... attheindividuallevel to the flux, storage and turnover of these elements atthelevel of ecosystems Our second example concerns the role of metabolism in trophic relationships, including the ... Metabolic rate determines the rate of population turnover, but what about the abundances or steady-state densities of populations in the field? Based on data for mammals, Damuth (1981) showed that population ... because the mass of the egg indicates not only the size of the hatchling, but also the quantity of resources stored in the egg and expended in metabolism during the course of development Note that the...
... controlled atthelevel of the anterior cingulate cortex [23] The N2b is associated with an inferior anterior ERP positivity, the P2a [24] This relation is postulated to represent the interaction ... similar results [54] These data imply that the P300 is most likely not involved in response selection processes, but rather more upstream operations P3 latency is indirectly related to TTI stimuli, ... observation studies using cues of human faces, that the P300 is involved in stimulus evaluation to the extent that it triggers context-based updating [59] Alternatively, the Context-Closure Theory...
... carbons of the substrate The epimerization product is generated by the re-formation of the C–C bond after the reorientation of GA, which exposes the opposite face of the aldehyde at C2¢ of DHNP ... for the physical steps Then the dissociation rate constants were allowed to vary by 20% to obtain the best fit of the data via an iterative process For SaDHNA, both the association and dissociation ... essentially the same, the rate constants for the physical steps of the SaDHNA-catalyzed reaction (the first step in each direction) are well defined For the EcDHNA-catalyzed reaction, the association rate...
... result of the ‘build it big’ strategy The creation of big national corporations, however, was not the solution to Britain’s economic problems either in the short term or in the longer term The glamour ... on the small enterprises that employ people other than the owner and most of these will be included in VAT data Overall, the DTI (1996) reports that there was a net increase of 26 per cent in the ... that individuals acting in their own selfinterests will follow economic logic and that the net result will be economic efficiency and the Benthamite ideal of the ‘greatest good for the greatest...
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... normal mouse Therefore, the blood lipid data indicated that the experimentally obese mice suffered from lipid metabolism disorder In order to treat the obese mice, we have designed the experimental ... Obese mice fed normal diet and drink water (no treatment) and drinking water ad libitum The results obtained show that the effect of daily repeated oral administration of mandarin peel extracts was ... Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 25 (2009) 179-187 The results listed in the Table show that ethylacetate and chloroform fractions expressed the highest concentrations of phenolic...
... tannin, catechin were found principally in the ethyl acetate and ethanol fractions In order to determine relatively the composition of natural compounds we used the technique of thin layer chromatography ... Fig A diagrammatic representation of body weights increase of experimentally obese mice fed with high fat diet for 28 days 129 Therefore, the blood lipid parameters indicated that the experimentally ... (650mg fraction concentrates /kg) The experimental schema was presented in the following: The results obtained from the model of experimentally obese mice in the figure show that the body weights of...
... could be incorporated into the patient’s daily schedule, after taking into consideration their level of fitness, e.g 1-h walk daily); diet (the patient was assisted with the identification of dietary ... a change in the behavior of the subjects owing to the knowledge that they are being studied This would have had the same effect on both the groups, because the follow-up of the patients was stricter ... normal in the two HPE arms, and they were all well aware of their participation in an experimental study when they signed the consent A virtue of the study was that there were few losses, indicating...
... Further, the differences between the agonist and the antagonist are somewhat larger in water than in Me2SO At ns in water, the antagonist seems to move towards a conformation that is closer to the ... revealed by the gyration radius (Fig 3), the cross rmsd matrix clearly shows that the structures in Me2SO and water are different (yellow–orange off-diagonal blocks between the simulations in water ... rigid using the SETTLE algorithm [55] The peptide and the solvent (as well as the counter ion in the case of the antagonist simulations) were coupled separately to a temperature bath with a time...
... [5,7] Representative thylakoid preparations are shown in Fig 4A From the immunoblot it is clear that the steady state level of PSI-G, expressed as the PSI-G to PSI-F ratio, in all the transformed ... topology where the loop is in the thylakoid lumen, and the N-and C-termini face the stroma, opposite to that of PSI-K On the other hand, the second scenario implies a stromal loop, like that of PSI-K, ... with thermolysin, to ensure that the mature PSI-G seen in lanes C+ does not derive from PSI-G bound to the outside of the chloroplast None of the precursor proteins yielded a mature-sized degradation...
... in the work of the great masters, never, so far as the writer's observation has gone, in the work of their later years The smile that hesitates atthe corner of the whimsical little mouth, the ... green; atthe other side of the canvas is a little table with two men seated at it They look "made up," in the theatrical sense, and the table looks rather light and rickety; there is one solid natural ... we find the adroit mingling of the artificial with the real, and the appreciation of the fact that with the people of the stage much that is artificial to others becomes their reality The most...
... typical titration curve obtained at 25 °C The area under the heat burst curves was determined by integration to yield the heat of injection associated with the reaction These injection heats were ... telomeric The heat capacity change upon complex formation is an informative measure that can provide insights into the exchange of water during the process The relations connecting the changes in heat ... interacting with the quadruplex On the other hand, the positive change in the polar surface area (DAp) confirms that there is exposure of the polar surface on complex formation, further implying the uptake...
... cautiously, the result (data not shown) is very satisfactory (R2 ẳ 0.97): it demonstrates the correlation between the chemical shift of the C(10a) atom with that of the N(5) atom Therefore, the data ... shift) and the C(10a) atom of C138S are the most inuenced This could be due to a change in the hydrogen bonding pattern atthe C(10c,d) atoms and a congurational change atthe two other atoms, as ... shifts The data indicate a rearrangement of the hydrogen bonding pattern atthe C(10c) atom The largest shifts are exhibited by the side-chain carbon atoms of C138S, except for the C(10e) atom...
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... dependence of the native state heat capacity The denaturation enthalpies, DH0(Tm), were obtained by integrating the area under the heat capacity versus temperature curves Tm is the melting temperature, ... of the dimeric intermediate, shown by urea denaturation studies, play a key role in the dissociation process suggests further investigations of the dissociation mechanism that may help in the ... decreases the stability mainly in the step I2M2U, and, if we assume that the final state is the same for both NCD forms, this suggests that the R80S mutation decreases the stability of the intermediate...
... PFK6.5-pBSKS The hashed box marks the open-reading frame of the L donovani PFK gene The ATG of the initiator methionine is indicated T7 and T3 indicate the orientation of the insert with respect to the ... hyperbolically on the concentration of ATP The kinetic behaviour of the expressed PFK was determined as a function of fructose 6-phosphate at fixed, saturated ATP concentration (1.0 mM), and in the presence ... from that in other ATP-PFKs? Or has it been retained for structural reasons? Relevant to these questions is the observation that the Lys is also present in the ATP-dependent enzyme from the actinomycete...
... These results indicate that, for optimum restoration of activity in K512A, the protonation states of propargylamine and phosphate must be matched We found that there was a good linear correlation ... to data from activity restoration experiments where kmax is the maximum initial rate, divided by [E], obtained at a saturating concentration of the rescue agent, and KR is the half-saturation ... phosphate binding in the reactant state, Arg507 promotes the catalytic step of glucosyl transfer through a selective stabilization of the transition state of the reaction Occupancy of the phosphate...
... and Trp195, the residues affected by the conformational changes around the active site, thus these are likely candidates to be affected by the change in the persulfurated state of the protein ... that SDG induces apoptosis in oral cell cultures Induction of apoptosis has been attributed to SDG because of the observation that it alters the redox status of the cell by manipulating thelevel ... RhdA (ES) to ion of : 10 at pH 7.2 The results indicate that, in solution, the catalytic Cys230 residue was not affected by the presence of these ions, up to the concentrations used Fluorescence...