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... system They obtained the necessary or sufficient conditions for the permanence and the extinction For more works relevant to system 1.1 , one could refer to 1–9 and the references cited therein ... that is, the condition 1.10 is better than 1.9 Advances in Difference Equations Proof of Theorem 1.2 The following lemma can be found in 10 Lemma 2.1 Assume that A > and y > 0, and further suppose ... Gopalsamy, Stability and Oscillations in Delay Differential Equations of Population Dynamics, vol 74 of Mathematics and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1992 M...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... high.21 The inconsistency of the development of Sino-Japanese relations illuminates the significance of non-economic factors and also the strong influence of perceptions rooted in the troubled and often ... analysis of the different generations of the Chinese post-war society, the “founding fathers”, like Mao and Deng, and the people at the same age are generally regarded as the first generation The ... films, prevailing stories of anti-Japanese heroes in the novels and other forms of media have made a synergy to continuously remind the people of the war On the other hand, the media are not merely...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:49

... occupied 54% to total On the other hand, the adsorption isotherms of PAC in the dialysis membrane with molecular weight cut-off of 300,000 and 2,000,000 Da were almost the same and their adsorption capacities ... 3,5-DCP concentrations in the PACT and the control reactors during and after the shock loading of 3,5-DCP The peak concentration in the PACT and the control reactors were 6.0 and 45.3 mg l-1, respectively ... the effect of DOM and biofilm on the adsorption capacity of PAC in the aeration tank of PACT process Materials and methods 2.1 Operation of powdered activated carbon treatment (PACT) system The...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 03:20

... into the previous sections divided by age These include the use of Tajik within the community of Lyangar, the role of Khorogh in Tajik exposure, and the use of Tajik with relatives The use of Tajik ... in other parts of the Soviet Union said that the language used in the army was Russian Time in the army, then, had little impact on their proficiency in Tajik Six of the eight men with professional ... 30, though the majority (27 out of 40) was under the age of 24 Table 19 summarizes the distribution of the sample among the proficiency categories Table 19: Proficiency Levels of Men and Women:...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... farmer of the Post Office, furnished to the Secretary of State "a perfect list" of all officers in the Post Office According to this list there were eight Clerks of the Roads, viz.:—Two of the Northern ... so cheap that the cost of conveyance was only a small item in the expenses of the Post Office The Mayor of Bath proposed the toast of "the Visitors," and said that they had amongst them two representatives ... in the building of the occupation of the Inland Revenue staff, iron gates and spiked barriers in the first floor passage to cut off their rooms from the Post Office section still remaining The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... sense and antisense strands of the piRNA hairpin are involved in formation of the piRNA-interacting complex (piRC) and function in the transcriptional gene silencing of retrotransposons and genetic ... positions and sequences used to amplify pri-miR9-1, 9-2 and 9-3 Arrows indicate the position and orientation of the primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence ... vector The promoter sizes of the construct are indicated by numbers in parentheses )44 means located 44 bp upstream of the first base pair at the 5¢-end of pre-miR-9-1 defined as +1 FLuc is the ORF of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... affinity of Fpg for the THF:C ligand was 1.6-fold higher than for the THF:A ligand The presence of Mg2+ had little effect on the binding of Fpg to the THF:C ligand and slightly improved binding to the ... evaluate the effects of ionic strength and Mg2+ on the activity and specificity of OGG1, we measured the apparent values of k2 and k3 under conditions of low salt (KPi only) and no Mg2+, low salt and ... strength, the concentration of divalent cations such as Mg2+, the nature of the buffering agents, the presence of competing polyamines and other small molecules, and crowding by other macromolecules Their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... removal of the CUB domains and thereby activation of the growth factor domains PDGF-C and -D contain both the CUB and growth factor domains when they are secreted and proteolytic cleavage is therefore ... the cytoplasm and nucleus, a feature also described for PDGF-B [31,32] The function of these two PDGFs in the nucleus is unclear The region N-terminal of the CUB domain in PDGF-C and PDGF-D The ... and -D, structure and function L J Reigstad et al endothelial growth factors (VEGF) and the family is therefore often referred to as the PDGF ⁄ VEGF family The PDGF family of growth factors The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... independent of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the binding process and is solely based on the detectability of the peptides of interest We have used this method to show that binding of fosfomycin ... ligand binding The loop region of the upper domain moves towards the active site of the enzyme, thus shielding the substrates (and ligands) from bulk solvent A detailed thermodynamic study of ... entry 1UAE [11]), conformation The thiol group of C115 is highlighted in green and the nitrogen atoms of R120 and K22 in blue The open form of MurA is unliganded (A) and the closed conformation (B)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20

... their detachment from the remainder of the protein Domain A, on the other hand, is destabilized by 9–10 °C when excised from the rest of the chain Visual inspection of the crystal structure of ... the fitting and correspond to the values obtained for the isolated domains The uncertainties of the parameters correspond to the standard errors obtained in the fittings Reproducibility of Tm and ... equations using the following set of parameters: a linear heat capacity function for the native state, Cp(N); the enthalpies and the heat capacities of the unfolded state, DHU and DCpU, and of the aggregate,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... digested with BamHI and NotI, and ligated into the same sites of the pQTev vector to yield the plasmid pQTev-dptF The integrity of the plasmid was confirmed by sequencing The resulting plasmid ... the length and structure of their fatty acid moieties [9,10] In the fermentation of these natural products, some flexibility with respect to the length and branching of the lipid side chain has ... incorporation of the fatty acid moiety into nonribosomal peptides, condensation of the fatty acid with the N-terminal tryptophan of the nonribosomally synthesized peptide is necessary Here, we report the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... significantly absorbed in the intestinal tract, and reach the colon mainly intact [27] They are therefore bioavailable to the epithelial cells in the intestinal wall, where procyanidins and other phenolics ... investigated the relationship of different structural factors of procyanidins, such as the mean degree of polymerization and percentage of galloylation, with their antiproliferative potential and their ... from green tea, is a potent antioxidant and chemopreventive agent [21,22] These and other results suggest that the galloylation of catechins and the presence of gallocatechin moieties in natural...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... cleavage of the c-phosphate does occur in the NBD with the mutation at the IC [36,38,39] Moreover, these and other studies suggest that the IC residues are involved in the formation of the NBD ... contacts the c-phosphate of the bound nucleotide across the dimer [15] and the aromatic residue of the A-loop Abcb1a catalytic mechanism stacks against the adenine moiety of bound nucleotide and provides ... motifs: the Walker A and B motifs, the signature or LSGGQ motif and the A-, D-, H- and Q-loops These motifs are positioned around the bound nucleotide and help to position and maintain it in the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20

... Equity Balanced Total Equity & Balanced Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 36,733 in No in % (3) in No (1 No full ... regarding the strength of the global economic recovery and increasing tensions in the euro area, which sparked lower demand for equity and bond funds Differences in totals between quarterly and monthly ... billion during the first half of 2011, slightly behind the EUR 55 billion recorded in the first half of 2010 Long-term UCITS attracted EUR 87 billion during the first half of the year, down from...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 35,766 (1 No full data breakdo wn is available fo r Ireland and the Netherlands; ... during the quarter (4.1%), and net assets of balanced funds reduced by 2.1 percent Funds of funds registered an increase in net assets of 1.7 percent during the quarter Over the first half of 2012, ... Quarter of 2012) Trends in the European Investment Fund Industry Net Assets by Country of Domiciliation The combined assets of the investment fund market in Europe, i.e the market for UCITS and nonUCITS,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... appropriate subroutines This raises the further question of the functions and design of the executive routine and subroutines In this type of parsing program, the function of the executive routine will ... view the executive routine of the algorithm which contains the grammar as the actual parsing algorithm and to view the remaining portions as forms of input data Leaving aside the matters of rule ... difference in the adequacy of the parsings of natural-language sentences will be alterations of the format itself in terms of increasing the degree of context-sensitivity This in effect means that the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... Fahd Hospital of the University and the College of Medicine for their assistance We also thank Prof A Ghandour, Department of Microbiology, King Faisal University, for reviewing the manuscript ... with the calls to ban the use of antibiotics as growth promoters and recommend the restriction of their use to treat infections in the poultry industry Acknowledgements This work was funded by the ... workers and E coli isolated from chicken (Table 2) However, despite the similarity of resistance patterns to the tested antibiotics in Materials and methods The susceptibility patterns of 119, 117 and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... worthy of remark that both fragments of esculentin peptide were found to affect the integrity of the microbial plasma membrane and the synthesis of the microbial cell wall To the best of our ... represents the first example of the effects of an antimicrobial peptide from frog skin on the proteome of bacteria, and demonstrates that the bacterial membranes are the major targets of its mechanism of ... into the subphase, and the increment in surface pressure of the LPS film upon intercalation of the peptide dissolved in the subphase was monitored for the next 37 The difference between the initial...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... We therefore characterized the effect of GPR30 on the expression of receptors and cofactors In our preliminary analysis, GPR30 affected the expression level of TIF2 mRNA, but not of other cofactors ... independent of the differentiation status (normal vs cancer) of the epithelial cells in the mammary gland We also show here that the abolition of hormonemediated transactivation of a GRE- responsive ... in the growth regulation of different normal and cancer cells The major evidence to date concerns the role of GPR in enhancing cell proliferation [16–20] There are also examples suggesting the...

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