... selection and screening systems in E coli [104,105] andin S cerevisiae [88] have lead to a profound understanding of how DNA binding, inducer binding and dimerization function in TetR This informa- ... the DNA reading heads are in light gray, the inducer-binding and dimerization domain is in dark gray, activation domains are black boxes, and the silencing domain is stippled The conformational ... tc for full induction [15] These conflicting requirements are met by the genetic organization of the resistance determinants (reviewed in [6]) and by the ligand binding properties of TetR High...
... DNA-binding antibiotics and dyes directly in the minor DNA groove Ligands that could serve as DNA binders were inserted into the minor DNA groove and optimization in the MMFF9431 as well as in ... conformation andin hairpin form.16,18 Our experiments show that motif V exhibits rigidity sufficient for preventing the hairpin formation upon binding of the ligand to DNA On the other hand, ... presence of ATP and another viral protein ICP8 (single-stranded DNA-binding protein) OBP induces the unwinding of the minimal OriS duplex (80 bp) Interaction of the bis-netropsin with the AT-track...
... fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the Indo-West-Pacific region Advances in marine biology, 6, 73-270 Mahoney, J M., & Rood, S B (1998) Streamflow requirementsfor cottonwood seedling ... Reed, D., & Ford, M (2006) When is restoration not? Incorporating landscape-scale processes to restore self-sustaining ecosystems in coastal wetland restoration Ecological Engineering, 26, 27–39 ... salinity and inundation in South Africa Aquatic Botany, 95(2), 71-76 Hossain, M., Lin, C K., & Hussain, M Z (2001) Goodbye Chakaria Sunderban: the oldest mangrove forest The Society of Wetland...
... propagule stranding and root development for anchoring into substrate Assuming successful establishment, surface elevations continue to influence subsequent development into seedlings and saplings Effectively, ... exert a combined influence on seedlings For instance, inundation tolerance thresholds were influenced by a salinity gradient in Kandelia obovata trees K obovata exhibited longer inundation duration ... and life stages (seedling, sapling and trees) Taken together, this thesis provides an insight on the importance of appropriate surface elevations in establishment and colonisation for the reforestation...
... significant and negative parameter in explaining for the variance in survival rates between seedlings, thus showing that longer inundation periods lowered seedling survival rates 54 Table 4.1: Performance ... increase in height was similar across the 3, and hours semi-diurnal inundation treatments In those treatments, seedlings performed best as they exhibited maximum photosynthetic performance, high ... August 2014 – November 2014 Salinity was monitored weekly and marine salt added when necessary to maintain constant salinity Temperature and daylight hours in Singapore are generally constant...
... established in aquaculture ponds and reference mangrove forests A total of 471 seedlings and saplings and 180 trees were surveyed in aquaculture ponds compared to the 213 seedlings and saplings and 140 ... elevation influences inundation hydroperiod – hence low elevations implies persistent flooding, andfor long durations This impedes stranding of buoyant propagules for establishment For seedlings, ... The interquartile range represents surface elevation envelopes per species of seedling/saplings surveyed in (a) aquaculture ponds and (b) reference forests Whiskers indicate maximum and minimum...
... processes playing a dominant role in the formation and functional maintenance of mangrove ecosystems Surface elevations in mangroves, and its inherent control on periods of inundation and drainage, ... occurring wild seedlings) and nursery-grown seedlings/saplings The caveat however, is to determine the appropriate area for such plantings as species differ in their tidal and inundation ranges and ... establishment in treatments with continuous-inundation and no-inundation whereas A germinans performed significantly better in treatments with no inundation and normal tidal regime Under the continuous-inundation...
... physical processes playing a dominant role in their formation and function (Kjerfve, 1990) Hence, knowledge of appropriate surface elevations, and its inherent control on inundation periods, are ... Lewis, 2011) and generally exhibit species-specific tolerances to abiotic conditions such as inundation period and salinity Compositional manipulation includes seeding and/ or planting multiple ... were formerly forested with mangroves The study focused on (i) tidal inundation regime – by restoring a gradient of tidal regime in the abandoned ponds to study the effects of inundation and (ii)...
... to my academic inspirations – Dr Edward L Webb for strengthening my natural inclinations towards ecological research and Dr Roman Carrasco, for incepting a love and appreciation for statistical ... to Benjamin Brown, Dominic Wodehouse and a third who wish to remain anonymous, for the precious time and effort for academic discussions with this greenhorn Your dedication, passion and in- depth ... knowledge have been most inspiring Working in the mangroves is not for the faint-hearted I am genuinely thankful for those who have mucked around in the mud with me – Akhzan Nur Iman, Andi Darmawansyah,...
... eight candidate genes [Interleukin (IL4), interleukin 10 (IL10), interleukin 12B (IL12B), interleukin 12 receptor beta (IL12RB1), interleukin 12 receptor beta (IL12RB2), interleukin 18 (IL18), wingless-type ... Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among Injecting and Non-Injecting Drug Users in Inner City Neighborhoods 45 Lu-Yu Hwang and Carolyn Z Grimes Chapter Isolator System For Laboratory Infectious ... linked to reducing NF-κB activation and increasing risk of infection The first SNP changes of C to T replacing arginine (Arg; R) with tryptophan (Trp, W) at position 677, abolishing the binding...
... using piranha cleaning followed by an HF dip, rinsing in aceton, isopropanol and deionized water and drying in nitrogen gas flow When removed from the solution, the samples were again rinsed in ... film We investigated in detail the structure and morphology of the obtained films using different immersion times, ranging from minutes to 50 minutes The corresponding samples are denoted in the ... showed the following behavior: Sample PAA/S-15 min, end of process before the final abrupt increase in the anodization current The corresponding results are shown in Figure In (a) and (b) we see...
... should the sample be split into training and test data? Since our interest is in small samples, we only consider the case where the same data is used for training and testing The second issue is ... are separated into training and test sets with 50 examples for the training set and the remaining for the test set; (2) a feature-selection method is applied on the training set to find a feature ... the information that a feature contains to predict the class A high value of mutual information means that the feature contains a lot of information for the class prediction The mutual information,...
... recognition, and information fusion Andr´ Quinquis received the M.S degree e in 1986 and the Ph.D degree in 1989 in signal processing, both from the University of Brest Between 1989 and 1992 he taught and ... degree in electronic engineering, andin 1999 he received the Ph.D degree in signal processing, both from the University of Brest Between 1992 and 2002 he taught and developed research activities in ... the discriminant functions and (b) the associated cost function, for N = estimate, the eigenvalue variation can be still used, in a different form, for obtaining N The main idea behind the new...
... includes a small built -in example dataset for a single 10Mb region along with example code for detecting and annotating homozygous segments as well as calculating and plotting extAUC values for ... values by determining local peaks and valleys in the data To determine inflection points in the values, we first smoothed the data using R’s smooth.spline function and calculated points at which ... haplotypes for two different peak categorizations: peaks possessing both high ranking extAUC values andhigh average Fst/θ between populations (abbreviated as a high/ high peak); and peaks with high- ranking...
... the CD linewidth continues to shrink, its variation tolerance also reduces, resulting in the tighter uniformity specifications to maintain the satisfied chip performance To meet such stringent Figure ... succeeds in predicting the experimental wafer temperatures using the bake-plate temperature and the input signal without resorting to the use of any fitting parameter and is therefore useful for scaling ... conventional baking at 130 ◦ C for 125 sec with spin coating at 5500 rpm 97 4.23 Cosine signatures for in- situ real-time control through the PEB process with spin coating at 5500...
... understanding and support I will never forget Her wisdom, knowledge and commitment to the highest standards inspired and motivated me Her excellent guidance, discussions and patience helped me in ... models for simulating water quality in lakes and reservoirs are DYRESM (1981) [3] and CE-QUAL-W2 (1994) [4] These existing models have been used for simulation and validation for many studies and applications ... to monitor, determine and remove any (suspected) contaminants as much as possible out of the water system Estimating and locating contaminant sources and then applying the control to flush them...
... for calcium imaging test It has two inlets, one for buffer medium containing ATP and the other for medium free of ATP Streams from the two inlets would mix together and generate time-varying input ... Proficient skills in handling cells and chip In our case, we need to integrate cell culture, ATP release measurement and Ca2+ imaging into the one system The main reason for doing so is that it ... for calcium imaging test It has two inlets, one for buffer medium containing ATP and the other for medium free of ATP Streams from the two inlets would mix together and generate time-varying input...
... generation in a spin chain 2.1 Spin Chain 23 23 2.1.1 PST in a Spin Chain with Constant Couplings 25 2.1.2 PST in a Spin Chain with Engineering Couplings 26 ... be realized in a spin chain with engineering couplings In the methods based on a decomposed Hamiltonian, PST is also accomplished But, for the spin chain of engineering couplings and non-decomposed ... in a spin chain 2.1.2 PST in a Spin Chain with Engineering Couplings The first notable work within this frame was conducted by Christandl et al in 2004 [72], where PST was realized with couplings...