These factors were semiquantified both together and separately, and scores were then attributed to them as follows: "0" for the absence of the referred alteration, "1" for alterations of low intensity, "2" for alterations of moderate intensity, and "3" for intense alterations, according to the methodology established by Hurewitz et al. [ 30].
Recent findings also reported intense alterations of cell cycle regulatory proteins through cell detachment presenting similar radiation-related DNA damages (Kang and Krauss, 1996; Zhu et al, 1996; Wu and Schönthal, 1997).
The relationships between plasma exposure and cellular responses have been partially established in recent studies which demonstrated that plasma treatment of cells resulted in intense alterations of apoptotic signaling [ 9, 13] related transcription factors [ 14], DNA damages [ 8, 13] and ATM/p53 [ 9] pathways.
Next Stop: The E.R. Sometimes when I am riding on the subway, I hear strangers getting into intense altercations over the smallest of slights: "You stepped on my foot!" Or: "Your bag is hitting me!" Occasionally, I feel the need to speak up and try to alleviate these situations.
I obtained oriented minicores and cubes, avoiding zones where intense alteration had been noted previously (Cannat et al., 1995; Blackman et al., 2006).
This finding confirms that the composting process promoted an intense alteration of the intermolecular linkages among the organic components of the thermoplastic blend, thus allowing the progressive decomposition of simple constituents.
At Fox pipe, the F1, a massive, poorly sorted kimberlite deposit, pseudomorphed olivine grains occur with fresh glassy cores, whereas at higher levels, more intense alteration has completely pseudomorphed the olivine grains.
The Rotokawa Andesite shows moderate to intense hydrothermal alteration with the groundmass and phenocrysts showing replacement of original mineralogy.
Natural combustion alteration was studied in siliceous mudstone of the Miocene Sisquoc Formation at Orcutt oil field, California, where centers of most intense combustion alteration are composed of 1 2 m thick tabular zones of brecciated clinker.
The mineralogical properties of aggregate interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) and matrix of CI and CM carbonaceous chondrites support a sequence of increasingly intense aqueous alteration that could have modified pristine organics in aggregate IDPs to more complex organic compounds in chondrite matrix.
Moreover, when in a soil, the hydrolysis of sodium in clays leads to alkalization of the profile, causing intense mineral alteration and classification as a sodic soil (sometimes alkaline), but, if there is a high salt content and sodium predominates in the exchange complex, they are classified as a saline-sodic soil [1].
