistance with the rIL-1β purification protocol. Funding This research was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant [RGPIN249926] and Accelerator Supplement [RGPAS412325-2011] to A.K.G. a National Institutes of Health Grant [EY018420] to T.W.H., and a doctoral fellowship from Fundaçã o para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BD/27497/2006] to I.A.S.F.C. Deposited in PMC for release after 12 months.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

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La triple dificultad de Yan Fu

En su prólogo a la traducción de Evolution, Ethics and other Essays, de T. H. Huxley (1897), Yan Fu (1854-1921), expone los principios que deben regir toda traducción (las tres dificultades), inaugurando con ello, en el ámbito cultural chino, un modo de hacer traductor que - con las lógicas excepciones debidas al influjo de los nuevos planteamientos lingüísticos y traductológicos - pervive hasta nuestros días. Sobre la base del confucianismo y la teoría y la práctica de los primeros traductores budistas, Yan Fu considera que toda traducción debe regirse por criterios de fidelidad (xin) al texto original, comprensibilidad (da) del lector y utilización de aquellos recursos retóricos de la lengua de llegada que transmitan mejor el mensaje y sean más acordes con la mentalidad del receptor (ya).In the preface to his own translation of T. H. Huxley's Evolution, Ethics and Other Essays (1897), Yan Fu (1854-1921) puts forward the principles (the Three Difficulties) governing what he considers to be a good translation, opening whereby a translatorial trend which has permeated the theory and practice of translation in China in the last hundred years. On the basis of Confucian's rethoric and the theory and practice of the first Buddhist translators, he identifies and propounds a triple criterion to be observed at any given translation: faithfulness (xin) to the source text, expressiveness or readability (da) of the target text and use of those rethorical resources best suited to the rendering of the original message and the receptor's idiosyncrasy (ya)

Information theoretic analysis of LSD scheme

In this paper, the capacity region of Low Density Signature Multiple Access Channel (LDS-MAC) is calculated through information theoretic analysis. LDS Code Division Multiple Access (LDS-CDMA) uses spreading sequences of low density for spreading the data symbols in time domain. This technique benefits from a less complex Multiuser Detector (MUD) compared to conventional CDMA with optimum MUD; while keeping the performance close to the single user scenario for up to 200% loaded conditions. Also evaluated is the effect of different factors on the capacity of LDS MAC

Distinction Between Inflection and Derivation of Learning Reduplication in Mandarin

Reduplication as a word-formation process in Mandarin, which is one of the most difficult knowledge to comprehend for scholar and student. Theoretically this research offers an approach that is different from what has been made by previous researchers. Using the M.D.S Simatupang free context approach this research contrasts the reduplicative forms of all word classes and shows the relationships between them (AA, AABB, ABAB, ABB) and their basic forms (A, AB), then based on test of categorical word and test of lexical decomposition as proposed by J.W.M Verhaar, this study analyzes and explains reduplication and inflectional reduplication in Mandarin in order to students understand as their meaning vocabularies. As a result, this research examines the derivational and inflectional reduplication in Mandarin all at once can disseminate the use of morphological theory. In addition, this study discusses Mandarin reduplication based on various word classes that are contained as a basis for the relevant form of reduplication. Beginner research results will be presented in this study in order to stimulate more complete writing, it will be better if this research can be disseminated in order to add learning and reading material for future research