Some social sciences research into the Alien franchise's symbology has considered it significant that Sulaco in Conrad's Nostromo is the home of the white owners of the silver mine figuring in the book, while the Sulaco in Aliens transports soldiers to investigate unknown troubles at a corporate outpost of Weyland Yutani and to protect the investment — drawing parallels between the ' corporate ' owners in Conrad's work and the shadowy business entity forming a central part of the Aliens franchise.

In 1959 he employed this method to determine the molecular structure of the protein hemoglobin, which transports oxygen in the blood.

An adaptation that enables them to eat so much is a mechanism in a specialized midgut that quickly transports ions to the lumen ( midgut cavity ), to keep the potassium level higher in the midgut cavity than in the blood .< ref >

The blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body.

This is true of the systemic circulation, by far the larger of the two circuits of blood in the body, which transports oxygen from the heart to the tissues of the body.

For example, the hepatic portal vein takes blood from the capillary beds in the digestive tract and transports it to the capillary beds in the liver.

Systemic circulation is the portion of the cardiovascular system which transports oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the rest of the body, and returns oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart.

Hemoglobin and Myoglobin are examples of hemeprotein that are essential in the storing and transports of oxygen in mammals. Hemoglobin is a quaternary protein that occurs in the red blood cell, whereas, myoglobin is a tertiary protein found the muscle cells of mammals.

* Blood vessel, part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body

* Red blood cell, a type of cell in the blood that transports oxygen

The azygos vein transports deoxygenated blood from the posterior walls of the thorax and abdomen into the superior vena cava vein.

One part of it also transports fats from the small intestine to the blood.

Another type of lipoprotein known as high-density lipoprotein, or HDL collects cholesterol, glycerol and fatty acids from the blood and transports them to the liver.

Thus, serum albumin transports fatty acids to organs such as muscle and liver for oxidation when blood sugar is low.

* Heme, the active site in the hemoglobin ( the protein in blood that transports oxygen ) is a porphyrin containing iron.

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

Insulin, secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas, effectively transports glucose to the body's cells by instructing those cells to keep more of the glucose for their own use ( see Dynamic equilibrium ).

MPLS is able to work with variable length packets while ATM transports fixed-length ( 53 byte ) cells.

* The lymph transports antigen-presenting cells ( APCs ), such as dendritic cells, to the lymph nodes where an immune response is stimulated.

Hemoglobin transports oxygen to the cells of our bodies.

For menstruating women, who are more at risk of iron deficiency, lima beans can provide iron, an integral component of hemoglobin — hemoglobin transports oxygen from the lungs to all body cells, and is also part of key enzyme systems for energy production and metabolism.

The enzyme hydrogen potassium ATPase ( H < sup >+</ sup >/ K < sup >+</ sup > ATPase ) is unique to the parietal cells and transports the H < sup >+</ sup > against a concentration gradient of about 3 million to 1, which is the steepest ion gradient formed in the human body.

The lymphatic system transports infection-fighting cells called lymphocytes, is involved in the removal of foreign matter and cell debris by phagocytes and is part of the body's immune system.

* Acute tubular necrosis, a medical condition involving the death of tubular cells that form the tubule that transports urine to the ureters

The proteins produced by these two genes work together to form a potassium channel that transports positively charged potassium ions out of cells.

The protein made by the KCNJ2 gene forms a channel that transports potassium ions into muscle cells.

Acute tubular necrosis or ( ATN ) is a medical condition involving the death of tubular cells that form the tubule that transports urine to the ureters while reabsorbing 99 % of the water ( and highly concentrating the salts and metabolic byproducts ).

" A discrete subpopulation of dendritic cells transports apoptotic intestinal epithelial cells to T cell areas of mesenteric lymph nodes " ( 2000 ) Journal of Experimental Medicine, 191 ( 3 ), pp. 435-443.

The renal outer medullary potassium channel ( ROMK ) is an ATP-dependent potassium channel ( K < sub > ir </ sub > 1. 1 ) that transports potassium out of cells.

Should not everyone have been awakened to it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports??

Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports.

Although initially disappointed that the main French fleet was not at Alexandria, Nelson knew from the presence of the transports that they must be nearby.

In Hyderabad, the MMTS mainly transports people from the city centre to HI-TEC city, the city's Information Technology hub.

The heat expelled from the room ( the system ), which the air conditioner transports and discharges to the outside air, will always make a bigger contribution to the entropy of the environment than will the decrease of the entropy of the air of that system.

In essence, it is a chemical messenger that transports a signal from one cell to another.

Passive sub-irrigation, also known as passive hydroponics or semi-hydroponics, is a method wherein plants are grown in an inert porous medium that transports water and fertilizer to the roots by capillary action from a separate reservoir as necessary, reducing labour and providing a constant supply of water to the roots.

More recent procurements have been from China in the form of the Harbin Y-12 II turboprop transports were delivered in September 1995, one crashed in April 1996.

The canonical example of a ligand-binding protein is haemoglobin, which transports oxygen from the lungs to other organs and tissues in all vertebrates and has close homologs in every biological kingdom.

A protein called Mdm2 ( also called HDM2 in humans ), which is itself a product of p53, binds to p53, preventing its action and transports it from the nucleus to the cytosol.

It was not until John, who had been disappointed in his hope for an easy victory after being driven from Roche-au-Moine and had retreated to his transports that the Imperial Army, with Otto at its head, assembled in the Low Countries.

In the second half of the 16th century, the Crown gave up the monopoly on slave trade and the focus of European trade in African slaves shifted from import to Europe to slave transports directly to tropical colonies in the Americas – in the case of Portugal, especially Brazil.

In the aftermath the defeated expedition of 60 quinqueremes and several transports encountered a Roman raiding party from Africa with 100 quinqueremes.

The aircraft fleet grew from crop spraying aircraft to larger transports and helicopters used to support ground troops and transport personnel.

A partial vacuum, or rough vacuum, can be created using a positive displacement pump that transports a gas load from an inlet port to an outlet ( exhaust ) port.

* June 21 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails in 500 transports escorted by 92 war vessels ( dromons ) manned by 20, 000 seamen from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.

De Barras sailed from Newport on 27 August with 8 ships of the line, 4 frigates, and 18 transports carrying French armaments and siege equipment.

" After effecting repairs in New York, Admiral Graves sailed from New York on 19 October with 25 ships of the line and transports carrying 7, 000 troops to relieve Cornwallis.

The remaining eight Sheridans were delivered to Torrijos-Tocumen Airport some hours after H-hour by Low-Velocity Airdrop ( LVAD ) technique from C-130 transports.

A common carrier is distinguished from a contract carrier ( also called a public carrier in UK English ), which is a carrier that transports goods for only a certain number of clients and that can refuse to transport goods for anyone else, and from a private carrier.

According to testimony of SS officers, men were always gassed first from the transports, while women and children waited outside the gas chamber for their turn.

Seeing this, Caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy ’ s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back.