... supportive TheTRIPSAgreementandthe CBD are not legally incompatible stricto sensu since they not have the same object and purpose States have the obligation to stretch their thought and comply ... AgreementThe patentability of biotechnology Economic considerations on biotech-patents and their interaction with traditionalknowledge Conclusion The relationship between theTRIPSAgreementand ... chapters andThe Firm, The Market, andThe Law” andThe Nature of the Firm.” Which includes, in the European literature in the bibliography quoted in M Ricolfi, “Biotechnology, Patents and Epistemic...
... health is believed to be a balance between hot and cold elements in the body, and illnesses appear when the body is too “hot” or too “cold.” If the body is too “hot”, balance can be restored by treatment ... research on traditionalknowledge systems Theoretical contributions of the study of traditionalknowledge systems to ethnopharmacology I use the terms traditionalknowledgeandtraditionalknowledge ... research and there still remains an urgent need to further strengthen the contributions made by anthropology and other social and cultural sciences as well as to explore the political and social...
... where the boundary between Theme and Rheme can be drawn i.e how far the Theme extends from the beginning of the clause to the right It shows that the Theme extends from the beginning of the clause ... participant The entities represented by participants can be persons, objects, or abstractions; they can be the Agent of the action or be affected by it, benefit from it or receive its effects The Circumstances, ... job?); i.e what is given or demanded is information; language is the end as well as the means, and what is expected from the listener is the verbal answer On the other hand, giving and demanding...
... deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) In this approach, the ‘correctness’ of a protein–RNA structure is assumed to be approximated by the sum of the probabilities of observing the set intermolecular ... observed in the database of training structures This hypothesis is supported by the observation that the inclusion of a close U1A homolog (the U 2B –U2A¢ complex) in the training set improves the ... protein–RNA complex by computationally ‘threading’ all possible four-nucleotide combinations onto the RNA bases nearest the center of the b- sheet structure of the RRM We then scored these sequence-variant...
... or other benefits must be shared Must convince companies or other individual of theknowledge s market potential andthe benefits of “benefit-sharing” Articles and 8(j) of the CBD encourage the ... of theknowledge in the public domain for everyone’s benefit A disadvantage of the public registry is the disclosure of knowledge to others outside the community When placing knowledge in the ... register the above trademark and sell maca using this symbol to distinguish their brand 20 If a patent prohibits the indigenous group from selling the product, they could register the above trademark...
... voting, another popular ensemble-based method in which the outputs of the base-classifiers are combined either through majority vote or by taking the class value with the highest average probability ... tree or regressionbased classifier H- CRF uses the probability distribution over the set of possible labels according to each O- CRF and R1- CRF as features To obtain the probability at each position ... maximize the conditional probability of a finite set of labels Y given a set of input observations X By making a first-order Markov assumption about the dependencies among the output variables Y , and...
... existence The semantics here is defined as information concerning the denotation of OBJECTs and THINGs It interprets the (semantic) relations between them, and must be inducible from the raw syntagmatic ... THESAURUS Knowledge Base consists of LEXICON, THESAURUS and FTABLE The case grammar, as a basis of internal representation, which is constructed with the combination of binary case relations, fits the ... specified by the rule, a new HEAD with the derived FEATUREs is created by the action in the rule $12 The location of an apple was the table APPLE LOC TABLE eq (TABLE, LOC of APPLE) - - - F2 TABLE (LOC...
... mechanismbased inhibitors, thereby revealing the close network of interactions that hold the terminal glucose of the bglucan substrate in the )1 subsite at the bottom of the active site pocket [20] The ... Switzerland) and New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA, USA) Growth media components were obtained from Difco (Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) and Gibco BRL (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) Geneticin was obtained from Boehringer ... Carbohydrate binding subsites are labelled )1, +1 and +2 Glycosidic bond cleavage occurs between )1 and +1 (C) Comparison of the aromatic triads of Exg and a carbohydrate binding module CBM 4-2...
... ± 1 5b 350 ± 25c 63 ± 1 4b 350 ± 25c 460 ± 9 0b 1000 ± 6 0b 47 ± 1 5b Not detectableb Not detectableb 60 ± 15c High M3CVIII 200 ± 7 5b 450 ± 45c 189 ± 2 0b 340 ± 28c 550 ± 6 0b 1730 ± 15 0b 18 ± 3b 270 ... for the yellow strain M3CVII (data not shown) Thus, the absolute increases in PMLA levels in the extracts were the same for the white andthe yellow strains Nevertheless, because the level in the ... plasmodia before the injection (because there is much less PMLA in the cytoplasm of white plasmodia; Table 1) By the same token, the equal (between-strains) effects on the cell cycle duration (Fig 2B, D)...
... GOG (structure II) by a benzyl group (Fig 7) The b- aryl ether cleavage enzyme could not cleave the b- aryl ether linkages of GOUbz (III) and GOGbz (IV) In addition, the b- aryl ether cleavage enzyme ... Japan) and incubated for 12 h at 28 °C After the incubation, the mixture was analysed as described above Results and discussion In our previous study, we characterized the b- etherase andthe nucleotide ... enzymes able to cleave b- aryl ether linkages One isolate, 2BW-1, generated the strongest fluorescence and therefore, it appeared that 2BW-1 cleaved the b- aryl ether linkage efficiently 2BW-1 also...
... assembled by Pang and Lee (2004) andthe other by ourselves The resulting classifier, when trained on a feature set derived from the four types of linguistic knowledge sources mentioned above, ... classification Second, the higher-order n-grams andthe dependency-based features capture essentially the same information and so using either of them would be sufficient To test the first hypothesis, we ... possible that the worse result is due to the presence of a large number of irrelevant bigrams To test this hypothesis, we repeat the above experiment except that we only use the best 10000 bigrams...
... MEDLINE 1999 The PubMed database can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ Norihiro Ogata 1997 Dynamic constructive thesaurus In Language Study and Thesaurus: Proceedings of the National ... publically available databases on the WWW within a single environment For example, a user can highlight proteins in the texts using the named entity extraction program and then search for the ... events and other domain-specific concepts from MEDLINE abstracts and full texts One part of this work is the construction and maintenance of an ontology for the domain which is executed by a system...
... basin), and about 8% from the Ha Nam province; 7% from the Nam Dinh, 7% from the Ninh Binh province and 2% from the Hoa Binh province The wastewater quality of six industrial branches in this basin ... both in scales and diversity The percentage of different industrial branches in the Day-Nhue river basin were shown in the table [4] Table Percentage (%) of some main industrial branches in the ... agricultural and industrial activities, and notably used as domestic water for the many inhabitants in its basin Therefore, the urgent needs are to reduce and eliminate the water pollution To fulfill these...
... of the number of spores produced by the WT andthe number of spores in the Dnag1 strain was 466 ± 105% The results on all other carbon sources showed no differences between the WT andthe single ... autolysis between the WT andthe Dnag1Dnag2 strains This can be explained by the fact that the cell walls of hyphal fragments that undergo autolysis are permeabilized by chitinases and other hydrolytic ... dimer and use it as a carbon source, as has been reported for bacteria [22], but depends on extracellular cleavage of chitobiose into the monomer GlcNAc, which can then be taken up by the hyphae and...
... intronic jB sequence modulated by the NF-jB subunits p65 and p50, and also by TNF-a Although p65 is probably expressed in the oocyte andthe pre-implantation embryo, it remains to be shown if the TNF-a ... pre-implantation embryos and in the testis On the other hand, p50 ⁄ Nf-jb1 EST sequences are found in the oocyte and in the testis but not in any of the pre-implantation embryos If NF-jB is experimentally ... targeted by the abundantly expressed NF-jB [13–15] Involvement of the NF-jB in gene regulation in the testis has also been described [16–20] Among the five NF-jB proteins, p50 ⁄ NFjB1 and p65 ⁄...
... PPARb (Figs 1B and 2C) Finally, we analyzed steady-state 3xFLAG-PPARb levels in 3Fb1 cells by immunoblotting either untreated, treated with the PPARb agonists GW501516 or L165 041 and in combination ... immunoblots with either the PPARb-specific antibody (upper panel) or the M2 antibody (lower panel) This experiment clearly showed that FLAG-PPARb was precipitated by the PPARb-specific antibody ... Regulation of PPARb turnover specific antibody because none of the available PPARb-specific antibodies are suitable for a quantifiable detection of PPARb at low expression levels In these experiments,...
... Mammal Bacterium Mold Yeast Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Yeast Bacterium ... of b- strands and as well as residues from the long b7 a7 segment of the (b/ a)8-barrel [16,3638,45,46] Alignment of ba loop sequences that contributed to subsites )1 and ) in a-amylases and other ... Archaea Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Bacterium Plant Plant a-Amylase Barley (AMY1) Barley (AMY2) Rice (2A) Maize Wheat (AMY3) Black...
... proteins B, BandB ¢ On chromatofocusing the sample could be readily resolved into proteins B, BandB ¢ Immediate SDS/ PAGE analysis of the protein B fraction at this stage showed it to be pure by ... prepared by this method contained a mixture of proteins BandBThe relative abundance of proteins BandB was assessed by using SDS/PAGE and electrospray ionization (ESI)-MS Incubation of the purified ... section of mmoB using pGEX-mtB [16] as the template and cloning into pET3a (Novagen) using NdeI and BamHI The truncated constructs andthe proteins they encoded were numbered according to the first...
... facts about the circumstances By contrast, the best explanation of the forming of the belief by the scientist must, indispensably, mention the presence of the proton in both the aetiology andthe ... little of the original text of the thesis survives in the present manuscript I have incurred substantial debts to others over the course of writing the thesis and this book The late Bernard Williams ... exactly the right place Agents have moral beliefs and any argument critical of the objectivity of those beliefs will be pitched at the meta-level of the best explanation of the holding of them The...