branching out in the land of the giants and dwarves

... FEBS 2003 Minor isomer of the Hex3 glycoform (estimated from the intensity of the fragments in b a Major isomer of the Hex3 glycoform (estimated from the intensity of the fragments in MS2 experiments) ... on the basis of spin-connectivity pathways delineated in the 1H chemical shift correlation maps, the chemical shift values, and the vicinal coupling constants From the glycoform compositions of ... observed corresponding to glycoforms containing only one PEtn group or containing one PEtn group and a phosphate group In order to obtain sequence and branching information, the OS fractions were...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Treatment against Cirrhosis), is a multicenter study of the potential benefit of prolonged peginterferon therapy in mitigating the progression of fibrotic liver disease [8] In this study, 391 of the 1045 ... poorer transplant outcome, and the difficulties in treatment of the infection following LT [12], it is reasonable to emphasize the importance of pretransplant treatment of HCV The International Liver ... rigorously in a randomized controlled format to assess their value and impact on efficacy of therapy although they are now widely used in patients receiving interferon therapy Treatment of advanced...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:11

... the differences in the behaviors and attitudes of the grandmother, the father and the mother and the children at least cause discontent to one another The grandmother held the floor most of the ... character and setting Technique has to with the structuring of the story into the plot so that the writer can convey the theme and the manipulating of the language in order to express the ideas of the ... from the beginning of the story in her decision where to go, in her introduction of the scenery along the journey While the father, the mother and the children enjoyed going to Florida, The grandmother...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... Conclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introd uced Marine Pests Management capabilities and approaches  APEC and the MRCWG have a role in liaising with ... Within APEC little is known on the introduction of marine pests  Little practical information on measures to prevent introductions  Lack of knowledge in what individual countries are doing ... NACA to enhance the effectiveness of existing instruments within APEC  Institutional arrangements for managing the marine environment is fragmented in most economies  Baseline surveys to identify...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 11:15

... nuclear issues in general, the feeling grew in the environmental movement that Yeltsin was increasingly yielding to the demands of the Ministry of Atomic Power and the nuclear-industrial lobby.99 ... not having regulative authority, an agency under the Ministry of Health was included in the drafting of these health standards throughout the Soviet period.82 Involving the same agencies, these ... After having ascribed a 1993 incident of dumping of liquid radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan to irresponsibility on the part of the Navy and the nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... emigrated, and were either residing in our Colonies or in other parts of the world, and the only method I could discover of obtaining information regarding several of viil INTRODUCTION them, was ... captain of the John +, a boat which has often played a prominent part in the struggles of the Isis, and which has served as the training-school for no fewer than ten of the Crews which during the ... can in no possible way be traced to the effects of rowing, we come to the consideration of those diseases of the respiratory and the circulatory systems (in other words of the lungs and of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination ... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving ... million vaccinees in Sweden and Finland, respectively (46 ) Regional increases in the incidence of BCG osteitis have been noted following changes in either the vaccine strain or the method TABLE...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... discovery of a brain-specific MT isoform, GIF, in 1991, sparked considerable interest in understanding the role of all MTs in the brain, and particularly within the injured or diseased brain In the ... studies examining the role of GIF in AD, linked to its initial discovery as a factor deficient in the AD brain There remains no clear consensus on the role of GIF in the pathogenesis of AD, and therefore ... whether GIF acts in a neuroinhibitory manner when administered directly into the brain following traumatic brain injury In one such study, the injection of GIF into the site of a stab wound promoted...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... basis points of the 11 basis-point decline in the average expense ratio of funds of funds over the period (labeled in Figure 13 as “Fall in expense ratios of individual funds”) By definition, the ... inflation by taking the fee breakpoints available in 2010 and multiplying by the Consumer Price Index in December 2000 and dividing by the Consumer Price Index in December 2010 The front-end ... endowments, and other institutional investors investing for their own accounts, rather than on behalf of retail investors Stock Funds The average fees and expenses paid by stock fund investors declined...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... declined in 2011 owing to declines in the expense ratios of individual funds, an increase in the demand for index funds, and a continuing shift by investors in both actively managed and index ... percentage of the assets that the financial professional manages for an investor, rather than as a percent of the dollars initially invested Over time, brokers and other financial professionals ... collects the 12b-1 fee, passing the bulk of it to the financial professionals serving fund investors Alternatively, investors may pay the professional an asset-based fee directly In such cases, the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... concerning the kinetics and properties of the enzyme More strikingly, we show a novel role of the PPase enzyme in the development and molting process of A suum larvae in vitro constructed in UniZap ... immunohistochemical staining), and that the inhibition of PPasecatalyzed PPi hydrolysis by these inhibitors, is likely to prevent the synthesis of the new cuticle from the hypodermis and/ or ecdysis of the old ... presence of increasing concentrations of inhibitors for 10 days, and the number of molting larvae was determined Molting was manifested by shedding of the L3 cuticle Results Identification of cDNA...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... Thailand from Malaya in 1900 and planted in Trang province in southern Thailand (RFD 2000) Estate agriculture was for political reasons discouraged in Thailand, unlike in Malaya, in the beginning ... pineapple and upland rice (RRIT 2005) Cherdchom et al (2002) reported four main integrated rubber farming systems in the South of Thailand emerging during the financial crisis in the late 19 1990's The ... farming systems vary within Southeast Asia In the beginning of the 20th century, estate planting was encouraged in Malaya, while in Thailand and the Netherlands Indies rubber became an important crop...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20

... ONE is the INTRODUCTION This includes an outline of the CONTEXT and main themes, the motivation and purpose of the study - the why and how PART TWO is THE REASEARCH - METHODOLOGY and FINDINGS PART ... component in the integration process: The first step towards the integration of refugees must be to identify and help with their most pressing needs Finding and settling them into safe and appropriate ... GUIDE is the last section This provides a discussion of the main themes as they emerged in the service user interviews (as listed above in the ‘Findings’ section) It breaks the themes down into manageable...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... treatment On the other hand, the findings from this survey indicate that pastoral communities living in both of the study areas had basic awareness about the symptoms and treatment of PTB, which ... hindered an in- depth analysis of the results Hence, the findings from the qualitative portion of the study might be considered preliminary Page 10 of 11 Conclusion Our findings indicate that the majority ... smoking/chewing Khat, which is similar to the beliefs found in a previous study in another part of Ethiopia [19] While the community perception about the role of starvation and smoking as the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... (disordered in the ligand-free state in YbgJ) In the absence of the ligand, the lid part is separated from the active site, which leads to a more open active site Upon the binding of ligand in the acyl-enzyme ... conformations of the regions at 100-105 and 303-309 aa in the N form, and we investigated the following points First, these areas are not involved in any contacts with other molecules in crystals in all the ... basis of their crystal structures and the conserved amino acid residues (aa) of their active sites, these glutaminases are classified into a large group of bacterial penicillin-binding proteins and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... once into the idea of the children in regard to them, and treated them always as if they were real persons; often speaking of them and to them, in the presence of the other children, in the most ... upon the piazza with blocks and other playthings, and finally had gone into the house, leaving all the things on the floor of the piazza, instead of putting them away in their places, as they ... had been enjoined upon them as, for example, when they left the door open in coming in or going out, in the winter; or interrupted their mother when she was reading, instead of standing quietly...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... even in the absence of fibrin or cells PAN–K5 binding is mediated via the aminohexyl (AH) site in K5 [28,29] (Fig 3) Unlike lysine-binding sites in K1, K2 and K4 of plasminogen, the AH site can bind ... promoting fibrin binding of Glu-plasminogen Although the structural difference between complestatin and chloropeptin I is only at the position of the C–C bond that connects the indole ring of the ... formation of tcu-PA and plasmin The surfactin C action involves modulation of Glu-plasminogen activation through relaxing the conformation of the protein Surfactin C increases the intrinsic fluorescence...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... shown in Fig 1B, the distance between the two termini of the inserted Ca2+-binding sites in the model structure of the EF-hand of STIM1 is within ˚ 15 A Accordingly, a total of six glycine linkers ... Ca2+-coordinating loop positions and was introduced to perturb the Ca2+-binding ability of the grafted EF-hand of STIM1 (B) Modelled structure of the engineered protein with the grafted EF-hand Ca2+-binding ... EF-hand motif in STIM1 is occupied by Ca2+ Removing the proposed Ca2+-coordinating residues in positions and of the EF-hand motif significantly compromised the metal-binding capability of the engineered...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... However, in the case of Bb, the cellular activity was decreased and secretion was increased, suggesting that the presence of this cysteine retains the enzyme intracellularly In case of Aa, the cellular ... higher mass of BChE subunits [37] This indicates a predominant in uence of the catalytic domain on oligomerization Mutation of the cysteine located at )4 from the C-terminus to a serine in the a or ... of hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine and butyrylthiocholine (at mm) by BChE were approximately 14% and 24% of the rate of hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine (at mm) by AChE In uence of the C-terminal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20