on DCs. At low ligand concentrations, the MR can deliver a large number of ligands to the cell in successive rounds. Thus, while macropinocytosis endows DCs with a high capacity, nonsaturable mechanism for capture of any soluble antigen, the MR gives an extra capacity for antigen capture with some degree

. Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated in the tropics where solar irradiance is highest. Black carbon is often transported over long distances, mixing with other aerosols along the way. The aerosol mix can form transcontinental plumes of atmospheric brown

Abstract. Harmonic morphisms are mappings between Riemannian manifolds which preserve Laplace’s equation. They can be characterized as harmonic maps which enjoy an extra property called horizontal weak conformality or semiconformality. We shall give a brief survey of the theory concentrating on (i

, holding characteristics of the start-up fixed. Offers made by VCs with a high reputation are three times more likely to be accepted, and high-reputation VCs acquire start-up equity at a 10–14 % discount. The evidence suggests that VCs ’ “extra-financial ” value may be more distinctive than

Purpose: In Korean society, extra-large hospitals are congested with the majority of patients. Because of the congestions, the urgent patients need to wait anywhere from as short as a month to around three months. These concentrations of the patients on the extra-large hospitals causes not only

in usual 3 + 1-dim models. We concentrate on the case where the black hole is located on the brane. Key words: black holes, extra dimensions Recently, the TeV-scale gravity models have attracted much of inter-est. It is basically the idea that our (3 + 1)-dimensional universe is only a sub

important for social and extra-pair mate choice. However, little is known about the relationship between natural male testosterone concentration and sexual selection. To investigate this relationship we measured testosterone concentration and sexual signals (ventral plumage colour and tail length

Extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a growing problem worldwide. Due to the nature of the disease, the diversity of clinical pictures as well as its minor epidemiological importance, the diagnosis is difficult and often late. In addition to standard TB diagnostic techniques use of new

In a study RBC-Plasma lithium ratios in manic patients treated with lithium we found that lithium responders had higher lithium ratios than lithium non-responders. There was, however, no cut off value which could differentiate lithium responders from non-responders. Elizur et al. (1972) suggested that erythrocyte lithium to plasma lithium ratio (lithium ratio) may distinguish unipolar from bipolar affective illness. Mendels and Frazer (1973) suggested that lithium ratio may predict response to lithium in depressed patients, in that patients with ratios more than 0.5 would respond to lithium therapy and those with ratios less than 0.5 would not. This was elaborated and corroborated by the same authors in a further study. (Mendels & Frazer, 1974).

We discuss the possibility of introducing an SU (2) global flavour symmetry in the context of flat extra dimensions. In particular we concentrate on the 5-dimensional case and we study how to obtain the flavour structure of the Standard Model quark sector compactifying the fifth dimension