... DJ: Recombination resulting in virulence shift in avian influenza outbreak, Chile Emerg Infect Dis 2004, 10:693-699 Gibbs MJ, Armstrong JS, Gibbs AJ: Recombination in the hemagglutinin gene of ... conclude that homologous recombination is unlikely to play a major role in influenza B virus evolution Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions ... 56.3597 1.665 × 10-14 808 70.3841 obtained from the Influenza Virus Resource [11] and then aligned using Clustal X [12] To gain an initial insight into possible recombination events, each of the eight...
... for learning Should children be educated at home or in school? Home Schooling: The Right Choice? Are parents really helping their children by teaching them at home? In most countries in the world, ... skills that compensate for the decline in the ability of the brain to grasp and remember new material They can organize their learning by setting times for reading or practice They can build on ... further learning is pointless, since they have already achieved many goals at work or in their personal life In conclusion, I feel that we cannot generalize about children or adults being better...
... recombinant x-5 gliadin protein that can be used for diagnosis and possibly treatment of WDEIA Results Identification of IgE-binding epitopes in x-5 gliadin The IgE-binding epitopes of x-5 gliadin ... ethanol; lane 4, purified recombinant protein 4434 In this study we identified new linear IgE-binding epitopes in x-5 gliadin and described the gene cloning, expression in E coli, purification, and ... we investigated whether rOG5C shares the IgE-binding epitopes in nOG5 by dot blot inhibition experiments with sera of the three patients The binding of IgE to nOG5 was completely inhibited by increasing...
... the motivation in English listening It is undeniable that motivation in English listening are classified into main types: intrinsic motivation and instrumental motivation a Intrinsic motivation ... factors Distraction during listening 13% Interval between listening and testing 3% Note-taking 7% Other factors: Table 1: The main factors influencing the listening competence According to the above ... out and engage in intrinsically motivated activities in order to feel competent and selfdetermining Interactive listening in an ESL classroom triggers motivation among learners since its activities...
... mother earth without giving something in return We take for granted the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we consume, and the houses in which we live The important thing to remember is ... physical and cultural environment Which in the end will provide a much deeper understanding of geography, as well as eliminating the problem of geographic illiteracy in our schools After all, education ... law banning the use of chloroflorocarbons Sadly, humans continue to deplete one of earth's greatest natural resources which could aid in the natural repair of the ozone layer, our rain forests...
... Media Marketing Table of Contents Letter from the CEO Foreward Major Findings Key Finding #1 Key Finding #2 Key Finding #3 10 Key Finding #4 12 Key Finding #5 15 Key Finding #6 16 Key Finding #7 18 ... supports the validity of the findings across company expertise levels The State of Social Media Marketing Major Findings MAJOR FINDINGS We present the major findings and key takeaways from the ... Marketing Major Findings 50% of respondents are looking for tighter integration Key Finding #2: Tighter Integration between Social and Rest of Marketing and Business Overall Although the majority...
... isotypes of tubulin exist: tyrosinated (Tyr-tubulin), detyrosinated (Glutubulin), and Delta2 (a-tubulin lacking the two COOH-terminal amino acids) Glu-tubulin and Delta2tubulin have been used ... antibody to detyrosinated tubulin (Glutubulin) All lanes were loaded with samples containing the same amount of total tubulin C recognized, produced a significant increase in Tau bands in the Br lane, ... protein 1B interaction with tubulin tyrosine ligase contributes to the control of microtubule tyrosination Dev Neurosci 30, 200–210 41 Kreis TE (1987) Microtubules containing detyrosinated tubulin...
... and matching residues are printed white on black While leucine (Leu) is suggested by default in MS sequencing, isoleucine (Ile) is written when this residue occurs in the known protein sequence ... Oligosaccharides were analyzed either by MALDI-TOF MS by using an instrument operating in the linear mode or – after labeling with 2-aminopyridine – by reverse-phase HPLC, as described for honeybee ... (Uppsala, Sweden) and cloned in pGEM-T (Invitrogen) before being sequenced by using Big Dye (Perkin Elmer, Boston, MA, USA) According to the sequence information obtained this way, primers were...
... chains lining the cavities of Par j and Par j could provide more revealing insights into the proteins function than the cavity size An asterisk in Fig indicates residues contacting the lipid in ... methyl group binds, surrounded by hydrophobic side chains from the protein Thus, the binding site results in a polarized cleft in the interior of a basic container with two main openings to bulk ... reducing agent appears to be essential for comparing the thermostability of these proteins and the effect of OLPC binding Par j proteins contain eight cysteine residues potentially involved in...
... endorsed, cannot be sustained if the guns of special interests are targeted uniformly against it Property rights that define thine and mine are not easily maintained even by the mini3 mal state” (Rowley ... “something that people seek intentionally, as through investing in legislative favors” (Tollison and Wagner 1991, p 58) Indeed, beginning with Tullock, economists have treated monopoly as intentional, ... is typical in economics, public choice theorists argue that people are selfinterested in all choices, including public choices Fourth, while retaining neoclassical economic tenets of individual...
... in detail in Kuz’min et al (2001) The investigations of the Baikal slope and bottom sequences mentioned above were focused on studying the main depressions divided within the lake basin Within ... understanding the exceptional habitat, the geological history of the lake and its surrounding basins is described in greater detail Another exciting finding is that (almost) all sponge species in Lake ... dotted line Its anticlockwise rotation is thought to be responsible for the opening of the Baikal basins (Zonenshain and Savostin 1981) The inflowing river pattern to Lake Baikal is shown in detail...
... only some people declining with many others remaining stable, because that would result in an increase in variability that is typically not found.16 Another interesting point to consider is that ... cognitive aging have also been frequently expressed To illustrate, Solon in about 600 BC was quoted as Major Issues in Cognitive Aging saying that ‘‘I grow old ever learning new things.’’ Responding ... The connected lines represent longitudinal data from the same individuals, and different sets of lines correspond to different individuals 38 Major Issues in Cognitive Aging same individuals are...
... hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds ... performances involved Cage in writing and in drinking water (Revill 1992: 203-4) Cage describes the piece as one 'where anything we is made apparent as music, when through happenings anything we is ... works by showing how both composers issued work-determinative instructions, though these 42 Themesin the Philosophy of Music instructions—and hence the works that are instanced in following them—...
... be Evolutionary Computation in Constraint Satisfaction 23 easily extended by incorporating standard procedures for the problem under investigation The heuristic information introduced in an evolutionary ... be found in nature, including ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, bacteria molding and fish schooling The PSO model was introduced in 1995 by J Kennedy and R.C Eberhart, being discovered ... exploration in the beginning of the evolutionary process as a way to seek out promising regions in the solutions space During the evolutionary process, the mutation rate decreases in order to...
... present in the rheumatoid synovium [8], suggesting that innate immunity may be involved in initiating the inflammatory process or in inhibiting regulation mechanisms that normally prevent chronic inflammation ... chloroquine and quinacrine, both of which block TLR9 signaling in antigen-presenting cells [39] Finally, studies on human rheumatoid tissue indicate that TLRs play a potential role in driving inflammation ... surface protein A lipoprotein: role of Toll-interacting protein and IL-1 receptor signaling molecules in Toll-like receptor signaling J Immunol 2001, 167:987-994 19 Massari P, Visintin A, Gunawardana...