mini micro shape memory actuators

... Chapter 10 Effective Models of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices 221 R De Luca Chapter 11 Microwave Absorption by Vortices in Superconductors with a Washboard Pinning Potential 263 Valerij ... even of well-known methods, such as photoemission ones, steadily expand making possible to study microscopic details of the superconducting energy gap structures or magnetic vortex patterns Thus, ... corresponding to a mass of ~ μg with ~ 2.0 × 1015 77Se nuclei Due to the small number of spins, a small microcoil with a filling factor ~ 0.4 was used For most acquisitions, 104–105 averages were used...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 13:20

... gene cluster FEMS Microbiol Lett 143, 247–252 Umbarger HE & Neidhardt FC (1996) Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium: Cellular and Molecular Biology American Society for Microbiology, Washington,...

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... efficiently produced proteins, a combinatorial labelling strategy can be adopted Combinatorial labelling minimizes the number of samples that need to be prepared and analyzed in order to obtain the same...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... CS#606 are confirmed as containing GalNAc4S-ol and GalNAc6S-ol termini, respectively, through examination of the residue A (galactosaminitol) chemical shifts, which clearly indicate ester sulfate ... terminated by an unreduced GlcA ring, which could have been derived from polymer chain-reducing termini by a peeling reaction, or, through the action of a tissue endo-b-d-glucuronidase A series of ... cartilage CS, represents over 50% of the chain caps for a normal adult, but only  30% at the termini of CS chains from osteoarthritic cartilage [18,19] Whereas the CS chain caps may be highly...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... General Medical Sciences (to C H W.) and by the Health Services and Research Administration of the Department Administration of the Department of Veteran Aairs (to C H W.) We thank A Werner and ... contribute to chemical shift changes usually smaller than p.p.m and are therefore less important in determining 13C chemical shifts than is the case for 1H shifts Steric and stereochemical effects, however, ... F Wendling for expert help with the preparation of the manuscript References Holmgren, A (1989) Minireview: Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems J Biol Chem 264, 1396313966 Russel, M & Model,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... interaction of Ab with copper reduces the amount of PII helix present in apo-Ab, as demonstrated by examining the difference spectra The N-terminal part of the Ab peptide has a relatively high propensity ... 3–300 lm has been reported for full-length Ab(1–40) [38,49,50] Our present results (Table 1) show micromolar dissociation constants for both copper and zinc, with a somewhat higher affinity for copper, ... Ab(1–28) was purchased from Neosystems (Strasbourg, France) All peptides were nonmodified in the termini Solvation of the peptide was performed using the protocol suggested by Zagorski et al [54]...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... Sugimoto, S (2002) In vivo NMR system for evaluating oxygen-dependent metabolic status in microbial culture J Microbiol Methods 51, 73–82 Dulyaninova, N.G., Podlepa, E.M., Toulokhonova1, L.V & Bykhovsky, ... Accumulation of ppGpp and ppGp in Staphylococcus aureus 8325–4 following nutrient starvation Lett Appl Microbiol 31, 332–337 11 Meyer, S., Noisommit-Rizzi, N., Reuss, M & Neubauer, P (1999) Optimized ... Physiology and metabolic fluxes of wild-type and riboflavin-producing Bacillus subtilis Appl Environ Microbiol 62, 3687–3696 16 Dauner, M., Sonderegger, M., Hochuli, M., Szyperski, T., Wuthrich, K.,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:22

... constants, which form the basis for elucidating the catalytic mechanism of DHNA and developing antimicrobial agents specifically against Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria Results NMR analysis ... constants are similar between NP and MP and 2248 between HP and HPO in accordance with the similar shapes and sizes between NP and MP and between HP and HPO The different Kd values are proportional ... differences in the structures of their active sites, suggest that it may be possible to develop antimicrobial agents specifically against DHNA from S aureus or E coli Because many DHNAs from Gram-positive...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20

... A layer of Me2SO molecules [43] The resulting structures were energy-minimized with 100 steps of Powell steepest descent minimization, and the stereochemical quality was evaluated with PROCHECK ... 5000 steps; (c) a second cooling phase from 1000 to 50 K in 2000 steps; (d) 200 steps of energy minimization The time step for the integration was set to 0.003 ps The structures were subjected ... the GROMACS package The peptides were solvated in a cubic box of explicit water ˚ or Me2SO with a minimum distance solute–box of 14 A The various systems comprised 3899 and 4516 SPC molecules for...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... nitrogen [50] Sugar-binding constants (Kd) were calculating using the Solver function of excel 2002 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) for the c sugar-binding site by nonlinear regression fitting of the ... STD–NMR spectra for epitope mapping were acquired using a series of equally spaced 50 ms Gaussian-shaped pulses for saturation with ms intervals and a total saturation time of  s On-resonance irradiation ... calorimetry of a haemagglutinin component (HA1) of the progenitor toxin from Clostridium botulinum Microbiology 149, 3361–3370 ´ Nesˇ ic D, Hsu Y & Stebbins CE (2004) Assembly and function of a bacterial...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... energy landscape of protein folding is funnel-shaped (the folding funnel) with the native state in the bottom, corresponding to the free energy minimum and the highly energetic unfolded polypeptide ... structure determination Protein NMR spectroscopy has become a very important technique in determining high-resolution structures of proteins Structure determination by NMR spectroscopy usually ... (NOE/torsion angles/hydrogen bonds…) Structure calculation (CYANA/CNS) Structure refinement (Energy minimization) Evaluation of structural quality (Violation/energy/dihedral angles) Figure 1.2 The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:04

... 40 20 10 20 10 0 0.25 0.5 128 Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (μg/mL) 0.06 0.12 0.25 0.5 16 32 Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (μg/mL) Figure Distribution of minimal inhibitory concentrations ... determining dosage regimens for broadspectrum cephalosporins Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 1995, 22:89-96 25 Vogelman B, Gudmundsson S, Leggett J, Turnidge J, Ebert S, Craig WA: Correlation of antimicrobial ... clinical definition of VAP (clinical modified ITT) [19] Microbiologic endpoints were analyzed in patients from whom P aeruginosa alone or with other microorganisms had been isolated at baseline from...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... auditory memory trace with increasing age [19] The same phenomenon occurs in the very young, indicating the necessity of maturational changes for the complete efficiency of the auditory sensory memory ... that it reflects broad recognition and memory- updating processes, with the P3b proposed to reflect match/mismatch with a consciouslymaintained working memory trace, while the P3a reflects a passive ... Int J Med Sci 2005 memory [9] Picton et al., in an excellent review, note that since the MMN is generated regardless...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... Corporate Memory: A Protable and Practical Approach to Information Management and Retention Systems, John Wiley, 1974, p 257 18 M S Ackerman and C A Halverson, Reexamining organizational memory, ... focus on keeping software portable across dierent micro controllers, and making sure that planned functionality was actually implemented (3) An administrative software unit that manages internal ... organisational memory, which does not really have a clear denition, but intuitively, organisations should be able to retrieve traces of their past activities, but the form of this memory is unclear...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... from others, so that no one would have difficulty in recognizing the difference in shape For example, an umbrella-shaped mushroom like the one shown in Fig or 81 is easily distinguished from a shelving ... gives rise to long club-shaped cells which stand parallel to each other at right angles to the surface of the gill The entire surface of the gill is covered with these club-shaped cells called _basidia_ ... under side of the pileus are radiating plates, the gills, or _lamellæ_ (sing _lamella_) These in shape resemble somewhat a knife blade They are very thin and delicate When young they are pink in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72, 248–254 Page R & Stevens RC (2004) Crystallization data mining in structural ... Institutet, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Ontario Innovation Trust, the Ontario Ministry for Research and Innovation, Merck & Co., Inc., the Novartis Research Foundation, the Swedish...

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... 2-oxoglutarate and CoA Instrument settings were: temperature, 10 °K; microwave power, 100 lW for (A), 250 lW for (B, D–F) or lW for (C); microwave frequency, 9.024 GHz; modulation frequency, 100 kHz; ... substrate [35] (Note that the microwave power for Fig 3C was lW, 250-fold lower than that for the others; the intensity of EPR signals is proportional to the square root of the microwave power under ... Hydrogenobacter thermophilus Arch Microbiol 141, 198–203 Hugler M, Huber H, Stetter KO & Fuchs G (2003) ¨ Autotrophic CO2 fixation pathways in archaea (Crenarchaeota) Arch Microbiol 179, 160–173 Evans...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... symptoms to increase.29) Occupants of apartment buildings and condominiums with damp problems could have their health affected by microbial contamination.35–37) On the other hand, physiological ... relationship between microbial contamination and health effects has been identified;62) however, in the U.S.A., there are legal cases involving health problems caused by microbial contamination.63) ... INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL HEALTH CENTERS The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan disseminated knowledge about anti-SHS measure to medical institutions The ministry has designated SHS as a disease...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Pre-steady-state measurements indicate that either the catalytic step or a preceding step is rate determining for the overall forward reaction (R Browne, G Andersen, G Le, B MunchPetersen and C Grubmeyer, ... T4 Nature 227, 680–685 Bradford MM (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein–dye binding Anal Biochem 72,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... from a minimum of three linear readings on the time versus fluorescence curve using the program softmax pro (Molecular Devices) The fluorimeter was set to automix for s before the first read A minimum ... disease Int Microbiol 7, 285–289 Colquhoun DJ, Alvheim K, Dommarsnes K, Syvertsen C & Sorum H (2002) Relevance of incubation temperature for Vibrio salmonicida vaccine production J Appl Microbiol ... Vibrio alginolyticus Microbiology 140, 2355– 2361 17 Moulard M, Condemine G & Robert-Baudouy J (1993) Search for the function of the nuclease NucM of Erwinia chrysanthemi FEMS Microbiol Lett 112,...

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