...
alternative ways of construing reality, and interpersonal metaphor, which offer alternative
possibilities of expressing modal meanings (metaphors of modality), or exchanging commands
(metaphors of mood). ... Realization of Social Context
( Source: Halliday& Martin 1993:25)
3 Levels of Context
The interpretation of social context includes two levels of communication: genre (context of
culture) ... situation of a text has been described by Halliday (Halliday and Hasan 1985: 12) in terms of the
variables of Field, Tenor and Mode.
+ The FIELD OF DISCOURSE concerns what is...
... philosophy of a subject. Many people interpret biology as
the study of life. Biology is concerned with the characteristics and behav-
iors of organisms. It deals with the mechanisms of existence of individ-
ual ... role of
nucleic acids in carrying out an organism’s genetic characteristics is of
primary importance to all biotechnology investigations and applications.
BASIC BIOLOGYOF BIOTECHNOLOGY
The basic ... 2006 11:48
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Basic Science of
Biotechnology
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Much of biotechnology takes advantage of the agricultural, commercial,
and medical applications of biological...
... shows the contribution of this
strategy to the development of plants with biofarming potential in the frame of a high
demand of natural and ecologically accepted sources of renewable compounds ... the evolution of vascular plants. The case of
Fld and Cyt c
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shows that reintroduction of these genes in the proper subcellular
compartment of model and crop plants restored some of the selective ... roots and stolons of Glycyrrhiza
plants is glycyrrhizin, which has the sweetness of about 200 times greater than
that of sucrose. Glycyrrhizin is a conjugate of two molecules of glucuronic acid
and...
... range of representable numeric values
differs. The step size of the integer part is always 1, regardless of the number of bits, and only the
maximum value changes. However, in the step size of ... functions of each of the five main units that are
basic to computer hardware. To:
¦ Understand the roles and functions of the computer's five
main units,
Understand the basic operations ... adding up the weights of each of the "1" digits of
the binary bit string.
a. Conversion of binary integers
Example (11011)
2
b. Conversion of binary fractions
...
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parte therof ; then that everie such Offendor or Offendors
theire Ayders Abettors and Counsellors, being of the saide
Offences dulie and lawfullie convicted and attainted, shall
suffer pains of deathe ... Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA
Julia J. Unternaehrer (Chapter 2)
Department of Cell Biology and Section of
Immunobiology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer
Research, Yale University School of Medicine, ... after the discovery of
the structure of DNA and in the year of the completion
of the sequencing of the human genome, we are poised
to begin to truly understand the heterogeneity of the
immune response...
... malonyl-CoA and CPT1c in the treatment
of obesity
Michael J. Wolfgang and M. Daniel Lane
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Introduction
All ... malonyl-CoA;
neurometabolism; nutrient sensing; obesity
Correspondence
M. J. Wolfgang, Department of Biological
Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Center for Metabolism and
Obesity Research, 475 Rangos ... major user of long-chain fatty
acids making a brain-specific isoform intriguing.
CPT1c was identified and cloned from in silico
sequences as a highly homologous member of the
CPT1 class of enzymes...
... emerging targets for treatment
of obesity and related metabolic diseases
Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Mitsuhisa Tabata and Yuichi Oike
Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto ... metabolism;
insulin resistance; metabolic syndrome;
obesity; obesity- related metabolic disease
Correspondence
Y. Oike, Department of Molecular Genetics,
Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Kumamoto University, ... roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and
related metabolic diseases, and discuss the possibility that both could func-
tion as molecular targets for the prevention and treatment of obesity...
... estimate for the modulus of continuity for SLE
κ
for
other κ. What better modulus of continuity can be obtained with a different
parametrization of the trace?
BASIC PROPERTIES OF SLE
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domain is ... above value of κ is derived by applying the predictions [SD87] of the
dimensions of the perimeters of clusters in the random cluster model.
Consider a random-uniform domino tiling of the unit ... process of growth of a
set K
t
. The evolution of the set over time is described through the normal-
ized conformal map g
t
= g
t
(z) from the complement of K
t
. The map g
t
is
the solution of Loewner’s...
... Spending as % of GDP
6%
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16% 167%
Federal
2
Healthcare Spending as % of GDP
1
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5
Out -of- Pocket Healthcare Spending as % of GDP
3
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2
% of Adult Population Considered Obese
13
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% of Americans ... as % of GDP
1.2
Î
1.5 25
Gini Index of Income Inequality
4
0.34
4
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0.41 20
Net Debt
5
as % of GDP
38
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37 -3
People Below Poverty Level as % of Population
17
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13 -26
Defense Spending as % of ... White
House Office of Management and Budget; net worth per Dept. of Treasury, “2010 Financial Report of the U.S. Government.”
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A Word of Warning About...
... most prevalent form of MetS is
associated with abdominal (visceral) obesity and that
this type ofobesity contributes to insulin resistance
(IR) and the increased release of cytokines, as well ... risk of T2DM, hypertension and CVD;
however, the exact underlying pathophysiological
mechanisms by which obesity increases the risk of
VD remains the subject of intensive investigation [20].
Obesity ... deficiency
and hypogonadism-induced obesity remain the subject
of intense investigation.
Several hypotheses have discussed the relationship of
androgen deficiency and obesity. That obesity is
commonly associated...
... aggregation in the presence of a
mixture of annexins of different subtypes. The profile
of liposome aggregation was simply the sum of the
results obtained with a single subtype of annexin, sug-
gesting ... the
involvement of the N-terminus of annexin A2 in its
binding to dicalcin. The binding affinity of the N-termi-
nus or the core domain has not yet been determined.
The binding of dicalcin–annexins ... above, various pairing of S100 and ann-
exins may be an intrinsic and conventional mechanism
of the S-100 annexin system to function in a variety of
tissues. The participants of these complexes are...
... that a large proportion of millionaires pay a smaller
percentage of their income in taxes than a significant proportion of moderate-income taxpayers.”
This basic source of unfairness is what ... distribution of taxes paid among the 400 richest Americans is particularly striking.
One
out of every three in this group of the most financially fortunate Americans paid less than 15
percent of their ... reality of unfairness, and is
economically inefficient.
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• Nearly one-quarter of millionaires pay less in taxes than millions of middle-class families:
o Twenty-four percent of all...