... system They obtained the necessary or sufficient conditions for the permanence andthe extinction For more works relevant to system 1.1 , one could refer to 1–9 andthe 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...
... high.21 The inconsistency ofthe 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 ofthe different generations ofthe Chinese post-war society, the “founding fathers”, like Mao and Deng, andthe 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 ofthe war On the other hand, the media are not merely...
... 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 andthe control reactors during and after the shock loading of 3,5-DCP The peak concentration in the PACT andthe 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...
... 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, andthe use of Tajik with relatives The use of Tajik ... in other parts ofthe 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 ofthe eight men with professional ... 30, though the majority (27 out of 40) was under the age of 24 Table 19 summarizes the distribution ofthe sample among the proficiency categories Table 19: Proficiency Levels of Men and Women:...
... farmer ofthe 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 ofthe Roads, viz.:—Two ofthe Northern ... so cheap that the cost of conveyance was only a small item in the expenses ofthe Post Office The Mayor of Bath proposed the toast of "the Visitors," and said that they had amongst them two representatives ... in the building ofthe occupation ofthe 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...
... sense and antisense strands ofthe piRNA hairpin are involved in formation ofthe 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 ofthe primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence ... vector The promoter sizes ofthe construct are indicated by numbers in parentheses )44 means located 44 bp upstream ofthe first base pair at the 5¢-end of pre-miR-9-1 defined as +1 FLuc is the ORF of...
... 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 ofthe buffering agents, the presence of competing polyamines and other small molecules, and crowding by other macromolecules Their...
... removal ofthe CUB domains and thereby activation ofthe 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 ofthe CUB domain in PDGF-C and PDGF-D The ... and -D, structure and function L J Reigstad et al endothelial growth factors (VEGF) andthe family is therefore often referred to as the PDGF ⁄ VEGF family The PDGF family of growth factors The...
... independent ofthe thermodynamic and kinetic properties ofthe binding process and is solely based on the detectability ofthe peptides of interest We have used this method to show that binding of fosfomycin ... ligand binding The loop region ofthe upper domain moves towards the active site ofthe 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 andthe nitrogen atoms of R120 and K22 in blue The open form of MurA is unliganded (A) andthe closed conformation (B)...
... their detachment from the remainder ofthe protein Domain A, on the other hand, is destabilized by 9–10 °C when excised from the rest ofthe chain Visual inspection ofthe crystal structure of ... the fitting and correspond to the values obtained for the isolated domains The uncertainties ofthe 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 andthe heat capacities ofthe unfolded state, DHU and DCpU, andofthe aggregate,...
... digested with BamHI and NotI, and ligated into the same sites ofthe pQTev vector to yield the plasmid pQTev-dptF The integrity ofthe 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 ofthe lipid side chain has ... incorporation ofthe fatty acid moiety into nonribosomal peptides, condensation ofthe fatty acid with the N-terminal tryptophan ofthe nonribosomally synthesized peptide is necessary Here, we report the...
... 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 andthe presence of gallocatechin moieties in natural...
... cleavage ofthe 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 ofthe NBD ... contacts the c-phosphate ofthe bound nucleotide across the dimer [15] andthe aromatic residue ofthe 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 andthe A-, D-, H- and Q-loops These motifs are positioned around the bound nucleotide and help to position and maintain it in the...
... 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 ofthe 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 ofthe year, down from...
... 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 andthe 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 ofthe investment fund market in Europe, i.e the market for UCITS and nonUCITS,...
... appropriate subroutines This raises the further question ofthe functions and design ofthe executive routine and subroutines In this type of parsing program, the function ofthe executive routine will ... view the executive routine ofthe 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 ofthe parsings of natural-language sentences will be alterations ofthe format itself in terms of increasing the degree of context-sensitivity This in effect means that the...
... Fahd Hospital ofthe University andthe 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...
... worthy of remark that both fragments of esculentin peptide were found to affect the integrity ofthe microbial plasma membrane andthe synthesis ofthe microbial cell wall To the best of our ... represents the first example ofthe 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, andthe increment in surface pressure ofthe LPS film upon intercalation ofthe peptide dissolved in the subphase was monitored for the next 37 The difference between the initial...
... 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 ofthe differentiation status (normal vs cancer) ofthe 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...