... the area The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune (PCC) The fieldwork was ... the types ofimpacts rather than understanding the causes of those impacts Moreover it seems that much attention was paid to the impactsof shrimp aquaculture on mangrove reduction and water ... zones of intensive farming as well as shortage of freshwater and reduction of underground water in sandy shrimp farming zones The discharge of waste directly to the environment causes harm and...
... PAGE analyses of the wild-type and mutants of kumamolisin-As Arrows indicate the direction of electrophoresis Open circles, open squares, and open triangles indicate the bands of the 38-kDa mature ... pH 7.0 and °C for h, followed by SDS ⁄ PAGE The rate of ligation was estimated from percentage intensity of the band of the 57-kDa protein in a total of intensities of the 57-kDa, 38-kDa and 19-kDa ... different amounts of the 38-kDa mature form (s) and the wild-type enzyme (d) on the rate of ligation Catalytic and substoichiometric amounts (molar ratio of 0.01 and 0.1, respectively) of these proteins...
... behaviour and a low unstable inhibitory activity, and for I137A a biphasic loss ofactivity (Fig and Table 3) The phenotype of these substitutions is therefore different from that of N139A, T146A and ... underlined) allows radioactive labelling of the molecule, a feature not used in the present study The reactivity of His- and HMK-tagged PAI-1 in terms of uPA inhibition and vitronectin binding was not ... addition of 25 lL 0.3 mgÆmL)1 S-2444 (Chromogenix, Sweden) and further incubation for 40 The specific inhibitory activityof PAI-1 at the various timepoints, i.e the fraction of the total amount of...
... a ratio of : : 0.01 (v/v/v) and sprayed at a flow rate of lLÆmin)1 MALDI-TOF MS of LPS and free lipid A were performed on a Reflex III (Bruker-Daltonik, Bremen, Germany) in the linear TOF configuration ... from C trachomatis serotype E and L2 were of similar activityand both less active than smooth LPS by a factor of 100 whereas, LPS from Chl psittaci was of lower activity than the two other chlamydial ... complex pattern of several groups of ion peaks representing molecular ions (centered around m/z 2510, 2300 and 2005) andof laser-induced fragment ions [18] representing the lipid A moiety of LPS (centered...
... beneficial and economically viable’ (as defined in the FSC mandate) On the contrary, they enjoy this seal at the cost of the work and health of their workers andof the environment of all Uruguayans ... homes and communities of workers through linkages that evolved as a part of colonial governance and as an effect of the prevailing corporate 'profit at any price' mentality, where many of the direct ... on part of the recent report written for GFC on Agrofuels and certification titled “The Social Impactsof Certified Timber Plantations in South Africa and the Implications Thereof for Agrofuel...
... Relative activity (%) Specific activity (units·mg–1) Temperature (ºC) 10 11 Fig Effect of temperature and pH on stability and catalytic activityof purified TPL proteins (A) Specific activity assayed ... Structural assignments of stabilityand activity- improving mutations in homology model framework (A) and subunit structure (B) of S toebii TPL Red and cyan letters indicate stability andactivity mutations, ... the directed co-evolution of the stability and catalytic activityof S toebii TPL Materials and methods Materials Sodium pyruvate and PLP were obtained from Musashino Shoji (Tokyo, Japan) and...
... 1990 and 2000, 45 per cent of men and 32.2 per cent of women had a BMI of 25 or more, and 13.4 per cent of men and 15.8 per cent of women had a BMI of 30 or more See figure 1.4 for projections of ... of women had a BMI of over 30.46 In 2002, 18.9 per cent of men and women aged 18 and above had a BMI of over 25, and 2.9 per cent of them had a BMI of over 30 See figure 1.4 for projections of ... thought of as attractive and affluent.24 Overall, in 1998, 21.1 per cent of men and 25.9 per cent of women had a BMI of at least 25; 10.1 per cent of men and 27.9 per cent of women had a BMI of at...
... E.W and S Beer 1996 “Tides, light and the Distribution of Zostera marina in Long Island Sound, USA.” Aquatic Biology 53: 97–107 Sanger, DM and AF Holland 2002 “Evaluation of the Impactsof Dock ... discharges of PAH and other petroleum byproducts; • Erosion of banks, marsh edge and tidal flats; • Resuspension of sediments and resulting turbidity; • Impacts from noise; and • Disturbance of wildlife ... types and levels of allowable private access to and uses of publicly owned lands, waters, and resources, and interference with legitimate public uses and values associated with public resources and...
... as far away as Greenland Mining and refining of uranium and thorium are also causes of marine nuclear waste Nuclear fuel cycle which is used in many industrial, medical and scientific processes ... living • Adequate supply of fresh and clean drinking water is a basic need for all human • Yet millions of people worldwide are deprived of this Difference between pollution and contamination? • ... increased use of fertilizers >> nitrates from the soil and into rivers and lakes >> eutrophication >> harm marine life Phosphates - The increased use of fertilizers >> nitrates from the soil and into...
... stimulates spending on local goods and services These impacts associated with household spending are called induced impacts The total economic impacts are the sum of the direct, indirect, and induced spending, ... This spending then leads to subsequent rounds ofspendingand re -spending by other firms on goods and services, which adds another $868 million to total state gross output These directand indirect ... drawn to the adventure of exploring and drilling for natural gas, the real yeoman’s work occurs in the development of a network of thousands of miles of gathering lines and pipelines to carry...
... Northland Polytechnic, New Zealand Peter Lay, Northland Polytechnic, New Zealand Chapter XII Electronic Commerce and Data Privacy: The Impact of Privacy Concerns on Electronic Commerce Use and ... exchanges and commerce that was presented to the Chamber of Deputies The object of the year 2000 was to generalize the use of this new mode of commerce in Tunisia and create public and private ... computer-to-computer direct transfer of standard business documents A great example of this technology innovation is the Commercial Bank The strategy of this bank is to expand their retail presence by offering...
... coefficient of the q th basis of the l th tap of the equalizer, and K is the BEM resolution of the equalizer Substituting (26) in (25) we obtain wT Yt − xtT 2 1/2 + Rv w (33) The solution of this ... shown in Figure 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 SLE perfect CSI PSAM direct, Q¼ PSAM direct, Q¼ PSAM direct, Q¼ PSAM direct, Q¼ PSAM direct, Q¼ PSAM direct, Q¼ K =N K = 2N 15 20 SNR (dB) 25 30 = 4, L¼ = (LS) ... regularized LS direct PSAM for low to moderate values of SNR The regularized LS direct PSAM slightly outperforms the direct semiblind for SNR > 20 dB At BER = 10−2 an SNR gain of 2.5 dB for the direct...
... consisting of the linear polynomial t − and a number of factors of the form ts ± such that gcd(m, s) = Another of the main results of this paper is a proof of Conjecture 2; see Theorem 3.4 below ... tilings with axes x and y such that x and y are integer multiples of x and y , respectively, if and only if the following hold: (i) x1 /2 ≤ x2 ≤ 2x1 and y1 /2 ≤ y2 ≤ 2y1 (ii) x1 + x2 and y1 + y2 are ... 1) = x and L i = c·(−1, 2)+(L−c)·(−2, 1) = i=1 i=1 y, it follows that x and y are integer multiples of the axes of the tiling This settles the other direction in the first part of the proof To...
... maximality of I implies that m = n and so I has the required shape as above Proof of Theorem 1.4 As before, the upper bound of |I| is given by the existence of Latin squares of order n1 and Latin ... special case of Theorem 1.4 In this section we give the proof of a special case of Theorem 1.4, namely when all the ni ’s are equal to n ≥ Throughout, G denotes the direct product of q copies of the ... equality if and only if I consists of g such that g(p) = q for some p, q ∈ {1, , n} Proof By (ii) of Lemma 2.2, we assume, without loss of generality, that An (b1 , , br ) = An (1, , r) and...
... Quantification of the bands of all three experiments is shown below (means SEM) All three anti-CD4 mAbs slightly decreased the AP-1 activity, and RIB5/2 induced a profound, significant increase of NF-B activity ... depletion of CD4+ cells, as indicated by unchanged percentages of CD8+ cells In addition, there was modulation of the CD4 and co-modulation of the CD3 surface molecules and indirect modulation of the ... binding sites of W3/25 and OX35 are situated in the CC region of domain D1 and the BC region of domain D2 of the CD4 molecule, respectively [23], we could roughly localize the epitope of RIB5/2 in...
... the number of years of education, and work disability (defined as the legal incapacity to work as judged by an official medical committee and directly attributed to the consequences of RA) Patients ... probability of patients with more than 10 years of DD and those with less than 10 years of DD as a function of the SvdH score Results according to the duration of Sharp/van (DD) Estimated distribution of ... Portugal [16] (Table 2) Effect of genetic variants on disease activityand outcome measures A total of 554 patients were evaluated and genotyped for 10 SNP markers, and five of these markers were excluded...
... examine the structure and morphology of the two differently sized types of QDs (Figure 3) HRTEM images of the different sized QDs show the highly crystalline nature of both the gel and non-gel QDs ... 6) Figures and show the evolution of the UV-vis absorption and PL emission (l ex 480 nm) spectra of non-gel and gel QDs respectively in cell culture medium over time The unusual shape of the UV ... quenching of the emission properties of the QDs is common when recorded in the presence of biological media Previously, we have investigated the effect of QD and protein charge on QD spectra and cellular...