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... calculate the gloss and translucency score Panelists ranked noodle gloss and translucency on boiled noodle disks and strands from six WSN mixes of ASWN and gelatin, following standard procedures ... units (standard deviation 1.80) and 20.40 units (standard deviation 1.58) (60°); from the hard wheat sample, the mean level was 18.82 units (standard deviation 1.80) and 18.16 units (standard deviation ... lightness (L*) and an increase in redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) values of raw WSN sheets from soft and hard wheat flour samples Measurements of L*, a*, and b* usually give low standard deviations...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:25

... adverse effects Concern for adverse effects Some concern for adverse effects Developmental effects Reproductive effects Minimal concern for adverse effects Negligible concern for adverse effects ... rates and body weights reported by authors, doses of 0, 15, 77, and 307 mg/kg bw/day and 0, 16, 88, and 320 mg/kg bw/day were calculated for males and females, respectively There were no effects ... effects in F1 offspring included a decrease in live pups at birth and on pnd and a decrease in pup birth weight and weight gain in the high-dose group on pnd 0, 7, 14, and 21 for both sexes and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... SJS133 and SJS134 as the external primers and the constructs pTETGLOPAI)2 and pTETGLOARE II-MUT as the templates Mutation of the ARE I-AUUUA and ARE III-AUUUA sequences used primers SJS172 and SJS173, ... SJS173, and SJS174 and SJS175, respectively Mutation of the atypical AU-rich sequence used primers SJS259 and SJS260, and the creation of the ARE II ⁄ ARE IV double mutant used primers SJS261 and ... pCMVglo-PAI-2 3¢ UTR and pCMV-glo-PAI-2 3¢ UTR-ARE MUT [48] with primers SJS133 and SJS134, and cloned into the BglII site in the b-globin 3¢ UTR in pTETGLO, to generate pTETGLOPAI)2 and pTETGLOARE...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... Netherlands) and modeled NO2 concentrations from a previously described land use regression model.97 More information on the study area and population, hospital admission and covariates, and exposure ... Netherlands) and modeling contributions of sources in the Netherlands and other European countries excluding local traffic The OPS model calculates annual average concentrations based on emissions and ... sources (such as traffic and industry), spatial characteristics (ranging from street and building configuration to the size and elevation of a city and its surroundings) and atmospheric processes...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... by RAND Arroyo Center, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S Army, and by the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research For more information on the RAND ... patients for education, and limited patient attendance at the programs when referred Effects of the Demonstration on Service and Costs Effects on Performance Measures The RAND analysis found no ... AMEDD-RAND Guideline Implementation Project The three sequential demonstrations for low back pain, asthma, and diabetes guidelines have allowed AMEDD, RAND, and the participating MTFs to test and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... approaches and further elucidation of this complex and interesting system Evolutionary studies represent another important field for the investigation of the elements involved in splicing regulation and ... are available to us for this purpose and further investigation of these sequence variants will not only further our understanding of the splicing mechanism and improve clinical diagnostic testing, ... date in the literature is not as large as expected and this may be because synonymous variations have previously always been considered neutral and because of an existing bias to search for alterations...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... judgment and behavior in the gain versus loss domains are well documented (Kahneman and Tversky 1979; Thaler 1980; Thaler and Johnson 1990) Furthermore, the wants and shoulds (vices and virtues) ... Tenbrunsel, and Kimberly WadeBenzoni (1998), “Negotiating with Yourself and Losing: Understanding and Managing Competing Internal Preferences,” Academy of Management Review, 23 (2), 225–41 Chandon, ... primarily in the form of experiential enjoyment and the latter in practical functionality (Batra and Ahtola 1990; Hirschman and Holbrook 1982; Mano and Oliver 1993) Because of this difference, there...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from ... such as the disabled and elderly, with particular interest in those who have low incomes and are female and of color They have examined the relationship between land use and transportation They ... including bus lines and heavy rail and highways, varies by place in county Contra Costa expects its senior population to double between 2000 and 2020, with the 65 to 74 and 85 and older groups each...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... KD and KO are the association constants to the deoxygenated and oxygenated forms, respectively, and X is the free molar concentration of ATP O2 binding experiments were performed at pH 7.5 and ... conditions: 30 mM Hepes buer, pH 7.5 and 20 C T to R transition In the presence of 0.1 mM and mM of ATP these numbers increase to 73 and 65.6 12, respectively, and in the presence of 0.1 M chloride ... Hb and other sh Hbs [16], also indicating preferential binding of water molecules to the R state The allosteric effectors signicantly affect water and O2 binding (Fig 2), and both chloride and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... accounting for the ratio between the native and denatured states, and QD(T) and QN(T) are the ellipticity of the denatured and native states at temperature T QD and QN were approximated as linear functions ... control system, using a band width of 0.2 nm and a response time of s Far-UV spectra were recorded in 0.02 and 0.1 cm pathlength quartz cells at a protein concentration of and 0.2 mgÆmL)1, respectively ... investigated ˚ [12], and the crystal structure solved at 2.4 A resolution [13] Both subunits consists of a compact ellipsoidal b-sandwich structure organized into two five-stranded (parallel and antiparallel)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... changes of temperature and ionic strength Finally, differences in the specicities and effects of salts and temperature between the two enzymes were signicant, although not large, and could be related ... of Mrs Eglelisa G Andrade and we gratefully acknowledge Dr Ivarne Tersariol for the special attention and his help in this work REFERENCES Barrett, A.J & Dando, P.M (1998) Handbook of Proteolytic ... NaCl, KCl and Na2SO4 exhibited the more intense activation effect (one order of magnitude more than that with TOP), and the effects of salts were proportional to their concentration NH4Cl and NaI...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... other species (Xenopus, Drosophila, mouse isoforms 1, 2, and 4, rat isoforms and 2, bovine isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4, and human isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4) is shown in Fig (lower panel) It is evident that ... applies to Artemia mitochondria, we tested the effect of ADP and ATP in the presence and absence of the ANT inhibitory ligand cATR, and of the F0F1ATP synthase inhibitor oligomycin The results ... inhibitors increase, and activators decrease, this cumulative bioenergetic parameter Regarding ANT, three endogenous ligands – ADP, ATP (both inhibiting the PTP) [4,31], and acyl-CoA and its esters...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20

... in b-cell dysfunction and apoptosis in rodent models of diabetes [37–40], and changes in mitochondrial function, including increased ROS and UCP2 expression, lower ATP and a decreased ATP ⁄ ADP ... nucleus [12], the plasma membrane [13–15] and lipid droplets shed from adipocytes [16] and breast cancer cells [17] PHB is an anti-inflammatory [18] and tumor suppressor protein, with mutations ... objective of the present study was to investigate the expression and antioxidant effects of PHB in pancreatic b-cells exposed to ethanol Effects of prohibitin in b-cells * 80 * * * * 60 40 20 0 20...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... understanding the antiinflammatory effects of nicotine in obesity-related inflammation and ulcerative colitis However, it is now known that the a7nAChR plays a major role in the antiinflammatory effects ... sepsis and studies of sepsis have shown elevated circulating levels of this cytokine [26] Anti-inflammatory cytokines include IL1 receptor antagonist, IL-10, IL-13, and TNFbinding proteins and (for ... see [27]) ACh and nicotine inhibit TNF-a and NF-B production from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human macrophages and splenocytes [24,28] Both the vagus Page of 10 nerve and nicotine exert...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... over the range of S1/d1 between 3.17 and 4.22, of S2/d1 from 2.4 to and S1/S2 between 1.03 and 1.76: it increased with S1/S2 and with S1/d1 and decreased and stabilized with increasing S2/d1 ... effectiveness) on hot and cold sides (see equations (1) and (3)) Then, A = AH + AL = α β + UH UL (24) where AH and AL are heat transfer areas on hot and cold sides, and UH and UL are overall heat ... dimensionless coordinate: (r – r0)/(R – r0); r0 and R – radius of finned tube at the basis and end of the fin, respectively; S1 and S2 – transverse and longitudinal tube pitches, respectively; t...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... composite layer and a homogeneous copper layer (curves 3, 4, and 5) and curves of ultimate velocity versus thickness for homogeneous sheets of iron and copper (curves and 2) For curves and 5, the ... L ) (curve 1) and the asymptotic dependences V0 ( M ) and V ( M , L ) (curves and for the approximations of “thin” and “thick” sheets, respectively) for a copper sheet, L = m, and a linearly ... t ) and temperature T ( x , t ) in the sheet depend only on the x coordinate and time t, and are described by the equations of magnetic field diffusion and heat conduction with the initial and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... bone healing Effects on osteoblasts, osteomies, and implants fixation Acta Orthop Scand Suppl 1998, 283:2-37 Schmidmaier G, Wildemann B, Lübberstedt M, Haas NP, Raschke M: IGF-I and TGF-beta ... Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 2004, 58:197-208 Zapf J, Hauri C, Waldvogel M, Froesch ER: Acute metabolic effects and half-lives of intravenously administered insulinlike growth factors I and II ... analysis and wrote the manuscript NB carried out the experiments with the C2C12 cells ML carried out the experiments with the osteoblast like cells TV and GS participated in the study design and coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Protective effects of herbal extract mixture and yogurt with a single ethanol challenge Ethanol-induced liver damage was evaluated by measuring liver injury markers (AST, ALT and total bilirubin) and ... extract mixture and yogurt also showed protective and therapeutic effects for the ethanol-induced toxicity in a rat model The results suggest that treatment with an herbal extract mixture and yogurt ... ethanol administration was carried out as mentioned above Protective and therapeutic effects of the herbal extract mixture and yogurt to triple ethanol challenge: For the herbal extract mixture,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... works, and the energetic substitution effects of a consequent energetic use of residual and (post-consumer) waste wood For the political assessment, GHG effects occurring abroad and GHG effects ... production and disposal as of the effects of the material substitution reveals that: – About the same amount of GHG emissions related to production and disposal is released abroad and in Switzerland; ... gravel, cement and concrete, Eidg Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (EMPA), Dübendorf, 2000 (in German) C-pool and substitution effects of wood products [22] Marland E., Marland G., The treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... deals with fertilizer effects on the ground vegetation [22] MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Stand selection and description Five monospecific even-aged stands of Norway spruce and European beech were ... Regional effects of base cation fertilization REFERENCES [1] Andersson F., Nihlgard B., Forest liming: goals and means, in: Andersson F and Persson T (éd.), Liming as a Measure to Improve Soil and ... for the spruce than for the beech stands On the other hand, dolomite tended to reduce soil and leave K concentration only in the beech stands Better understanding of the contrasting pattern observed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21