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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth doc

Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth doc

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 10:20
... pregnancies or births. In these pregnancy- or birth- based tables, characteristics of the pregnancy are also shown, such as respondent’s age at birth and wantedness of the pregnancy at time of conception. ... 80 percent of mistimed pregnancies to women who rated the pregnancy low on the ‘‘happy -to- be- pregnant’’ scale reported the birth was 2 or more years too soon. In Table 23, the association ... status (as seen in table 20) is further examined within Hispanic origin and race groups among recent births to women 22–44 years of age. + The percentage of recent births reported as mistimed...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Substrate specificity and inhibition of brassinin hydrolases, detoxifying enzymes from the plant pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Alternaria brassicicola ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Substrate specificity and inhibition of brassinin hydrolases, detoxifying enzymes from the plant pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Alternaria brassicicola ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 14:20
... resemblance to the substrate brassinin (1). Fur- thermore, based on the mechanism proposed for the hydrolysis of brassinin, it was not surprising to find that camalexin had no inhibitory effect. Conclusion ... char- acteristics, a significant understanding of the enzymes involved in the detoxification of phytoalexins, includ- ing their substrate specificity as well as the molecular mechanisms of detoxification, is ... (Alternaria brassicicola) fungi are devastating plant pathogens known to detoxify the plant defence metabolite, brassinin. The significant roles of brassinin as a crucifer phytoalexin and as a biosynthetic...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A family of expressed antifreeze protein genes from the moth, Choristoneura fumiferana ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A family of expressed antifreeze protein genes from the moth, Choristoneura fumiferana ppt

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 15:20
... isoform class b ased on its nucleic acid sequence and the potential size of its mRNA. Molecular modeling of t his new, putative isoform, based on the NMR-derived structure of the 337 isoform, is ... freezing. During the winter they also increase the concentration of the cryoprotectant, glycerol, 10-fold and desiccate to 40% of the prediapause water content [4]. Taken together, these adaptations ... of the long UTR class, 333 [16] (both substitutions are nonsilent, with Glu36 đ Asp and Ser84 đ Thr changes). It is possible that Afp-Lu1 is an allelic variant of either of these  9-kDa isoform...
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Reproductive contributions of Taiwan''''s foreign wives from the top five source countries pot

Reproductive contributions of Taiwan''''s foreign wives from the top five source countries pot

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 16:20
... period of time. In most areas of demography, the period of time is one year. The denominator of an incidence rate is a product of (1) the size of the at-risk population and (2) the time interval ... value of 1 if the data show that person i has given birth to j child(ren); and n is the number of foreign wives. The iterative computation of the estimated coefficients is based on the Newton-Raphson ... explanatory factor is 15 An additional nice feature of this module is that it allows the user to introduce the attributes of the alternatives in the choice set to be part of the explanatory variables....
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Credit at times of stress: Latin American lessons from the global financial crisis pot

Credit at times of stress: Latin American lessons from the global financial crisis pot

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 08:20
... closest to the variable used for the aggregate analysis in Section 4. In the case of capitalisation, we use the equity to capital ratio instead of the capital to assets ratio because of the limited ... during the crisis in terms of credit provision, after controlling for other factors. This last result is consistent with Galindo et al (2010), who find that in the years prior to the crisis foreign- owned ... clear reliable pre-crisis indicators of the incidence of the crisis. Among them, countries with looser credit market regulations seemed to suffer more from the crisis in terms of output loss, whilst...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Global shape and pH stability of ovorubin, an oligomeric protein from the eggs of Pomacea canaliculata pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Global shape and pH stability of ovorubin, an oligomeric protein from the eggs of Pomacea canaliculata pot

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 06:20
... dummy atom model represents the shape of the scattering particle. To increase the reliability of the results, the final model for the dummy atom modeling was obtained by a spatial average of 16 ... increase in R g was observed before the onset of oligo- mer disassembly, observed from pH 4.0 to pH 2.0 as a constant decrease in the R g value. The Kratky plots also showed a progressive loss of ... (Fig. 6) show a red shift of its emission maxima (from 330 to 338 nm) and an intensity decrease at pH 2.0, indicative of the exposure of some of the tryptophan residues to the aqueous envir- onment. A 10 Z X Y X 1 0.1 0.1...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular cloning, expression analysis and functional confirmation of ecdysone receptor and ultraspiracle from the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular cloning, expression analysis and functional confirmation of ecdysone receptor and ultraspiracle from the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 21:20
... suggesting that the receptor-binding of DBHs in L. decemlineata is dif- ferent to those in C. suppressalis and S. exigua. The aim of this study is to examine the SAR of ecdysone agonists for the molecular ... show potency as agonists of 20E in C. suppressalis by binding to EcR ⁄ USP, there is a possibility that different mecha- nisms, such as neurotoxicity and the existence of other receptors, give ... 108–118 of LdEcR-A is homo- logous to the motif-1, and this was also the case for EcR-A of coleopteran T. molitor. Interestingly, the sequence of amino acids 143–162 of LdEcR-A also has a striking...
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A guide to larvae and juveniles of some common fsh species from the Mekong River Basin

A guide to larvae and juveniles of some common fsh species from the Mekong River Basin

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 08:46
... like to thank Theo Visser who helped prepare the earlier versions of this document. We would also like to thank the biologists of the Department of Fisheries, Thailand, who collected specimens from ... Programme of the MRC, which supported several eld trips to collect wild specimens for preparing the illustrations. We would like to thank the former staff of the Assessment of Mekong Fisheries ... post-larva Developmental stages of Tor tambroides A guide to larvae and juveniles of some common sh species from the Mekong River Basin x Figure 3. Map of the Lower Mekong River Basin Myanmar China ...
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The Future of Genetically Modified Crops - Lesson from the Green Revolution pdf

The Future of Genetically Modified Crops - Lesson from the Green Revolution pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 22:20
... describe the factors in each of these areas that contributed to increased food production and explain how those factors were intertwined. At the end of the chapter, we provide les- sons from the Green ... are far from being a combined force on this issue. 4. Policymakers in the developing world must set regulatory standards that take into consideration the risks as well as the bene- fits of foods ... research to develop the technologies and to transfer them to various parts of the world, and then financing the agricultural technologies in those regions so that the local farmers could afford to...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The use of recombinant protein and RNA interference approaches to study the reproductive functions of a gonad-stimulating hormone from the shrimp Metapenaeus ensis ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: The use of recombinant protein and RNA interference approaches to study the reproductive functions of a gonad-stimulating hormone from the shrimp Metapenaeus ensis ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 05:20
... is limited and restricted only to the coding region. As the siRNA produced by the endogeneous Dicer (assuming a mechanism similar to the verte- brates) is small, the siRNA has to be specific to ... vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of shrimp. Because of the existence of multiple forms of the CHH family neuropeptides, there may be a dis- crepancy in defining the function of many cDNAs cloned using ... females. The percentage indicates the GSI of the females. M (B) indicates the expression pattern of MIH-B in the same tissues in males (N ẳ 5). The lower panel is the northern blot analysis of MeMIH-B...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of the tetrameric inositol 1-phosphate phosphatase (TM1415) from the hyperthermophile, Thermotoga maritima docx

Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of the tetrameric inositol 1-phosphate phosphatase (TM1415) from the hyperthermophile, Thermotoga maritima docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 11:20
... the dimer orientation of all these IMPases, we see that the human IMPase has the extreme dimer twist-angle that is almost 45° off from the dimer position in FBPases, whereas the TM1415 and MJ0109 ... architecture of the dimer is reminiscent of the human IMPase (Fig. 1, right panel). However, the dimer interface is quite dif- ferent from the human enzyme and other nonarchaeal IMPases. The superposition ... denoted as the dimer twist-angle. To superpose the second sub- unit on the structure of the eukaryotic FBPase takes a 30° rotation in the twist direction of the archaeal enzyme. In comparing the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Conformational and functional analysis of the lipid binding protein Ag-NPA-1 from the parasitic nematode Ascaridia galli potx

Báo cáo khoa học: Conformational and functional analysis of the lipid binding protein Ag-NPA-1 from the parasitic nematode Ascaridia galli potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 18:20
... comparison was possible. Interestingly, the localization of Ag-NPA-1 to the hypodermis is similar to that of the lipid binding proteins in the filarial parasites of humans [24,25] which lends them to ... random orientation of the donor–acceptor pair was assumed (K 2 0.667 [30]). A value of 1.36 was taken for the refractive index n [31]. MALDI-TOF analysis MALDI-TOF analysis of the peptides obtained ... 7B). These observations suggest that Ag-NPA-1 is localized mainly in cells of the inner hypodermis and the epithe- lium of the oviduct as well as extracellularly in the pseudocoelomic cavity of the...
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ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc

ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 23:20
... to the conclusions. Although the risk from uncontrolled reentry is part of the overall decision con- text, the committee is neither tasked to assess this risk nor does it have the expertise to ... real time for an extensive period of time would foster investment of time and effort to make full use of PR data in the forecasting process. ACHIEVEMENTS OF TRMM TO DATE 27 aspects of the hydrologic ... consideration of all three elements of the decision (benefits, costs, and risk). The committee recognizes that consideration of the associated costs and reentry risks has to be part of the decision equation,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: NMR studies on the interaction of sugars with the C-terminal domain of an R-type lectin from the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris pot

Báo cáo khoa học: NMR studies on the interaction of sugars with the C-terminal domain of an R-type lectin from the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 04:21
... and subdomain c of EW29Ch was not observed; (b) the B-factor of the side chain of Lys105 was high, indicat- ing that the side chain of Lys105 is flexible; (c) in this NMR study, the K d of the c sugar-binding ... site for b-Me-Gal was the same as that for lactose; and (d) the STD–NMR data in this study showed that the epi- tope of lactose for EW29Ch is the galactose residue. Thus, these results showed ... site of EW29Ch was almost the same as that for the high-affinity sites of ricin and RCA120, whereas K d for the c sugar-binding site of EW29Ch is very similar to that for the third binding site of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: NMR solution structure of Cn12, a novel peptide from the Mexican scorpion Centruroides noxius with a typical b-toxin sequence but with a-like physiological activity doc

Báo cáo khoa học: NMR solution structure of Cn12, a novel peptide from the Mexican scorpion Centruroides noxius with a typical b-toxin sequence but with a-like physiological activity doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 12:20
... has an a-like function. The 3D structure of this toxin was determined by NMR. The importance of the overall charge distribution on the surface of the toxin for its activity is emphasized. Furthermore, ... subtracted the control traces from the traces recorded in the presence of the toxin. The amplitude of these toxin-induced currents was analyzed by plotting the value 3 ms after the onset of the depolarizing ... further analysis of the structures available, another face was found, defined here as face C, which is quite distinct with respect to charge distribution of the toxins under analysis. Face C was...
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