bringing forms to life

... white) and completely hostile to all forms of life on the bottom As animals died and sank to the bottom, there were no scavengers or decomposers to decay them, no currents to break them up, and apparently ... thought to have crept or fallen into cracks and then converted to stone Others thought they were grown in rocks from seeds, or were grown from fish spawn washed Prothero: Bringing Fossils to Life: ... of his time, when there were few female paleontologists): vii Prothero: Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, 2/e Front Matter To the Students: Why Study Fossils? © The McGraw−Hill...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 09:35

... and they wanted to move Compared with other bidders, I had the best story about the organization’s future, so they agreed to sell a majority interest to me I now had to make the story real, and ... marketing people identify the leading Bringing a Dying Brand Back to Life 35 charity in the cities we visit We’ll get in touch with that group and say, “We’re coming to town, what can we for you?” For ... the first time in Boston in March 1992, and I gave a speech to the group I had intended to tell them that we would be folding the team, but as I got into the speech and looked into the eyes of some...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... be factorised into cat v(a , 0) = E k+ ∏ The substrate complex EAAX gives rise to the first term in the numerator, with the stoichiometric coeffi- cient in the exponent In the denominator, each ... in addition to binding sites for reactants, the enzyme contains binding sites for activators and inhibitors Only those enzyme molecules to which all activators and none of the inhibitors are bound ... covers all possible stoichiometries, describes enzyme regulation by activators and inhibitors, and can be derived from a rapid-equilibrium random-order enzyme mechanism To ensure thermodynamic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... all information that has been put into the model and can be used to provide parameter ranges for further modelling, to sample model instances [30,32], or to predict confidence intervals of steady ... reaction stoichiometry: for a chemical reaction A + B → P + Q without activators and inhibitors and with enzyme concentration E, it reads d c = N v(c , k) dt v(a, b, p, q) = E (1) The vectors c, ... well-defined parameter combinations Centre: eigenvectors for the first posterior Each row of the matrix corresponds to an eigenvector (normalised to a maximal value of for the elements) The corresponding...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... "factory" here URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(factory) URL.set_urlstream_handler_factory(factory) Static Fields Static fields of Java classes are typically used to implement either singleton objects, ... Ruby’s to_ s and Java’s toString( ) are a natural fit for each other Define to_ s on your Ruby object, pass it into Java, and any Java code expecting to find toString( ) in your class will be able to ... moving them to JRuby JRuby is also just another jar file You don’t need to install anything on your Java workstation to try it And you don’t need to anything special to deploy your Ruby code to your...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... current topics, some longer reviews, and book reviews, usually by editor’s invitation Editorials and letters to the editor on matters arising from published papers are also published at the editors’ ... Genomics RS Houlston (Sutton, UK) Epidemiology P Hall (Stockholm, Sweden) Editorial Office UCL Cancer Institute, Paul O’ Gorman Building, 72 Huntley Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Reviews Editor C Boshoff ... readership, instructions to authors and how to contact the editors and publishing staff Use the website to order a subscription, reprints, a sample copy or individual articles Free to all readers: tables...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... Localizes to nuclei in many tissues throughout life Not required for lifespan extension daf-16 FOXO-family transcription factor Localizes to intestinal nuclei during adulthood Acts in the intestine to ... tissues to “wait” for the germline to mature before aging progresses too extensively.13 Such a system might help to coordinate the timing of reproduction with aging How does germline loss extend lifespan? ... transcription factor required for loss of the germ cells to extend lifespan The DAF-16/FOXO transcription factor, described above, is required as well.13 Interestingly, DAF-16/FOXO appears to act in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... factor receptor and TRIF-dependent Toll-like receptors Nat Immunol 9, 1047–1054 Zhang J, Cado D, Chen A, Kabra NH & Winoto A (1998) Fas-mediated apoptosis and activation-induced T-cell proliferation ... with TNFR1 to trigger apoptosis, but caspase inhibitors are unable to prevent TNF-mediated cell death in this situation Instead, the cells switch from caspase-dependent apoptosis to a cell death ... receptors is a well-known signal that leads to receptor internalization Endocytosis of the interferon alpha receptor requires phosphorylation and ubiquitination on a motif that is very similar to...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... concentrate on their overall goal tend to achieve them What so many people want to lose weight tend to be part of relation to overall experience? The individuals haven't been successful, yet, and it ... give your particular Yacon root product the opportunity to its work And you really need to visit a certain amount of standard as you take it To illustrate - you will observe a lessing of daily appetite ... allow yourself to go hungry Proper use of the extract supplements should ensure this doesn't happen Don't forget this is not something that needlessly compels you to go hungry Take heed to consume...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2014, 13:58

... possible for speakers to come to the forum and prepare their chapters for publication Ron Toma was the director of the Regional Educational Laboratory at PREL who invited us to participate in the ... Problems With Teaching Word Meanings (And What to Do to Make Vocabulary an Integral Part of Instruction Steven A Stahl 95 vii viii CONTENTS Bringing Words to Life in Classrooms With English-Language ... director of the Regional Educational Laboratory when the project was initiated and, after Ron's retirement, the director who continued to support our efforts Jan Jenner was the administrator extraordinaire...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:50

... a tattoo 117 How to tell if a president is any good 119 How to prevent jet lag 119 How to get elected to the Senate 123 How to get blood from a stone 130 How to stop solicitors 131 How to avoid ... Introduction How to travel to space 11 How to join Mensa 14 How to try your own case 16 How to decode Wall Street 17 How to hire a contractor 19 How to get rid of the budget surplus 23 How to take the ... How to photograph an active volcano 64 How to drive like Richard Petty 65 How to go public 66 How to live like a king for a day 72 How to avoid an audit 73 How to climb Mount Everest 77 How to...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:09

... Truth,” Philosophical Quarterly 55 © 2005, The Editors of Philosophical Quarterly Thanks too to my copy editor Judy Feldmann, and to my editor Tom Stone, for knowing what matters Introduction In ... common wisdom today But things did not used to be that way It used to be the case that a child in this country was brought up to revere its institutions and values, to identify with its customs and ... We need to think our way past our confusion and shed our cynicism about the value of truth Otherwise, we will be unable to act with integrity, to live authentically, and to speak truth to power...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:48

... important issues related to RFID system: electronic and MAC protocol characterization to avoid reader-reader and reader-tag collisions in a dense RFID network Chapter aims to analyze the MAC technologies ... dedicated to stochastic model and performance analysis of RFID The chapter comprises reviews of the frame slotted ALOHA based tag anti-collision protocols Also, the authors investigated a stochastic ... propose a Context store approach to improve the performance of data transmission between a mobile client and a Web services server At this point I would like to express my thanks to all scientists...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... not only mandatory to reduce the identification time, but also to decrease the tag energy consumption in order to maximize the batteries lifetime In this case, tag hardware permits to put forward ... contour, perpendicular to the surface of figure 14-b, it is possible to write: B1 cos α = B2 cos α (42) It follows from equation (40) that there is continuity of tangential component of the vector ... nearby ferromagnetic objects is reduced to such a boundary problem which has to be solved Moreover, in order to meet field condition requirements, it is necessary to find out such an tag orientation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... direction Reader -to- Tag rate Tag -to- Reader Rate Link pulse-repetition interval Tag -to- Reader preamble Tag -to- Reader End of Signaling Delimiter Reader -to- Tag Preamble Reader -to- Tag Frame synchronization ... Applications, Bringing Research to Practice This allows defining i-th state in our model as the state whose associated vector is given by Ψ−1 Let us denote Ei as the vector associated to i-th state, ... factors that many enterprises and government associations consider to extensively apply the RFID technology to many applications An RFID tag is composed of two major components: an IC to store...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... the effect of a prolonged tags’ lifetime In general terms, stochastic protocols are recognized to be more power efficient with respect to deterministic ones, due to the reduced number of collisions ... Another important parameter to evaluate the time needed by the binary tree protocol to complete the identification and to be compared with other arbitration protocols is the total number of time slots ... similar deterministic protocols are opposed to stochastic protocols, mostly based on the framed slotted Aloha algorithm In slotted Aloha protocols, the time axis is divided into time slots Each tag...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... into interrogator collisions and tag collisions Interrogator collisions occur when neighbouring interrogators interrogate a tag simultaneously Tag collision is the event that the interrogator ... interrogator needs to estimate the number of tags that are present at the beginning of the read cycle according to the triple parameter and then to forecast the number of unread tags According to the ... of Frames Needed for the Frame Slotted ALOHA Protocol with Different Frame Length Conclusion RFID holds the promise to enable human being to monitor the physical world with much fine granularity...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... Identification Fundamentals and Applications, Bringing Research to Practice Fig 13 Software diagram to calculate the transponder speed wait for a transponder to come in the active range of the antennas ... and a photo taken in order to compare the speed measured by the RFID system and the K Band radar gun 124 Radio Frequency Identification Fundamentals and Applications, Bringing Research to Practice ... bandwidth of the signal, we observe to be in the range of 10 to 25 kHz, small enough not to produce interference with other radio spectrum users If many such devices are to be used simultaneously, on...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... extremely difficult to evaluate by hand They are deceptively simple: literature is full of protocols that appear to be secure but have subsequently been found to fall prey to a subtle attack, ... value This lock value is sent to a tag and the tag stores this value in its reserved memory (i.e a metaID value), the tag then enters into a locked state automatically To unlock the tag, the reader ... belonging to the tag in order to masquerade as the reader 164 Radio Frequency Identification Fundamentals and Applications, Bringing Research to Practice M DB◁ *metaID • • • Applying T1 to M yields...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20