... cases of subregional andregional cooperation are tested based on the points of contention ofthe two hypotheses, this research amalgamates the research findings of both subregional andregional ... disaggregated and adjusted to fit the particularities of this thesis’ research Each ofthe points then need to be presented in terms of their theoretical and empirical expectations andthe necessary ... Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) These broad questions lie at the heart ofthe thesis’ inquiry To study the subregionalism-regionalism nexus, the key concepts need to be operationalised Therefore,...
... action of CY in the stomach in this study was due to the activation of p53 and therefore leading to the suppression ofthe c-Myc/ODC pathway All these findings could explain the mechanism of CY ... conducted with the consent ofthe Committee on the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research ofthe University of Hong Kong Male ICR mice (weighing 25–30 g) were reared on a standard laboratory ... the blood supply and proliferating cell number in both the gastric and duodenal mucosae Subcutaneous administration of AP at the dose of mg/kg daily significantly promoted the recovery rate of...
... composed of municipal representatives fromthe three North Norwegian fylker of Nordland,Troms and Finnmark, the northernmost Swedish and Finnish län Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Lappland and Oulu – and ... important are other bureaucratic entities, like the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the Ministry of Defence andthe Navy.62 In general, the domestic clout ofthe Russian environmental ... in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts from Soviet Nuclear Contamination (Washington DC: Congress ofthe United States, 1995) Joint Declaration fromthe Meeting of the...
... detailed data than ever before on the social, economic, and family background ofthe woman and her husband or partner (table A) To release as much ofthe results ofthe 1995 survey as soon as possible, ... State and included all ofthe largest metropolitan areas in the United States To obtain a sufficient number of black and Hispanic women for the NSFG fromthe NHIS sample, all Table A Outline ofthe ... new in the 1995 questionnaire households with black and Hispanic women in the 1993 NHIS were included in the NSFG Some ofthe ‘‘white and other’’ women fromthe NHIS were selected for the NSFG...
... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation ofthe Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office of ... funded by the following programs and agencies ofthe U.S Departments of Health and Human Services: + The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) + The Office of Population ... support from other components ofthe U.S Department of Health and Human Services These organizations, along with leading researchers from outside the government, helped to design the Cycle NSFG The...
... Analysis of thin section of gneiss samples taken fromthe Con Voi range evidenced the existence of two parageneses which developed during the deformation and metamorphism Con Voi range was the southernmost ... results The isotopic ratio and concentration of Sm and Nd are given in Table The isochon age of garnet and whole rock was calculated and displayed in Fig In this diagram, the isotopic 73 ratio of ... metamorphism and interfoliation leucogranite strongly depended on the structural relation ofthe samples and country rocks and also on the thermal history in which the rock itself experienced All other...
... battery to the lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts ofthe site The upper part ofthe site is characterized by a thin surface layer of eolian sand mixed with sandstoneclast ... showing the salinity of water andthe relative concentrations (in equivalent units) of major cations and anions fromthe main brine pit and Geoprobe wells located to the southeast of this pit; the ... ofthe Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much ofthe major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area ofthe U.S The leases are also typical of many depleted and aging petroleum...
... rows in the race ought to live till the age of 60; and if all the members ofthe Oxford 1829 crew had lived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary ofthe race, and then died, their lives ... possible way be traced to the effects of rowing, we come to the consideration of those diseases ofthe respiratory andthe circulatory systems (in other words ofthe lungs andofthe heart) which we ... Such is the language ofthe censors of these pastimes To support their assertions they bring forward the case of a boat which one hot summer's day rowed from Oxford to London, and although the crew...
... physicians and other healthcare professionals who treat pain from cancer at any stage ofthe disease with the hope of raising awareness ofthe types of therapies that may be appropriate and increasing ... ablation ofthe thyroid gland 4.2.1.4 Chemotherapy and hormone therapy Sections 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 describe the palliative role of chemotherapy and hormone therapy This section draws attention to their ... description ofthe pain • the severity/intensity ofthe pain • the duration ofthe pain • any aggravating factors • any relieving factors • the effect of pain on function and activities of daily...
... savings banks is of interest as they are deeply involved in local andregional economy They are not only hidden champions, because of their knowledge ofregional economy andofthe supply of financial ... services, they also spend theregional savings only in the region, and therefore reduce capital drains fromthe poorer to the prosperous regions (back-wash effect) The role of local banks in regional ... place both in the EU and in Germany (and in many other OECD-Countries) at the federal andregional levels The European cohesion policy, which traditionally follows the aim of reducing regional disparities,...
... by the “Act for Maintenance of Sanitation in Buildings”; however, small buildings and individual residences are not included, andthe substances in indoor air and their concentrations fromthe ... issue fromthe 1960s to early 1970s in Japan On this basis, the committee on sick house syndrome (SHS) by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan announced the guideline value of formaldehyde ... habitation The cause ofthe disease onset relates to a house, symptoms occur within the house, symptoms are less serious or disappear when the patient is away fromthe house, and when the patient...
... 72% and 85% inhibition of BHLmL2 and BHAb, respectively, while mm 2-mer- captoethanol caused 85% and 97% inhibition of BHLmL2 and BHAb, respectively The influence of pH on the activities ofthe ... resulted in 55% and 51% loss ofthe initial activities of BHLmL2 and BHAb, respectively These results strongly suggest that Ser is involved in the catalytic activity of BHLmL2 and BHAb and are consistent ... BHLmL2 for the BH from L maculans L2 ⁄ M2, and as BHAb for the BH from A brassicicola Table summarizes the purification procedure used for BHLmL2 and indicates the degree of purification and yield...
... amplifications of RpCAbr and RpCAtr with 18S amplification The number of cycles on the y-axis is the difference between the number of cycles required to amplify each transcript andthe number of cycles ... expressed in tissues ofthe worm These sequences are also compared with other CA sequences from vertebrates and nonvertebrates Results CA sequences fromthe SSH libraries Fromthe body wall-subtracted ... downstream fromthe in-frame stop codon and 19 nucleotides upstream fromthe poly(A) tail Search of motifs with the PROSITE server (ScanProsite) [18] showed the presence of an a-CA signature from amino...
... strand andthe b9 strand to the b10 strand at the bottom ofthe Zn-stem loop in the pRN1 prim–pol structure However, because the Zn-stem loop is a fairly self-standing structure protruding from ... the two-metal-ion mechanism of both RNA and DNA synthesis [17] In a previous study, we reported the findings of an analysis ofthe complete sequence ofthe cryptic plasmid pIT3 isolated fromthe ... 70 and 80 °C between 190 and 260 nm with a step increase of 0.2 nm, and a bandwidth of nm Thermal stability of Rep245 was measured by incubating the protein at 60, 70 and 80 °C for 30 and then...
... which these states are alternated, has been proposed [16] The met state is the resting state ofthe enzyme, and in the absence of substrate about 85–90% ofthe enzyme is in this state [16] Both the ... either fromthe mass fingerprint or purified peptides, covered 60.3% ofthe sequence, andthe masses of cyanogen bromide fragments, including the N-terminal and C-terminal ones, covered 94.9% of ... concentration of 120 mm Because ofthe high pI of T reesei TYR2, most ofthe Trichoderma cellulases and hemicellulases could be separated fromthe tyrosinase-containing fractions The final purification...
... made on the basis ofthe structure ofthe 5¢UTR ofthe plus-RNA, the structure ofthe 3¢-end ofthe minusstrand RNA being at that time unavailable In the present study we investigated the involvement ... replicates the 341 nt ofthe 3¢-end ofthe HCV minus-strand RNA in vitro and that deletion ofthe 3¢ 45 nt greatly impaired RNA synthesis [17] Oh et al [18] showed that RNA synthesis fromthe HCV ... With the exception ofthe short SL-A1 stem loop, the one closest to the 3¢-end, these structures differed from those ofthe plus-strand RNA Thus the minus-strand 3¢-terminal domain is not the...
... to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core ofthe IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences ofthe respective genes The ... isolated and its genomic structure and expression analysis investigated This work will pave the way for further investigation ofthe biological function of this gene, andthe probability ofthe presence ... sequence show a degree of similarity to the carp IL-10 sequence The most highly conserved stretch in the IL-10 family is at the C-terminus in the C-helix and at the Nterminus ofthe F-helix; a similar...
... Subsite mapping On the basis ofthe assumptions of Hiromi [30] that the intrinsic rate of hydrolysis (kint) in the productive complex is independent ofthe length ofthe substrate, Km and Vmax were ... derived fromthe maximum velocity (V), divided by the molar concentration ofthe enzyme (e0, included in Vmax) R and T are the gas constant andthe temperature (in Kelvin), respectively The values ... subsite order from )5 to +3 [5] As the substrate most likely binds to the nonreducing end towards the N-terminus ofthe enzyme 5468 Fig Schematic representation ofthe subsite map of exopolygalacturonase...
... evaluation, since the nature ofthe data is different from that ofthe QA dataset Most ofthe questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors There is usually ... (e.g., the height of a person), while for others it is only the center of a distribution (e.g., the weight of a coffee cup) Questions with no trusted and exact answers were eliminated Fromthe remaining ... directly target the acquisition of numerical attributes fromthe Web and attempt to deal with ambiguity and noise ofthe retrieved attribute values (Aramaki et al., 2007) utilize a small set of patterns...