designed dispersions of metal oxides on porous solids

... Outline of Methods of Corrosion Control Method Responsibility Selection of Materials Direct Managerial Select metal or alloy (on nonmetallic material) for the particular environmental conditions ... that the cost of corrosion to nations is indeed great, the conclusion of all subsequent studies has been that corrosion represents a constant charge to a nation’s GNP.2 One conclusion of the 1971 ... prediction, computer applications, inspection and monitoring and testing through acceleration and amplification of corrosion damage The second section also contains a detailed description of the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 15:48

... Effects of lateral-directional perturbations on lateral-directional motion" Effects of longitudinal controls on lateral-directional motion" Effects of lateral-directional controls on longitudinal ... distinguish longitudinal and lateral-directional effects " Effects of longitudinal perturbations on longitudinal motion" " FLon F = $ Lat−Dir $ FLon # Effects of longitudinal perturbations on lateral-directional ... distinguish longitudinal and lateral-directional effects " Effects of longitudinal disturbances on longitudinal motion" " L Lon L = $ Lat−Dir $ L Lon # Effects of longitudinal disturbances on lateral-directional...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 19:25

... fluctuation of tracheal NO concentration can serve as an index of the extent of alveolar disease as well as the severity of pulmonary hypoperfusion Continuous monitoring of the fluctuation of tracheal ... volume One of the clinical implications of this observation is that utilization of cylinders with high NO concentrations minimizes the bolus effect in patients on inhaled NO therapy Distribution of ... NO concentration in the cylinder In practice, the desired concentration is obtained by adjusting the flow of NO as a function of the minute ventilation of the patient and the concentration of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... response to sepsis and inflammation In addition to underlying differences in the structure of the neonatal cardiomyocyte, functional alterations in proliferative activity [31] and excitation–contraction ... resource utilization is also increased, as there is a Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Authors’ contributions WAL was primarily responsible for the conception and design of the present ... cardiovascular response to sepsis in the neonate are additional morbidities, including reopening of a patent ductus arteriosus and the development of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... TABLE OF CONTENTS iv ABBREVIATIONS vii PART I INTRODUCTION Rationale of the study Aims of the study Research questions Scope of the ... alternation 35 PART III CONCLUSION Conclusions 36 36 Recommendations for further research 37 38 REFERENCES APPENDICES APPENDIX A: Notes of usage on some common copula ... their mother tongue during the process of studying grammar, vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, etc On the part of grammar, Verbs have always been one of the most complex classes of words, which...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... terms of frequency of reporting, level of reporting, types of decision in which information is used)? In an examination of the consequences of exercising planning and control across organisational ... chapter four concentrating on the results of our questionnaire surveys, and chapters five to nine each concentrating on one of our case study organisations Chapter ten draws conclusions to the report ... and interpretation of emerging forms of supply chain relations, and offers rich, contextualised and longitudinal understanding of micro-processes of organisational change situations However, findings...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 10:49

... Incubation of ROS-GCs at a constant concentration of mM EGTA and varying concentration of GCAPs (0–10 lM) were performed to obtain EC50 values for the GCAP Keeping the GCAP concentration constant ... (reciprocal of guanylate cyclase activity) vs 1/[S]n (reciprocal of the substrate concentration raised to the power of n) Preparation of Ca2+-buffer and determination of free Ca2+ concentration Free ... data show that the sum of the molar concentrations of GCAP-1 and GCAP-2 equals the molar concentration of one ROS-GC1 dimer GCAP-1 and GCAP-2 influence the catalytic efficiency of ROS-GC1 in different...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... internalization Incubation was performed at a protein concentration of lgámL)1 in the presence of 100 lM chloroquine in the cell culture medium For FACS analysis, the concentration of the recombinant ... internalization of the GST±Tat construct was monitored by immunodetection as described previously [21] After incubation with the recombinant construct for h, cells were incubated with a monoclonal murine ... internalization of the Tat± GFP fusion construct was not signi®cantly reduced in the presence of the excess of the Tat peptide, in keeping with separate internalization pathways Internalization of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... at least $1 billion of assets By contrast, of the 162 commercial banks that failed, only one (Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Alabama) had more than $10 billion of assets, and only 22 (14 percent) ... sold to another institution by the FDIC With some $300 billion of assets and $189 billion of deposits when it was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision, Washington Mutual Bank was by far ... associations.14 The smallest bank that failed held $11 million of assets and $5 million of deposits (as of June 2006), whereas the largest (Washington Mutual Bank) held $350 billion of assets...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... precipitation For the Ca2+ competition studies, the solution containing 30 lm of Tb3+ and 1.5 lm of protein was set as the starting point The stock solution of 10–100 mm CaCl2 with the same concentration ... mutations at positions and echoed a previous observation that these mutations in the intact STIM1 molecule led to constitutive activation of CRAC channels even without store depletion [4] The canonical ... the canonical EF-hand motif alone is able to sense the ER Ca2+ concentration changes Previous studies have indicated that the Ca2+ depletion-induced conformational change of the EF-SAM region promotes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... reaction The second-order rate constant for the inhibition of NAT1 by DS (ki) was deduced from the slope of kobs as a function of the DS concentration [DS], and was · 104 m)1Æmin)1 The order of ... the inhibition of NAT1 by DS by carrying out time course inhibition of the enzyme at different DS concentrations As shown in Figure 5A, incubation of the enzyme with DS led to a monoexponential ... disappearance of the fluorescein signal This dose-dependent modification was correlated with the dose-dependent inhibition of Table Effects of reducing agents on DS-dependent inhibition of NAT1 Conditions...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... the spectra at constant concentration of protein (1 lM) and ANS (50 lM), in different concentrations of GdnHCl (1–5 M) Determination of the lectin activity Sugar binding activity of the samples ... 335 nm which characterizes nonpolar environment of the tryptophan residues On denaturation of the lectin with increasing concentration of Fig GdnHCl-induced unfolding of A hirsuta lectin at 30 ... and the conformational stability of the oligomer seems to be contributed wholly by the quaternary interactions In case of peanut lectin, folded monomer is obtained after dissociation of the protein...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... regular-root> is a place-holder for the pro- nunciation transcription of the lemma or of the non-regular roots.iThis field also contains information about the hyphenation of the corresponding ... case of generation) - c) (feature value1 value2 ,valuen) Such a restriction may act on each feature only once - - In Tufts and Popescu (1990b), the flow of control as well as the formal power ofsyntagmatic ... Computational Linguistics Journal of Computational Linguistics 13(3-4) (special issue on lexicon)" 219-240 Koktova, E 1985 Towards a New Type of Morphemic Analysis Proceedings of the Second Conference...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... expected that members of fusion active complex undergo additional changes in conformation, no clear information is available because of the lack of 3D structures of any fusion active glycoprotein ... process of penetration begins The latter, depending on the host cell type and the mode of entry [4,5], may require fusion of the virion envelope with the plasma membrane or with the membrane of an ... most of the tegument proteins are required for activation and modulation of viral gene expression and shut-off of host protein synthesis, some may participate in dynein-propelled transport of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... acceleration of the internationalization of TNCs – and, indeed, of the initial internationalization of previously non-TNC firms Three of the major factors driving this “new” burst of internationalization ... to other locations can have a strong impact on working conditions in NEM firms and on stability of employment NEMs often make an important contribution to GDP The impact of NEMs on local value ... agriculture NON-EQUITY MODES OF INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT International production, today, is no longer exclusively about FDI on the one hand and trade on the other Non-equity modes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... thiazolidinedione class of drugs result in more vascularized adipose with increased adiponectin secretion [24] The concept of healthy adipose expansion is an apparent contradiction in the context of excess ... worthy of further study Conclusions The role of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ critically depends on its circulation for metabolic function and transport Variations in the vascularization of ... animals [5] Conversely, the expansion of subcutaneous WAT does not appear to have the same negative systemic consequences on metabolism [6] At the other end of the spectrum is the condition of lipodystrophy,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... detection strongly depends on pH and, to a significant extent, on the enzyme environment The IP form of ThDP [41–45] Fig CD detection of the AP form of ThDP on BAL Inset: pH dependence of the ... their state of tautomerization ⁄ protonation 2442 Assignment of the state of ionization and tautomerization to each intermediate on the pathway Perhaps our most significant observation is that, ... the presence of the conjugate base in the activated or unactivated forms of YPDC [51] It is important to emphasize that determination of the state of ionization and tautomerization of enzymebound...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... HIS-C constructs for the large-scale expression of the proteins and found that b1–221 was consistently expressed at a concentration of mgÆL)1 of culture and the c and e ECDs at a concentration of ... instead of 0.7 mgÆL)1) Expression and purification of the b, c and e ECDs As (a) the presence of the HIS tail on the constructs greatly facilitates purification, (b) its negative effect on the yield of ... study of MG Results Rationale for the construction and testing of AChR ECD variants N-Terminal addition of the FLAG peptide (DYKDDDDK) or addition of the first transmembrane amino acid of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

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