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An unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility as this surreal example of postmodernity transforms itself into a 21st Century Communist Chinese city. She zooms in on her own life in the city: on family, friends and her professional history as both business executive and author, to focus on moments that offer wry observations of the shifting world around her. She casts her eye on films, pop stars, public transportation, and also muses on the political, without losing sight of the distinctly apolitical culture that evolved through the city's history as a former British colony and a Chinese "Special Administrative Region" after the 1997 "handover." Like letters to a dying lover, the tone shifts - at times comic or nostalgic, at others angry or despairing, at still others in raptures of delight - in a voice that is utterly Hong Kong.

There is no other book on the market like it. This is a book for the curious general reader resident in the city, the traveler in Asia, as well as suitable as a text for literary, cultural or social studies. Readers interested in the dynamics of a modern, Asian family will also find resonance in these pages..
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Progesterone is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and it can be found in various surface waters which are partly used as drinking water resources. Therefore, immunoanalytical methods at a very low limit of detection (LOD) and a low limit of quantification (LOQ) are becoming more and more important for environmental analysis and especially for monitoring drinking water quality. Biosensors have suitable characteristics such as efficiency in allowing very fast, sensitive, and cost-effective detection. Here we describe a fully automated immunoassay for progesterone with a LOD in the sub-nanogram per litre range and a LOQ in the lower nanogram per litre range. In contrast to common analytical methods such as GC-MS or HPLC-MS, the biosensor used requires no sample pre-treatment and no sample pre-concentration. The basis of our sensitive assay is the antibody with a high affinity constant towards progesterone and the robust biosensor setup used. .
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on March 24, 1997. The length of the article is 2762 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El etarra evanescente. (Javier García Gaztelu, miembro del grupo terrorista ETA, España)(TT: Evanescent ETA member) (TA: Javier García Gaztelu, member of the Spanish terrorist group ETA)
Author: Oscar Lopez-Fonseca
Publication:Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 24, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n630 Page: p24(4)

Article Type: Biography

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A675023. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Normal biologic function of an organism requires communication and regulation at several levels. Perhaps the most fundamental communication is that which occurs between the extracellular matrix and the intracellular environment. Elucidation of the signal transduction pathways in the areas of chondrocyte, osteoblast and inflammatory regulation would have significant implications in wound healing, regenerative procedures, implants and treatment of metabolic diseases of bone and cartilage. The rat costochondral chondrocyte model has been used to demonstrate that vitamin D3 metabolites can directly regulate many cellular and extracellular matrix functions and that this regulation is dependent both on the type of vitamin D metabolite, and on the maturation level of the chondrocytes. Matrix vesicles, distinct extracellular organelles critically involved in matrix mineralization, are also differentially regulated by vitamin D metabolites. Recently, it was shown that vitamin D metabolites can regulate protein kinase C activity in chondrocyte culture lysates and that these effects are also metabolite- and maturation- specific. Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of isozymes that are known to be important in cell signal transduction. The aim of this study was to examine whether PKC mediates the nongenomic effect of vitamin D on chondrocyte regulation. The present study investigated whether PKC activity was present in matrix vesicles (MV) and plasma membranes (PM) and whether this activity can be directly regulated by vitamin D metabolites..
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