of polypeptides and their interactions with other biomacromolecules

... regulation of developmental processes [8] In a cross validation procedure, three of the seven flint lines and five of the fourteen dent lines were randomly sampled with 100 repetitions On average 190 of ... were added to the set of grain yield associated genes S The gene expression of 468 genes (62.8% of 745 genes) was positively and that of 277 (37%) negatively correlated with PY (see Additional ... volume of the grain filling and consequently partly over the amount of final grain yield, due to the total cell number and the size of the cells [19] In our results, the marker genes of cell...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:21

... FUNCTIONALIZED SUBSTRATES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH BIOMOLECULES AND CELLS CEN LIAN (B.Eng., ECUST) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ... sharing with me their invaluable experience on the research field In addition, I also appreciate the assistance and cooperation from lab technologists and officers of Department of Chemical and Environmental ... is the enhancement of the effect of UV irradiation on grafting with the aid of ozone treatment, as shown in the work of Walzak et al (1995), and Mathieson and Bradley (1996), and so on Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... coefficient of determination 219 Growth Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars and Their Hybrids with Duroc Table Production performance, Least square means (LSMSE) of PiDu and ... Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars and Their Hybrids with Duroc REFERENCES Dang Vu Binh, V.D Ton, N.C Oanh, (2008) Productivity and meat quality of fattened pigs of crossbred formulas LandracexF1(YorkshirexMong ... Carcass composition and meat quality of crossbreds between F1(LandracexYorkshire) sows mated with LandracexDuroc (omega) and PietrainxDuroc (Pidu) Crossbred Boars Journal of Science and Developement...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 11:59

... volume of total bonds outstanding For Greece, the net open CDS amount to around 3% of their outstanding sovereign debt and for Portugal and Ireland around 7% This magnitude is in contrast to other ... ANALYSIS OF EURO AREA SOVEREIGN CDS AND THEIR RELATION WITH GOVERNMENT BONDS by Alessandro Fontana and Martin Scheicher NOTE: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of ... instances of unchanged prices 2.3 The concept of the ‘basis’ between CDS and bonds In general, both sovereign CDS and government bonds offer investors exposure to the risk and return of sovereign...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... overexpressed in solid and wet cancer types [10] Mutations and amplification of the androgen receptor gene, without loss of gene expression, play a key role in the development of advanced, androgen-independent ... most often occurring in short stretches of CpG-rich regions known as CpG islands Such regions are about 0.5–2 kb long and can be found in the 5¢-region of approximately 60% of genes, near to their ... on Ser172 of H1.4 For H1.2 and H1.3, the work of Wisniewski et al [43] agrees with that of Garcia et al [42], noting that in Table I of the former paper the phosphorylation on Thr173 of H1.2 is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... dimerization of decorin and binding of both collagens to the inner surface of decorin (B) Interaction of type I collagen with the inner surface of the decorin core protein and type VI collagen binding with ... interaction of wild-type decorin and decorin mutants with type I and type VI collagen and, for the first time, we analysed the formation of triple complexes consisting of type VI collagen, decorin and ... experiments without the addition of complexes were performed For the analysis of interactions between proteoglycans and collagens, the sensograms were corrected by a modification of the method of Roden and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... oxidation of retinol to retinal Retinol and all-trans-retinal were extracted with solid phase C-18 columns (Varian Inc.) The columns were washed with mL of methanol and equilibrated with mL of acetonitrile/water ... washed with mL of acetonitrile/water (60 : 40, v/v), mL of ethanol/water (60 : 40, v/v) and 10 mL of methanol/water (90 : 10, v/v) Retinyl palmitate was eluted with mL of methanol Purity of the sample ... of each nucleotide and 2.5 U of Amplitaq The rat liver cDNA was denatured at 95 °C for and amplified using a DNA Thermal Cycler (Perkin-Elmer) with 35 cycles of 95 °C for min, 58 °C for 30 s and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... stoichiometry of the complex between RI and RATEs, 100 or 200 pmol of RI was incubated either with 100 pmol of SGRSGRSG-RATE or with 100 pmol of RNase A at 25 °C for 15 in 15 lL of 0.1 m sodium ... g) and 20 °C RI - RATE complex RI - RNase A complex RI Fig Analysis of the stoichiometry of the RI–SGRSGRSG-RATE complex by native PAGE Lanes and 2: complex of RNase A (100 pmol) with RI (200 and ... catalytically active and that the activity decrease [16] is a result of the tandemization Accessibility of the linker of SGRSGRSG-RATE in the presence of RI The accessibility of the linker sequence...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... profiles and with similar (p > 0.05) values of BS and hardness to textural profile 1, and similar values (p > 0.05) of cohesiveness and springiness to profile 3, and intermediate values of adhesiveness ... times (January, May and October) maintaining brands and meat sausage type At every time of purchase, eight samples were of chopped (CH), nine of mortadella (MT), and seven of galantines (GL) Chopped ... mean of each sample and the standard deviation (SD) of the mean Results and discussion 3.1 Physico-chemical analysis Dry matter, fat content (% dry matter), water activity (aw) and pH values of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 08:43

... negative entropy of the distribution of the location of one object conditioned on the location of the other object, or the relative location of one object with respect to the other The higher ... because of the nature of the SIFT detector and descriptor), we first detect features in the image and then randomly black out some of the features This mimics a scenario where the images are of much ... with the purpose of robustly identifying the single foreground object in the image, and not for separation of the foreground into multiple objects Russell et al [17], through their approach of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... incident cases of hand or knee OA as compared with women without OA Of the markers we studied, NTx appears to exhibit the greatest discrimination between participants with and those without BMLs ... Heart Study Offspring cohort included surviving descendants (and spouses of descendants) of the original Framingham Heart Study cohort [25] As part of a study of the inheritance of OA, selected ... Hochberg M: Development of criteria for the classification and reporting of osteoarthritis Classification of osteoarthritis of the knee Diagnostic and Therapeutic Criteria Committee of the American Rheumatism...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21

... rate of development Thirty pairs each of S and of S females, were isolated in tubes of nutrient medium a period of days For each tube, the number of emerging wild-type flies, offspring and transferred ... °C and those of ten other pairs at 24 &dquo;C For each tube, twenty F individuals of each l sex were examined and the frequency of both S and wild-type calculated Infectivity of the extracts of ... of microorganisms Microorganisms, other than viruses, were searched for using phase contract microscopy of tissue and haemolymph, and smears of flies after fixation in methanol and staining with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... frequency, and probability value for each site is shown in Table Of interest, the SNP sites (s60 and s222) from the promoter and s1448 from the exon of BnA7.SUT1 were associated with EFB and TSW and ... associated with yield-related traits, and allelic variation at the promoter and CDS of BnA7.SUT1 correlated with expression pattern and phenotype Polymorphisms at the promoter and CDS regions with ... demonstrated that SUT co-localizes with yield-related quantitative trait loci This paper reports the isolation of BnA7.SUT1 alleles and their promoters and their association with yield-related traits...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... purposes with physical activity and with participant characteristics help improve our understanding of the importance of “getting out and about” behaviour for older adults Levels of PA and MVPA ... Association of MVPA with trips p R Table - Weekly patterns of trips and associations with corresponding daily steps and minutes of MVPA f walk category, number of amenities (e.g., shop, post office, ... find ways of facilitating the maintenance of physical function, health and independence and quality of life of older individuals This in turn will help reduce the substantial financial and personal...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... Kinetics of early interactions between L929 BMDM and pre-treated B cells 133 4.2.6 Comparison of ingestion of pre-treated B cells by GM-CSF and L929 BMDM 137 4.2.7 Effects of type-I and type-II ... surface of AC in both humans and mice These proteins differ in their expression patterns, with TIM-3 and TIM-4 expressed on phagocytic APCs and involved in AC uptake and cross-presentation of antigens ... Apoptotic B Cells: Their Interactions with Macrophages and Modulation by Rituximab Felicity DeBari Herrington BSc(Hons) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 19:48

... dimensions of age and gender By the age of 2-years old children begin to categorise themselves and others along these social dimensions and their ability becomes more proficient with age (Lewis and ... relationship between their offspring and wider society The findings of Todd and Shearn (1997) are consistent with those of Davies and Jenkins (1997), in that there appeared to be a lack of congruity ... aware of their lack of competence to achieve the standard set out before them After the age of years children appear to take their appreciation of adults' standards a step further by evaluating their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:32

... the 1990s, Rost and Ross (1991) examined the use of certain strategies correlated with language proficiency, and, with training, whether the use of listening strategies increased and listening ... another context Such an examination is one of the purposes of this study Listening Task in Relation to Task Performance and Strategy Use Understanding the spoken form of a second language without ... majority of them are young and novice teachers In general, these teachers are well-qualified in terms of their proficiency in English and knowledge They all attended the teacher- training program and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:33

... TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration Acknowledgements Abstract Table of contents List of charts and tables Part one: Introduction……………………………………………………… Rationale…………………………………………………………………… The aims of the ... textbook………………………………….… II.1.1.2.1 Stages of teaching listening ……………………… II.1.1.2.2 Listening skills, tasks and activities……………………… v II.1.2.The context of teaching and learning listening skill at upper-secondary ... in Relation to Task Performance and Strategy Use Chapter two: Methodology………………………………………………… II.1.The setting of the study………………………………………………… II.1.1.Overview of the new “Tiếng Anh 12” textbook…………………………...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:36

... limitations of the study and gives suggestion for further studies 47 REFERENCES 1.Anderson, N J (2005) L2 learning strategies In E Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and ... 4………………………………………………………………… LIST OF ABBRIVIATIONS LP: language proficiency HLP: High language proficiency MLP: Medium language proficiency LLP: Low language proficiency * Strategy likely stimulated ... Therefore, my minor thesis here studies the use of listening test-taking strategies and their relationship with Students’ performance 2.The aims of the study The study aims to reach the following...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:48

... aromatic oligoamides with biomacromolecules, such as oligonucleotides and proteins The aim of this thesis was to investigate the structural and physical properties of a 13 new class of backbone-rigidified ... oligoamides are structures with rigid, noncollapsible backbones and lumens of various sizes These structures are very interesting because of their unique properties that differ from their linear analogues ... specificity and affinity Figure 1.6 Solid state structure of L-tartaric Acid-binding M-1 helix (a) CPK and (b) stick representations of the M-1 helix (c) Top view of the central part of the M-1...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:49