In the first half of the year, two severe vehicle accidents took place. They were addressed through an ongoing driving safety improvement programme. No severe vehicle accidents were recorded in the second half of the year and the total vehicle accident rate for 2010 was low. Operations Oil ...
Over the course of the year we plan to spend more than $600 million in operating expenditure and around $2,000 million in capital expenditure. 14 BP in Azerbaijan BP in Azerbaijan: our operations A strategic hub for all BP operated assets in the Caspian Onshore LP gas going to Azerbaijan...
I have to admit, though, that the very first time in my life that I have truly felt ancient was when I read the intro: “MJL is a 62-year-old widowed white female, a retired nurse.” Holy crap. I mean, that makes me sound like I’m just a couple of steps from the threshold ...
Total RNA was extracted, and RT-qPCR was performed as described above, GAPDH was used as a loading control for normalisation. Finally, the RNA half-life was calculated. Mouse experiment Five-week-old female BALB/c nude mice were obtained from Speife Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China)...
The young-aged (YC) group included three cadavers (27-year-old male, 23-year-old male, and 17-year-old female) and the nine young patients who had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (7 males and 1 female; 17–46 years of age, average age 27.4 years). The aged (AC) group ...
For example the “arch-conservative” Ratzinger, who proved his adherence to Roman Catholicism by wearing the fancy red shoes, taught that prostitutes, both male and female, could use birth control devices in order not to spread AIDS. Once you establish the principle, however, that something ...
20 For DAM experiments, 3- to 5-day-old adult male Drosophila were loaded into glass tubes containing a 4% sucrose and 2% agar food source, and activity was recorded under 12 light:12 dark (12L:12D) cycles at 22°C–25°C. Results We report molecular, clinical, and cellular findings ...
Six-week-old female BALB/c nude mice were obtained from Vital River Laboratory (Beijing, China). Implanted with estrogen pellets (E2, 0.36 mg/pellet, 60-day release) (Innovative Research of America, Sarasota, FL, USA). Two days after implantation, 5×107 MCF7 and MCF7-SGK3-KO cells in...
support we gave during the year to Azerbaijan in its successful efforts to become the first country in the world to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the other for a project undertaken by our Drilling & Completions team to make our wells produce even more oil and gas....
5j). Female mice were largely protected from the effects of ChREBPβ depletion (Supplementary Fig. 10c–g). Together, these findings illustrate that ChREBPβ is necessary for adaptive β-cell mass expansion. Fig. 5: ChREBPβ is required for adaptive β-cell proliferation and expansion of ...