... overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming communities in these areas Executive Summary The following report presents information on the initiation of activities for the CARD ... genetic merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming communities in these areas The following report ... either the Head of the Provincial DARD Offices (Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan, Lam Dong) or their representatives and the DARD officers nominated in each province who are responsible for the routine...
... merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming communities in these areas The bbb The following report ... methodologies remain the same, and the following report present the progress made to December 2006 During this period, the planned new technologies were introduced onto 27 farms inthe Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan ... intheregion As noted above, many owners did not actually have adult breeding bucks, having sold them in previous season It is not clear what these farmers were going to inthe coming breeding...
... genetic merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming communities in these areas The following report ... training courses with their manuals provided the technical information on topics to in above list, incorporating new information from project activities where possible The details of this training ... goats following the introduction of new technologies to farmers in Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Lam Dong provinces of southeast Vietnam The title of the report is “New technologies for Improving Goat...
... changing the value of the integral The general idea behind the SP method is to employ an allowable deformation of the given contour, which is along the imaginary axis, in such a way that the major ... inthe projection matrices relevant to the various cases The starting point inthe derivation of the p.d.f of these estimators of /3 is to write down the joint distribution of the matrix A in ... who found the exact p.d.f.s of the LIML variance estimators for the same trinity of quadratic forms Some of their principal findings can otherwise be obtained by examination of the leading case...
... conned to the substrate binding cleft (the 170 loop) intheactive site region and the S1 pocket, whereas the intramolecular connections, for instance between the TF-binding region and theactive ... FX, indicating that substrate subsites located inthe vicinity of theactive site and sensed by the peptidyl substrate are inuenced, in contrast to the remote exosites, e.g inthe vicinity of the ... mutating the side chain in FVIIa taken from the FVIIaặTF structure [9] (Protein Data Bank accession number 1dan) using the mutation facility within the protein modeling module in Quanta 2000, followed...
... 1), thereby confirming the crucial role of Asp142 Catalysis in family 18 chitinases (Eur J Biochem 271) 259 In most ChiB structures, Asp142 is clearly defined, being either inthe ÔdownÕ or inthe ... that the carboxylic groups inthe Asp140-Asp142-Glu144 triad contain two protons at the pH where the enzyme is most activeThe basic arm of the pH-activity profile must be determined by the loss ... however, the profiles for the amide and corresponding alanine mutants were similar in all cases Together these observations show that it is unlikely that thelow activities recorded for some of the...
... enriched inthe 19-kDa C-terminal fragments of MSP-1 and inthe erythrocytic, GPI-linked CD59 The Triton X-100 soluble fractions of the gradient contained the bulk of the proteins displayed inthe ... in b-anomeric configuration [22] The remaining 35% of incorporated [3H]GlcN that is resistant to the Jack Bean hexosaminidase could be either GPI-linked, N-linked to asparagines or linked to the ... impulse crossing the threshold is said to represent a (predicted) glycosylated site While the GlcNAc linkages inthe N-terminal half of the protein are probably entirely the b form, the C-terminal half...
... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobic interactions Using the ligplot program [31], we investigated the specific interactions ... for the bioconversion of chitin into valuable oligosaccharide derivatives for various industrial applications Pf-ChiA has a unique multidomain structure containing two chitin-binding domains ... residue In these interactions, we particularly focused on the Trp664 residue, which is located at the bottom of theactive site cleft The indole ring of Trp664 is hydrophobically stacked with the...
... described for the sulfuration of the C-terminal glycine in ThiS and MoaD, involved in thiamine biosynthesis and molybdopterin biosynthesis, respectively, and for the sulfuration of uridine in tRNA ... tryptic peptide containing the thioglycine G*, thioglycine; C, S-methylcysteine Amino acids modified in most MCR are indicated by bold type Sequence of the thioglycine-containing tryptic peptide ... However, inthe MCR from the methano4916 trophic archaea of the ANME-1 cluster, the arginine inthe respective tryptic peptide was not methylated (Table 2) The glutamine (Q400) is not methylated in the...
... residue inthe initial binding and correct positioning of CA during catalysis A role of N302 in anchoring the side-chain carboxylate of CA is further supported by the enhanced binding of amine substituted ... 2-aminoquinoline (Ks ¼ 17 lM) and indole3-carboxylic acid (the natural auxin, Ks ¼ 18 lM) These compounds are ordered from gain to loss of binding to the mutant proteins in Table As shown in Table ... to the haem is conserved, the phenyl side chain inthe I371F mutant should stack over the haem, which would explain the complete impairment of substrate binding and the increased stability of the...
... as holoenzymes (retaining their FAD prosthetic group) The mutants, in their oxidized state, show the typical spectrum of the FADcontaining avoproteins (line in Fig 2), an extinction coefcient at ... following the binding of anthranilate (Fig 3, inset) and the shoulder at % 500 nm following the binding of benzoate (De497nm of 7500ặM)1ặcm)1 vs a gure of 2000 4000ặM)1ặcm)1 observed with the other ... in binding were observed for Y238 mutants with the ligands tested (Table 2) These results indicate that the mode of ligand binding is retained inthe two mutants, and that the alteration of the...
... protein structure and its accumulation would allow cells to lower intracellular ionic strength, which can disrupt protein synthesis and folding [11] Interestingly, protein damage caused by other ... results inthe accumulation of incomplete and aberrantly folded polypeptides inthe cytoplasm The majority of the protein homeostasis genes identified in our RNAi screen function in RNA processing, ... factor signaling inthe hypodermis regulates whole animal fluid balance [10] The intestine of adult C elegans is comprised of 20 epithelial cells that function in digestion and nutrient absorption In...
... follow-up in of the seven cases (Table 1) We also investigated reactivity against single HCV proteins by the INNO-LIA HCV III assay A faint band against the C2 protein was found once in one of the ... proteins) (*) Patient 13 had a faint band against the C2 protein at the second time point investigated (after HCV clearance) (**) Patient 80 had HCV serotype Genotyping was not performed inthe initial ... inthe ELISPOT assay against five individual HCV peptides at the first time point but not thereafter during follow-up Patient # 36 (anti-HCV-negative) was negative in both assays applied to investigate...
... follow-up in of the seven cases (Table 1) We also investigated reactivity against single HCV proteins by the INNO-LIA HCV III assay A faint band against the C2 protein was found once in one of the ... proteins) (*) Patient 13 had a faint band against the C2 protein at the second time point investigated (after HCV clearance) (**) Patient 80 had HCV serotype Genotyping was not performed inthe initial ... inthe ELISPOT assay against five individual HCV peptides at the first time point but not thereafter during follow-up Patient # 36 (anti-HCV-negative) was negative in both assays applied to investigate...
... by the nonlinearity of the array For instance, using the configuration illustrated in Figure 2, the mean AoA impinging at the pair (i, k), θik - , must be close to the one associated to the ... test the envelope of the fading signal for Rician statistics and then to estimate the K-factor In [22], the K-factor estimator is based on statistics of the instantaneous frequency (IF) of the ... not take into account the left-right ambiguity Indeed for linear arrays (antenna-element pairs in our case), it is not obvious to determine whether the incident signal is coming from the left...
... longer inthe north (114 days) than inthe south (89 days) and the final weight of the pigs was kg heavier inthe north The selling price per kg of the porkers was significantly higher inthe south ... households inthe north are involved in this combined pattern than southern ones The majority of the pig farms surveyed (83%) had sows, although it was more common to have sows inthe south than inthe ... being inthe south, and with the lower education levels observed there for the sample farms Only a small percentage of the households had attained an education level such as vocational training...
... discussed inthe final section 15 RECENT CHANGES INTHE VIETNAMESE FEED INDUSTRY The livestock feed processing industry in Vietnam has developed rapidly since the 1990s with the growth of the livestock ... design output By region, the actual average output of small and medium mills is lower inthe north compared to that inthe north There are more small mills inthe north than inthe south (see Figure ... for their business, often tend to locate more inthe rural area rather than inthe urban area, especially those in medium group (100% inthe north and 61.5% inthe south) This indicates that small...
... from the next column This cancels out all the signals and only noise and interferers are left The first row of the matrix in (5) is the constraint to the desired signal which produces a gain factor ... recover the desired signalinthe presence of mutual coupling (Proof inthe appendix), notwithstanding to compute the inverse matrix of MC Hence, this equation could be reduced the computation of the ... of the coupling coefficients versus the SNR Conclusion In this paper, the problems of 2-D D3 LS algorithms were studied for recovering of thesignalinthe presence of mutual coupling and driving...
... (GABA) interneurons, in turn suppressing the firing of noradrenergic neurons inthe locus ceruleus [67,68] Indeed, the affinity of risperidone for the 5-HT2A receptor is greater than its affinity ... covarying baseline Ham-D scores inthe repeated measure analysis has the mathematical effect similar to covarying the outcome measure with itself, rendering such an analysis meaningless Indeed, ... during the study period was not allowed The study period was eight weeks in length, during which subjects were assessed at 10 different time points: at the initial interview before receiving...
... of applying conventional ventilation Competing interests JMS and SM work inthe intensive care unit of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, which has received the “3100B high frequency ... ventilation in infants have been performed, with nine of these trials using HFOV [12] The overall results of these trials are equivocal In a meta-analysis, Thome and Carlo [12] indicate there is ... significant improvements in oxygenation within hours of HFOV initiation, allowing a majority of patients to benefit from a decrease in FiO2 Ventilation was maintained with HFOV, and there were no adverse...