... scales The duration ofthe livelihoods impacts of these shocks are assumed to be one year This is because the variables used to derive the impacts of these shocks (which include whether or not the ... one of these studies collected data on the number of poultry kept by the sampled households in the study year and, in the case of Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, on the number of poultry sold and the ... that affect the size ofthe poultry flock they manage are estimated The second part ofthe ZINB model for the study countries is presented in the Appendix in Table A.2 For details ofthe country-level...
... 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 ... activates the attacking water molecule that cleaves the terminal phosphate of bound ATP In the latter model, the IC is part of a catalytic dyad, along with the histidine residue ofthe H-loop, ... sequence contacts the c-phosphate ofthe bound nucleotide across the dimer [15] and the aromatic residue ofthe A-loop Abcb1a catalytic mechanism stacks against the adenine moiety of bound nucleotide...
... the binding affinity ofthe kinase or its catalytic activity at another site, so that the phosphorylation kinetics of one residue can depend on the phosphorylation state of other residues in the ... that the degrees of cooperativity in the binding of kinase and phosphatase to the target are the same The dark areas denote regions of high stimulus sensitivity (high Hill coefficients) The stimulus–response ... instead ofthe six sites ofthe wild-type protein [31] However, only three ofthe six sites were required for reproducible deactivation The findings of this article are consistent with an unordered...
... problem of finding theorder best supported by the evidence can be stated as a general shortest path problem: to find the preferred order for {a, b}, find the sum ofthe weights ofthe pairs in the ... either ofthe methods gives the right answer for about 89% ofthe test data, one ofthe two is right 95.00% ofthe time This indicates that a method which combined the information used by the ... 1% ofthe pairs in the corpus are in the ‘wrong’ order For an even larger percentage of pairs either order is acceptable, so an evaluation procedure which assumes that the observed order is the...
... to gather the participants’ basic information, such as the scores of their College English course2 in the first semester, and the other intending to illicit the learners’ retrospection upon their ... achievement need proofs from other studies To address the lack, the present study undertakes an investigation ofthe role of metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of 120 non-English major ... address the lack, this paper aims to investigate the role of metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of Chinese EFL learners, in the hope of shedding some light on the teaching and learning of...
... reservations: the topos ofthe basic incomprehensibility ofthe camps and the notion of singularity, the incomparability of that welter of ENTRY crimes subsumed under the name of Auschwitz Both theses ... symmetry of absolute violence: the ability of each to kill the other In the state of nature, the power of one person to kill ends where the power ofthe next begins Even slaves can reverse the violence ... all the prisoners perished within the course of a year, new transports assured the preservation ofthe power system ofthe camp Their ranks were replenished The leading figure in the cast of mass...
... complexity ofthe neurons and the activity ofthe gamma oscillations in the Schaffer CA1 cell line on the hippocampal slices Methods Preparation of slices All experimental protocols were approved by the ... role in the pathogenesis ofthe disorder Postmortem evaluations ofthe brains of AD patients have shown a substantial loss in nicotinic receptors in cortex and striatum According to the growing ... all the differences between the corresponding elements will be less than the threshold r For any given X(i), the ratio ofthe difference between X(i) and X(j) smaller than the threshold r to the...
... affecting the VTA DA neurons These two methods took into account the dynamics of AMPA and NMDA signals ofthe complete response and not just the maximum, making them more suitable in understanding the ... completely interrupt the connections between the PFC and the rest ofthe brain [28] The post-surgical care and drug administration were identical to the PFC intact animals The disruption between ... evaluate the difference between the shapes ofthe AMPA and NMDA signals using the KL divergence This measure provides information on the whole area of synaptic response and not just the maximum...
... represents the standard deviation ofthe original signal x(i) Results Our objective in this study was the investigation of changes in the complexity ofthe central respiratory network ofthe piglets ... sec the entropy ofthe breaths return to values comparable to those before the stimulus application We used the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare the significance ofthe differences in the ... at the beginning ofthe inspiratory period [19] On the other hand, the pattern exhibited in the bottom plot highly resembles the one on the top plot, indicating systems' full recovery after the...
... graph of girth at least g having the least number of vertices Then the girth of G is g and the diameter of G is at most g A proof of this theorem can be found in [14, pp 66, 384, 385], see also the ... roughly the 3/2 power ofthe indicated lower bounds the electronic journal of combinatorics (no 2) (1997) , #R13 Preliminary Results and Proof of Theorem A The possibility of improving the upper ... and the proof of this fact is not simple The upper bound on the girth of graphs CD(n, q), together with the statement in Theorem 2.1 regarding diameter of cages, implies that for every k ≥ there...
... colored i The degree of all the vertices of Aj ∪ Bj in this subgraph is d − 1, the degrees of all the vertices of Ai are at least (k − (r + 1)(d − 1))/(r − 1) and the degrees of all vertices of Ai ... large, the electronic journal of combinatorics 10 (2003), #R32 Kn contains two edge disjoint copies of H where in the second copy, the vertex playing the role of vjd+1 plays the role ofthe vertex ... any d-subgraph of H may only contain the vertices {v1 , , vd2 −d+1 } Thus, theorderof any d-subgraph of H is at most d2 − d + The crucial point to observe is that the vertices of excess degree,...
... Components ofthe Five Trial Arms The Prevention arm ofthe WebGAD study consists of five experimental conditions Three of these involve the provision ofthe active intervention, E-couch The two ... giving them an advantage over other programs The use ofthe internet in health has high acceptability, with over 38% of Americans reporting that the internet has helped the way they take care of their ... description of: 1) the benefits of web-based interventions; 2) the effectiveness of web-based interventions for mental disorders; and 3) the nature of attrition Page of A description ofthe methods,...
... portion ofthe MinE protein decorates the whole tube, but the bulk appears to accumulate at its 'rim' in the shape of a ring (the E ring) The rim ofthe tube then retracts towards pole 1, and the ... of MinE assembles at the rim of this tube forming a ring (E-ring) The rim ofthe D/E-tube along with the E-ring retracts back towards the pole and a portion of MinD becomes cytoplasmic When the ... When the rim ofthe D/E-tube reaches the cell pole, the E-ring dissipates and the bulk of MinE also appears cytoplasmic Meanwhile, assembly of a new tube begins on the membrane ofthe opposite...
... Investigatingthe role ofthe ESCRT proteins in cytokinesis Musab Saeed Bhutta B.Sc (Hons) Thesis submitted in fulfilment ofthe requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ... lost in the process of membrane remodelling; rather, ESCRT-III remains on the periphery ofthe MVB membrane until Vps4 recycles it back into the cytoplasm to mediate the formation of further MVBs ... vesicles ofthe recycling endosomes, and interaction with a motor protein facilitates the delivery of these vesicles to the cleavage furrow, where the interaction of Rab11/FIP3 with Arf6 and the exocyst...
... him/herself, and then 'game', where the child learns the expectations ofthe 'generalised other' As Mead himself says, ' the result ofthe given individual taking the attitudes of others towards ... not until the 'idea of me' emerges that the child is able to reflect on the knowledge of self and others they have acquired (Lewis, 1999) The idea of 'me' aspect of self has received the most ... exposure to the dominant culture This means that the individual is then aware that they are devalued in the eyes of others, aware ofthe dominant cultural stereotypes surrounding their identity...
... force exerted by the micropipette acting on the cell h the height ofthe water column L the change ofthe voltmeter reading corresponding to cm change in the water column height in the dual pipette ... ρ the density of water µ the membrane elastic shear modulus π the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter θa the angle formed between the stretched cell membrane and the normal ofthe ... 2.12 40 Schematic drawing of determining the zero pressure When the RBC is neither aspirated into the micropipette nor blown away, the aspiration pressure is the same as the atmospherical pressure...