... University, and the M.S degree in mechanical manufacture from Xi an University of Technology He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Xi an Jiaotong ... image where the classical algorithm fails to stop at the correct boundaries, thus, our algorithm can better on this kind ofimage Figure demonstrates another advantage ofthe improved algorithm ... extensions of u+ and u− Because the smoothing operator will blur the boundaries of objects, the contours or edges ofthe diffused images will become more and more blurry as the evolution of curves...
... ofthe Pentecostal Assembly of God and PTL Jerry Falwell then assumed the role as Chairman ofthe PTL board After the transition, Bakker made accusations the Falwell had stolen the ministry through ... account the point of view ofthe audience Burns and Bruner (2000) did offer some suggestions in order to improve the theory ofimage repair First, they suggested that the researcher expands the frame ... terms ofthe audience’s perception ofthe offensive act Therefore, the appropriateness of a response depends upon the exigence ofthe situation The definition of effectiveness also establishes the...
... the equivalent of exons and from Meis3 Among the three Meis genes, intron is considerably smaller (< 200 bp) in human and mouse Meis3 than in either ofthe other genes Examination ofthe 5¢ and ... Fig 5B, none of these mutations resulted in significant derepression of GDB–Meis2d When we tested the effects ofthe NNGT and IL-AA mutations on transcription, using the Pbx–Meis and Hox ARE reporters, ... significantly less Pbx1a coprecipitated with the NNGT and IL-AA mutant forms of Meis2d than with the wild type, whereas the LL-AA mutant had little effect in this assay As the Pbx interaction mutants...
... The theoretical analysis of kinetic behaviour of ‘hysteretic’ allosteric enzymes I The kinetic manifestations of slow conformational change ofan oligomeric enzyme in the Monod, Wyman and Changeux ... procheck [38] and whatif [39] The Ramachandran plot has 91.2% ofthe residues in the most favoured regions There are no residues in the disallowed regions and 0.7% ofthe residues are in the generously ... inhibition of dCTP deaminase E Johansson et al rates) prior to and after the transition ofthe enzyme to a more active form, respectively, t is the time and s is the lagtime The rate constant, k, for the...
... examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts throughthe use ofthe include directive." A block of code ... techniques can be applied to any ofthe galleries created throughout the book Image sizes For images deployed to a website, always use sizes complementary to the size ofthe gallery If theimage is ... every instance ofan img tag and passing it into the provided dataConfig function, which then returns the rest oftheimage properties via simple jQuery DOM traversal How it works Before an image...
... 843, ascended the Pictish throne The inhabitants of Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland were but branches ofthe same Keltic stock, and their language was substantially the same There was not ... defence of their firesides The little bands in the east gathered around the standard of Marion, and in the north and west around those of Sumter and Pickens They kept alive the flame of liberty in the ... of these mountains is bold, rocky, dark and precipitous The land south of this line is called the Lowlands, and that to the north, including the range, the Highlands The maritime outline of the...
... for the analysis (i.e., the one year change in the variable is used in the analysis) The other explanatory variables included in the analyses have been used by other researchers The right-hand ... productivity is an index of output per hour; it can be affected not only by taxes but also by the quantity and quality ofthe labor force The indicators ofthe quantity and quality ofthe labor force ... and Pierson argue that “public officials have rewritten the rules of American politics and the American economy in ways that have benefited the few at the expense ofthe many.” Jacob Hacker and...
... revisionist analysis ofthe Poor Law began in 1963 with the publication of Mark Blaug's classic paper "The Myth ofthe Old Poor Law and the Making ofthe New." The work of Blaug (1963; 1964), Daniel ... explanations for the widespread adoption of outdoor relief policies in the 1770s and 1780s and for the significant differences in the administration of relief between the southeast of England and ... opera") and Mary MacKinnon read drafts of most ofthe chapters ofthe book, and greatly improved them with their criticisms and suggestions Stanley Engerman and Michael Edelstein read the entire manuscript,...
... for (lane 2), 10 (lane 3) and 40 (lane 4) Numbers on the right show the molecular masses ofthe major bands 5938 39 kDa band disappeared, and only two bands with the same mobility as the 43 and ... further digestion ofthe 43 kDa product Furthermore, their 36.5 kDa bands became broader than that for the 50 incubation The sequence analyses ofthe 36.5 kDa bands revealed that two sequences of ... different from that of ZHE2 The amount of ZHE2 transcript is considered to be much lower than that of ZHE1 Taken together with the results ofthe northern blot analysis, the ZHE2 gene in developing...
... means disheartened the Milanese, who determined to employ every means of resistance in their power, and to die gloriously rather than wear the fetters of serfdom The struggle began at once, and ... vindicated The simple threads ofthe love-story of Erwin and Hermengarde serve pleasantly to connect together the other more important events ofthe tale, and serve to illustrate on the one hand the ... overthrow ofthe present status of Italy, and the installation of Victor at Rome." "And then the heretic Barbarossa, the persecutor ofthe Holy Church, will be put under the ban ofthe Universe!"...
... exploration ofthe set of alternatives and the selection ofthe preferred alternatives Let’s examine now how an argument generator can be evaluated in the context ofthe selection task, by going through ... houses in the Hot List3 is randomly assigned to one ofthe three conditions Then, the subject interacts with the evaluation framework and at the end ofthe interaction measures ofthe argument ... vo(e)]], where − o is an objective, e is an entity, refo is an ancestor of o in the value tree − w(o,refo) is the product ofthe weights of all the links from o to refo − vo is the component value...
... above the din of battle, and near at hand At first neither ofthe combatants knew what such strange sounds could mean It was Riedesel's Germans advancing to the attack, chanting battle hymns to the ... came the camp followers, of whom there were far too many for the nature ofthe service in hand In the distance the American watch-boats saw this gallant array bearing down upon them, in the confidence ... twenty companies of grenadiers and light infantry, the 24th British regiment, Breyman's Germans, and all the Canadians, loyalists, and Indians now left with the army; he also had four pieces of artillery...
... assessing the safety of foods introduced into the marketplace The assessment of GM plants and animal biotechnologies is science-based and rigorous The discovery and development of new animal and plant ... also generates the information needed to convince the public about the relevance and usefulness ofthe technology The broadening ofthe range of products is therefore a key aspect ofthe debate This ... for managing these plants and their effects on the environment and humans has evolved with the technology and the scientific community’s knowledge of these tools Many ofthe more controversial...
... is therefore the measure ofthe minimum number of bits that is required to communicate the information about the entire inventory throughthe transmission channel The lower the value of FE the ... report the redundancy ratio of all the inventories of size less than or equal to 40 We neglect the inventories ofthe size greater than 40 since they are extremely rare (less than 0.5% ofthe languages ... Null Hypothesis: The nature ofthe distribution of RRs for the vowel and the consonant inventories is same We can now perform the t-test to verify whether we can reject the above hypothesis Table...
... that the American tribes are the descendants ofthe ancient Phenicians and Carthaginians, who early formed settlements on the coast of Barbary and the Canary islands The Tyrians and Carthaginians, ... vessels, and gave the command of them to Philip Amidas and Arthur Barlow, and sent them to America They landed at the island Roanock, and took possession ofthe country in the name ofthe Queen of ... which means they thrust themselves into offices of trust and authority The Puritans, on the other hand, viewed them with the eye of envy and jealousy, and having suffered from them in England,...
... omitting the incubation step with the lectin-specific antibody from the protocol is given in each panel (gray area), as are the percentage of positive cells and themean fluorescence intensity of staining ... excluded an effect ofthe control transfection on Gal-3 and general protein synthesis (Fig 1A) In contrast to the mock process, the presence of p16INK4a protein had an effect A clear decrease in the ... an attractive level of regulation of integrin functionality The assumption of a modulatory impact of p16INK4a at the level of glycosylation was a reasonable and testable hypothesis This hypothesis...
... transcript is a product of alternative transcriptional initiation of ENO1 and is transcribed from the intron III ofthe gene The transcript can be exported to the cytoplasm, and can be translated in vitro ... Collectively, these data confirm the existence of this transcript in the cells Distribution ofthe MBP-1 transcript in normal tissues and cancers To determine the distribution of this putative MBP-1 transcript ... binding Thus, the low abundance of MBP-1 in cells appears to be a result of its high turnover rate and the tightly regulated translation control ofthe 5¢-UTR of its transcript The ENO1 transcript...
... MOLMOL [31] the ferredoxin-like babbab fold The RMSD between the backbone atoms for themean structures ofthe two families of conformers, excluding the metal-binding loop region and the poorly ... studied here The copper(I) transfer process has an equilibration constant ofthe order of 5–10, with the soluble domains of ATP7A being better ligands for copper(I) than HAH1 In other words, our ... interaction ofthe chaperone with the second domain seems unlikely also in the case of ATP7B The selectivity, if any, for the interaction of one ofthe six metalbinding domains with the chaperone...