... concentrated by the SPE technique using the Sep-Pak® Plus PS-2 cartridge similar to the preparation of samples for ecotoxicity test, and finally acetone solution was analyzed by GC /MS RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ... conc 0.96 µg/L) and others were detected and quantified by two measurements at two sites In the Water Supply Law of Japan, 102 kinds of agricultural chemicals have been controlled by the total of ... for daphnia and mortality ratio for fish in acute toxicity tests were used as water quality indexes - 225 - GC /MS Analysis of Agricultural Chemicals GC /MS analysis was applied to 68 kinds of agricultural...
... presents proper UML diagrams and notations to model platforms in different abstraction levels The UML profile for schedulability, performance, and time (or UML-SPT) is standardized by OMG [11] The profile ... protocols and synchronicity semantics The OMG systems modeling language (SysML) [16], and related UML profile for systems engineering, presents a new general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering ... Green, M Edwards, and S Essa, “HASoC - towards a new method for system-on-a -chip development,” Design Automation for Embedded Systems, vol 6, no 4, pp 333–353, 2002 [14] S Pllana and T Fahringer,...
... presents proper UML diagrams and notations to model platforms in different abstraction levels The UML profile for schedulability, performance, and time (or UML-SPT) is standardized by OMG [11] The profile ... protocols and synchronicity semantics The OMG systems modeling language (SysML) [16], and related UML profile for systems engineering, presents a new general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering ... Green, M Edwards, and S Essa, “HASoC - towards a new method for system-on-a -chip development,” Design Automation for Embedded Systems, vol 6, no 4, pp 333–353, 2002 [14] S Pllana and T Fahringer,...
... of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2002 and 2000, respectively His research focused on the acceleration of image processing algorithms with reconfigurable platforms, both in remote sensing and biomedical ... environment As seen in Figure 7, they are divided into four sets of streams parameter in and out, and data in and out streams Exactly one stream exists for all parameters supplied to the DUV during ... component is made up of two subblocks, b1 and b2, connected by various data channels (represented by full lines, such as d1) and parameter channels (represented by broken lines, such as p1) On the...
... maximized; (iii) automated sample cleanup - columns have been replaced by bead-based liquid handling steps; (iv) automated size selection - agarose gels have been replaced by bead-based liquid handling ... or amplicons We have addressed this need by developing sample preparation methods that are scalable, efficient and cost effective Materials and methods Automated library construction protocols ... Weihmann A, Pääbo S, Hofreiter M: From micrograms to picograms: quantitative PCR reduces the material demands of high-throughput sequencing Nucleic Acids Res 2008, 36:e5 20 Rutledge RG, Stewart D:...
... for help with figures and tables, Andreas Gnirke and Alexander Melnikov for advice on reaction optimization, Niall Lennon and Andreas Gnirke for comments on the manuscript and Emily LeProust (Agilent ... controls, and advised on development and implementation of protocols RS developed custom adapters and machined parts JS, JW, BR, JT, and AZ developed LIMs automation and sample tracking RJ and GY ... liquid handling steps, and these liquid handling steps were extensively optimized to maximize yield efficiency As part of this, the electrophoretic size selection step has been replaced byfully automated...
... beam; and image acquire/ analysis system Figure summarizes the chip design and cell cultivation procedure on the chip In this example, we arranged nine 30-µm-diameter microchambers on the chipand ... 3.0 × 105 cells/ml, was plated into the chipand each cardiac myocyte was picked up by a micropipette and manually introduced into each microchamber in the chip Then, it was incubated on a cell-cultivation ... photo-thermal etching method (a-c), and the design cell cultivation chip (d) Schematic drawing of the photo-thermal etching method (a-c), and the design cell cultivation chip (d) the chromium layer absorbs...
... code and trace the error back upstream Research on capturing functional requirements through use cases and generating sequence diagrams, statecharts and activity diagrams is being carried out by ... this, two diagrams provided by UML were selected, namely ‘Class diagrams’ for representation of static (data path) structures, and ‘Statecharts’ (Harel, 1987, see) and ‘Activity Diagrams’ for representation ... algorithms and easy to write and understand The design is rigid and doesn’t allow late specification changes This form allows architecture exploration without modifying the overlying description and...
... in Figure 3-2 The white bar stands for immersion time of 30 seconds and black bar stands for that of 60 seconds In Figure 3-2a, the number of dynamic cycles was 5, and in Figure 3-2b the number ... 0.00047 The LODs of the fullyautomated PIN-LPME for OCPs were comparable to those of HF-LPME and SDME techniques Although DLLME and SPME gave slightly better LODs in some cases, the fullyautomated ... the 600-rpm group So 3, 5, and cycles under the 24 CHAPTER agitation speed of 300 rpm were investigated afterwards And the agitation speeds of 200 rpm, 300 rpm, 400 rpm and 500 rpm were investigated...
... and roaring "Smoky's" chest, he improved the opportunity by vigorously kneading handfuls of sand and soil into his adversary's ears, eyes and mouth, and when "Smoky" got the proper leg hold and ... bat lying on the ground, and at the "leaguer" rounding his pocket "Sure," he said, offhandedly "The 'Yellowjackets'" plays the 'Long Islands.' I'm cap'n of the 'Long Islands.' "I guess I didn't ... millions, darling of the financial gods and great grandson of Peter Van Plushvelt, former owner of a particularly fine cabbage patch that has been ruined by an intrusive lot of downtown skyscrapers...
... which may be caused by the cancer, by treatment of cancer, by general debility or by concurrent disorders Accurate and meaningful assessment and reassessment of pain is essential and optimises pain ... accompanied by information for patients that can help them and their carers understand the available techniques and that will support treatment choices Methods This document has been produced by a consensus ... NMDA receptors and a functional loss of opioid and gabaminergic systems • There is resultant hyperexcitation with increased receptive fields, primary and secondary hyperalgesia and allodynia •...
... differs from the dynamic-probit models estimated by Eichengreen, Watson, and Grossman (1985) and Davutyan and Parke (1995), who assume that ∆i∗ depends on observables Greene (2003, 683) discusses ... complicated and is discussed in the next section The Economist surveys forecasts of inflation and real output growth for this year and the next made by a number of financial institutions, and publishes ... quarterly real GDP data, we find that sentiment leads the output gap by two quarters (ρ = 0.80) and that expected output growth leads the output gap by one quarter (ρ = 0.80) Thus, both subjective...
... stefin A and stefin B at pH and variant of stefin B and the P79S mutant of the variant at both pH and pH Each panel is a plot of heat change on ligand addition (kcalÆmole)1) against the ligand ⁄ stefin ... and forms a dimer as revealed by crystal structure analysis [36] In our case, SEC data collected for samples at pH have confirmed that copper binding shifts the equilibrium towards the dimer and ... reported by Rabzelj et al [39] Notwithstanding problems with folding of the fragment [39], which stays unfolded, this seems to support our premise that loss of copper binding (residues 92 and 75...
... Concerning the response kinetics, there is a profound qualitative difference between the random and sequential mechanisms The response kinetics of random phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are ... binding and the catalysis K and P denote the free concentrations of kinase and phosphatase, respectively, and Ln and Qn are the respective dissociation constants for the kinase–target and phosphatase–target ... phosphorylation beginning with residue A Dotted and solid lines represent the behaviors of the fully dephosphorylated andfully phosphorylated forms, respectively Dashed and dashed–dotted lines correspond...
... PKA I and II (IC50 ¼ 135 nm), and also ribosomal S6 kinase (S6K1) and mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK1); with 10 lm of H-89 the activity of these kinases is suppressed by 97–100% ... involvement of PKCs and PKAs in the action of neokyotorphin, we compared the effects of the PKC activator 4b-phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate (PMA; activates classic and novel PKCs) and the PKA activator ... seems probable, as it is PKA dependent [30] MSK1 is a cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB)-phosphorylating kinase [31]; however, CREB phosphorylation by MSK1 in fibroblasts is induced by...
... progression and proliferation Inhibition of CaMKII activity by KN-62 (25 lm) completely reduced the inhibition by ATP The inhibition of LXF-289 cell proliferation by 100 lm ATP was totally attenuated by ... were separated by SDS ⁄ PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose Blots from cytosolic and nuclear fractions were incubated with antibodies to (A) phospho-ERK1 ⁄ (1 : 1000 dilution) and (B) phospho-p38 ... cell proliferation by ATP is mediated by the activation of the MEK ⁄ ERK1 ⁄ 2, PI3K and p38 MAPK pathways Activation and translocation of the transcription factors NF-jB1 (p50) and RelA (p65) was...
... )70 °C Positive clones were purified by two additional rounds of screening, and positive phages were amplified using standard protocols, and the inserts analysed by Southern blotting The complete ... stopped with M ammonium acetate and 0.1 M EDTA, and the nucleic acids extracted with phenol and precipitated with ethanol The pellet was resuspended in 75 mM NaOH, and after incubating for 15 at ... gene (a-RT1 and a-RT2; see Materials and methods) and an oligo(dT) primer With the combination of oligo(dT)/a-RT1 primers two 700 and 320 bp fragments were amplified both from embryos and adults,...
... transition and is caused by the slow rate of interconversion of two forms of anhydrous cholesterol crystals [15] The polymorphic transition of anhydrous cholesterol crystals is most clearly seen by DSC ... time of 50 and 300 ms The slice at 7.2 p.p.m corresponds to the meta CH of Tyr and that at 6.9 p.p.m to the phenolic ortho CH 1796 FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 1792–1803 ª 2005 FEBS R F Epand et al ... 1800 R F Epand et al Thus, there are comparable amounts of PtnIns(4,5)P2 and NAP-22 in the cell and the ratio is within the range used in our work Since NAP-22 binds to PtnIns(4,5)P2 by nonspecific...
... protein bands resolved by SDS ⁄ PAGE and, corresponding to monomeric Ure2p, monomeric Ssa1p and Ure2p–Ssa1p complexes with apparent molecular masses of 120 and 160 kDa were excised Each protein band ... acetonitrile, 10 mm ammonium citrate and 0.1% formic acid) and spotted (0.5 lL) on a stainless steel MALDI target (Opti-TOF; Applied Biosystems) MALDI-TOF-TOF MSandMS ⁄ MS spectra were acquired with ... BS2G-d0 ⁄ d4 (A) and BS3d0 ⁄ d4 (B) is observed The peptides indicated by arrowheads were identified by exact mass measurement The peptide labeled by curved arrows was identified by tandem mass spectrometry...
... members, FSOC has been building out its standards for assessing systemic risk across different kinds of financial firms and has proposed guidance and standards for determining which nonbank financial ... aspects of the metrics and thresholds tailored to evaluate hedge funds and private equity firms and their advisers.”) 22 See, e.g., comment letter of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of ... exposure, and trading and investment positions for each private fund advised by the adviser See Reporting by Investment Advisers to Private Funds and Certain Commodity Pool Operators and Commodity...