... among them the roots and tubers of lilies, orchids, native yams, and a variety of fruits and seeds.12 In New Zealand, bees buzzed, making honey from the flowers ofthe Manuka tree that was employed ... Pork was much esteemed by the Maori and added some variety to diets whose animal protein had previously been provided by birds and only two four-legged animals – the dog andthe rat In Australia ... couple of decades later They thrived, multiplied, and, although the Appalachian Mountains blocked them for a time, by the end ofthe eighteenth century they had buzzed their way west ofthe Mississippi...
... gratified and delighted to receive so many evidences ofthe zeal, the loyalty andthe devotion with which the believers in Australia and New- Zealand are extending the range of their historic activities ... but by their own folly, and above all, by the intervention ofthe hidden hand of God, reduced to the vilest and most humiliating position And now, with the Cause purified and inwardly victorious, ... with the manifold evidences ofthe progress achieved through the concerted efforts oftheAustralianandthe New- Zealand believers under the able direction of their elected national representatives...
... boat With these he discovered the harbour and river of Shoalhaven; entered and mapped out Jervis Bay; discovered Twofold Bay, then rounded Cape Howe, and discovered the country now called Victoria ... caused by the arrival of a fleet filled to overflowing with sick and dying convicts Seventeen hundred had been embarked, but of these two hundred had died on the way, and their bodies had been ... XXIII The Times ofthe Maoris, 184 XXIV NewZealand Colonised, 200 XXV White Men and Maoris, 215 XXVI New Zealand, 1843 to 1890, 227 HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA ANDNEWZEALAND CHAPTER I THE EARLY DISCOVERERS...
... analysed the data from all populations and drafted the manuscript WMT participated in study design, and helped draft the manuscript ARM collected the Brunei data and analysed and JT collected the ... communities Method Data from studies of children in NewZealand (Northland and Otago), Brunei and Brazil were used in this study Each is briefly described below All studies used the short-form ... utility ofthe CPQ11-14 andthe underlying importance ofthe measure Author details Department of Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Otago, NewZealand 2Department of Oral...
... GKH, and JM obtained the study data and assisted with study development and execution All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank all staff at theAustralian ... standard deviation for absolute values and rates of events (adjusted for total ICU admissions) in the 12-month periods before and after the commencement ofthe MET service The difference in the ... Team; SD, standard deviation *Data from the 12 months before and after introduction of an MET service into 29 hospitals in Australia andNewZealand Table Characteristics of ICU admissions due to...
... 1CVJ_1 and 1CVJ_2 represent the first and second Poly A binding protein domain of structure 1CVJ, respectively), andthe two domains were considered structurally and thermodynamically unrelated Because ... universally conserved component ofthe core ofthe signal recognition particle (SRP) The structure ofthe complex (PDB code: 1HQ1) andthe binding affinity of a series of RNA mutants have been determined ... effective, providing an average Z-score of )2.64, less than half ofthe average native Z-score found using the distance potential (Table 1) Interestingly, the magnitude ofthe observed Z-scores declines...
... came from the land of their destination of an event already referred to—news which for many a long day checked every thought of adventure thither, and had the effect of throwing NewZealand back ... could never have gained a footing in the land; and without the sustained labour ofthe civilised European, the work ofthe Maori innovator, too much in advance of its time, would have withered ... was the presence of Marsden in England He had come thither in 1807 on business of grave and various import The Government ofthe day had recognised the value of his practical knowledge, and had...
... for the H1 signal ofthe GlcNAc residue andthe NMR chemical shifts of H5 and C5 ofthe rhamnose residues showed that the former is b-linked andthe latter are a-linked The NOESY experiment revealed ... 4.96/4.04 and 4.63/4.15, respectively These data defined the sequence of rhamnose residues in the main chain and showed that RhaII is the site of attachment ofthe GlcNAc side chain The NOESY data ... internal standard (dH 2.225, dC 31.45) Spectra were run using standard Bruker software, andthe XWINNMR 2.1 program was used to acquire and process the data A mixing time of 100 and 200 ms was used in...
... certain amide proton was involved in such a hydrogen bond and downfield chemical shifts were observed during the pH variation, which indicated the hydrogen bond between the amide proton and phosphate ... depends on detailed investigations into the pH dependence of their NMR parameters over the pH range 3–8 Obviously, the pH titration curve ofthe amide proton andthe titration curve of 31P of phosphorylated ... However, the turbidity of both peptides increased sharply on the day 2, indicative of a nucleation step involved in the aggregation Once the seed is formed, the filaments can form quickly In addition,...
... strands The model iso ADNA duplex is characterized by the same value of slide, X-displacement andthe helical parameters, as ADNA On the other hand, the iso BDNA model, while possessing the same ... which has the highest population of converged structures and also has very good convergence, are considered for detailed discussion Calculated values of X-displacement and slide for the base pairs ... pattern and extended nucleotide repeat formed out of N-type sugar puckers (Table 5) Furthermore, the overall groove topologies of iso d( G4C4) resemble BDNA, with the widths ofthe ˚ major groove and...
... AR.NTD and AR.DBD.LBD induces MMTVpromoter driven luciferase expression Separately expressed AR.DBD.LBD and AR.NTD are unable to activate the MMTV promoter (data not shown) 30 VREVI34 in androgen ... between GalAD-AR.NTD and GalDBD-AR.LBD induces expression ofthe UASGAL1 regulated lacZ reporter gene Cotransfection of pGBT9 and pACT2, which encode GalDBD and GalAD, respectively, does not induce ... assays indicated that AR3)13 contributed to the ligand-induced transactivation function ofthe AR.NTD/AR.LBD complex (Figs and 4) Pulldown experiments provided evidence that AR3)13 does not directly...
... 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-glucose and 3-acetamido3,6-dideoxy-glucose were determined by GLC-MS ofthe corresponding (R)-2-butyl-glucoside derivatives and found to be D, while the absolute configuration ofthe 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-galacturonic ... 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-a -D- glucopyranoside, and two disaccharides, in both methyl a- and b-glycoside form, could be readily identified A number of other products were separated as a mixture and these ... 3-linked 2-acetamido-2-deoxy -D- quinovose, 4-linked 3-[(N-acetyl-L-alanyl) amido]-3-deoxy -D- quinovose and 3-linked 2-acetamido-2-deoxy -D- galacturonic acid The sequence of constituent glycoses and the...
... represented T « D fi D fi D* fi M fi A, which would explain the non-first order inactivation If each monomer in the dimer inactivated independent of its partner, the relative residual activity ofthe intermediate ... bath Residual activity was determined using the assay described above Non-linear curve fitting ofthe inactivation data was performed using the v2 minimization procedure ofthe origin software ... mutation D3 09K) The double mutant (E232K ⁄ D3 09K) was also created In previous studies of class I XIs, the residues corresponding to E232 and D3 09 were mutated to lysine andthe crystal structures of...
... prevented detailed analysis of electron transfer between dithionite reduced FAD/NADPH domain andthe oxidized FMN domain The lack of a second order dependence ofthe observed rate for interdomain ... activity ofthe NR1-FAD/NADPH domain was examined and compared with the CPR FAD/NADPH domain The CPR FAD/NADPH domain retains transhydrogenase activity, and is capable of reducing a range of electron ... assess the functional activity ofthe NR1-FAD/NADPH domain, we measured the specific activities for ferricyanide and DCPIP (Table 1) The ferricyanide and DCPIP reductase activities ofthe NR1FAD/NADPH...
... positions and derivative holdings confounds our analysis In addition, we did not address the issue of why derivatives are used Summary and Conclusions This paper has estimated the interest rate risk and ... specified in terms of variance-covariances of underlying state variables: and Without further specifications, there are no changes in derivative-related covariances, cov (D i,r) and cov(Di,e) The ... (and protected) about the nature ofthe risk involved with these transactions The second issue is how derivative transactions affect the level of a bank’s overall risk exposure -with derivatives...
... intellectually valid and more politically useful Burke's theory permitted, and even extolled the virtues of a lack of knowledge with regard to the object being perceived or described: 'Knowledge and acquaintance ... part of infinity made visible and framed in beauty.'27 Imbedded in these descriptions is the classic colonial use ofthe Sublime in order to further its descriptive and appropriative ends The avowed ... overcome by the singularity of his visit: 'The Victoria Falls can never be over-described or overpraised; the descriptions and pictures which I have seen don't give one the slightest idea of the...
... ofthe deletion ofthe RNA- and membranebinding domains of S pneumoniae Era on the GTPase activity ofthe protein To assess the potential effects of removal ofthe RNA- and membrane-binding domains ... isolated the cytoplasmic and membrane fractions of E coli that overexpressed the proteins, and measured their membrane-binding activities, as described above in the Materials and methods The cytoplasmic ... RNAand membrane-binding domains overlap To investigate whether the RNA- and membrane-binding activities require the GTPase activity of Era, and whether the RNA- and membrane-binding domain is a self-sufficient...
... Convergent/discriminant validity Table shows convergent and discriminant validity ofthe DQOL against the D- 39S andthe RAND-12 In general, domain scores ofthe DQOL were moderately correlated ... for reliability ofthe DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation SEM was estimated by a standard deviation ofthe DQOL scores multiplied by a square root of one minus internal ... scores and lineally transforming to a 1–100 scale Other HRQOL measures: the D- 39S andthe RAND-12 We collected other HRQOL measures to validate the DQOL, including the D- 39S andthe RAND-12 The D- 39S...
... approval was obtained from the Brent Medical Ethics Committee, the Research and Development Panel ofthe Bedfordshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust andthe Research and Development Directorate of ... self-administered Child-OIDP The self-administered version ofthe Child-OIDP performed similarly to the interviewer-administered original version ofthe instrument Despite the demonstrated appropriateness of ... reviewed the manuscript, AS conceived ofthe study and critically reviewed the manuscript, CO participated in the study design, carried out the data collection and participated in writing the...
... assisted with translation and cultural adaptation VK assembled the measurement battery and produced study materials AW obtained funding for the substudy, oversaw study design and analysis, and revised ... (13.0) Bed days and number of days of reduced activity were dichotomized as zero days vs any (one or more) days We hypothesized that the mean summary scores for both the SF-12 and MOS-HIV would be ... respectively) Discussion The results of this initial test provide evidence for acceptable reliability and validity ofthe Thai versions ofthe MOS-HIV and SF-12 as measures of HRQOL among HIV+ patients...