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... merged inthe contemporary corpus of IHL.38 Thescopeofthe law of war was related tothe other main branch of international law, the law of peace At the beginning ofthe 20th century, the generally ... provide the reasons why this idea was introduced at international level The main justication resides inthe theoretical and practical distinction made in international law between IHL and HRL.16 The ... in international human rights instruments has aected the interpretation, and eventually the status, ofthe parallel norms in instruments of international humanitarian law.55 Despite this tendency,...
... Examples of GM crops include insectresistant (Bt) corn, cotton, potato, and tomato; herbicide-tolerant soybeans, corn, rice, sugar beet, ßax, and canola; and virus-resistant squash, papaya, and potato ... recombinant bovine somatotropin IDENTITY PRESERVATION ANDTHE INTERNATIONAL MARKET Inthe past, it was not necessary for the food supply chain to segregate and identity preserve grain destined ... andto insert the capability of producing plant-based omega-3 fatty acids into oil seeds Biotechnology canbe used to elevate levels of vitamins A, C, and D and folate; increase antioxidants; and...
... These activating E2Fs cooperate with NF-Y proteins binding to CCAAT-boxes andwith Myb proteins associating witha distal Myb site in activating the Cdc2 promoter Binding ofthe activating E2Fs ... [41] The CDE mutation that was assayed would also alter a putative CDE site withthe standard distance of four nucleotides tothe CHR Withthe data presented it is not quite clear where exactly the ... complex of inhibitory proteins at the CDE ⁄ CHR It was shown that E2F4 binds tothe CDE and that Lin-54 binds tothe CHR inthe Cdc2 promoter in G0 It is probable that these proteins constitute part...
... activation ofthe glutaminase activity by GTP was similar to that ofthe overall CTP synthesis reaction It was concluded that the effect of GTP was mainly to enhance the rate of chemical steps of ... UTP intermediate ina mechanism as that of Scheme 1A From Fig and Table it canbe seen that the effect of saturating the active site with ATP-cS and UTP was a relief of partial inhibition by GTP ... research, we have analyzed the steady state kinetics ofthe glutaminase reaction of CTP synthase from L lactis in order to distinguish between the effects of GTP on the glutaminase reaction and the...
... mutant was obtained introducing the L27 6A mutation into a template pS::glyA plasmid that already contained the L8 5A mutation E coli DH 5a cells were used to amplify the mutated plasmids Both strands ... PLP binding properties The affinity of wild-type and mutant forms for the cofactor was measured to evaluate the impact ofthe mutations on the structure ofthe PLP binding site Because PLP binding ... association ofthe a- helices that form the cluster and, consequently, to weaken their interaction withthe N-terminal a- helix This canbe imagined tobethe main cause of subunit dissociation in apo-eSHMT...
... kinase pathway The notion that Li activates this stress signalling pathway is not unprecedented Li has been shown to acutely activate p38 MAP kinase ina human intestinal epithelial cell line, HT-29, ... immunoprecipitated for analysis of kinase activity GSK3 activity was expressed asa re-activation ratio (i.e GSK3 activity measured without PP 2A1 treatment divided by GSK3 activity after PP 2A1 treatment) ... confirmed that this was the case in muscle and fat cells (Fig 2) The adipocyte data suggests that despite the substantial reduction in GSK3 activity and expression that occurs during differentiation of...
... for the infusion of glucose A third catheter was placed intraperitoneally as an alternative means of glucose administration should the tail vein fail, which was the case inonly three animals, the ... likely that the increased rate of 13C label incorporation into the C6 position of glycogen inthe ADM group is indicative of activated 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase, which can lead to increased 13C labeling ... suggests that the activation of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase by this biofactor is more potent than its inhibition of fructose-1,6bisphosphatase This is a significant observation because it offers the...
... The bF24rv mutagenic primer was 5¢-ATAAGTATACGCAG GCGCATACCAGCCAAACTGCGGGCCATTTAC-3¢ andthe bF57rv mutagenic primer was 5¢-GGAAATC ACACCATTATGACCAAAAACCAGCCCGGGATA GGC-3¢ The underlined codons ... indicates that the mutations in uence the rate of acylation by PGA ina similar way asthe acylation by NIPAB A notable exception was the twofold increased activity for PGA ofthe aF146Y mutant It ... 0.03 that the binding of both the substrate NIPAB andthe product PAA are significantly altered by mutating the phenylalanines inthe active site suggesting that hydrophobic interactions between the...
... to worst for the other asset classes listed on the chart Indexes are unmanaged and cannot be invested in directly Data is historical and is not indicative of future results Russell Investments ... are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and are current asofthe date at the beginning ofthe document The opinions expressed in this material are not necessarily ... loans offer low correlations with other fixed income asset classes, but that as diversifiers they are not as strong asthe Barclays Capital U.S Aggregate Bond Index relative to equity-linked asset...
... important because it can provide insights from those who are dealing daily withthe prevention and detection of these attacks Specifically, what they think about the current threat landscape and ... that the cost of cyber attacks is increasing Reducing an organization’s vulnerability to such attacks through the combination of proper staffing, enabling technologies and training programs can ... intelligence Twenty-three percent say their network security strategy is to baseline their approach against best practices and 14 percent say it is IT governance Bar Chart 17 What one statement best describes...
... for the project: one HEU storage facility at Argonne National Laboratory and one HEU storage facility at the Gas Plant at the Kurchatov Institute The Sandia/Argonne/Kurchatov Institute remote ... terrorists as well asthe origin of any device actually detonated Both Russia andthe United States make it clear that if a state assists terrorists in obtaining a nuclear weapon or the materials to ... work to install modern MPC &A systems at the Kurchatov Institute’s installations The first general cooperation agreementswiththe Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories inthe United States...
... may be able to substitute the NDK activity [12,13] So far, no NDK activity was detected in total cell extracts or the chromatographic fraction of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in an attempt to isolate ... DNA as template and cloned into the pET14b vector using the Nde I and BamH I restriction sites A 6-His tag anda thrombin cleavage site were introduced tothe N-terminus ofthe recombinant proteins ... CDP asthe substrate and [c-32P]ATP asthe phosphate donor, no radiolabelled dCTP formation was detected inthe reaction with dCDP asthe substrate, but it was observed when using CDP as the...
... control activity of TPO was determined inthe presence of inactivated alkaline phosphatase Action of a- mannosidase on the inhibitor The inhibitor purified as described above, was evaporated to ... was added tothe wells for h at °C After the removal of TCA the treatment was repeated The TCAprecipitable material was dissolved using 0.3 M NaOH, overnight at 37 °C andthe radioactivity was ... scraped at the position where the brown spots had appeared on the first plate This material was then resuspended in water and extracted by shaking After centrifugation, the supernatant was assayed...
... asked to identify all male patients between 25 and 70 years with knee osteoarthritis associated with chronic complaints Recruiting physicians had to state the date of initial radiographic diagnosis ... regarded as exploratory rather than hypothesis testing The power ofthe study is too small to obtain interpretable results for rare occupations as floor layers Inthe occupational group analysis, ... participated inthe study design andand helped to draft the manuscript, NA participated inthe design ofthe study and performed the re-assessment of all X-rays, GE coordinated the study and helped to...
... clinically evident metastasis was seen inthe clinical follow up or increase in size was detected inthe following control CT examinations Inthe evaluation ofthe skeletal metastasis, the rate ... ofthe study and drafted the manuscript MA and CS performed the statistical analysis, documentation ofthe data, literature analysis and participated in drafting the manuscript OK conceived of ... accepted because it cannot give the exact T stage and N stage ofthe disease, but in our study hybrid PET/CT was confirmed tobeas successful as spiral CT in N staging, although T staging was of course...
... not a patient will respond to anti-TNF and anti-IL-1 therapy AntiIL-17 cytokine therapy might be an interesting new antirheumatic approach that could contribute tothe prevention of joint destruction ... the existence of an IL-23/IL-17 axis of communication between the innate and adaptive parts ofthe immune system that might be an interesting target for the immunotherapy of inflammatory autoimmune ... destructive arthritis Because it is known that this T cell factor can have synergistic effects with catabolic/inflammatory mediators, it is tempting to speculate that IL-17 levels can influence whether...
... in autoantibodies to histones and/ or chromatin in all seven patients, including those without anti-dsDNA antibodies [62] At least in part, the increase in anti-histone and anti-chromatin antibodies ... nephritis These data indicate that short-term TNF blockade in combination with azathioprine may bea step forward inthe therapy of patients with lupus nephritis However, substantial evidence canbe ... suggest that this increase is associated with (renal) disease activity as estimated by histology [51] In addition, TNF expression was demonstrated in refractory subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus...
... contributions KG carried out the study design, the acquisition of data, the analysis and interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript DP participated inthe study design and drafted the manuscript ... signal-regulated kinase/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway [8-10] In osteoarthritic cartilage, the protein levels of HIF-1 are significantly increased and its activity correlates tothe ... pathways and may also trigger proapoptotic events In view ofthe data ofthe present study andthe data fromthe literature, HIF-1α may be considered an important element in balancing anabolism and...
... suggesting that both the release of intracellular Ca 2+ fromthe ER as well as Ca 2+ influx into the cell are involved in CaSR-mediated H + /K + -ATPase activation [48] Thus, verapamil to block Ca ... light ofthe findings of previous investigations together with our observations of CSAD- and taurine-positive cells inthe stomach and taurine released from CSAD- and taurine-containing neurons, ... that the stomach was free of solid contents A rat was decapitated, and its stomach was immediately removed The entire everted organ was then placed ina 20-ml organ bath containing a mucosal saline...