Sustained pacemaker function is a challenge in biological pacemaker engineering.Human cardiomyocyte progenitor cells (CMPCs) have exhibited extended survival in the heart after transplantation.We studied whether lentivirally transduced CMPCs that express the pacemaker current If (encoded by HCN4) can be used as functional gene delivery vehicle in b
Novel weapons testing: are invasive plants more chemically defended than native plants?
Exotic species have been hypothesized to successfully invade new habitats by virtue of possessing novel biochemistry that repels native enemies.Despite the pivotal long-term consequences of invasion for native food-webs, to date there are no experimental studies examining directly whether exotic plants are any more or less biochemically deterrent t
Total Quality Management Practices and Microfinance Institutions Performance in Yemen: The Resource Based View Theory Perspective
The total quality management (TQM) practices in most of the organizations have proven to be the key strategic approach to ensure the peak performance of the firms.In the microfinance institutional Collections contexts, the contribution of TQM is undeniably importance.From a study that has been conducted in Yemen, 125 usable questionnaires were coll
Implementation of a Simplified Micromixing Model Inside a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Code for the Estimation of Concentration Variances and Peaks
Hair Dryer In the frame of the modelling simulation of odour nuisances, the estimation of concentration peaks, representing values averaged over a relatively short time of the order of the interval between subsequent breathes, is of fundamental importance.Dispersion models currently used in this field cannot reconstruct this kind of values at relat
Depository Accounting of Securities in the Ukrainian Stock Market Regulation System
The aim of the article is to study the procedures, technologies, prudential regulation of depository accounting of securities in the system of the Ukrainian stock market infrastructure and identify directions of its improvement.The article analyzes the dynamics of the number of licenses issued by types of professional activity in the stock market.T