complex nervous systems evolutionary convergence and universal properties of consciousness

... understanding of underlying physics and origin of most of the properties such as origin of conductivity and magnetism is lacking which remained as puzzles even till now owing to the complexness of ... sizes of A, B-site cations and their bond angles with oxygen are found to be very crucial and shown to create a wide range of properties The nature of A-, B-site cations and combination of both ... various combinations of polar/non-polar oxide interfaces, providing us further understanding of the nature of carrier confinement, magnetic interactions and origin of conductivity of the two dimensional...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:11

... points) at 25 C, 30 C and 35 C in order to identify scalar and dipolar connectivities among heme and amino acid residues Spectral widths of 13 kHz and mixing times of 80 ms for NOESY and 50 ms for TOCSY ... the remainder of the target residues assigned by detection of NOESY residueheme and interresidue cross-peaks solely by the standard Mb fold, and the observation of relaxation effects and/ or sufcient ... Tyr66(E7) (G) and Leu70(E11) (E), and to NHs of heme-residue contacts Tyr66(E7) and Phe46(CD1) to have propionates (A, B, C) and interresidue contacts from Tyr66(E7) to Phe46(CD1) and NHs of Arg48(CD3)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:22

... mass of a complex containing a single copy of each hydrogenase subunit (CooM, K, L, X, U and H) and two copies of each CO dehydrogenase subunit (CooF and CooS) with a calculated molecular mass of ... enzyme complex (Eur J Biochem 269) 5717 Fig Genetic organization of the coo genes encoding the subunits of the CO-oxidizing:H2-evolving enzyme complex of C hydrogenoformans The cooMKLXUHhypA and ... densitometric analysis revealed a molar ratio of CooS to CooH, the catalytic subunit of the hydrogenase, of 2.1 ± 0.1 : and a molar ratio of CooF to CooH of 1.9 ± 0.1 : The same results were obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 07:13

... MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ATOMICALLY CONTROLLED COMPLEX OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES AND INTERFACES XIAO WANG (B.Sc, Shandong University, P.R China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ... Xie, Dr Jiabo Yi, Tom Wijnands, Wentao Xu, Dr Kalon Gopinadhan, Prof Alexander Brinkman, Asst Prof Wei Chen, Prof Ganaphathy Baskaran, Assoc Prof Jun Ding, Asst Prof Andrivo Rusydi, Joost Beukers, ... materials and structures, exploration of the properties, understanding of the underlying mechanisms and novel designs of possible devices are needed This chapter aims to give an overview of my research...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:07

... variety of properties of peer-to-peer systems The properties examined fall into four groups, along two axes: properties of peers versus properties of how peers are connected, and static properties ... Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Computer and Information Science to be taken December 2006 Title: MEASURING AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS Approved: Prof Reza ... Prof Andrzej Proskurowski Prof Virginia Lo Prof David Levin Dr Walter Willinger Accepted by: Dean of the Graduate School iii An Abstract of the Dissertation of Daniel Stutzbach for the degree of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2015, 04:33

... principles and actual devices Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor Structures provides engineering and physics students and practitioners with complete and coherent coverage of key ... manual and set of viewgraphs for use in lectures is available for instructors   received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago and is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Tokyo He is the author of over 250 technical papers and of seven...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 17:34

... the compensation of ion Fe3+ in the tetrahedral and octahedral location That led to increasing of total magnetization of a molecule Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 and hence there is increasing of MS (table 3) ... high coercivity of materials, the second term can take part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration ... Co-concentration led to the increasing of anisotropy property of ferrites Ni1-xCoxFe2O4, hence it was the increasing of HC The increasing of HC proved that the soft magnetic property of ferrite NiFe2O4 changed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 04:20

... mRNA and also of its own transcript For this reason, the level of mRNA for the wildtype form of MCPIP and the level of mRNA for IL-1b (Fig 5A, lane 3) were lower in comparison to the level of mRNA ... clarify the dynamics and features of this protein Role of MCPIP in regulation of the endogenous IL-1b transcript level After identification of a PIN domain in the MCPIP by use of bioinformatics, ... lanes 2,3 and 4, lower band) The levels of mutant and wild-type MCPIP mRNAs were higher when these vectors were co-transfected with a vector overexpressing IL-1b (Fig 5, lanes and 4, upper bands)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... Araujo Soares RM (2006) Secretion of serine peptidase by a clinical strain of Candida albicans: influence of growth conditions and cleavage of human serum proteins and extracellular matrix components ... antibacterial ⁄ fungicidal properties of trappin-2 involve the cationic nature of the molecule, as assessed from the salt and heparin dependence of the antimicrobial and antifungal effects Results ... fungicidal effect of a lm concentration of trappin-2 towards C albicans was time-dependent, reaching 92% after h and 98% after 18 h (Fig 5) Effect of NaCl and heparin on the antibacterial and antifungal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... studies of the reductive half-reaction of AADH Studies of the reductive half-reaction were performed to allow comparison of kinetic parameters for native and recombinant AADH Reduction of the TTQ cofactor ... orf-4 and hemE) all putatively transcribed in the same direction [7] The second and fifth genes (aauA and aauB) encode the large and small subunits of AADH, respectively The genes aauD and aauE ... analysed and intermediates of the reaction identified by global analysis and numerical integration methods using prokin software (Applied Photophysics) In studies of the temperature dependence of bond...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... of parabutoporin, opistoporin, melittin and mastoparan in absence and presence of mM extracellular Mg2+ ions Bacteria were incubated with twofold serial dilutions of peptides and inhibition of ... 50% of growth of the tested organisms at a concentration of lM at most (see Table 3) Opistoporin is the most active, inhibiting 50% of growth of N crassa and F culmorum at a concentration of 0.8 ... inhibition of growth of N crassa and fluorescence of SYTOX green could be observed (Fig 5B) Similar results were obtained for all combinations of peptides and fungi This suggests that inhibition of fungal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... values) of Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of peptides at I = 0.1 M (KNO3) and 25 C Standard deviations on the last digits are given in parentheses EPR The X-band EPR spectra of Cu(II) complexes of VIHN ... protonation constants for DAHKam and VIHN, and stability constants (log a values) of Cu(II)-VIHN, Cu-DAHKam and Ni-DAHKam systems The parameters of CD and EPR spectra of all major complexes present at pH ... Stock solutions of NiCl2 and CuCl2 were standardized gravimetrically with dimethylglyoxime and complexometrically with EDTA, respectively Concentrations of stock solutions of HSA and BSA were estimated...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... utilization The physical and mechanical properties of bamboo vary with the age of the bamboo and the height of the culm [Chauhan 2000] In general, SG and the properties of bamboo drop from the ... bending properties, along longitudinal and radial directions of one, three, and five year old bamboo and determine the correlation between SG and bending properties, and (5) compressive strength of ... characteristics and mechanical properties of bamboo Dissertation, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China pp 147 Yusoff, M.N.M, A Abd.Kadir, and A.H Mohamed 1992 Utilization of bamboo for pulp and paper...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... Figure of PS-1 (1% Pt/ SBA-15) sample displays typical peaks of Si and Pt and the result from the quantitative estimation of peak areas gives 0,98% weight content of platinum This means that most of ... activity and selectivity in the oxidation of glucose When increasing the content of Pt loading, most Pt nanoparticles aggregated outside the channels of SBA-15 with size of 10-15nm and catalytic ... existence of a 2-D hexagonal structure of a p6mm symmetry The distance between two pore centres is about 6nm and the high wall thickness (6-7nm) is beneficial to thermal and hydrothermal stabilities of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... [20]: koff ẳ koff2ị ẵibuprofen=K2 ẵibuprofenị ỵ koff3ị ẵibuprofen=K3 ẵibuprofenịị ỵ kỵ off 7ị where koff(2) and koff(3) indicate values of koff occurring at K2 < [ibuprofen] < K3, and at ... functional and structural properties of domains I and II [i.e of the 1382 region of (t)HSA] l The values of the Hill coefcients (n1, n2, and n3) for ibuprofen binding to tHSAheme and HSAheme ... low-afnity sites of tHSAheme-Fe(III) and HSAheme-Fe(III) [represented by a and (1 a), respectively, in Eqn (1)] are 0.18 and 0.82, and 0.14 and 0.86, respectively (Table 1) Effect of ibuprofen on peroxynitrite...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... present analysis of enzymatic properties of ChiG, or by our analysis of the ChiG and ChiC structures Despite the deletion of the B-loop, the two putative catalytic residues Glu68 and Glu77 are structurally ... Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) and an ABI PRISM 3100 Genetic Analyser (Perkin Elmer ⁄ Applied Biosystems) Production and purification of recombinant protein One hundred and fifty milliliters of ... cell pellet was resuspended in 15 mL of ice-cold spheroplast buffer (10 mL of m Tris ⁄ HCl, pH 8.0, 17.1 g of sucrose, 100 lL of 0.5 m EDTA, pH 8.0, and 200 lL of phenyl- FEBS Journal 273 (2006)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... properties of His170 The strength of the hydrogen bond between the proximal His and Asp residues, and thus the imidazolate character of the His is expected to modulate not only the strength of ... NdeI and BamHI and ligated into the expression vector pFLAG1 at the unique NdeI and BglII sites Expression of HRPC in E coli W31110, isolation of inclusion bodies, refolding and purication of the ... functional properties of the enzyme and any catalytic consequences of the mutation are at best slight This nding is strengthened by the electronic absorption and resonance Raman (RR) spectra of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... Søren Andersen and Professor Peter Roepstorff (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) for recording the presented MALDI-TOF ⁄ TOF spectrum, and Tove Olafsen and Anna M Wu (University of California ... (refolding solution) The positions of HCs and of hb2m are indicated by black arrows Fig CD structure of shFcRn C48S ⁄ C251S Analyses of the secondary structural elements of refolded shFcRn C48S ⁄ C251S ... mutant Fig Analysis of b2m and hFcRn HCs by MALDI-TOF MS prior to reduction of disulfide bonds (aliquot 1) Spectra were recorded after iodoacetamide treatment and tryptic digestion of gel-separated...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... formation of SiO2 nanowires can obtained through XPS The two strong peaks at 103.35 and 532.65 eV as shown in Results and discussion TEM micrography shows the general morphology and dimension of SiONWs ... Fig 1(b) indicates the amoeba-shape of the nanowires, with the diameter of about 70 nm and a length up to tens of micrometers Fig 1(c) shows frog-egg morphology of the nanowires, which is similar ... tops of the nanowires [17] The growth of the nanowires Fig XPS of the sample (a) survey spectrum of the sample; (b) Si2p binding energy spectrum; (c) O1s binding energy spectrum Fig PL spectrum of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:07