drought and its consequences to plants from individual to ecosystem

... been shown to promote the dissociation of the TOR/Regulatory Associated Protein of TOR [RAPTOR] complex [17] RAPTOR, a member of one of the two TOR [TORC1] complexes, is supposed to recruit the ... simultaneously to the FRB [FKP12 and Rapamycin Binding] domain of TOR and to the ScFKBP12 protein [14] ScFKBP12 is a peptidylprolyl isomerase that was originally identified as the cytosolic receptor for ... rapamycin has been lost during land plant evolution due to the inability of plant FKBP12 to bind rapamycin and to promote the formation of the TOR inactivation complex [11] To support this hypothesis,...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2015, 15:05

... application to slimming food products in detail Garcinia is a kind of high- yielding trees, easy to grow and exist in most of the parts in the Central and Central Highlands In Vietnam, its leaves and ... conversion and application, and technology to exploit chemical compounds in the Garcinia These are the concerns to be considered and studied so as to make a good plan for exploiting, producing, and ... transformation and application, and technology to exploit chemical compounds in the Garcinia These are the concerns to be considered and studied so as to make a good plan for exploiting, producing, and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/05/2015, 21:00

... extracted from activated sludge was related to those of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Standard curves were constructed from 1.0×103 to 1.0×107 copies of the DNA quantification standard ... (PAO462, PAO651 and PAO846) and an FITC-labeled EUBMIX (EUB338, EUB338 II and EUB338 III) probe (Table 1) The targets of PAOMIX and EUBMIX probe are Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis and most eubacteria, ... quantification results by the quantitative PCR method and FISH method in all samples were from 1.2×104 to 2.4×106 copies per reaction and from 0.9 to 31.5 % of PAOMIX positive cells, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... related to how and why, so as to enhance Webbased natural language understanding Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank NOVA, Inc for their support with the Nova dictionary and Katunobu Itou ... choice can be performed to improve the coverage to 100% Thus, for each knowledge resource we compared cases without/with random choice, which are denoted “w/o Random” and “w/ Random” in Table 1, respectively ... method (see Sections and 3), and evaluated the quality of the encyclopedia itself Second, we applied the generated encyclopedia to our QA system (see Section 4), and evaluated its performance The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... taken from the period between July 1992 • and May 1996, and comprised roughly 500k sentences and 22M words To calculate word ngram language models, we segmented the broadcast-news manuscripts into ... value has lead to rapid technology transfer of speech recognition into other research areas and applications Since the variations in speaking style and accent as well as in channel and environment ... identification, and a noisy part, and were separately evaluated name extaction, topic c l a s s i f i c a t i o n and The clean part consisted of utterances with no information retrieval background noise, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... regulators used supervisory tools and enforcement actions to limit growth and raise capital levels at commercial banks and mutual savings banks But both banks and S&Ls, and their regulators, ... does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain ... favor in order to keep regulators from interfering in their operations 180 History of the Eighties—Lessons for the Future Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship to Banking with...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... 61129/2004) and the Health Research Board (RP/ 2006/294) to J.V.F and Health Research Board Grant (RP/2005/107) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC The ... antigen binding and presentation to CD8 + cytolytic T cells In HFE, the proximity of the two a helices and the presence of amino acid side chains that project into the groove appear to prevent peptide ... reported to co-localize and interact with the type transferrin receptor (TfR1) [5,18] TfR1 mediates the endocytosis of iron-loaded transferrin into acidic endosomes where the iron is released and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... oxidative pentose phosphate pathway had to be reversed to maintain the target fluxes Then, the NADPH needed to drive the reactions of the oxidative pathway into a backwards direction and to form hexose ... decomposed into an irreversible forward flux, ðþÞ vj (the net reaction proceeds from left to right), and an ðÀÞ irreversible backward flux, vj (the net reaction proceeds from right to left), as ... enzymes, metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell and to integrate them into whole-cell Ôin silicoÕ models...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... dithiothreitol and 10 mM MgCl2) using a motorized mortar and pestle (Torsion Balance Co, Clinton, NJ, USA) Following centrifugation to remove nuclei, yolk platelets, mitochondria (10 000 g, 20 min) and ... yielded both CL and CLAP in a high state of purity However, dissociation of CLP to its subunits (CL and CLAP) required incubation of CLP at pH for at least h at °C prior to chromatography on Mono ... thought to represent destabilizing elements leading to rapid deadenylation and messenger breakdown [47,48] Thus, while CLAP appears to be somewhat refractory to protease degradation, its mRNAs...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... functions from nodes in es to nodes in et or We therefore sample in the direction from source to target In particular, we visit every tree pair and each of its source nodes i, and update its alignment ... engineering and is not in general amenable to latent variable problems A simpler alternative to this two step approach is to use a generative model of synchronous derivation and simultaneously segment and ... prone to local modes In order to counteract this and to improve mixing we used simulated annealing The probability mass function (5-7) was raised to the power 1/T with T dropping linearly from...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... reference to its source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... Kohno, takes a critical attitude toward China, and asks France to understand Japan's position d6: The prime minister of New Zealand asks the French Government not to restart nuclear testing dT: ... gatherer collects articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to subscribers who can capture the flow of topics by following the threads...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... — we would need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of ... type to the least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to it, and (3) recurse on respective pairs of feature values The frame does not need to be resized, only the types need to ... when it comes to unification, due to appropriateness Nevertheless, unbounded subtyping chains and acquiring new features conspire to force most internal representations of TFSs to perform extra...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... increasingly, integration into the global economy Women (like men) shift out of agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes in the ... increasing the risks to their health and safety Working in isolation, women are not likely to gain in terms of empowerment from their work, which may limit the benefits accruing to children from their ... benefits for girls’ enrollments from subsidized childcare compare with those from more direct interventions, such as providing tuition subsidies to families to send girls to school? (See Bellew and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... Japanese and the morphological analyzer has to segment the sentence into words as well as to decide the POS tag of the words So in this section, we describe how to apply revision learning to Japanese ... combines a stochastic model and a binary classifier to achieve higher performance with lower computational cost We applied it to English POS tagging and Japanese morphological analysis, and showed ... i := to l − begin Call the stochastic model to obtain the ordered indexes {n0 , , nk−1 } such that P (cn0 |xi ) ≥ · · · ≥ P (cnk−1 |xi ) for j := to k − begin if cnj = yi then Add xi to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... bivector rotates vectors in its own plane by 90 , but forms trivectors (volumes) with vectors perpendicular to it The trivector 1^ 2^ commutes with all vectors, and hence with all multivectors ... unit vector a into another unit vector b, leaving all vectors perpendicular to a and b unchanged This is accomplished by a re ection perpendicular to the unit vector half-way between a and b (see ... given help and support over the last three years and I am grateful to them all I owe a great debt to my supervisor, Nick Manton, for allowing me the freedom to pursue my own interests, and to my two...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 15:22

... appropriate tool for doing so because: (1) as an individual- based stochastic simulation, the C & F model is difficult to fit directly to data; and (2) the probability that two opposite-sex individuals ... zero and 1, we have deviated from the forms of equations and STUDY SPECIES AND DATA SETS Both butterfly species analysed here, P clodius (Auckland, Debinski & Clark 2004) and P smintheus (Roland, ... generations and, due to the sphragis, have monandrous females P clodius was studied in one large meadow in Grand Teton National Park in 1998, 1999 and 2000 (study design in Auckland et al 2004)...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... protease-deficient protein and potent inhibitor of death receptor-mediated apoptosis In addition to Fas ligand and Fas, decidual cells abundantly express c-FLIP, which may serve to prevent autoactivation of ... to have a hysterectomy When Geoffrey Dixon moved to the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Bristol in the 1970s he started to collect uteri with the fetus and ... However, tissue androgen levels and conversion of androstenedione to testosterone are higher in secretory than proliferative endometrium [32] Moreover, a rise in circulating androgen levels in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... direction from right to left in the CSJ, and their direction was changed to that from left to right in our experiments In this paper, therefore, all the dependency relationships were assumed to go ... this study (Uchimoto et al., 2000) takes into account not only the relationship between two bunsetsus but also the relationship between the left bunsetsu and all the bunsetsu to its right We implemented ... clauses (2) fillers and pauses Fillers and pauses are often inserted just before or after quotations and inserted clauses Pause duration is normalized in a talk with its mean and variance (3) speaking...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20