... 18) The predator subcommittee of the Snowy Plover Working Team continues to discuss the matter and attempt to address the problem We continue to explore the use of cameras to further document the ... beach at the north jetty, and one nearly fledged chick was found along the foredune road half way tothe bay beach At the north end of the beach, the brood that hatched north of the FAA towers ... days of hatching The majority of brood use from broods near China Creek or along the foredune was from about half the distance tothe HRA tothe north end of the HRA Broods from the HRA moved north...
... nearthe Olson shipwreck these broods had easy access tothe beach and frequently would move from the beach tothe HRA and back Any brood from the main nesting areas could move west towards the ... along the foredune further south of the old camp trail and north of the HRA Ten nests were found on the HRA, and one nest was found just south of the ropes at the very south end of the HRA nearthe ... Broods from the 98EHRA moved around on the 98EHRA but also crossed the foredune road tothe 95HRA and went south onto the 94HRA Broods from the 95HRA mostly stayed on the 95HRA, but due to foredune...
... within the four new “cutouts” created along the foredune between China Creek overwash and the HRA Numbering the cutouts from north to south, the first cutout had two nests, the second and third cutout ... from the 98EHRA were able to cross tothe 95HRA relatively easily due to breaks in the berms bordering the foredune along the west edge of the 98EHRA Broods from the 94HRA wandered on restoration ... occasionally moving onto the South Spoil, but also moving north tothe 98EHRA and west tothe 95HRA Broods originating from South Spoil have the furthest distance to move west towards the beach Six of...
... have to worry about them getting out If any one of them starts to climb out of the bucket, others will pull them back If you try to things others have not been able to achieve, be prepared to have ... after the store opened Street gangs and gunfire scared customers away Employees stole food, took the cash, and robbed the safe Lee had to hire his cop friends to keep the gangs out of the restaurant ... time to rebuild their lives he said, and convinced the gang members they were only hurting themselves He offered them jobs and agreed to train them to run a business but only if they worked at the...
... system [32,33] The tetO elements were introduced in the U3 promoter region and the Nef gene was replaced by the rtTA gene The R region that is present at both the 5' and 3' end of the viral transcript ... of the vector to produce pBlue-MCS-SV40pA The AatII-BglI fragment of this plasmid, which contains the SV40 polyadenylation signal, was inserted into the AatII and BglI sites downstream of the ... kb) (Fig 3C) Within the set of 5'+3' TAR mutants an increase in the size of the A and B transcripts was apparent, whereas the size of the AB transcript was similar to that of the original (TARm)...
... semiconductor that is the closest to Ag, i.e., nearthe surface of the semiconductor particles (essentially at the semiconductorÀliquid interface) The advantages of forming eÀ/hþ pairs nearthe semiconductor ... On the other hand, the addition of Au nanoparticles has only a small effect on the photocurrent Figure shows the photocurrent enhancement for the Ag/NTiO2 photoelectrode (calculated as the photocurrent ... increase the rate of formation of eÀ/hþ pairs at the nearby N-TiO2 particle surface (i.e., at the semiconductorÀliquid interface) The advantage of the formation of eÀ/hþ pairs nearthe semiconductor...
... thickness of thewaterthe great axes of the tidal ellipses of diurnal component and of semi-diurnal one have the direction northwest–southeast, i.e., the direction paralleled tothe shoreline The magnitude ... comparison with the diurnal component There is shown the identity of the maximum current direction and the phase of oscillation at all horizons from the surface tothe bottom The maximum diurnal ... for the deeper horizons it is relatively great Reaching the threshold of the southwest shelf of the South-china sea, the flow tends both to continue follow the shoreline and to rise toward the...
... pored into a storage tank and was distributed into the six MSL systems by water pumps (Fig 1b) River water discharged into the MSL systems was moved down gravitationally and treated water was ... of the inlet pump was limited to apply it to all the six MSL systems River water was pumped up to a sedimentation tank with its volume of 0.4 m3 whose mean retention time was 0.4 to 0.5 hour, then ... returned tothe lower position than thewater uptake position of the river The MSL systems were operated with no aeration from January 1999 to March 2001 - 98 - Sampling and Analyses River water, ...
... injected The mixture is stirred by an agitator The flocculated water flows tothe flotator 7) The flotator is the place where thewater is mixed with pressurized air-saturated water, the expansion ... salts and all the fine particles which remain in suspension because of their surface potential (clay) 6) The flocculator After the API stage, thewater is pumped and sent tothe flocculator where ... mud (sand, clay …) Waste water coming from the salt remover is sent tothe strippers for treatment The salt remover is the major waste waters feed in the refinery 2) Thewater stripping is a process...
... slope from the active tank battery, the injection well/pit, and the old tank battery tothe lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts of the site The upper part of the site ... of total produced waterThe remaining water is discharged into surface waters, including coastal waterways, bayous, estuaries, streams, lakes and even evaporation and percolation sumps Prior to ... petroleum (7) These and other chemical properties and water isotopes that are different for produced and ground waters (Fig 6) are used to investigate the impact of produced water on the surface...
... performed to determine the role of the ARE II and ARE IV sites in the binding of proteins tothe ‘extended ARE’ Binding of cytoplasmic proteins tothe ‘extended ARE’ probe was first shown to be specific ... the nonameric ARE To determine whether the ‘extended ARE’ possessed all of the destabilizing elements within the PAI-2 3¢ UTR, the entire 108 nucleotide sequence was deleted from the 3¢ UTR to ... [33] The PAI-2 ARE is unusual in that in addition to an auxiliary domain (Fig 7, the atypical AU -rich ARE IV; Fig 8) immediately 3¢ tothe core, the ARE I (AUUUA) element located 5¢ tothe core...
... PCNA complex to bind DNA, leading tothe proposal that the conformational changes required for RFC to bind the primer–template DNA require that the Rfc2 arginine finger responds tothe presence ... arrangement in the order Rfc1–Rfc4–Rfc3–Rfc2–Rfc5 At the centre of the spiral, a cavity of sufficient size to accommodate the primer–template duplex is found The pitch of the spiral matches that of the DNA, ... cannot substitute for ATP in these reactions The Escherichia coli clamp loader, the c-complex, loads the b-sliding clamp onto DNA and is broadly analogous to RFC [1,2] On the basis of analysis of...
... adequately monitor the performance of a DCMS contractor or stress test the system prior to its implementation In particular, SBA did not verify that the contractor provided the agency with the correct ... monitor the performance of a DCMS contractor or completely stress test the system prior to its implementation Moreover, SBA did not engage in comprehensive disaster planning prior tothe Gulf Coast ... Office Mr Chairman and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) response tothe 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, and...
... C-terminal cysteine -rich part Further localization of the epitopes of 45M1, 2-12 M1 and 166M1 In order to further locate the epitopes of the hitherto unmapped 45M1, 2-12M1 and 166M1, these mAbs were ... 1) The murine Ig j-chain signal sequence was used to direct the protein synthesis into the secretory pathway L31 [21], the cDNA clone used in previous studies aimed at mapping the epitopes of the ... of the PCR product The PCR product was ligated into the XbaI site of the previously described pSM vector [26] This vector is based on the pEGFP-C1 vector (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA, USA), where the...
... of the actual severity of the atrazine problem The EPA should publish monitoring results for each watershed and public water system sampled Monitoring results on the watersheds and the public water ... growth The EPA should monitor all vulnerable watersheds and require all future monitoring plans to identify worst case scenarios The EPA should broaden the monitoring program to assess all watersheds ... effects The EPA Monitoring Program is Ignoring More Than 1,000 Other Vulnerable Watersheds The EPA has yet to act to reduce risks in most of the watersheds that it has identified as vulnerable to...
... encoding the HA epitope was inserted at the end of the IFN-b coding sequence to distinguish the products resulting from the expression of the DNA constructs and the endogenous gene (Fig 2) These ... hairpin in the 5¢UTR does not influence the deadenylation process To verify that the hairpin effectively prevented the translation of the mRNA, the secretion of HA-tagged IFN-b was monitored in the culture ... investigated whether the two transcripts differed by the length of their poly(A) tail Therefore, total RNA of Hec-1B cells infected by the Sendaı¨ virus was treated (or not) by RNAse H in the presence...
... in the N-terminal strand and three in the C-terminal strand This leadsto a higher twist of the b sheet of androctonin compared tothe two other peptides Despite such differences, the rmsd of the ... concentration tends to adsorb in the headgroup region of the membrane, leading to a decrease of the thickness of the lipid bilayer, and then to (b) an active state, when the peptide penetrates the hydrocarbon ... each side of the sheet reduces considerably the hydrophobicity of the surface of androctonin when compared tothe two other peptides (Fig 5) Mode of action The mode of action of the three peptides...
... added towater with a volume ratio of 5:1, XRD pattern of the production (sample c, Fig 1c) confirms a-FeOOH (JCPDS card no 44-1415) is the only phase When the volume ratio of alcohol towater ... nanoparticles prepared in water in the presence of F127 were about 15 nm By adjusting the volume ratio of alcohol towater from 0:1 to 5:1, Fe3O4 nanoparticles were completely transformed to a-FeOOH nanorods, ... vibrating sample magnetometer at room temperature 4341 Figure shows the TEM micrographs of samples prepared in pure water and in alcohol /water media The production prepared in pure water (sample a)...
... seen the amount of effective water stored by the bioproduct in soil samples from the percentages of water pushed out under the pressure range from 2.5 to 4.2 The percentages of effective water ... 19.75 Comparison of the percentages of water stored in the soil samples in various forms indicates the role of the bioproduct Lipomycin M in holding water and ability to provide water for plants ... from the results that the bioproduct Lipomycin M can improve the ability of holding water in soil, thus reducing the percentage of gravity water in the soil samples fertilized by the bioproduct The...
... Taken together, these data suggest that the RS -rich region of the SARSCoV N protein is possibly phosphorylated by SRPK1 Phosphorylation of multiple serines within the RS motif The RS motif of the ... localize to both the cytoplasm and the nucleolus in virus-infected cells [34–36] and can shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm [37] Nucleolar localization of N protein requires regions in the ... examined whether the SARS-CoV N protein plays a role in premRNA splicing due tothe presence of the RS motif but, so far, we not have any evidence to support this hypothesis (data not shown) In the present...