deciphering the secret life of the bacilli

... influence the sensitivity of acid-fast smears include the amount of acid-fast bacilli present in the specimen, the experience of the reader, the stain used, the number of fields examined, the type of ... addition of the Superoxol, the strength of the catalase reaction is determined by measuring the height of the bubbles, characteristic of the catalase reaction, in the tube If the height of the bubbles ... reacted with the genus specific probes for a sensitivity of 100% and 61 of the 238 strains were identified to the species level The other 177 strains were outside of the detection range of the LiPa...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... However, in the thesis, the researcher wants to find out the attitudes, as well as the cultural awareness in teaching and learning spoken English of the teachers and the students of 10 th grade ... overcome in the teaching and learning of speaking skills? I.5 Methods of the study To realize the aims of the study, both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used The data collected for the ... unsettle the good language learners when they expect it least, making evident the limitations of their hard-won communicative competence, challenging their ability to make sense of the world around them.”...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00

... responsibility for the application of this information The Portland Cement Association DISCLAIMS any and all RESPONSIBILITY and LIABILITY for the accuracy of the application of the information contained ... Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S MATERIAL USAGE AND CONDITION OF EXISTING BRIDGES IN THE U.S ABSTRACT Data on the market share of the four major bridge construction materials used in the US ... state then collects the inspection reports for all bridges in the state and submits them annually to the FHWA, where they are entered into the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database The NBI...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... food A total of 5% of the consumers have not consumed or considered to consume organic food A total of 29% of the consumers in the Transkei did not know In the Ciskei, 35.6% of the consumers ... its identity in the face of others, and therefore creates a feeling of "belonging" (Buruiana 2003) 17 10 Factors affecting the consumer awareness of organic products The results of the logistic ... confidence of the product and is an indication of the trust of the organic label 12 Conclusion This paper has established the growing importance of organic products in the food system of the Eastern...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... over 30 The excess of ATP ensured that none of the reactions were rate-limited by ATP concentration The levels of incorporation of 32P into the peptide were used to calculate the kinetics of phosphorylation ... structure The two groups of peaks at 6.85 and 7.15 p.p.m correspond to the aromatic resonances of the seven tyrosines in the protein, and the inset 2D expansion of the 1H-1H COSY shows that the seven ... investigate the effect of the phosphotyrosine product on the ability of Lck to phosphorylate tyrosine substrates The radioactivity-incorporation assay was performed for peptide 1N in the presence of either...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... tributaries of the Mekong drain the uplands of Lao PDR, which contribute 35% of the runoff Other major tributaries rise in Thailand and Cambodia, which each contribute 18% of the runoff There are ... analysis of the impacts of various human activities in the Mekong Basin Rather, it examines activities only insofar as they might influence the likelihood of establishment and the impacts of introduced ... poldering of certain areas Drastic changes in the nature of floodplain habitats together with the loss of floodplain area may result in the disappearance of many of the species that depend on these...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:48

... Other than jeopardizing the health and quality of life of the residents, there were little evidence of flagrant violation of other human rights articles unlike the other cases reviewed below The ... in the Third World are: the murder of Wilson Pinheiro and Francisco “Chico” Mendes in the Amazon rain forest, the massacre of Father Nery Lito Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the ... hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in November 1995 in Nigeria The subsequent detention, torture, and repression of other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... demonstrated that these caveolae functioned in the uptake and hydrolysis of cholesteryl ester from HDL The involvement of SR-B1 in this uptake was indicated by the inhibition of the uptake by the SR-BI ... contamination of the plasma membrane fraction may be the source of the small amounts of TGN38, but it is unlikely that the closed VHD-caveolae fraction is Golgi ⁄ microsomal membrane, for the following ... in the VHD-caveolae with the same relation to caveolin-1 as in the HD-caveolae and LD-caveolae; (c) the VHD-caveolae contained almost a third of the plasma membrane caveolin, and the majority of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... the O9 atom, lies at the base of the binding pocket formed by the backbone atoms of Asn175 [12,18] (Fig 4) Although site-directed mutations cannot change the nature of the backbone, we nevertheless ... in the presence of a fixed concentration of CTP of 0.154 mm, it was not possible to saturate the enzyme, and only an estimate of the kcat ⁄ Km for Neu5Ac could be made from the gradient of the ... treatment of the D211A mutant increased the activity by more than four-fold Increasing the concentration of Mg2+ had little effect on the D209A mutant These differences perhaps reflect the nature of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:21

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20

... How were the Guidelines developed? The Guidelines are the culmination of a 2-year effort in which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of ... professional makes a diagnosis of an EGID after finding high levels of immune cells called eosinophils in a biopsy from the GI tract The symptoms of these disorders depend on which part of the ... eczema) is a disease of the skin Symptoms include scaly, itchy rashes and blistering, weeping, or peeling of the skin The causes of the disease are unclear There may be a problem in the skin’s ability...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... Bourdieu, the essence of this system does not lie in the fact that there is a gift and a counter-gift, but in the lapse of time between the two, the size and value of each of the gifts, the persons ... areas The fact that the material of many of these campaigns has not been fully published means that there is unequal data for the different parts of the site Similarly, the quality of the data ... considered a landmark in the research of Mycenaean pottery in the Levant Not only did these discoveries establish the presence of Mycenaean pottery in the northern Levant, the amounts of that pottery...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:13

... practice the tuning of the machines, they should be able to get the required quality and productivity The fear of failure or of spoiling the costly machines make the management think of taking the ... their marks and the way in which they answer in the interviews, but grumble them as not up to the mark when they start working in the industry The colleges give lot of information to the students ... very crucial, as the success of a product in the market, the economy of the company, etc., depend on the quality of the process A good process aims at highest productivity with the required quality...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... more recently the share of the industry in the value added, indicators of employment and wages, etc The share of forestry in the creation of GNP in the Czech Republic is based on the natural conditions, ... related activities The position of forestry within the national economy is expressed by means of macroeconomic indicators the most important of which are indicators of the creation of gross national ... functions of forests – their hitherto development and prediction of future prospects In these intentions the paper will discuss some dynamic series of forest production and their trends including official...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... over years The probability of gene origin was calculated from the genetic contributions of the founders of the current population [2, 3, 13, 15] A founder is defined as an parents in the file This ... male offspring and each female with a female offspring to the next generation, 2) standardize the family size minimizing the variance and 3) increase the generation intervals, that is, lengthen the ... breeding policy would be that which would calculate the effective number of founders and the inbreeding coefficient of the hypothetical offspring of each possible populating couple In this way, those...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... contained all cases of co-morbid depression and anxiety (n = 37), all cases of depression alone (n = 172), and the majority of cases of anxiety alone (n = 362) The remaining third of anxiety cases ... either on the hazard ratios for psychiatric disorder or on the hazard ratios for the categories with valid values The only exception was for the model adjusting for alcohol consumption where the ... increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease or cancer [7,35] Third, it is possible that the effects observed relate not to the psychiatric disorders but to the effects of their treatment,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... high level till the end of the cell cycle The TR activity was higher in the presence of selenite than in the presence of selenate (Figure 7A) Similarly the TR activity increased in the strains SeIV ... divide at the 30th hour (Figure 6D) The initial TR activity in both wild type and resistant strains was the same at the beginning of the cell cycle (about mU × mg-1) During the growth phase of the ... involved in the mechanisms of selenium tolerance [34] Here, we studied the response of the wild type of the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda and its three selected strains to the presence of selenite...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... hantaviruses segment 2of SWSVgenerated by the Bayesian method, under the best-fit GTR+I+Γ model of evolution, based on the L-genomic Phylogenetic tree and other Phylogenetic tree generated by the Bayesian ... Bayesian method, under the best-fit GTR+I+Γ model of evolution, based on the L-genomic segment of SWSV and other well-characterized hantaviruses The phylogenetic positions of SWSV variants from ... housed at the Museum of Southwestern Biology That is, while these tissues were not collected for the purposes of our current and past studies, their ready accessibility has facilitated the rapid...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... k=1,2 The algorithm consists of four parts: the generation of the index matrix N, the determination of matrix L, the calculation of the condensed gametic relationship matrix G∗ , and finally, the ... (7a) (7b) where Ns(i),k is the index of the kth MQTL-allele (k = 1, 2) of the sire s(i) and Nd(i), j is the index of the jth MQTL-allele ( j = 1, 2) of the dam d(i) of Dependencies in gametic ...        0 r 1−r where the first matrix of the product is the matrix with the probabilities of descent for the marker alleles and the second is the matrix with the recombination rate r = 0.1...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22