... established with seed collected mainly in only one area (Ovar, in the north of Portugal) This narrow genetic base and the danger of severe inbreeding became a concern when afforestation increased ... provide in the growing needs of the pulp industry In this context a set of provenance trials were established in 1985 in order to estimate the geographic variation in the Portuguese population and ... Total extractives were determined in a Soxhlet apparatus using a sequence of dichloromethane, ethanol and water Klason lignin and acid soluble lignin were determined following the relevant Tappi test...
... AFB (30%) excluding others as negative Cultures were observed to be more sensitive than staining in 69% of total aspirates, including cases that were found negative with gram staining Cultures are ... sensitive and specific tests Considering the serious impact of missed or delayed diagnoses and the risk of transmission to health care professionals, clinicians must maintain a high level of suspicion ... presentation and mortality associated with patients with tuberculosis who were admitted to the ICU The records of a total of 33 patients with tuberculosis requiring admission to the ICU during a period of...
... off each thing of sin and guilt ,And in clear dream and solemn vision,Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear." The next figure is similar in character and meaning It is Virginity, holding ... excellence of his art,—the exquisite color with which he painted flesh and drapery, the modulations of light playing over cheek and neck With hair and hands he took especial pains, and these features often ... incapable of the sweeping lines characteristic of the great Florentine He seldom achieved any success in the flow of drapery, and often his disposition of folds is very clumsy It is interesting to...
... DNA bending [20] induced by dimer binding (61), a free energy of ()21.2 to 7.8) = )14.5 kJặmol)1 is expected for binding of a single DNA-binding domain without the need to force DNA bending This ... protein dimers not act as initiators in plasmid replication [21] A positive effect on monomer-binding afnity thus provides a way of selecting against dimer binding, favoring monomer binding and ... indicator of stoichiometry In the case of 1IR, the t resulted in a binding stoichiometry of : 1, i.e dimer binding The reactant concentrations were too high to obtain relevant information on the binding...
... Parini A & Lanier SM (1995) Imidazoline ⁄ guanidinium binding domains on monoamine oxidases ) relationship to subtypes of imidazoline-binding proteins and tissue-specific interaction of imidazoline ... level of oxidized enzyme available for inhibitor binding with kynuramine and MPTP [29] Difference spectra and binding curves When ligands bind to the active site of MAO-A, the environment of the ... al Imidazoline binding in the MAO-A active site good interactionswith the enzyme, and so might explain the better Ki value of guanabenz (Table 1) Interestingly, the result of docking a positively...
... incubation with resinbound EmbR The effect of kinase inhibitor was investigated by pre-incubating the whole cell lysate with mm staurosporine The effect of anti-PknH Ig was examined by pre-incubating ... the absence of any conserved nucleotide-binding motifs in its amino acid sequence The enhancement of DNA-binding activity of EmbR upon phosphorylation [18], and its ability to interact with RNAP, ... each), was incubated with a soluble fraction (5 lg of protein) of E coli cells expressing EmbR, at 25 °C for h in mL of NaCl ⁄ Pi buffer The protein–resin complex was washed six times with mL of NaCl...
... shape of Si-nc on the incorporation of group-III (B and Al), group-IV (C and Ge) and group-V (N and P) impurities Single-doping has been investigated both in spherical and faceted-like Si-nc ... Si-nc are built taking all the bulk Si atoms contained within a sphere of a given radius and terminating the surface dangling bonds with H; whereas the faceted Si-nc are resulting from a shell-by-shell ... observe that, within the same Si-nc, Eg decreases almost linearly with the increase of the impurity distance [22] In principle, it is possible to tune Eg as a function of both the Si-nc size and the...
... 203 Index 205 ix Preface This text is intended as an entry-level treatment of engineering problem-solving and programming using C and Fortran, the predominant computer languages of engineering ... their hands actually building anything; however, we can, without loss of the thread being developed here, include the design of engines within the definition For example, many electrical engineers ... the astonishingly high rate of information exchange and shrinking global barriers, demands that engineers utilize and command information processing systems Computers are at the core of all nonbiological...
... Sources of Point and Nonpoint Pollution POINT SOURCES • • • • • • • NONPOINT SOURCES • Wastewater effluent, both municipal and industrial Runoff and leachate from waste disposal sites Runoff and infiltration ... problem in the U.S and many other nations • Restoration of most eutrophic waters requires the reduction of nonpoint inputs of P and N • A sound scientific understanding of the causes of nonpoint ... in Ecology Number ing (Ironically, the increasing use of more efficient engines and turbines for burning fossil fuels has had the inadvertent effect of increasing the fixation of N.) However, this...
... may be involved in Ang II-induced AGT mRNA expression (Fig 1C) DNA-binding activity of STAT5B and c-Jun increases in Ang II-induced AGT expression To find out whether the increase in STAT5B and c-Jun ... were incubated with nuclear extracts from VSMCs treated with Ang II for 0.5, 1, and h, and the DNA-binding activity of STAT5B andof AP-1 increased in a time-dependent manner The specificities of ... phosphorylation and maintains the transcription of AGT mRNA in VSMCs Treating VSMCs with AG490 (10)5 m), a potent and selective inhibitor of JAK2 phosphorylation [24], inhibited STAT5B activation and interaction...
... fracture in osteoporosis patients [5], our results found no correlation between BMD and femoral neck strength in rats In Clinical studies have shown that vitamin D3 is effective in increasing BMD and ... 4), and cancellous BMC (p = 0.033, p = 0.045, and p = 0.033, respectively; Fig 5) in OVX rats compared with the saline-treated OVX group Additionally, with both alendronate alone andin combination ... significantly reduced cancellous BMC and BMD In alendronate single and the combined treatment group, a significant increment in both cancellous BMC and BMD was found Calcitriol single treatment significantly...
... time investment of caregivers in informal care and to determine the direct non-medical costs the caregivers incur in providing care to PLHIV These costs were examined within the context of: increased ... taking care of the PLHIV; cost incurred in transport to and from the place of care giving and cost of the caregiver feeding himself or herself during each visit, particularly when care giving ... continue to grow as more and more people with HIV and AIDS are transferred from the hospital to the home setting, and as the burden of caring for the client falls increasingly on families and...
... critical points of functionals correspond to the weak solutions of problems In Li and Zhang et al , the authors study the existence and multiple solutions of p1 and p2 using the critical points theory ... proof of Theorem 3.4 Thus, we prove that the conclusion of Theorem 1.1 holds The Proof of Corollaries 1.2 and 1.4 Proof See Theorem 3.5 of Li Proof of Theorem 1.3 From the variational point of ... superlinear at In this paper, we give the nontrivial solutions of p1 and p2 with a jumping nonlinearity when the asymptotic limits of the nonlinearity fall in the regions formed by the curves of the...
... concentration of the mixture containing source gas and carrier gas The temperature of the furnace was increased at a heating rate of 50 °C min-1 to 800 °C under flow of source and carrier gases and kept ... High-resolution TEM image of interface showing *4 nm of SiO2 (bright, below) and *4 nm of PLL (dark, above) layers Scale bar is lm in a, 200 nm in b–e and 10 nm in f 123 414 representative results of ... of the release of Zn ions from the nanowires The interface of coupled Si nanowires and neurons shows no clefts and is comprised of a SiO2 layer of nm and a PLL coating layer of nm Formation of...
... other If in two intersecting planes a line of one is parallel to a line of the other, then each of these lines is parallel to the line of intersection of the planes Show that three lines which ... Hence the planes M and N meet in the straight line AB Q E D 70 Foot of a Line Meeting a Plane The point in which a straight line meets a plane is called the foot of the line 71 Line and Plane Perpendicular ... lines 73 Theorem II Given (1) a line l and a point P not on it; (2) two intersecting lines l1 and l2 ; (3) two parallel lines l1 and l2 To prove that in each case a plane is determined Proof...
... defined as "individuals' perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture and value system in which they live andin relation to their goals, standards, and concerns" [5] In ... occurrence of potential later development of stroke in controls after the interview was studied for the period of the study by telephone follow-up interview and clinic visits During the period of the ... environmental and global domains of QOL Age had no significant impact on any of the domains of QOL (data not shown) Association of psychological stress and QOL Tables and present results of separate...
... [49-55] In our study andin the most previous studies of patients with COPD, FEV1 percentage of predicted appeared to have an unfavourable effect, being a predictor of anxiety and depression in [50] ... outpatients list of scheduled appointments at our hospital's clinics (among the largest respiratory disease hospitals in Europe) we selected those to be included in the study with randomisation using a ... Greek population of women (one-sample t test P < 0.01) [29] Clinically significant levels of anxiety (score ≥ 44 for men and ≥ 46 for women) were present in 37.1% of men, andin 45.7% of women The...
... for hyperplasia of the synovial lining layer, 1.9, 1.1 and 0.3 points for activation of the sublining stroma, and 2.1, 0.8 and 0.1 points for inflammatory infiltration in RA, OA and ND, respectively ... found in the sublining layer A decrease in BMP-4 and BMP-5 in RA and OA could be correlated with markers of systemic andin part with markers of local inflammation as well as with disease duration ... understand precisely the network of morphogen action and regulation in the joint, because injection of BMP-2 induced osteophyte formation in a murine model [9] Thus, the interaction of BMPs and inhibitors...
... because of treatment failure We did not find any differences in the level of disease activity when comparing infliximab with etanercept, and bias in the withdrawal of patients because of treatment ... participated in study design, revision ofthe manuscript, and interpretation of data J-AN participated in study design, revision ofthe manuscript, and analysis and interpretation of data PG participated in ... terminating treatment because of failure in the infliximab groups (DAS28 Patients withdrawing from treatment because of miscellaneous reasons comprised only a small percentage of all with- Page of...