... policy, strategy issues and organising and guiding on: • Establishment of seed stands and nurseries • Production and utilisation of seedlings to ensure stable and sufficient supply of quality seedlings ... processing, storage and testing of seed • Establishment of seed orchards and seed stands (conversion from selected plantations) • Import and export of seed • Research, testing and development of new techniques ... RCFTI’s seed and services As part of marketing, development of information and promotional material is an essential part of promoting seed sales and links to customers The type of awareness and promotional...
... rates of this type of element in populations Rio, DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL The model developed here is based on the opposing actions of a transposase andof reciprocal concentrations, and thereby ... About 15% of the eukaryote genome consists of a family of repeated and dispersed DNA sequences Many of these sequences have been described before, and some of them have been found capable of mobility ... function of P for i > This is possible only if we know, for each type of t zygote, the distributionof the gametes produced as a function of the number of elements they contain Each of these distributions...
... Sections 14 and 23, and the accompanying research reports Significance and Use 5.1 The boiling range distributionof petroleum fractions provides an insight into the composition of feedstocks and products ... average of the two results in °C and y = the average of the two results in °F NOTE 1—x = the average of the two results in °C and y = the average of the two results in °F Repeatability % Off °C ... the results of Procedure A and Procedure B In addition a statistical analysis was carried out by comparing the Boiling Point Distributions of the Reference Gas by using Procedure A and Procedure...
... injection of a total of 290 lL of 80–200 lm of the gp130 peptide The heat of dilution of the gp130 peptide into buffer was determined in control experiments and subtracted from the raw data of the ... the absence of medium- and long-range NOEs and the observation of intense backbone amide peaks (Fig S1) The primary sequence of SOCS3 was analysed for the presence of a PEST sequence by using the ... level of SOCS1 and SOCS3 protein in vivo appears to be strongly regulated by protein degradation, and the short half-life of SOCS proteins intracellularly appears to be the result primarily of proteolytic...
... that the suppression of microtubule dynamics by benomyl was the cause for the loss of tension across the kinetochores and activation of the checkpoint proteins and induction of apoptosis Results ... images of mitotic spindle of HeLa cells, centromeres (green), DNA (blue) and merged images of microtubules (red) and centromeres are shown HeLa cells were treated with and 10 lM benomyl and compared ... merged images of microtubules (red) and centrosomes, and merged images of microtubules, centrosomes and DNA (blue) in metaphase HeLa cells HeLa cells were treated with and 10 lM benomyl and compared...
... concentrations of NaCl: 25 mM (lanes and 8), 50 mM (lanes and 9), 100 mM (lanes and 10), 200 mM (lanes and 11), 500 mM (lanes and 12), and 1000 mM (lanes and 13) Lanes 2–7 show the dissociation of the ... either Tat-N or Tat-P, and approximately 70 000 cpm of 32P-TAR RNA (lanes and 2), or approximately 70 000 cpm of 32P-TAR RNA and 7.5 × the volume of unlabelled TAR RNA (lanes and 4) The Tat-TAR complexes ... phosphorylation of Tat by PKR and its effect on TAR RNA binding and HIV-1 transcription, and show that the phosphorylation of Tat results in Tat protein binding more strongly to TAR RNA Removal of the...
... concentrations of NaCl: 25 mM (lanes and 8), 50 mM (lanes and 9), 100 mM (lanes and 10), 200 mM (lanes and 11), 500 mM (lanes and 12), and 1000 mM (lanes and 13) Lanes 2–7 show the dissociation of the ... either Tat-N or Tat-P, and approximately 70 000 cpm of 32P-TAR RNA (lanes and 2), or approximately 70 000 cpm of 32P-TAR RNA and 7.5 × the volume of unlabelled TAR RNA (lanes and 4) The Tat-TAR complexes ... phosphorylation of Tat by PKR and its effect on TAR RNA binding and HIV-1 transcription, and show that the phosphorylation of Tat results in Tat protein binding more strongly to TAR RNA Removal of the...
... protein levels (Salles and Strickland, 2002) and activities (Salles and Strickland, 2002; Pawlak et al., 2003) of tPA and plasminogen in the brain are tightly regulated and can be increased rapidly ... isoforms of the NR1 subunit.1 Differential splicing of exons 5, 21 and 22 can give rise to eight different NR1 subunit isoforms Adapted by permission from American Society for Pharmacology and ... and memantine (Yamakura and Shimoji, 1999; Kew and Kemp, 2005; Paoletti and Neyton, 2007) Although most of the channel blockers, such as PCP and ketamine, not show subtype selectivity, some of...
... question of what is the normal distributionand subcellular location of BGT-1 in the brain The use of a specific antibody to BGT-1 detected the presence of BGT-1 in the cell bodies and dendrites of ... oxidation of cysteine to cysteine sulfinate by cysteine dioxygenase and decarboxylation of cysteine sulfinate by cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase (Foos and Wu, 2002; Tappaz, 2004) The role of taurine ... characterization of BGT-1 BGT-1 is capable of utilizing both GABA and betaine as substrates Betaine and GABA transport are both Na+- and Cl dependent A coupling ratio of Na+/Cl/organic substrate of 3:1:1...
... is treated under three heads: Canada and Alaska; New England; south of New England and westward With regard to the distribution outside of New England, the standard authorities have been followed ... Habitat and Range.—In fertile soils; moist woodlands or dry uplands Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, through Quebec and Ontario, to Lake Winnipeg New England,—common, from the vicinity of the seacoast ... and occasional picturesqueness of outline; mostly uninteresting andof uncertain habit; subject to the loss of the lower limbs, and not readily transplanted; very seldom offered in quantity by...
... quarter, the value of corporate equities and mutual funds owned by households expanded $800 billion and the value of real estate owned by households increased about $370 billion Growth of Domestic Nonfinancial ... funds, and personal trusts Supplementary tables (tables F.100.a and L.100.a) show estimates of annual flows and year-end outstandings of nonprofit organizations (2) See table F.10 for derivation of ... 40 41 42 By government Federal Estate and gift taxes paid by persons State and local Disaster-related insurance benefits Estate and gift taxes paid by persons Investment grants paid by federal...
... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value of the feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... the profitability of producing ethanol from sugarcane and sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline ... animal feed Byproducts of raw sugar, refined sugar, and molasses to ethanol are carbon dioxide and stillage containing yeast and sugar The estimated 2003-05 average quantities and values of byproducts,...
... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value of the feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... the profitability of producing ethanol from sugarcane and sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline ... animal feed Byproducts of raw sugar, refined sugar, and molasses to ethanol are carbon dioxide and stillage containing yeast and sugar The estimated 2003-05 average quantities and values of byproducts,...
... sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security and was conducted jointly under the auspices of the Homeland Security Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment and ... auspices of the Homeland Security Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment and the Intelligence Policy Center of the National Security Research Division The mission of RAND Infrastructure, ... security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and communities Homeland Security Program research supports the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies charged with preventing and...
... and shoot dry weight decreased, respectively, by 30% and 17% in Abbis and 24% and 18% in Alexandria; in turnip, they decreased by 17% and 11% in Abbis and showed no significant effect in Alexandria ... an extension of the review conducted by Heck (22) 3.1 United States In the United States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection of human health and welfare from the effects of exposure to ... cell walls, and then enter the cells of the leaf (1) Uptake of O3 by leaves is controlled primarily by stomatal conductance, which varies as a function of stomatal aperture Uptake of O3 by plant...
... Characteristics of Immigrants in the US Labor Force Over the past four decades, the foreign-born populationof the United States has steadily increased, both in numerical terms and as a share of the total population ... on Budget and Policy Priorities Liaw, Kao-Lee and William Frey 2008 Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995- 2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and Canada: Characterization and Multivariate ... or lack thereof — is a key component of any long-term strategy to maximize the productive potential of the current and future US workforce.4 The immigrant population in the United States is extremely...
... in 1963 by the then-new Resources for the Future (RFF), was a landmark assessment of the demand and supply of all major U.S resources from 1960–2000 (33) The study combined economic and technical ... engineering, social, and economic systems as combinations of reservoirs (buckets) that can accumulate and discharge quantities of interest (such as energy, population, and money) Flow paths, often representing ... resonated, and the structure of the nation changed.” This type of thinking can broaden views and may help the next generation of forecasters avoid the kinds of embarrassments exemplified by Figure...
... (measured by urban population as a share of total population) , openness of the national economy (measured by the sum of exports and imports as a percentageof GDP), and country fixed effects The authors ... index are percentageof federal lands, state parks, farmlands, and forests The water amenity index consists of the percentageof land covered by rivers, lakes, and bays as well as other resources ... Different geographic and ecological characteristics of counties may also attract or fail to attract different types of businesses and people By virtue of location, quality, and quantity of public services,...
... scarring and tooth loss Improved understanding of the neurobiology of pain and fatigue, as well as greater appreciation of the pervasive effects and reduced quality of life experienced by patients ... 37% of patients compared to 12% of controls In order to assess the impact of gender and disability, and due to the small samples of men and work disabled in the PhysR patient group, the PhysR and ... Standard Errors for PROFAD-SSI domains Ratings PhysR patientssicca controls on PROFAD-SSI domains Figure among of fatigue andand severity Ratings of fatigue and sicca severity on PROFAD-SSI domains...