... Chicago, Los Angeles and many other national and local publications. In addition, Dan has appeared on Good Morning America and other national and local television and radio programs. ... government officials, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as other individuals from various walks of life. His sense of humor and comedic flair, honed from his time as a standup comic and ... sale of eyewear and related services irrevocably changed the entire industry and had a major impact on how all service businesses are marketed. Subsequently, he created an international management,...
... summary scores are standardized(t scores) to have a mean value of 50 for the general pop-ulation with a standard deviation of 10.Validation measuresWe used a number of validation measures available ... available fromthe SAPALDIA database that met the Global Initiative forAsthma criteria for the assessment of asthma [17]. Datafrom the SAPALDIA questionnaire included informationon regular visits ... BioMed CentralPage 1 of 11(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life Open AccessResearchComparing a disease-specific anda generic health -related quality of life instrument...
... loan performance becomes available, itreplaces estimated cash flows and ã expectations of future loan performance are updatedbased on information about actual performance and/ orestimated changes ... onthe loan amount,(3) the volume and mix of loan guarantees,6 and (4) the amount and timing of defaults and recoveries.ã To estimate defaults and recoveries, SBA averages itshistorical loan performance ... its allocated budget authority and hasgenerally met its demand for loan guarantees.ã According to SBA, the 7 (a) program did run out of budgetauthority afew days before the end of fiscal year...
... mnemonics of the feature-based grammar to the nonterminal labels of the treebank grammar. For example, our grammar main- tains a fairly large number of semantic classes of singular nouns, and it ... fea- Development and Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Probabilistic Grammar of English-Language Computer Manuals Ezra Black John Lafferty Salim Roukos <black I j laff ] roukos>*watson, ... of application domain. ã Development ofa manually-bracketed corpus (tree- bank) of the domain. ã Creation ofa grammar with a large coverage ofa blind test set of treebanked text. Statistical...
... s ame amount of membranes. Data were analysedusing the iterative programLIGAND(Elsevier B iosoft) u singÔcold saturationÕ or Ôhot saturationÕ analysis. The kineticdata for ligand association ... thechelicerae of live spiders maintained in a colony, usingsilanized (Coatasil; Ajax Chemicals, Australia) glasspipettes. d-ACTX-Hv 1a was obtained from a dult male orfemale H. versuta spiders ... quantication was performed using a bicinchoninicacid Protein Assay K it (Pierce) using BSA as a standard.Absorbance was read at 570 nm on a BIO-RADModel 450 microplate reader. The molecular...
... the reaction mechanism of a bacterial ATP-citrate lyaseTadayoshi Kanao, Toshiaki Fukui, Haruyuki Atomi and Tadayuki ImanakaDepartment of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate ... structures of AclA and AclB with that of themammalian enzyme, we found that AclA and AclBCorrespondence to T. Imanaka, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of ... materials for a variety of biosynthetic pathways. Rat and human ACLs fromvarious organs and tissues have been extensively studied interms of biochemical and genetic analyses [1–3], as well astranscriptional...
... numbering accord-ingly), and found to be 3748 nucleotides in length. A TATA-box (TATAA) was located at nucleotides 83–87 and a poly (A) sequence ATTAAA at nucleotides2978–2983. A GC-rich area was 107 ... Burlington,Ontario, Canada) and by shearing through an 18G needle,as previously described [28]. The isolated DNA wasextracted with phenol and chloroform, precipitated withethanol and Na-acetate, and ... 3177–3182.4 Okamoto H, Nishizawa T, Kato N, Ukita M, Ikeda H,Iizuka H, Miyakawa Y & Mayumi M (1998) Molecularcloning and characterization ofa novel DNA virus(TTV) associated with posttransfusion...
... contained saturated a- cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid in 50% acetonitrile ⁄ 0.1%trifluoroacetic acid.Determination of antimicrobial activityThe antimicrobial activity of peptides against a range of micro-organisms ... Taneja AK & Hodges RS (1984) Synthesis of a model protein of defined secondary and quaternarystructure. Effect of chain length on the stabilization and formation of two-stranded alpha-helical ... Pacor S, Pag U, Papo N, Shai Y, Sahl HG& Tossi A (2005) Controlled alteration of the shape and conformational stability of alpha-helical cell-lytic pep-tides: effect on mode of action and...
... black, rarely with weak2orange lateral bandϾ3.00 black 2–43M. septendecula Alexander and Moore 17 black with orange lateralbandϾ3.00 black 7–144M. tredecula Alexander and Moore 13 black ... North American cicadas of the genera Magicicada and Okanagana. Ph.D. diss., The Uni-versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.Coyne, J. A. , and H. A. Orr. 1989. Patterns of speciation in Dro-sophila. ... sympatry mayfacilitatespeciation in Magicicada.MATERIALS AND METHODSDocumenting Sympatric 13-Year Magicicada Species withCalls and MorphologyPeriodical cicada populations are extremely large;...
... single-particleanalyses [18,20,21]. A B Fig. 4. Analysis of polypeptide composition of grana preparation.Comparison of (A) SDS ⁄ PAGE and (B) immunoblotting analyses of the granal membrane preparation ... monomeric antenna proteins(CP26, CP29 and LHCII monomers) (band 2), and tri-meric LHCII (band 3), monomeric (band 4) and dimeric (band 5) PSII cores. Bands 6 and 7 containedsupramolecular complexes ... in HL plants(Table 1). Also, the total amount of carotenoids fromthe b-branch of the biosynthetic pathway (VAZ, vio-laxanthin, antheraxanthin and zeaxanthin) increasedwith illumination intensity....
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... commands, launch programs, and generally control thecomputer. This usually starts as a command-line interface and later becomessome kind of graphical interface. One example of the interface ... theWindows family. Windows NT can read FAT and NTFS, but not FAT32. Likewise, Windows 95 and 98 can read FAT and FAT32, but not NTFS. Linux usesEXT2, but can read FAT and FAT32 using the VFAT driver. ... developed. A package is a collection of all the compiled components needed tomake a program work. Each package includes information about install location,configuration and any other packages it...