... extinction of species Humans are using up the earth’s resources, including fossil fuels. Biological Control of Pests ã This means using natural predators to eat pests instead of pesticides ã It ... may thrive on the extra carbon dioxide while other plants are killed • WHAT ELSE????????? Acid rain causes erosion of buildings and statues particularly if they are made of limestone Pesticides ã Pesticides ... The Influence of Human Activity on the Environment Develop alternative energy sources ã Conserve our rapidly diminishing fossil fuel reserves by...
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... This process is called Eutrophication ã Raw sewage pumped into rivers has the same effect The Influence of Human Activity on the Environment Benefits of conserving endangered species ã Ecotourism ã ... This leads to disruption of the weather patterns eg drought, floods ã Some weeds may thrive on the extra carbon dioxide while other plants are killed Biological Control of Pests ã This means ... expensive but it does not produce the pollution problems of intensive farming This powerpoint was kindly donated to www.worldofteaching.com http://www.worldofteaching.com is home to over a thousand...
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HISTORY OF HUMAN SOCIETY pot
... factors in the foundation of Western civilization. The social contacts of the Christian religion. Social conditions at the beginning of the Christian era. The contact of Christianity with social ... of instincts and emotions and have just recently entered the age of reason. Such positive statements should be considered with a wider vision of life, for one cannot conceive of civilization ... architecture. The effect of humanism on social manners. Relation of humanism to science and philosophy. The study of the classics became fundamental in education. General influence of humanism. {xi}...
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The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 ppt
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the impact of human capital on economic growth. a case study in post-soviet ukraine, 1989 - 2009
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AN EXPLORATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEER-EDITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING ESSAY WRITING AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY, LHU
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:19
Tài liệu Impacts of air pollution on human health, ecosystems and cultural heritage pdf
... revision of the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone. This Protocol is one of the eight multilateral environmental agreements under the UNECE Convention on Long-range ... nitrogen deposition After nitrogen deposition This brochure was produced by the Working Group on Effects of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long-range Transboundary ... http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/workinggroups /wge/welcome.html For further information please contact: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Environment Division Secretariat to the LRTAP Convention Telephone: +41-22-91-72-345 Email:...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Impact of the native-state stability of human lysozyme variants on protein secretion by Pichia pastoris doc
... Funahashi J, Fujii S & Yutani K (1999) Contribution of hydrogen bonds to the conformational stability of human lysozyme: calorimetry and X-ray analysis of six Ser to Ala mutants. Biochemistry ... Takano K, Yamagata Y & Yutani K (1999) Contribution of amino acid substitutions at two different interior positions to the conformational stabi- lity of human lysozyme. Protein Eng 12, 841–850. 29 ... Tortora P, Connelly JP & Lange R (1997) The role of phenylala- nine 31 in maintaining the conformational stability of ribonuclease P2 from Sulfolobus solfataricus under extreme conditions of temperature...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A study on genomic distribution and sequence features of human long inverted repeats reveals species-specific intronic inverted repeats pptx
... the development of the advanced functions of human nervous system in light of the Gene Ontology (GO) profile of human orthologs. Results Characters and distribution of LIRs in human autosomes We ... We also considered the effect of the length of these regions on the distribution. The intronic and intergenic regions were then classified on the basis of their lengths. Within each of the length groups, ... regions in humans [42]. NPS-Septin was assumed to be one of the gene families that amplified themselves by this mechanism. The result of gene amplification is concurrent duplication of the intronic LIRs,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 1C on a human cellular system potx
... modulation of ion currents [18–20] and adeno- sine receptor inhibition [21], respectively. Because of the lack of a cellular model that allows separate monitoring of PDE1 activity, no comparison of ... substrate solution (Promega, Madison, WI, USA; CytoTox96 assay), and after 15 min of incubation, an additional 50 lL of a stop solution. Thereafter, extinction was measured at a wavelength of 490 nm. ... rise to the question of the validity of inter- pretations based on results obtained with the use of these compounds, especially as other modes of action besides PDE inhibition have been documented...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Folding and turnover of human iron regulatory protein 1 depend on its subcellular localization pdf
... case of human cytosolic aconitase. These results emphasize specific features of human IRP1 among aconitases which may be associated with its exceptional regulatory function among proteins of the ... role of molecular interactions in deter- mining the fate of IRP1. Thus, proper folding of human IRP1 strongly depends on its cellular environment, in contrast to other members of the aconitase ... accu- mulation of materials in mitochondria with the close association of transition metals such as iron [12]. Because massive precipitation of iron-binding IRP1 may trap this metal inside mitochondria,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Modulatory effects of plant phenols on human multidrug-resistance proteins 1, 4 and 5 (ABCC1, 4 and 5) potx
... than control pcDNA–HEK293 cells. Nontoxic concentra- tions of each polyphenol were used in combination with increasing concentrations of etoposide to deter- mine the effects of the polyphenols on ... presence and absence of BeFx. The reaction was initiated by addition of 5 m M ATP and terminated with SDS (2.5% final concentration) after 20 min incubation at 37 °C. The amount of P i released was ... formed and are likely to be substrates of MRP1, MRP4 and MRP5. It is clear that additional work on the effect of metabolites of flavonoid is needed. In conclusion, our results indicate that polyphenols interact...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The oxidative effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on native and cross-linked human hemoglobin as a function of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide A comparison of the effects of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide ppt
... utilized as a measure of the rate of oxidation of oxyHb. RESULTS The effect of pH on the auto-oxidation of cross-linked Hb was studied. The rate of decrease of the concentration of oxyHb increased ... effect of the LPSs was to cause dissociation of hemoglobin into dimers. The participation of cupric ion in the oxidation process was demonstrated in most cases. In contrast, the rate of oxidation of ... in the starting oxyHb concentrations are the result of an immediate drop in the oxyHb concentration upon addition of the LPS. Fig. 2. Comparison of the effects of the LPSs of rough S. minnesota...
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Báo cáo Y học: Tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation of human heparin cofactor II from plasma and recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells and their effects on heparin binding pot
... of tyrosine s ulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications. A fter dialysis, the condi- tioned medium was fractionated on heparin–Sepharose ... the pronounced instability of tyrosine sulfate under the condi- tions routinely applied for positive ion MALDI-TOF-MS of peptides. A complete series of sequence-specific fragment ions was only ... fragmentation. The resulting daughter ions then were separated by an orthogonal TOF mass analyzer. RESULTS Expression of HCII from CHO cells Human HCII cDNA was expressed under the control of the SV40...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Effect of valine 106 on structure–function relation of cytosolic human thymidine kinase Kinetic properties and oligomerization pattern of nine substitution mutants of V106 ppt
... with binding of acyclovir. FEBS Lett. 443, 121–125. Ó FEBS 2004 Effect of amino acid 106 on human TK1 (Eur. J. Biochem. 271) 2255 Effect of valine 106 on structure–function relation of cytosolic human thymidine ... dimer and a tetramer. For further investigation of the role of size, conformation and polarity of amino acid 106 for the function and structure of human TK1, we created nine mutant enzymes at ... dimer–tetramer transition by cloning the putative interface fragment of human TK1, rLy-TK1 66)136 , and investigating the influence of the V106M mutation on the oligomerization properties of this fragment. Materials...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Effects of cardiomyopathic mutations on the biochemical and biophysical properties of the human a-tropomyosin docx
... by varying the concen- tration of Tm in the presence of constant concentration of F-actin and myosin S1. In this condition, Tm inh ibits the ATPase activity as its concentration increases [33]. ... absence of troponin as a function of tropomyosin concentration, and in the presence of troponin and Ca 2+ concentration varying from 10 )6 to 10 )3 M . Inorganic Ó FEBS 2004 Cardiomyopathic mutations ... poly- merization depends on the formation of a complex between amino acid residues (at least nine) at the N-terminal end of one Tm and residues at t he C-terminal end of a second molecule. Mutations along...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Studies on the regulatory properties of the pterin cofactor and dopamine bound at the active site of human phenylalanine hydroxylase pptx
... define the position, orientation, conformation and hydrogen bonding network of the pterin cofactor in the three structures. Superpositions of the binary and ternary complexes of hPAH onto the crystal ... (h) of 1.6–1.9, and preincubation with substrate results in a sixfold to eightfold activation of the enzyme [10]. In addition to its catalytic function as an electron donor in the reduction of ... inhibitory effect of the biopterin cofactor and dopamine on the rate of phosphorylation (Fig. 3), on limited proteolysis (Fig. 1A) and on the global conforma- tional transition (hysteresis) related...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20
history of the marshall islands
... much money in the copratrade Germany, Spain, and Great Britain started to argue over the control of Micronesia. In 1885 Germany gained control of the Marshalls while Spain kept control of theCarolines ... people of the Marshalls had no written language so it is very hardto predict what went on. The only early history has been handed down from generationto generation in the form of songs, and we ... sailing around on their hunt for riches. One of the firstpeople we know of to definitely land on the Marshall Islands during this time isFerdinand Magellan. He landed in Micronesia on his journey...
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