This prompted generations of English teachers to drill into their pupils, including me, that to start a sentence with and, but, because or however was wrong.
While we now know that this was merely an optical illusion because of the limited resolution of the available observation instruments, Lowell's statements prompted generations of books and movies speculating on Martian invasions of Earth.
(Supermarket tabloids, anyone?) These days, the same naughty human instincts are still there — you know, the ones that have prompted generations of teenagers to make prank phone calls — and technology has moved things forward.
Cars in the Jetsons' future can fold up and fit into suitcases, which has prompted generations of viewers to wonder, "Why are there still so many parking lots?" When the Delorean shows up in the present-day, all Doc has to explain is, "Where we're going, we don't need roads!" With the Lilium Jet in tow, the roadless future seems to be a little less far, far away.
The crucial event responsible for cell death induction was the prompt ROS generation after irradiation, whose amount and site of generation is thought to determine the damage of cellular components and the triggering of several signalling pathways, including cell death.
And, at a conference held recently at the institute, Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Marc Vrakking of the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam described one way that it could be done.Lasers work by creating a chain reaction in which photons of light prompt the generation of further photons.
A third approach is based on a convolution of the estimate of the original activity with some kernel based on models that include prompt gamma generation.
Most interestingly, rhTM treatment of septic rats resulted in a significant sixfold enhancement in MV fibrinolytic activity (3.0 ± 0.26 vs. 0.48 ± 0.28 U/ml urokinase, p < 0.05), thereby indicating that rhTM was able to prompt the generation of a proportion of MVs with restored fibrinolysis activity eventually counteracting septic shock-induced coagulopathy.
In vitro, AGEs prompt intracellular generation of hydrogen peroxide and activation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase [ 38].
