... recruiting large
enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-
ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground
up and supporting the growth of existing ... The Roleof Small and
Large Businesses in
Economic Development
By Kelly Edmiston
I
ncreasingly, economicdevelopment experts are abandoning traditional
approaches to economicdevelopment that ... growth from the second quarter of 2000 into job
classes using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period,
and end size of firm. If the beginning size of the firm is used to classify
firms,...
... counter and registers). All threads
within a task share the address space and capabilities of that task.
3.2. Inter-Process Communication
Inter-process communication (IPC) in Mach is defined in terms ... objects are invoked through message passing. Mach runs on the majority of workstations and
mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel
processing ... speech understanding system called Agora [3]. This work is being done
on Mach and currently makes use both of Mach memory sharing and message passing.
Both communicationand memory sharing are used...
... involved in fosfomycin
binding, andin view of the multitude of interactions, it was
assumed that deletion of a single interaction would not lead
to a complete loss of fosfomycin binding. Therefore ... fosfomycin binding due to charge–charge
repulsions. Most interestingly, the uncharged valine side
chain completely abolishes fosfomycin binding in the
absence of UDPNAG. Clearly, UDPNAG binding creates
additional ... UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid) (A) and inactivation mechanism of MurA by
fosfomycin as a result of the covalent linkage between Cys115 of MurA and fosfomycin (B).
Ó FEBS 2004 Lysine 22 and arginine 120 in MurA (Eur....
... chain into
N-terminal and C-terminal centers during refolding
[21]. Since then, many scientists have been interested in
demonstrating this concept by using N-terminal and
C-terminal fragments of ... located in the C-terminal loop of SNase plays
an important rolein protein stability and conforma-
tional integrity. During protein unfolding ⁄ refolding,
the addition of 2.5 protons (both E75 and ... Global segment interactions and the folding profiles in wild-
type SNase. (A) W140, in loop 1 interacts with loop 2 and loop 3
which forms a ‘lower neck’ network area in maintaining protein ter-
tiary...
... provinces namely Masvingo, Matebeleland South,
Matebeleland North, Manicaland, Midlands, Mashonaland west, Mashonaland
East and Mashonaland central (fig 1.1). Levels ofeconomicdevelopmentin ... variation in terms of area, population characteristics and levels of
socio -economic development. Indeed, the census (administrative) districts show
severe inequalities in terms ofeconomic development. ... are inadequate for explaining the
nature, rate and level of regional developmentin space. These developments
included, in the first place, theories on the location ofeconomic activity, and...
... periods of times (0–60 min)
at 37 °C. The concentration of the biotinylated Ig remaining
on the cell surface was then quantified by measuring the
binding of [
125
I]Streptavidin. In the absence of ... image.
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Roleof cleavage and shedding in human thyrotropin receptor function
and trafficking
Myle
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ne Quellari
1
, ... five amino acids of the
extracellular domain and devoid of any tag was not
functional [27], while a mutant containing four amino acids
of the ectodomain and including a rhodopsine tag was
found...
... transmission and
distribution systems, requiring additional training and maintenance capabilities.
Hydrogen technology and fuel cells are of increasing interest in some developing
countries.
The integrated ... Technology Capacity Build-
ing for Development.
Against this background of new interest in the topic, senior officials of the
NRC and USAID became engaged in a series of meetings and informal discus-
sions ... addressing
traditional development issues andin coping with increased international flows
of goods and services and the rapid spread of diseases and contaminants, the
agency should play a central role...
... different pro-
teins of interest, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and
coefficients of determination were estimated (Fig. 2C).
In case of cells co-expressing dopamine D
1
and dopa-
mine D
2
receptor ... the
physical interactions between receptor proteins [51,52].
Results
Radioligand binding assay
As shown in Table 1, the binding parameters obtained
for dopamine D
1
receptor and its mutant indicate ... dopamine D
1
and D
2
fusion proteins (D
1
–CFP and
D
2
R1–YFP – genetic variant of dopamine D
2
receptor).
d
Measured
in cell co-expressing dopamine D
1
and D
2
fusion protein (D
1
–CFP
and D
2
R2–YFP...
... buffer A in 15 min, followed by a linear
gradient down to 5% buffer A in 2 min. 5% buffer A was
held for an additional 2 min and followed by a linear
gradient up to 95% buffer A in 6 min.
Determination ... °C: loading 5% buffer B, after
5 min linear gradient up to 95% buffer B in 37 min, and
then holding 100% buffer B for 5 min. The product was
identified by UV detection at 215 nm and by on-line
ESI-MS ... domain is one of the
few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) or
leucine (L) in the conserved sequence. To determine
whether DptF is the putative partner of DptE, we
expressed dptF using...
... models. In
these 40-A
˚
sphere portions, calculations were performed on
the following selection of residues: 26–121 and 325–343
(chain A), 266–295 (chain B) and 385–399 (chain C) in
SmPAL
out ⁄ in
and ... decrease in
intracellular cinnamate levels, suggesting feedback inhi-
bition (i.e. autoregulation) of PAL at a certain level of
endogenous cinnamate [16].
PAL in higher plants is coded by a family of ... taxol
biosynthesis in Taxus chinensis [27] or T. cuspidata
[28] and tyrosine 2,3-aminomutase (TAM), which is
involved in biosynthesis of a natural product having
potent antimicrobial and antitumor activity in...
... Power of the Word. Press and Oratory in Nineteenth Century Latin America Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of London, London: 2002.
Press Freedom andEconomicDevelopmentin Latin ... Press Freedom andEconomicDevelopmentin Latin America seeks to disentangle
and analyze the relationship between indicators of press freedom, economic liberty and economic
developmentin our region.
Thus, ... political and social world as well as in the intellectual sphere. So, for liberal authors of the
18
th
and the beginning of the 19
th
centuries the freedom of opinion was of great importance.
Initially,...
... effects of site-specific mutations of the
UhpC protein on both the transportand sensing
functions of this molecule. We mutated arginine residues
as these are known to be involved in binding of anions
to ... concentration of Glc6P
required for half-maximal induction of UhpT.
Site-directed mutations of conserved arginine residues
Arginine residues in proteins are excellent candidates for the
binding of negatively ... suggesting that Glc6P can be transported by
a molecule that is locked in the inducing conformation
and which argues against the transportof Glc6P causing
an inducing conformation. For UhpC and...
... for land, both in Indonesia and Malaysia, continues on a daily basis.
G.2 Land conflicts in Malaysia
Land rights conflicts in Malaysia are not as common as in Indonesia. Conflicts involving indigenous ... 2000. Funding Forest Destruction. The Involvement of Dutch Banks in the
Financing of Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia. AIDEnvironment, Profundo and Telapak Indonesia.
81 AFP 15/Sept/1999 in: Legal ... Minster of Environment Emil Salim in: Indonesia's Fires and Haze: the Cost of
Catastrophe. Glover, D. and T. Jessup 1999. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISAS) and International
Development...