There are more Japanese people coming to the United States than ever before.
Increasing numbers of problems and conflicts are occurring between the Americans
(hosts) and Japanese (guests). Many scholars have stated that there is a distinct
difference of communication patterns between Americans and Japanese. The Asia
University American Program...
The eruption of South Sarigan Seamount in the southern Mariana arc
in May 2010 is a reminder of how little we know about the hazards associated with
submarine explosive eruptions or how to predict these types of eruptions. Monitored
by local seismometers and distant hydrophones, the eruption from ~ 200...
Endogenous small RNAs (endo-siRNAs) interact with Argonaute (AGO) proteins to mediate
sequence-specific regulation of diverse biological processes. Here, we combine deep-sequencing and
genetic approaches to explore the biogenesis and function of endo-siRNAs in C. elegans. We describe
conditional alleles of the dicer-related helicase, drh-3, that abrogate both RNA interference and...
Studies toward the total syntheses of highly potent cytotoxic alkaloids
including the bromopyrrole alkaloids and indole alkaloids were conducted and are
described. Studies carried out in the course of this dissertation consist of five total syntheses of natural products that include bromopyrrole alkaloids nagelamide A, D and agelastatin D as...
The primary purpose of this study was to try to (1) provide information on the chemical nature, including turbidity formation, of polygalacturonic acid in different concentrations of NaCl solution. (2) use turbidity formation characteristics to develop an assay for determining the activities polygalacturonic acid depolymerases by using a polyelectrolyte. (3)...