the role of critical thinking in education and life

... neovascularisation and increased cellularity [1,2]. The severity of these tendon changes encountered in tendinosis was quantified [3], and the importance of the ongoing process and cause of increased cell proliferation ... from the ventral and paratendinous portion leading into the Achil- les tendon body. In patella tendinopathy these neovessels often arise inferior to the patella from the Hoffa fat pad entering the ... either AirHeel™ wrap or eccentric training or the combination of both [57]. Non-invasive topical nitroglycerin in tendinopathy The rationale for the use of topical transdermal nitroglyc- erin in...

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... ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter- mined by clinical trials and ... to explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...

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... involved in the regulation of the stability and trafficking of GAT1. It has been reported that a variety of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesized proteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chains are important for the GABA transport activity. 1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into the role of the terminal ... clarify whether N-glycans are directly involved in the GABA- uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly- cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of this protein, quantitative and kinetic...

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... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence of the financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather ... book, index of current production, the lower the supply of credit. Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g. the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the ... The probability of increasing debt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted in the past (in all the groups). Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component in the credit-demand...

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... affinity of ChiB for allosamidin, which is an analogue of the proposed oxazolinium ion intermediate [32]. The minor (or even positive) effects of Y214F on substrate and intermediate binding and the ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv- alent in the family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitis was found to be in the ÔdownÕ position in the apoenzyme and in the ÔupÕ position in the complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34]. The pK a calculations indicate that the only candidate for a residue determining the basic arm of the pH-activity profile of the D142N mutant is Glu144. The...

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... 2010) doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07685.x The hyperthermostable chitinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus has a unique multidomain structure containing two chi- tin-binding domains and two catalytic domains, and ... Stereo figures of the model of the bound substrate in the AD2 E526A mutant (A) and D524A mutant (B). The structures of bound sugars and the side-chains of three acidic residues in the conserved ... positions and ori- entations of the Glu526 side-chain in the A-form were almost identical, and the maximum coordinate shift after superimposition of the two structures was 0.78 A ˚ . In the B-form, in...

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... ER81 and PEA3), ER81 and ERM being the most related [35]. PEA3 members all contain the highly conserved ETS domain. ERM contains two DNA binding inhibitory domains flanking the Ets domain: the ... transcription of the human presenilin 1 gene in SH-SY5Y and SK-N-SH cells The role of Ets factors in the regulation of presenilin 1 Martine Pastorcic 1 and Hriday K. Das 1,2,3 1 Department of Pharmacology ... in the extract as an internal standard. The activity of ()119/+178) PS1CAT in the pres- ence of the empty vector was taken as 100%. The values represented in the graph are indicated below. In...

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... 1. Introduction 6 2. Higher Education Finance in the 1960s and 1970s 10 3. The Influence of Rates of Return on Higher Education Financing Policy 15 4. The Concept of Cost-Sharing in Higher Education ... America. The concept of education as both a private and public investment and estimates of the private and social rate of return; the concept of cost-sharing and estimates of the distribution of financial ... bias, and the lesson remains the same: higher education financing schemes at any point in time are the outcome of the interplay among economic theory, political interests and tactics, and public...

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... these residues in binding the carboxylate linked to the nucleus of penicillin N (Arg160 and Arg162) and the carboxylate of the a-amino- adipoyl side-chain (Arg266). The results for mutation of Arg74 ... 160, 162, 266, 306 and 307) that, together with the crystallo- graphic analyses, support the proposed roles for arginines 160, 162 and 266, and suggest roles for the other arginine residues. Scheme ... substrate [1,22]. The third type of mutant, represented by arginines 306 and 307, are located in the C-terminus. They appear to modulate the activity of the C-terminus, which encloses the DAOCS active...

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... involved in the reaction. An analysis of the active sites of DHBD structures in the presence and in the absence of substrates and of the structure of P. putida C2,3O suggests a possible hypothesis. ... Appar- ently, the close contacts between these two residues and the edge of the substrate ring could prevent bind- ing of 3,6-DMC and 3,5-DMC, as shown in Fig. 2- D,E,F. Thus, the binding of 3,5-DMC and ... different substrates. The models of the complexes indicate that the orien- tation of the substrate in the active site pocket of the C2,3O is very similar to that observed in the structure of the DHBD and HPCD...

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... further examined with the relevant economic theories which are introduced in the Chapter 2 of the thesis. By applying economic theories, the roles and mechanisms of international agreements in ... impact of trade agreements mathematically in terms of environmental conservation. The proposed thesis is, therefore, unique, original and very challenging in this aspect. The followings are ... especially on trade. Some of the evidences will be derived from interviews and the diplomatic experiences of the author of the thesis. 4. Scope of Study (1) International Aspects First,...

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... dispersion of the growth rates of the state hous- ing index when the states economies are in recessionary phase of the business cycle. This suggests that the housing market across states converges during ... business cycle. The national economy was in expansion during the 1989:IQ until the 1990:IIQ, then it was in recession from the 1990:IIIQ to the 1991:IQ and went back to expansionary phase in the ... 11 unemployment, and for the rest of the states unemployment rate decreased. Similarly, during the 2001 recession, which began in the fourth quarter of 2000 and continued until the end of 2002, aggregate...

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... establish the consistency with which discriminations are made. Both Norman and Wyrwich raise the interesting issue of what constitutes a meaningful discrimination, and whether Delta is an index of such ... remains to be seen how these ele- ments, particularly reliability and discrimination, interact. In closing I should directly answer the questions posed by Norman and Wyrwich in the titles of their ... Matthew Hankins - matthew.hankins@kcl.ac.uk Abstract A response to Norman GR 'Discrimination and reliability: equal partners?' and Wyrwich KW 'Understanding the role of discriminative...

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... following the commencement of vegetative growth (d 4) and by GDH. After 4 h the glutamine concen- tration peaked and remained stable, indi- cating feedback control of GS. Inhibition ... Inhibition of GS and glutamate synthase blocked the synthesis of glutamine and glutamate, re- spectively. When GS was inhibited, some glutamine was synthesised initially, and this ... contain signifi- cant amounts of arginine, which is thought to play a major role in nitrogen storage. Arginine was the most abundant amino acid in the nitrogen-starved mycelia...

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