... protein molecules and their interactions with DNA in real-time reactions and the dynamics of their DNA-binding Therefore, my objective of finding the characteristics of protein binding to single ... HU bind to DNA non-cooperatively causing DNA bending (20) at low protein binding density While at high protein binding density, IHF can crosslink DNA causing DNA condensation in the presence of ... protein (HLPMt) MDP1 (21.3 kDa) is an NAP constituting 7–10% of the total protein in Mtb (78) It consists of 205 amino acid residues and contains large amounts of alanine (23.78% of total amino...
... N-terminal domain for protein oligomerization, C-terminal domain for DNA binding, and flexible linker connecting the two domains [48, 51] The central region of H-NS, which includes the flexible linker, ... force-extension curves of naked DNA as our control experiment By changing the bu↵er to those containing DNA-binding protein of our interest, we can study the DNA binding properties of the protein by its impact ... counteract H-NS silencing, which include altering DNA topology, competing for DNA binding with anti-silencing proteins, and forming heteromeric complexes with H-NS [6] In a protein-independent mechanism,...
... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples.93) The dominant path of phthalates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs compared to inhalation of indoor air by children.94) n-Tetradecane ... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working inof ces and living in residences Indoor air quality ... combustion gases in residences and buildings CO is well-known to cause poisoning by CO-hemoglobin (Hb) formation, inhibiting oxygen utilization by internal organs NO2 sources in buildings include gas...
... Describing the ritual as it is performed today in Japan, the essay shows how continuity of ritual tradition is maintained in Zen even into the postwar era in which the Emperor’s role in maintaining ... Rekindling of a Tradition: Menzan Zuiho and the Reform of Japanese Soto Zen in the Tokugawa Era.’’ ALBERT WELTER is professor of religious studies at the University of Winnipeg, specializing in ... been initiated into the kinds of mindfulness that correspond to them When modern Protestants formulated their devastating critique of ritual as a way of engaging in religious practice, their intention,...
... the tracking of FEXT channel coefficients in downstream VDSL This scheme is intended for systems with uncoordinated receivers and coordination at the transmitter, using some kind of precoding scheme ... because it contains the information on the relative importance of each term of the gradient The common factor can be removed of course, and incorporated in the stepsize Finally, the following algorithm ... h2 = Pinterf for some constant power of ini,m terference Pinterf Figure shows the average gain (28) of the proposed (sign) scheme as a function of ratio between the interference level (Pinterf...
... specimen inoculated with P ostreatus, the combination of resin coating and edge painting did not lead to a significant improvement in the level of protection than the resin coating alone According ... period of a few years, but then, due to the leaching of the phenolic component decrease over time Analyzing the different plywood protections, the combination of resin coating and edge painting ... measuring 150 mm ´ 25 mm, 86 R Zanuttini et al were subjected to tension shear applied in a middle area of 25 ´ 25 mm with a testing machine having a maximum capacity of 50 kN and accuracy of ±...
... cysteine is increased in some tissues including spleen during the acute phase of sepsis in rats GSH synthesis rates are significantly increased in spleen and thymus during the acute phase of sepsis ... supply of The activity of system xc- sustains the cystine/cysteine cycle, and thus maintains the redox balance between cystine and cysteine in cultured cells [5] In sepsis patients, the levels of ... a significant increase in plasma concentration of cystine and decrease in plasma concentration of GSH, resulting in the oxidative shift towards cystine in the plasma cystine/cysteine ratio [23]...
... terminated at the recommendation of the safety monitoring board because of a low likelihood of meeting the prospectively defined objective of demonstrating a significant reduction in the risk of ... failure [8] The presence of a sequence effect in low-risk patients only may suggest the difficulty of making the diagnosis of severe sepsis in this clinical setting The influence of protocol violations ... applicability of the study results to a more general severe sepsis population The use of severity scoring systems in clinical trials may require training and validation of the training to ensure...
... in the leaf litter and soil as well We thus combined searches of snails in and above the litter and obtained good general results, both in terms of the number of species and the homogeneity of ... quadrats (2 Q) We obtained 78% of the species at the Q stage in BN and 83% of the species with Q in JE1 (in comparison with Q in JE1) Four Q obviously seems better, but in the second study, JE2 ... confidence intervals are given BN Nb of boards 0 Fig Number (Nb) of land snail species obtained in three parks (JE, BN, LA) according to replication of the samples; the randomisation curves were obtained...
... during the cycles of freezing and thawing, which leads to the exposure of new Ca++-binding sites Binding of Ca++ to these sites caused inhibition of the antifreeze and chitinase activities of ... onset of SAR (Dong, 1998) It is also involved in the feedback regulation of SA biosynthesis during SAR (Cao et al., 1997) NPR1 is an ankyrin-repeat containing protein, a domain often involved in ... chitinase genes 14 1.2.5 Existence of Chitinase-Containing Protein Complex All plant chitinases examined thus far exist as single-chain polypeptide molecules, except a chitinase present in the...
... CAD Most of the associations have been replicated in independent studies, indicating that the findings are genuine novel 23 associations The main GWAS findings for CAD are summarized in Table ... and maintenance of caveolae is regulated by caveolin, the main protein component of caveolae Caveolin-1 is the most important member of the caveolin family It is the key component of the intracellular ... activity of the inhibitor in response to androgen, thus lead to increased risk of thrombosis and CAD[137] In 2012, a meta-analysis of two Chinese GWAS of CAD was conducted in a larger sample size of...
... SIMULATION STUDIESOF THE GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE IN SINGAPORE HENDRIK TJIAWI B.Eng.(Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ... map of part of SE Asia 49 3.5 Mean annual rainfall in Singapore 50 3.6 Relief map of Singapore 51 3.7 Sea water depth around Singapore ... Logging 165 A.1 Core Logging of BH9 166 A.2 Core Logging of BH16 173 B Publications 180 B.1 Geothermal Desalination in Singapore ...
... known hot springs in Singapore, i.e one at Sembawang and two at Pulau Tekong Those hot springs are part of the series of hot springs in the granite terrain of Malaysian Peninsula [57] Out of the three ... surface of the earth The worldwide installed capacity of geothermal plants in 2010 is shown in Figure 1.5, with total installed capacity of 10,898 MWe The top five countries in terms of installed ... coated cutter, with dry cutting The refining cut (smoothing and polishing of flat 28 surfaces) cannot be performed in the lab due to tool limitation in handling the thin sample (12 mm thick), and...
... acknowledged the “pioneering [of] cross-cultural productions: staging in Indian dance drama style stories of non-Indian origin” These were just a few efforts signifying the beginning of interculturalism ... Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei Darussalam: Asia Printers, 1998 175 50 Chua Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei ... Singapore: Ministry of Information and The Arts, 2000 12 57 Ministry of Information and The Arts “Chapter Three: “Benchmarking Cities” Renaissance City Report Singapore: Ministry of Information...
... Introduction The morbidity and incidences of allergic asthma particularly in children are increasing worldwide The role of interleukin-13 (IL-13) as one of the major players in the genetics of ... are essential in the induction of a protective Th-1 immune response to intracellular pathogens, with INFγ down regulating the production of IgE [46, 47] The Th-1 inducing effect of IL-12 was contemporarily ... IL-4Rα is a 140-kd protein, consisting of an open reading frame of 825 amino acids, including a 25-amino-acid signal sequence [63, 67] Consequences of IL-13 overproduction include symptoms such...
... of China for urban industrial and commercial People’s Insurance Corporation of China specialized in insurance business and China International Trust and Investment Corporation was in charge of ... role in the macroeconomic activities The bank credit is still the dominant channel of financing in China, through which about 80% of the total amounts of the financing inject into the non-financial ... Bank of China, Bank of China, People's Construction Bank of China, as well as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Each of the four state banks was to conduct commercial banking business in...
... α,β -functions from only a finite number of function values, where the optimality in the worstcase setting is commonly measured in terms of linear sampling numbers m gm (T : X → Y ) := inf inf ... embedding in C(Td )) this is indeed possible as Theorem 3.6 below shows This gives us convenient characterizations of the function spaces of interest in terms of the sampling operators we are going ... ) the space H m·1 (Td ) Inspired by (2.3) we define Sobolev spaces of dominating mixed smoothness of fractional order α as follows α (Td ) of dominating mixed smoothDefinition 2.1 Let α > The...