... mechanism might be considered as an extracellular counterpart of the chemical inactivation of HNE that occurs intracellularly via GST and other enzymes that 5138 are abundantly expressed in nasal ... by the lachrymal and lingual salivary glands, and has been found to be expressed by several other secretory tissues such as prostate, mucosal glands of the tracheobronchial tree, nasal mucosa and ... m)1Æcm)1) after dilution in water AMA was from Sigma Aldrich (Milan, Italy) All other reagents, purchased from different companies, were of analytical grade Rabbit serum raised against HNE–protein adducts...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
... Tools Data Access Data Storage Security After completing the above steps, you will discuss your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flipchart THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY ... Determining the Impact of Technology on a Windows DNA Design 51 Write your answers in the table below User Interface User Services Business Services Data Access Data Store Communication Operating Systems ... by the instructor Identify the level of impact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After...
Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 06:16
Tài liệu HOW INTERNET PROTOCOL-ENABLED SERVICES ARE CHANGING THE FACE OF COMMUNICATIONS: A LOOK AT VIDEO AND DATA SERVICES ppt
... be able to easily communicate changes in their signal area They need to easily change and verify their coverage information so that off-air and web broadcasts are ALWAYS identical BENEFITS OF AIR-TO-WEB ... ensure that the underlying signal area data is always accurate The benefits to the consumers and the broadcasters are many Local broadcasters will be able to bring their programming to the Internet, ... over -the- air broadcasts to American families, and because of the value of localism in broadcasting Localism, a principle underlying the broadcast service since the Radio Act of 1927, serves the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Binding of ligands originates small perturbations on the microscopic thermodynamic properties of a multicentre redox protein pptx
... optimization The half-height widths of the NMR signals were used as a measure of the uncertainty of each NMR data point and an experimental uncertainty of 2% was assumed for the experimental points of the ... because these are the most distant pair of haems in the structure and are therefore expected to have the weakest interaction [33] The pH dependence of the chemical shifts of the NMR signals of the ... that the spectra are very similar with respect to chemical shifts of the signals in intermediate stages of oxidation, and that formation of the complex does not lead to a marked decrease of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Antibacterial and antifungal properties of a-helical, cationic peptides in the venom of scorpions from southern Africa pptx
... explain the higher antibacterial activity on Gram-negative bacteria for parabutoporin compared to opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity against Gram-negative ... mastoparan gave the same results The role of LPS in the interaction was also demonstrated by the lack of effect of extracellular Mg2+ on the activity of the peptides against Gram-positive bacteria ... more antibacterial than dermaseptin (34 amino acids) [19], peptides consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Dissociation/association properties of a dodecameric cyclomaltodextrinase Effects of pH and salt concentration on the oligomeric state pot
... 5Â-AGTACATGTGGGACGTCAC CATGGAGTATGTCCC-3Â (forward) and 5Â-GGGACAT ACTC CATGGTGACGTCCCACATGTACT-3Â (reverse); for the H89V mutant, 5Â-TCTGCTGCAGCA GGGTGTT GAGAAGCGCTGGATG-3Â (forward) and 5Â-CATCCAG CGCTTCTCAACACCCT ... of change in the peak area shown in Fig 3A was estimated according to an equation of single exponential decay [7], peak areaịt ẳ Aekt ỵ B: From the equation above, the slope of the exponential ... obtained about the 3D structure of CDase I-5, the quaternary state of CDase I-5 was likely to be maintained by the intrinsic capability of the N- and C-terminal regions of the enzyme to form a...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean docx
... existing data management offices and databases that could support ocean acidification observational and research data The FOARAM Act also calls for an “Ocean Acidification Information Exchange” that ... delineates ambitious priorities and goals for the National Ocean Acidification Program The FOARAM Act calls for the development of a detailed, 10-year strategic plan for the National Ocean Acidification ... contributions of calcite and aragonite, and hence of the organisms 23 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20
Measuring and modelling the performance of a parallel ODMG compliant object database server potx
... Muralikrishna M Gamma a high performance dataflow database machine Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Kyoto, Japan, August 1986 Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo, CA, ... performance of various features of database systems The 007 database has been designed to test the performance of object database systems, in particular for analysing the performance of inter-object ... optimization and parallelization are automatic, having as a result an operator tree that represents a query’s evaluation plan Although all of them implement some form of intra-transaction parallelism,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 pptx
... branch of art the art of advertising the artists, by a special number of a magazine devoted to the work of an Academician The special numbers, generally published at Christmas, are familiar and ... until the time came to carry it out of the hotel As it passed through the hall the manager, who had had many and many an upbraiding from the excitable Italian after the latter had been proffered the ... insatiable god the almighty dollar, that eventually they either have to fly to a lunatic asylum or an Atlantic liner After a day or two on the latter the calm and repose and the vast sea around them prove...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Protein dissection enhances the amyloidogenic properties of a-lactalbumin potx
... 61–77 and 73–91 EDTA, the LA variants Th1-LA and desb-LA adopt a conformation similar to the MG state displayed by intact LA at low pH, retaining a native-like a- helical content (Fig 2A, B) Furthermore, ... An important aspect of this study is the analysis of the molecular features of LA and its derivatives at the initial stages of protein aggregation at pH 2.0 During the lag time, intact LA undergoes ... processes of LA species with a nick (Th1-LA) or a chain deletion (desb-LA) at the level of the b-subdomain of the 123residue chain of the protein (Fig 1) We have also characterized the early stages of...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " A contribution to the properties of combined plywood materials" ppsx
... with a cork surface layer The refraction of materials in the whole profile and also in separate layers was not examined The failure of materials at separate layer interface owing to shear in ... 40% of maximal loading, a2 – a1 increase in the deflection of the sample at – the point of load force (mm), adequate to loading increment (F2 – F1) The modulus of elasticity of each sample has ... oneself partially approved This is again a theme of another research inclusive of determination of the elastic constant according to separate layers Appropriate tests to determine parameters mentioned...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"The relationship between vegetation management and the wood and pulping properties of a Eucalyptus hybrid clone" pdf
... with a mean annual rainfall and temperature of 1144 mm and 22 °C respectively The trial was located at an elevation of 45 m on an east facing slope Soil parent material is of aeolian origin and ... important indicator of pulpwood quality Canonical Variate Analysis (CVA), also known as linear discriminant analysis, was used to make comparisons between the groups of variates rather than between ... treatments for selected wood and pulping properties as well as between the groups of variates for each treatment A summary of the analysis of variance and treatment means for tree growth and the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Soil CO in a beech forest: 2 efflux the contribution of root respiration Daniel" pptx
... considered as a rough estimation Nevertheless, we calculated that a 20 % variation in the values of the decay constants would change our estimation of the contribution of root respiration to soil carbon ... efflux as overestimations would counterbalance underestimations on an annual basis A TDR device (Trase system, Soil Moisture Equipment Corp., Santa Barbara, USA) was used for additional measurements ... vegetation is rather sparse Leaf area index was 5.7 in 1996 and 5.6 in 1997, which corresponds to a leaf litter fall of 0.14 kg myear (Granier, pers comm.) Average C -2-1 annual precipitation and air temperature...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " PDZ domain-binding motif of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 Tax oncoprotein is essential for the interleukin 2 independent growth induction of a T-cell line" ppsx
... found that Tax1 and Tax2 transform a rat fibroblast cell line (Rat-1) to induce colonies in soft agar (CFSA, colony formation in soft agar), and the activity of Tax1 is greater than that of Tax2 ... against Tax2B We thank the Takeda pharmaceutical company for providing recombinant human IL-2 We also thank Sayoko Takizawa and Chika Yamamoto for the excellent technical assistance This work was supported ... p18Ink4 and p21Waf1/Cip1/Sdi1 Oncogene 1996, 12:1645-1652 Mori N, Fujii M, Hinz M, Nakayama K, Yamada Y, Ikeda S, Yamasaki Y, Kashanchi F, Tanaka Y, Tomonaga M, Yamamoto N: Activation of cyclin D1 and...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of the effects of a VEGFR-2 inhibitor compound on alanine aminotransferase gene expression and enzymatic activity in the rat liver" pdf
... Institutional compliance statement Animals were housed in facilities at Pfizer (La Jolla, CA, USA) that are approved by the American Association for the Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care All protocols ... 5’TTCAAGCAGAGAGACAGGAG-3’ and 5’-TGAGGGAAGGAATACATGG-3.’ The primers for b-actin, used as a reference gene to normalize expression levels between samples, were: 5’- CTCACTGTCCACCTTCCAG-3’ and ... expressed as a relative ratio Cleaved caspase and TUNEL Samples of the caudate, right medial, and left lateral liver lobes were paraffin-embedded, serially sectioned at Fuentealba et al Comparative...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Social Phobia Screening Questionnaire for use in adolescents" pdf
... lottery that was conducted in each class after all students had completed their questionnaires at the first and second assessment A case-control design was adopted for the evaluation of validity The ... the SPSQ-C, i.e a probable case of SAD, the student had to rate at least one potentially phobic situation as "marked fear" on the social fear scale This particular situation had to be consistently ... validity The overall test accuracy, i.e the percentage of correct diagnoses in the validity sample, was 84% The area under the curve (AUC) was 79 which was significant in comparison to a random...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21
The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System
... dirty pages • Data manager floods the cache This is rather similar in nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious ... for another thread in that task • Server tasks which cannot tolerate changing data, or which must ensure that all of the necessary data is available, may use a separate thread to copy that data ... that must be prevented For example, a data manager may wish to temporarily allow read-only access to cached data The locking on a page may later be changed as deemed necessary by the data manager...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
List the components of a radio system
... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... data to be sent – Imprints a unique address on the data – The longer the code is, the more users will be able to share the same channel – Number of chips in the code • Determines the amount of ... Divides the transmission time into several slots – Each user is assigned the entire frequency for the transmission • For a fraction of time on a fixed, rotating basis – Advantages • Uses the bandwidth...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:52
Cambridge.University.Press.Africans.The.History.of.a.Continent.Aug.2007.pdf
... languages belonged to a third, Nilo-Saharan family, which may have originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early as Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan may be distantly related to the fourth family, ... taken Carthage a decade later, and extended their power across the region sub-saharan africa Whether Carthage transmitted metalworking to sub-Saharan Africa is one of the mysteries of African ... religions, and alphabetic literacy that sub-Saharan Africa partially shared with the Eurasian core Partial isolation meant that cultural phenomena took distinctively African forms Partial integration...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39