the reproductive structure in plants

... role in accounting for the large business cycle fluctuations in emerging markets The lesson that our paper provides in this context is that the volatility of the maturity composition of debt in these ... a time-varying probability of default that is linked to the dynamics of debt and income The dynamics of the spread curve in our model reflect the time-varying default probability, in the same way ... the period income to repay the loan in period Since the borrower cannot commit to this policy in period 0, however, the 20 optimal choice in period would be not to save, and then to default in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... epigenetic recombinant inbred line was identified that was unable to germinate in the presence of the gibberellic acid biosynthesis inhibitor paclobutrazol This line was found not to be affected in primary ... set of glucosinolates can either be predominantly methionine-derived or branched chain amino acid (BCAA)-derived, depending on the polymorphism at the BCMA (branched chain methionine allocation) ... relative to the situation without global warming [49] In light of these predictions, Easterling stressed the importance of agriculture adapting to these new climatic conditions, including by making use...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... infected individual, as well as the (negative) value the infected value assumes due to increasing the age-interaction between risky individuals The indirect effect is particular in the following ... component The direct effect measures the value of the life of an additional individual and the indirect one the effect of the number of expected descendants Interestingly the indirect effect has the As ... rate The direct effect (first integral) amounts to the value of an individual, ξ I , when turning into a member of the infected group (weighted by the corresponding probability of infection) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... the interwoven collagen bundles in the which splendens the A schematic A schematic structure of the collagen network in AC shows that the interwoven collagen bundles in the lamina splendens integrate ... sectioning and dehydrating the AC, the 3D collagen network revealed in this study closely represents the natural character of the collagen network in AC Therefore, the changes observed in the 3D ... researchers agreed that the collagen fibres in the superficial have predominant parallel orientation to the articular surface, there were others reporting that the collagen structure in the superficial...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... noting that the results in Theorem in this note are closer to the results that Behrisch obtained for the case α > 1, than for α < For α < the size of the giant component is no longer linear in n Proof ... Theorem For the remainder of this note we will follow the notation and steps of the proof of Theorem 5.4 in [4, Ch 5.2] Therefore most of the details that have not been altered from the original ... specified shortly The construction used in the proof is similar but more involved than the one of the first part of the proof √ For the remainder of the proof we will implicitly condition on the event...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:23

... epithelial cells All magnification, ×40 Effects of tributyltin chloride on the reproductive system in pubertal male rats 33 Fig The changes in serum testosterone levels in the male rat following ... severe decrease in seminal vesicle weight, compared to the control (p

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... to maintain fertilization Genistein inhibits the induction of acrosomal exocytosis and binding of spermatozoa to the zona pellucida (ZP) [34] ZP-induced acrosomal exocytosis in domestic cat Reproductive ... Research Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) Total RNA (1.0 mg) was synthesized by using the 1st strand cDNA synthesis kit (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany) following the manufacturer’s instruction The PCR mixture ... TRIzol reagent (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instruction [22] The RNA pellet obtained in the final step was dissolved in 50 ml of sterile diethylpyrocarbonate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... interpreting archival material recommended by Hill [21] This involved attempting to understand the meanings of individual documents and relating these to other documents in the set, identifying ... policies in a range of other settings, including in the Former Soviet Union [3,4], East Asia [5,6], and the United States [7] In the US, TTCs have sought to influence legislators via the use of ... strengthen understanding of trade and tobacco at the regional level by analysing the activities of BAT in the Central American Common Market (CACM) As a means of promoting lasting peace in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... corresponding to the variance components and Iee for the information matrix Assuming everything else is correctly tted, the score statistic for the environmental variance (including the residual ... explained by the previous ones An antedependence structure of order r is dened by the fact that the ith observation (i > r) given the r preceding ones is independent of all other preceding observations ... Foulley and Quaas [4] The score statistic can be decomposed in order to check these parametric assumptions In an unstructured framework, the residual variance is included in the environmental covariance...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... proteins reside or function in the NE remains to be determined In addition to their difference in size and SUN domain locations, these protein subfamilies are distinct in other interesting ways ... ancient divergence of these two classes These data also suggest that the PM3 proteins originated early in the life of the plant kingdom, predating the origin of flowering plants The second, four orthologous ... domains, a single SUNdomain that is not at the C-terminus but rather in the middle of the protein, and a highly-conserved domain of unknown function that we refer to as the PM3associated domain...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... been defined in the national policy and therefore have to make choices within the institutional arrangements defined in the health sector The findings suggest that the process for selecting priorities ... existing NGOs in the districts were delivering services in RH In Ho district, of the 20 NGOs were delivering RH services and of the NGOs and 15 CBOs in the AES district were doing the same The ... more actively in the health SWAp Since then, UNFPA’s participation in the SWAp has been increasing In 2004 UNFPA contributed funds to the health fund, i.e UNFPA joined the pooling funding arrangement,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... to 108 in 1998, it rose again to 111 in 2003 In the Upper East Region, however, progress achieved in the 1980s and 1990s continued According to the 2003 GDHS, the infant mortality rate in this ... associated with a dramatic decline in contraceptive use and an increase in the total fertility rate of 0.5 births occurring nine months following the interruption The dependency of couples on reliable ... constructing health compounds if they can trust the program to provide nurses once the work is completed Community investment, in turn, generates sustained community interest and involvement in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... Growth in the size and influence of civil society in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positive change Increasingly democratic processes have lengthened the policy decision-making process, ... compare the situations in the countries based on a number of relevant indicators, including changes in financing and budget allocation, service structure, quality of care, and participation of the ... broadly in terms of policy, financing, administration, and programming at the country level The process is intended to be part of a larger shift towards democratization In Paraguay, as in Argentina,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... equations of the first kind (the “hedging equations”) have solutions Furthermore, the integral operators appearing in these equations (the “hedging operators”) turn out to be adjoint of the martingale ... Writing (3) in integrated form, we obtain t f (t, s) = f (0, s)+ α(u, s)du+ t σ(u, s)dWu + t δ(u, x, s)µ(du, dx) E Inserting this expression into (9), splitting the integrals and changing the ... the (γ, ϕ) -process, as usual, comes from the martingale rep˜ resentation theorem, with γ i as the integrand corresponding to W i and i ϕ(i) as the integrand corresponding to the N -process The...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... barrel domain is colored in light blue and the ACMSDspecific small insertion domain in blue The DHAP molecule and the protein residues involved in metal coordination are shown as sticks; the Zn2+ ... centre and the ligand binding site The hACMSD active site is located in a crevice on the protein surface at the C-terminal opening of the b-barrel (Fig 2), with a Zn2+ ion occupying the metal ... located in the proximity of the zinc ion and with the hydroxymethylene group pointing toward Pro295 DHAP interacts with the catalytically essential Zn2+ through mediation of the metal-coordinating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... comparable amounts in both yeast strains Therefore, the reason for the disappearance of the bc1 dimer in the yeast strain in which Qcr10p is missing remains unknown On the basis of all the above reported ... sub-complexes [24–27] In these studies, however, the interaction between the bc1 subunits was hypothesized only indirectly by assaying the steady-state levels of the remaining subunits in the mitochondrial ... It was also shown that the accessory factor Bcs1p in humans is involved in ISP binding into the mitochondrial bc1 complex [41] On the basis of the findings obtained in the present study, we can...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... perception of the system in terms of their ability to concentrate on the instruction (Q3), in terms of their inclination to reuse the system (Q6) and in terms of the system’s matching of their expectations ... Nonetheless, in the openquestion interviews, many users indicated using 365 the NM as a reference while updating their essay In addition to the 16 questions, in the system questionnaire after the ... find a trend that in the NM problems it was easier for users to understand the system’s main point (Q14) However, in terms of identifying (Q15) and correcting (Q16) problems in their essay the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... certain amino-acid residues, because the C-terminal three residues of aD, the N-terminal 45 residues of bD, and the N-terminal 36 residues and the C-terminal three residues of cD were missing in the ... upon protein staining The ratio of the upper protein band to the lower one was estimated to be approximately by densitometric scanning Activity staining of the enzyme indicated that the upper ... bulk of water by the corrin ring of cobalamin Figure 4B shows the structure around the enzyme-bound cobalamin The cobalamin molecule is bound between the a and b subunits in the so-called Ôbase-onÕ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... of the HA-hydrogen of IPP In both cases, scrambling of the label takes place within the IPP pool and the error is then transcribed into the DMAPP pool by the normal action of the isomerase The ... coupling involving vicinal isoprenoid moieties Due to the line broadening, the precision of signal integration is substantially reduced However, within the experimental limits, it appears that the ... 13C coupling satellites, albeit of different intensities (Table 3) The labeling pattern of the reconstructed DMAPP unit is summarized in Fig and the evaluation of the signal intensities indicated...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20