... times of arrival and thus is fraught with ambiguity, especially when body wave and surface wave times of arrivals are close as at small offsets (Bodet 2005; Foti et al., 2009) or when many surface ... to obtain a reliable retrieval of the imaginary part of ℑµ for ±10% discordance of any of the other mechanical descriptors or of x1 On the other hand, it was shown that a ±10% discordance of the ... sum of P (for pressure)-polarized and SV (for shear vertical) -polarized plane waves, and b) out -of- (sagittal) plane motion, embodied by a sum of SH (for shear horizontal) -polarized plane waves...
... 70% anda secondary air mass flow of 40L/min Abu-Qudais and Okasha [5] have realized an important experimental study of the direct combustion ofa diesel and olive cake slurry in the form ofa ... is fabricated anda new pilot plant is designed and associated Thus, a turbulent and reactive two-phase jet of air loaded with olive cake particles is formed Particle size of olive cake samples ... start the combustion and ensure the persistence of the main flame in ambient air, two types of pilot flame are used: a central premixed flame of methane/oxygen and an annular diffusion flame of...
... percentage of unsaturation, maximum heat release rate and peak pressure for karanjia biodiesel Biodiesel of karanjia has a lower percentage of unsaturation and has a higher value of maximum heat ... and exhaust gas temperature was observed in case of high unsaturated biodiesel Heat release rate and cumulative heat release rate is lower in case of high- unsaturated biodiesel fuel A general ... properties and combustion parameters "X" variable % of Unsaturation Density Cetane number Heating value Iodine value "Y" variable Start of dynamic injection bTDC Ignition delay Maximum heat release rate...
... Since India has a large waste land area suitable for Jatropha cultivation, it can supply large volume of biodiesel, in fact, nearly half a dozen statesof India have reserve a total of 1.72 million ... using heated distilled water was carried out to remove some unreacted remainder of methanol and catalyst which if not removed can react and damage storing and fuel carrying parts During washing ... Vitoloi S Brassica Carinata as an alternative oil crop for the production of biodiesel in Italy: engine performance and regulated and unregulated exhaust emissions Environmental Science and Technology...
... southern Asia, and it is a staple food for a large part of the world’s human population especially in east, south and south-east Asia, making it the most consumed cereal grain Rice bran oil is extracted ... 349 Deepak Agarwal, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Performance and emissions characteristics of Jatropha oil (preheated and blends) in a direct injection compression ignition engine, Applied Thermal Engineering ... Nagarajan.G, Mahua (Madhuca indica) seed oil: A source of renewable energy in India, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 64, (November 2005): 890 – 896 R Raghu has completed master of...
... higher than for the MERS case The influence of actual switch characteristics and thermal capability has been investigated An average peak junction temperature of 125°C and 80°C heat sink temperature ... Ryuichi Shimada, Jan A Wiik, Takanori Isobe, Taku Takaku, Noriyuki Iwamuro, Yoshiyuki Uchida, Marta Molinas, and Tore M Undeland A new ac current switch called mers with low on-state voltage igbts ... generator voltage and the maximum output power can be increased A configuration using a variable series compensation device called a magnetic energy recovery switch (MERS) anda diode bridge has...
... permanent magnets of the rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance and the mutualinductance of the stator coils Since we assume a constant airgap and no saturation, L, and M, are constant ara arb ... on a coordinate transformation and an input transformation as well But the main advantage of the Park transformation is to define an internal state variable which is physically meaningful : that ... The airgap length is constant and large since the magnets are surface mounted and have the same permeability as air As a result, the armature reaction is negligible The magnetic circuit has an...
... subunit molecular mass was also estimated by SDS–PAGE Characterization and comparative analyses of HYDJs and HYDBp The optimal temperature for activity of HYDJs with d-pHPH as substrate was determined ... HYDJs activity, and intriguingly, mutagenesis of Leu92 to Ala and Val, two smaller hydrophobic residues, actually reduced the catalytic activity to less than approximately 50% of that of the ... of uracil, thymine and several anti-cancer drugs [38] Interestingly, annotation of the DNA sequences flanking the Jannaschia sp CCS1 HYDJs revealed an ORF encoding a putative allantoate amidohydrolase,...
... Kumagaye KY, Nakajima K, Watanabe T, Kawai T, Kawakami Y, Niidome T, Sawada K, Nishizawa Y et al (1994) Omega-agatoxinTK containing D-serine at position 46, but not synthetic omega-[L-Ser46]agatoxin-TK, ... assigned and integrated, with concomitant cycles of structure calculations for evaluation of distance and angle constraint violations as well as assignments of additional peaks based on the preliminary ... Inoue A, Kawakami Y, Nishizawa Y, Katayama K & Kuwada M (1995) Isolation and characterization ofa peptide isomerase from funnel web spider venom J Biol Chem 270, 16719–16723 Torres AM, Tsampazi...
... 5¢-CTTTATTTTCAGGGCGCCATGAAGCGCG CAAGACCGTCTGAA-3¢ anda reverse oligomer 5¢-AGCT CGAATTCG GATCCGGTACCTCAGAAGGTAGACAG CAGAACC-3¢ For derivitization with TMR, a Gly-Gly-Cys sequence was introduced at the ... chain and hides a large amount of the hydrophobic surface area Surface area calculations for the pentamer give a total surface ˚ ˚ area of $ 81 000 A2 with 30% ($ 24 000 A2 ) as contact area Thus, ... 5¢-CTGCTGTCTACCTTTGGAGGTTGCTGATCCGAA TTCGAG-3¢ (forward) and 5¢-GCTCGAATTCGGATCAG CAACCTCCAAAGGTAGACAGCA-3¢ (reverse) BL21 cells were transformed with the pETM11 construct and grown until a D of 0.8...
... Luria–Bertani broth and isopropyl thio-b-d-galactoside were purchased from USB (Cleveland, OH) Salmon testes DNA and some analytical grade chemicals such as EDTA, Tris ⁄ HCl, CaCl2, NaCl and ... 50 mm NaHPO4 ⁄ 200 mm NaCl, pH adjusted to 7.0) at a concentration of 0.5 mgÆmL)1 Spectra were obtained as the average of five successive scans with a bandwidth of 1.0 nm anda scan speed of 20 ... (Mannheim, Germany) Ethanol (> 99%) was obtained from Panreac (Barcelona, Spain) Urea was a product of Acros (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) The QuickchangeTM kit containing Pfu DNA polymerase, 10 · reaction...
... TTCTTCAAGGGCTGGCTCCCT CTGATCTAGAGGTACCGGATCC ATCCTCACGAACAAGCAG GATCGCGATGCAGGCCTT GGACGACTACAGCGTCTTCAGTAGA TCCAAACAGTCAGTTTCTTAACCGT Ó FEBS 2003 cDNA cloning of abalone cellulase (Eur J Biochem 270) ... Open and closed boxes indicate translational and untranslational regions, respectively Relative positions of Hd1-DNA, Hd2-DNA, Hd5RACE-DNA, Hd3RACE-DNA, and HdFull-DNA are indicated as solid ... enzyme cDNA cloning Construction of the cDNA library and cloning of cellulase cDNA was achieved as follows: Total RNA was extracted from g of abalone hepatopancreas by the ganidinium thiocyanate-phenol...
... a CaF2 crystal and allowed to stand at room temperature until all free water was evaporated After this, IR spectra were recorded at room temperature and at 37 °C Usually, the original spectra ... 4¢-phosphate by a galacturonic acid, is biologically, i.e agonistically as well as antagonistically, completely inactive The lack of antagonistic activity may be explained by the fact that this ... such as lipid Aand MfGl-II represent a mechanical disturbance leading to a conformational change of the protein and, with that, signal transduction Recently, Ben-Menachem et al [45] presented a...
... explain the higher antibacterial activity on Gram-negative bacteria for parabutoporin compared to opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity against Gram-negative ... being least active against S marcescens Mastoparan is far less active in inhibiting growth of Gram-negative bacteria and melittin is only active against three of the Gram-negative bacteria at the ... (34 amino acids) [19], peptides consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) andof the first 28 amino acids of the...
... Peninsular Malaysia and the statesof Sabah and Sarawak in the north of Kalimantan Kuala Lumpur, the national capital, Labuan UNEP/SCS – National Report Malaysia and Putra Jaya form the Federal territories ... meters and with a tidal stream of over knots The West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia has an equatorial climate, with an average annual rainfall of more than 2500mm anda daily temperature that ranges ... the Straits of Malacca and the adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean In the process, an attempt is made to identify, examine, and rank those threats that have transboundary effects...
... were made with PYMOL [47] able sequences, some bacterial family 19 chitinases have catalytic domains that are at least as large as those of the plant enzymes and that may contain at least six ... Haemophilus influenzae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Although many plant family 19 chitinases are known, crystal structures are available for only two of these [9,15–17] The first structure ofa ... 4-MU-(GlcNAc)3, as also earlier demonstrated by Saito et al [21] On the other hand, ChiG showed activity against a- chitin and b-chitin (supplementary Fig S2), chitooligosaccharides (Figs and 3), carboxymethyl-chitin–remazol–brilliant...
... middle and late substrate colonization stages (4, and 12 days); pinhead stage (day 14), button stage (day 18), egg stage (day 21), elongation stage (day 22) and mature stage (day 23) After collection, ... extension at 72 °C for 10 The primers for lac1 PLAC1F (5¢-AGCTTT CATTCCCAGTGATTG-3¢) and PLAC1R (5¢-AACGAG CTCAAGTACAAATGACT-3¢) were designed according to our cloned cDNA (GenBank Accession No AY249052) ... CATAAA) are in white on a black background Ó FEBS 2003 Laccase gene from Volvariella volvacea (Eur J Biochem 271) 323 Fig Alignment of deduced amino acid sequences of lac1 and other fungal laccases...
... (Forward) TAAGCTACTACGTAAAGAATATATC (Reverse) GATAAGGTACCTGCACTGACACGGATGAAAGC (Forward) CATATATTCTTTACGTAGTAGCTTA (Reverse) FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 4091–4102 ª 2005 FEBS 4099 Molecular characterization ... Molecular characterization of ANKHD1 splice variant studies blast searches of VBARP revealed that this protein has homology to human ankyrin repeat and KH domain containing 1(ANKHD1) variants, and ... 5¢-CTAGACTCGAGCCTAAT TTATATTTGCTCCTTGTGC-3¢ b-Actin primers were designed as follows: forward 5¢-CTACAATGAGCTGCG TGT-3¢ and reverse 5¢-AAGGAAGGCTGGAAGAGT-3¢ Cell survival and apoptosis analysis In vivo interaction...
... prepare a DmEH probe, primers (5¢-ATGGCGAAC ATCTGGCCACGAATC-3¢ and 5¢-TTATGAGAAATT GGCTTTCTGGAC-3¢) were used, and to prepare Actin 5C probe as an internal marker, primers (5¢-GTTCGA GACCTTCAACTCGC-3¢ ... activity was very low at the beginning of the last larval stadium, but it gradually increased, reaching a peak at the wandering stage late in the last larval stadium At the prepupal stage, EH activity ... poly (A) -RNA was extracted from the larvae, and 300 ng mRNA of each sample was loaded on a gel Actin mRNA served as an internal marker to equate mRNA quantities nucleus, peroxisomes, mitochondria,...