... participated in the conduct of the study andthe editing of the article. KHL participated in the preparation and conduct of the study and the editing of the article. TvL participated in the preparation ... Germany.Authors’ contributionsDAH participated in the statistical analyses andthe writing of the article. RHparticipated in the preparation and conduct of the study andthe editing of the ... between obesity and depression [28].Moderating effects of depressed mood and diabetes on the relation between obesity and HRQL depended onTable 2 Physical and mental health-related quality of...
... for the integrity of the data andthe accuracy of the data analyses. Study concept and design: CA and OB. Acquisition of data: CA and OB. Analysis and interpretation of data: CA, OB, MMO, AMS, and ... betweenthe serum 25(OH )D le vels and the scores at the Clinical Dementia Rating and at the ShortBlessed Test in 80 older subjects aged 65 and over, liv-ing at home (40 subjects with AD and ... 20:187-192.53. Ceglia L: VitaminDand skeletal muscle tissue and function. Mol AspectsMed 2008, 29:407-414.54. de Boland AR, Boland RL: 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D- 3 inducesarachidonate mobilization...
... including positive-strand and minus-strand DNA synthesis, pre-genomic RNA pack-aging, and virion formation and release [17,18]. Thiscore protein is a phosphoprotein, and its function maybe modulated ... including inviral encapsidation, replication and transcription [21].Both the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of the Nprotein contribute to nucleic acid binding, andthe lat-ter is additionally ... respiratory and enteric syndromes in a wide range of animals [21]. The nucleocapsid (N) protein is the most abundantviral protein produced throughout viral infection, and plays multiple roles in the...
... related to random trian-gulations and quadrangulations. Furthermore, the random variables ηecan beseen as random increments in an embedding of the tree in the space. This ideais originally due ... d 1yyu+ d 1u)xu+ (d 2xxu+ d 2yyu+ d 2u) d 1, (2.58)where d 1x ,d 1y ,d 1u, d 2x, d 2y, d 2udenote the respective partial derivatives, and where we have omitted the dependence on ... planted trees. However,it is quite useful to define the degree of the root r by d( r) =d +(r)+1which means that the additional (planted) node is considered a neighbournode. This has the advantage...
... which the Slepian-Wolf coder takes the twofold role of compressionstep and diffusion step for security. The last two papers are in the field of secure entropy cod-ing, and address the design ... entropy coders that can achieveboth compression and encryption. In their paper “Multime-dia encryption with joint randomized entropy coding and rotation in partitioned bitstream,” Xie and Kuo propose ... source, channel cod-ing, and secrecy,” deals with the problem where compressed and secured data have to be transmitted over a noisy channel.It is shown that compression, security, and error protectioncan...
... 5Âuntranslated region and a verified (PDGF-a and -b)orputative (PDGF-c and -d) signal peptide in exon 1(Fig. 1B). In the PDGF-c and -d genes, exons 2 and 3encode the CUB domains, while in PDGF-a ... lessidentity [10,12].While PDGF-A and -B can form both homo- and heterodimers (PDGF-AA, -AB, -BB), PDGF-C and -D exist only as homodimers (PDGF-CC and -DD). The full-length PDGF-C and -D monomers ... exons in PDGF-c (exons 5 and 6) and PDGF -d (exons 6 and 7) encoding the cystine knot motifsresemble the corresponding exons in the PDGF-a and -b (exons 4 and 5) genes. Both in PDGF-a and -b, exon6...
... Conley (2001), Destin (2009), Williams-Shanks and Destin (2009), and Haveman and Wilson (2007), it is in line with findings by Jez (2008) and Nam and Huang (2009). Jez (2008) finds that net worth ... factor for understanding college attendance. Savings appears to matter and is an understudied factor. More research is needed to determine the importance of youth savings for understanding college ... real estate, stocks, and other assets, and subtracts out credit card and other debt. In this analysis, net worth does not include home equity. Net worth is averaged for 1999 and 2001, after 1999...
... intermediate could lose formate, and product 4 could be released by hydrolysis of the covalentbond between enzyme and substrate. In a final hydrolyticstep, the product is released from the enzyme.It ... flavins from theenvironmentand are thereforeabsolutely dependent on their endogenous production [14]. The same has been shown for several yeast species includingCandida guilliermondii [15,16].Mycobacterium ... rate for the C54S mutant was 60% of that of the wild-type, and the relative rates of the C65S and C67S mutants were in the range 10–20%. It follows that the zinc ion is not required for the release...
... and fig-ures, and drafted the manuscript, JG conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination and edited the manuscript, and GG participated in the studydesign and coordination. ... on the production technologies and demand struc-tures of detailed sectors, regions and households, as wellas government revenues and expenditures and foreignreceipts and payments. Various datasets ... Households are disaggregated acrossKZN and Other SA, the racial group of the householdhead (i.e., African and other), and across 14 incomegroups (i.e., 10 deciles with the top decile separated intofive...
... had watch the football match on TV the day before. D) . whether I had watched the football match on TV the day before .10). It is becoming to find a job.A). harder and hard B). harder and harder ... hard and hardly D) more harder and harder. 11). Yesterday, I had to cram all day for my French final , I did not get to sleep until after midnight.A). But B). Therefore C). Nevertheless D) . ... word “step-by-step” would probably mean__________.A. little by little B. faster and fasterC. slower and slower D. now and then III). Choose the underlined part among a, B, C or D that needs...
... (QURO) and Q. petraea (QUPE). AV. No. TR, AV. RW and AV. STDEV: the average number of tree rings, the average ring width and the average standard deviation of the tree-ring series. MS and AC(1): the ... and widely dispersed short rotation systems [1, 21]. Coppiced oaktrees regenerate fast [29] and provide small-dimension timber, and in addition the acorns were used as fodder for pig hus-bandry. The ... tree rings, the average ring width andthe average standard deviation of the tree-ring series. MS and AC(1): the means sensitivity andthe average first-order autocorrelation of the tree-ring...
... representation; and 2) to help us to select the most crucialmeasurements. Our model differs from other published models (Landsberg et al.,1976; Milne and Young, 1985; ... gradually if the yr!!;, fallsfor several days. The difference between maximum rates oftranspiration (Emax) and absorption is greatlyaffected by the relative magnitude ... estimation of the total re-sistance of the transpirational pathway (Fig. 3).It is possible to determine the 3 parameters(2 resistances and 1 capacitance) of the equi-valent...
... structure, management and data record-ing of the F2experimental population, along with overall means and standarddeviations of the traits analysed, can be found in [5].2.2. Genotyping and map ... obtainedfrom the standard F distribution. The genome-wide suggestive and significantthresholds obtained using this approximate method were, respectively, 8.0, 4.7,4.1 and 13.5, 6.1 and 5.5 for ... a1,a2, d 1, d 2are, respectively, additive and dominance effects for QTL 1 and 2, and cai1, cai2, cdi1, cdi2are the corresponding coefficients. A two-dimensionalsearch was carried out...