Essays on Xing

The activity of AMPK supports the normal function of the endothelial barrier (Xing, Wang, Coughlan, Viollet, Moriasi, & Zou, 2013), while on the other hand, the exposure of LPS ensures that there is inhibition of AMPK, thus accentuating lung injury and endothelial barrier dysfunction (Kratzer et al., 2012). It is a fact that LPS increases the permeability of the endothelium, which occurs once there is a decrease in the AMPK activity. This is consistent with the fact that the activation of AMPK activator, AICAR, emphasizes LP, once it is applied in vitro to test the hyper endothelial permeability. Experiments done ...

The City (State where it is located)

Has Commodification of Migrant Labor and Knowledge Gone too Far? Actually, commodification is a relatively new word that means a process of transformation of different resources, goods or even knowledge into such objects that can be sold. Such a commodification makes a great contribution to the national economy. This fact cannot be denied –commodification is developing rapidly. But developing of commodification has negative or positive or even mixed results. During recent years the problem of commodification of migrant labour and knowledge has risen and become very controversial as it difficult to define the positive and negative sides in comparison ...

Abstract

The automotive industry is one of the industries that has been characterized by intense rivalry. Companies invest a lot of resources to come up with innovative solutions that give them an edge over their rivals. Customer satisfaction is the main target for every company since evidence suggest that increased customer satisfaction contributes to enhanced customer loyalty. One of the areas of focus has been quality control. Quality control in the automotive industry has been improving over time. Besides increasing customer satisfaction, quality controls have been employed in the automotive industry to achieve other goals such as cutting costs, meeting ...

Introduction

Mining activities can pose serious environmental and health implications. Although, these environmental and health hazards can be mitigated and effectively managed through sound engineering and environmental practices, these environmental and health issues associated with mining operations could not be totally eradicated. In general, there are three major players in the mining industry: the company, which include the employees and the stockholders; the regulatory bodies, which include the government and other national and international environmental organizations; and the community, which are not directly related to the mining industry, but is impacted by its operations. Each one of these stakeholders has ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an infectious disease caused by SARS corona virus (SARS-CoV). It is a dangerous, not well understood, and easy to transmit disease. Its most dangerous features are that SARS outbreaks occur within the hospital setting, it can be deadly, and has no definitive set of symptoms. There is a distinct probability of another global outbreak of SARS.

On February 28, 2003, Carlo Urbani, a medical doctor working for the World Health Organization in Vietnam, examined an American patient in a French hospital in Hanoi. The patient presented with atypical pneumonia, a respiratory disease with an unusual panel of symptoms. ...