... paraffins content ofthe waste water The Figure also shows that the loss in hydrocarbons mass started since the first analysis (C11-C13) has substantially increased The disappearance of n-paraffins ... range of micro organisms [15] 3.1 Environmental consequences The risk of spreading pollution is obviously higher for the more soluble molecules For this reason, environmental norms focus on the solubility ... means of this process So, the stripper downstream flow contains dissolved salts, particles (sand, clay in suspension), low volatile oil droplets, and also possibly micro-emulsified hydrocarbons...
... numbers relative to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core ofthe IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences ofthe respective ... PAUP software [23] IFN-c was used as an outgroup in this analysis Expression ofthe IL-10 gene Analysis of IL-10 gene expression in healthy tissues by RT–PCR Total RNA extracted fromthe cell suspension ... respective genes The asterisk indicates the residues important for an interaction with the IL-10R/R1 receptor chain The accession numbers ofthe IL-10 sequences used in the alignment are as follows: human,...
... Bacillus licheniformis, the genome sequence of which has been published recently [ 26] The absence of a clear signal sequence consensus indicates that the enzymes localization is most likely cytoplasmic ... occurs in the regions anking both catalytic aspartate residues (Asp239 and Asp 260 , PelB numbering), as well as the residues Asp 261 and His2 96, believed to be of importance in the catalytic process, ... estimated mass of 212 kDa, corresponding to results of SDS PAGE analyses ofthe unboiled sample, suggesting that the conguration of PelB is a tetramer (not shown) FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 5 464 5473...
... During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract fromthe text a set of values for the requested object The bounds processing step rejects some of these values, and the comparisons step ... evaluation, since the nature ofthe data is different from that ofthe QA dataset Most ofthe questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors There is usually ... values for 15% ofthe objects since it does not allow approximations and Table shows results for the above datasets in comparison to the proportion of correct results and the approximations returned...
... (case A in the above classification) Improvement of this step is necessary We also examined whether each ofthe 210 target terms passes the filtering step The result was that 133 (63 %) terms passed; ... Japanese history From these fifty terms, the system collected 61 0 terms in total; the average number of output terms per input is 12.2 terms We checked whether each ofthe 61 0 terms is a correct ... Filtering The filtering step is necessary because the obtained candidates are noisy due to the small corpus size This step consists of two tests: technical-term test and relation test 2.3.1 Technical-term...
... emission factors of air pollutants for each type of vehicles; i is the time of estimating emission factors Eq is showed by linear regression method using SPSS 15.0 software Emission factors of ... results in this study with some studies in Japan [8], the United States [14] shows that there is a large difference in the emission factors of VOCs for LDVs and HDVs The emission factors calculated ... overseas studies shows that there is no difference on the average emission factors of VOCs, but the average emission factors of NOx(NO) in this research is lower in comparison with other researches...
... Stability of Pyrococcus furiosus glucosidase M E Bruins et al Results and Discussion The influence of constant pressure on enzyme inactivation A solution of b-glucosidase of P furiosus was pressurized ... b-glucosidase, the subunit interfaces involve fewer electrostatic interactions such as salt bridges and ion pairs than in the case ofthe enzymes fromthe hyperthermophiles S solfataricus and Thermosphaera ... its desired value, once the preset pressure was reached At this point, the valves ofthe individual vessels were also closed, and the central circuit was decompressed The total time of pressurization...
... N-acetylglucosaminosyl residue These linkage results were consistent with the structure ofthe LOS reported for serotype A strain 2 5238 [33] The only hexosyl residue in the mutant LOS structure was terminally ... electrophoresis (SDS ⁄ PAGE) and LOS silver staining [38] The clones with different LOS bands fromthe wild-type LOS were selected for isolation of chromosomal DNA The DNA fragment with the transposon ... EcoRISalI site of pBluescript SK(+) to form pSlgt3 The kanamycin-resistant gene from pUC4K was digested with EcoRI and subsequently inserted into the lgt3 gene using the HindIII site to form pSlgt3K...
... the small sample sizes in the Marine Corps Besides the ADSO rules and distribution of years of service at first ACP receipt, the distribution of voluntary losses over years of service was also ... 1998 cohorts Airline hiring and losses fromthe services are positively correlated The peak of losses in the services lags slightly behind the peak of hiring in the airlines, perhaps suggesting ... 2.3 compares the services’ annual losses of airplane pilots, from 1980 to 1997, with the number of pilots hired by the major airlines The number of airplane pilot losses reflects losses from FY...
... N-terminal sequence ofthe lac1 protein exhibits very low homology with sequences of other basidiomycete laccases (Fig 7) Although the spectral characteristics ofthe lac1 protein suggest the absence of ... throughout these stages compared with peak levels observed in the initial stages of sporophore formation Extracellular laccase activity in the same compost samples are shown in Fig 6B 324 S Chen ... copper site, this is not borne out by analysis ofthe deduced amino acid sequence ofthe enzyme Thus, the 10 histidines and one cysteine residue required to coordinate the four copper atoms at the...
... to the speci®city of these peptides towards proteinases MATERIALS AND METHODS Sample preparation All peptides were synthesized by solid phase synthesis on an ABI 431 A peptide synthesizer using ... inhibitors possess a structural core reminiscent ofthe hydrophobic core of larger proteins In SGCI and its variant, the core is organized around the aromatic side chain of Phe10 Residues giving side-chain ... loops The corresponding NOE pattern of SGTI is different from that of SGCI as well as from that recorded for SGCI[L30R, K31M] The number of observed NOEs for this region is lowest for SGTI (in...
... and Ches buffers with pH values from 8.7 to 10.0 were used for the assay Ó FEBS 2002 terminator was located 27-bp downstream ofthe stop codon However, typical consensus sequences for ribosome ... that ofthe sum of citrate and isocitrate In addition, 14CO2-labeling indicated that oxaloacetate was one ofthe first stable products of photosynthesis by C thiosulfatophilum [30] These results suggested ... carbon flux to other pathways, such as glutamate biosynthesis, under the condition of excess turnover ofthe RTCA cycle Further studies ofthe enzyme will clarify the structure, functions, and regulation...
... as we have found chlorite dismutase to be easily accessible to exogenous ligands DISCUSSION Spectroscopic properties of chlorite dismutase The EPR spectroscopic properties of chlorite dismutase ... potential ofthe peroxidases stabilizes this ferric state, whereas for the globins the ferrous state has to be stabilized Possibly a low midpoint potential is not necessary for chlorite dismutase because ... ratios depending on the history ofthe sample Both high-spin species represent ms ¼ ± 1/2 ground-state doublets ofS ¼ 5/2 systems We have designated these species ÔnarrowÕ and ÔbroadÕ according...
... found in the Blue Chip survey of professional forecasters, as noted by Swanson and Williams (2012) Figure shows the median response of survey participants on successive survey rounds to a question ... and suggests that outside forecasters accepted the validity ofthe FOMC s assessment as the best currently available forecast Swanson and Williams present additional interesting evidence ofthe ... commitment is chosen to be optimal from a timeless perspective” (as the Eggertsson-Woodford rule is) See Woodford (2011) for further discussion ofthe selection of policy commitments from a timeless perspective...
... excitation slit width was set at nm and the emission slit width was set at nm The background fluorescence ofthe sample was subtracted when necessary Transmission electron microscopy Filaments were ... behind the structural changes that occur upon phosphorylation of Ser3 56 In addition, the NMR spectra in water suggested the presence, except for the major conformer, of one or more minor conformations ... determined from a fit ofthe phosphorus chemical shifts ofthe without ionic, monoionic and diionic forms ofthe phosphate group as a function of pH [33,34] The phosphorus chemical shift change...
... predicates” In contrast, the system of (Briscoe and Carroll, 1997) distinguishes 163 verbal subcategorisation classes by means of a statistical shallow parser, a classifier of subcategorisation classes, ... name”) The value ofthe :cs feature is the constituent structure ofthe subcategorisation frame, which lists the syntactic CF-PSG constituents in sequence The value ofthe :gs feature is the grammatical ... who recorded Precision of 60 . 76% , Recall of 63 .91% and an F-score of 62 .30% For Exp 3, we used semantic forms which contained details of specific prepositions for any subcategorised prepositional...
... structure such as that of symbiont-possessing insects such as termites and scarabaeid beetles was observed The gut contents were semisolid and scarcely flowed out upon dissection The pH values ... experiments with a variety of different primers designed fromthe cDNA sequence resulted in the amplification of bands in each case Sequencing of these bands showed that they matched the sequence ofthe ... proteins The gel sheet was stored at °C until use, and the gel strip was subjected to activity staining The position of cellulase activity was identified, and the corresponding position ofthe gel sheet...
... metal–cysteine restraints, and discuss the formation ofthe Zn3NcMT precursor molecule that was needed to obtain the Cu6NcMT structure Materials and methods Proteins and peptides The NcMT was synthesized ... While NcMT shares considerable sequence similarities and a conservative positioning ofthe seven cysteine residues with other members ofthe MT family of proteins, none ofthe other structurally ... for the backbone heavy atoms and the sulfur atoms, respectively Discussion The solution structure ofthe Cu6NcMT, which was solved without the acquisition and inclusion of specific metal– cysteine...
... polypeptides with proteins from other Teleostei species The degree of conservation of observed sequences is expressed as identical amino acids in all sequences in the alignment (*); conserved substitutions ... proteins are suppressed during early stages of stress [39] The same study states that histone-like protein levels in channel catfish skin are reduced in the absence of disease In addition to their ... using the MassLynx 4.0 software supplied by the manufacturer Amino acid sequence analysis For N-terminal sequence analysis, Applied Biosystems Procice instruments (Foster City, CA, USA) were used...
... up on the front page ofthe newspaper, but the professional doesn’t make as many mistakes as that impetuous, adolescent transgressor Professionals use stealth and superior skill to accomplish clandestine ... effort on the part of both organizations CSI foots the bill for the project and is solely responsible for the results Hopefully, somewhere in the mix of real-world horror stories and data points ... scare off their investors, clients, and the like Just as diverse types of cybercrime occur, diverse types of cybercriminals perpetrate them Dishonest or disgruntled insiders (such as employees,...