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... sequence and binding affinities for each full hemoglobin aptamer using affinity capillary electrophoresis 87 Table 4.7 A summary of the estimated binding affinities of different proteins towards ... against different proteins The catalase protein shows a 100 fold increase in binding compared to the other proteins 174 Figure b.11 Electophoreogram of the initial haemoglobin library using ... for 12 partitioning include biotin-streptavidin, glutathione S-transferase (GST), polyhistidine tagging and Immobilized metals49; 50 Biotin-streptavidin was originally used for affinity column based...

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... extended Bayesian information criterion, combining the group selection methods with the generalized tournament approach and constraining the order of selecting main effects and interaction effects ... taking caring of me and encouraging me Finally, I would like to give my special thanks to my parents for their support and encouragement I thank my husband for his love and understanding I also ... to generalized linear models with main effects and interactions by deducing different penalties on the number of main effects and the number of interactions In the third part, we introduce the generalized...

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... Solving NLPs and MINLPs 147 5.1 Introduction 148 5.2 Description of DETL 152 5.3 Handling Integer and Binary Variables 155 5.4 Handling Constraint and Boundary Violations 156 5.5 Implementation and ... non-linear programming problems (NLPs) having constraints and different degrees of complexity, and several mixed-integer non-linear programming problems (MINLPs) which involve process design and ... clustering rule The two most popular clustering techniques are density clustering (Rinnooy Kan and Timmer, 15 Chapter Introduction 1987a and b) and single linkage clustering (Timmer, 1984) In density...

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... to improving analysis speed, resolution, and automation as well as to developing and improving instrumentation, data-handling and report-generating software, while sample preparation and pretreatment ... materials were introduced at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s Polymeric materials for SPE began from the work of Riley and Taylor and the work of Burnham et al., and gained in popularity ... alternative to LLE in many U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) methods These include the following analytes in drinking water: benzidines (EPA 553); carbonyl compounds (EPA 554); chlorinated pesticides...

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... cylinder and a circular inner cylinder ……106 Figure 5.5 Streamlines and isotherms for Ra = × 105 , rr = 2.6 , and ϕ = 00 ……111 Figure 5.6 Streamlines and isotherms for Ra = × 105 , rr = 2.6 , and ... discusses the governing equations for the compressible and incompressible flows The node generators and how to define and find the local support for the interior node in the domain are also presented ... of these standard numerical methods is that they are all mesh-based methods For FVM and FEM, preliminary (pre-processing) steps are needed to establish a data base containing nodal and elemental...

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... metacarpophalangeal and wrist joints in the forepaws and the metatarsophalangeal and ankle joints in the hind paws In brief, point signifies swelling of one group of joints, points signifies two ... directed against proteins containing the nonstandard amino acid citrulline [3,4] Citrulline is generated by the deimination of arginine, a post-translational modification occurring during apoptosis ... model In the present study we examined, for the first time, the kinetR465 ics of the presence of citrullinated proteins and the citrullinating enzyme PAD4 in joints during arthritis development In...

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... State of the art in quenching In Quenching and Carburizing Proceedings of the Third International Seminar of the International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering Edited by: Hodgson ... properties, avoiding quench cracks, minimizing distortion and improving reproducibility in hardening The addition of nanoparticles to the conventional quenching fluid results in anomalous change in thermo-physical ... IV Clustering of nanoparticles: Since nanoparticles in the fluid are in Brownian motion and the Van der Waals force against gravity results in clustering of nanoparticles into percolating patterns...

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... mixtures The methods are validated using a set of test problems In chapter 5, RMI with single- and random-mode perturbations driven by imploding shocks is investigated Results in planar and cylindrical ... Osher and Fedkiw (2001) and that by Sethian and Smereka (2003) Chapter 1.2 Introduction and Literature Review Diffuse Interface Methods Contrary to the preceding methodologies, diffuse interface methods ... detailed numerical investigation of RMI triggered by imploding and exploding shocks, which refer to shocks moving radially inwards and outwards, respectively, in a cylindrical coordinate system The...

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... of states in the minority spin band compared to the majority spin band at 22 Chapter Theory and Review the Fermi level However, the group explained convincingly that spin-flip scattering could ... shown in Figure 2.3.1a, resulting in majority of electrons in adjacent layers having opposite spins A spin ‘up’ majority electron in one layer will encounter strong scattering both at the interfaces ... ferromagnetic layers sandwiching a thin insulating layer The common ferromagnetic materials used include Ni80Fe20 and Co In this project, the metal Ta was examined to determine its suitability...

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... grove from points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are in the same stream, and sampling point St.3 is in the other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream and the sampling point St.4 is ... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island in ... grove were investigated and their behaviors in the collecting reservoirs were discussed The main results obtained from the investigation are as follows: 1) Nitrogen concentration in grove soil...

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... confusing in defining, memorizing and using them To overcome these, some solutions are introduced in chapter III such as learning by heart, reading books, magazine, stories pictures and studying ... an insight into the similarities and differences in the use of language and images in English and Vietnamese idioms and proverbs II Some popular English idioms and proverbs relating to food and ... solve their problems in understanding and using those English idioms and proverbs Design of the study For a clear organization, I divide my study into three main parts:  Part I is the "Introduction"...

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... commit errors when learning and using possessive determiners in English Errors in using “a” and “the” in possessive determiners In process of studying “possessive determiners”, Vietnamese learners ... determiners use for feelings and thoughts to the person [81] Too many people blame their failings and their unhappiness on luck Scientists have taken a great interest in his ideas (Collin Cobuild, ... when using “possessive determiners” and suggested solutions Errors in word order of possessive determiners and the head noun Errors in using “a” and “the” in possessive determiners ...

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... hydrophobins HFBIII of H jecorina and T longibrachiatum, and SRH1 and HFB1 of T atroviride, involving signal peptides, Kex2type processing, and C-terminal amino acid cleavage (Table 2) In addition, the recorded ... terminal amino acid residues of all six hydrophobins providing this single match A rapid means of identifying peaks corresponding to hydrophobins in MALDI-TOF mass spectra was elaborated, making ... mass peak was missing (Fig 3B) Deviating post-translational processing of hydrophobins in H jecorina strains To investigate strain diversity with respect to metabolite production and low-mass proteomics...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... formation of huntingtin-containing inclusion bodies in Huntington’s disease encourages cell survival, whereas monomers and small inclusion bodies of huntingtin, a protein possessing abnormal polyQ ... aB-Crystallin R120 corresponds to aA-crystallin R116 and both are conserved a-crystallin domain arginines R120G aB-crystallin permits intermediate filament self association in vitro, although binding ... aAcrystallin requires this domain [66] Attachment of R116C aA-crystallin to Hsp27 and aB-crystallin increases in comparison to wild type, while binding to cC-crystallin and bB2-crystallin decreases...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... parsing In Proceedings of the CoNLL-X Michael Collins and Nigel Duffy 2002 New ranking algorithms for parsing and tagging: Kernels over dis- 54 crete structures, and the voted perceptron In Proceedings ... McCallum, and Fernando Pereira 2001 Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Machine Learning ... UBJECT), and R IGHT-A RC(O BJECT) The test set was also randomly selected and contained 10,000 instances We trained classifiers using the logistic updates (C-SPV, L-SPV, and MEC) with Gaussian and...

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... other known cysteine-containing chitin-binding domains [14], such as plant chitin-binding proteins and horseshoe crab antimicrobial peptides with chitin-binding affinity [15–17] Rebers and Willis reported ... chitin-binding proteins in T tridentatus Amino acid compositions of high molecular mass (HMM) chitin-binding proteins HMM chitin-binding proteins resolved by 2D SDS ⁄ PAGE were categorized into ... with asterisks Numbers on the right indicate amino acid residue numbers and DE29 is involved in chitin binding In insects, cuticular proteins containing cysteine residues have not been reported,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... start with training a model using a baseline set of features, and then add each remaining feature individually, recording the gain (w.r.t the fmeasure (f (0.5), to be precise)), and choosing the best-performing ... said in the introduction, the main task we want to tackle is to align (certain kinds of) NSUs and their antecedents Now, what characterises this kind of NSU, and what are their antecedents? In ... Computing Meaning, volume Kluwer Raquel Fern´ ndez, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin a 2004b Classifying ellipsis in dialogue: A machine learning approach In Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... development and testing of the Corpus Encoding Standard 712 (CES), which was initiated during the MULTEXT project (Ide et al., 1995) The CES is based on SGML and it is an extension of the now internationally-accepted ... were not taken into account in the final grading of the systems The overall ranking for all systems (excluding the T E C H corpus results) is given in Figure 2, in terms of the Sent and Char F-measures ... Judith Klavans and Evelyne Tzoukermama 1995 Combining Corpus and Machinereadable Dictionary Data for Building Bilingual Lexicons Machine Translation, 10(3) Lueie Langlois 1996 Bilingual Concordances:...

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... as the metal binding event would be totally independent of the interactions involved in the enzyme–substrate complex The binding of MUG and Mg2+ are not independent, however, but instead are highly ... donor involved in the transferase Fig Diagram showing the thermodynamic equilibria and their dissociation constants involved in the binding of UDP-Glc, MUG and Mg2+ to TcdA Values shown in parentheses ... containing varying concentrations of UDP-Glc (0–145 mM) were studied The variable concentrations of UDP-Glc were obtained by starting with a stock solution containing all of the components including...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... being an enzyme inhibitor, can have deleterious effects on membrane structure and function by binding to the ligands such as phosphate and the cysteinyl and histidyl groups of proteins (Collins ... 0.87% C different soils: River sand, Gley, Gray lowland, Andosol and Humic Andosol (pH 5.7–8.5) different soils—River sand, Gley, Gray lowland, Andosol and Humic Andosol (pH 5.7–8.5)q2% sludge ... ecophysiological indicator of heavy metal stress in soil (Anderson and Domsch, 1990; Brookes, 1995) qCO2 decreased in the heavily Cd contaminated soil over that in control during the first 2-d incubation (Landi...

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