the role of ubiquitous airborne fungi in chronic rhinosinusitis

... distinct role in the adaptive immune response to influenza through regulation of B-cell isotype switching [95,96] The role of TLR3 in the immune response to influenza has been debated in the ... important roles in the induction of lung inflammation For example, the cytoplasmic NALP3 protein, a member of the NLR family that triggers assembly of the caspase-1 inflammasome and production of mature ... of lung interstitial and intra-alveolar fibrosis and ALI [93] The role of TLRs has been intensively studied in influenza infection TLR7 expression on pDCs plays a cell-specific role against influenza...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius in Northern Allegheny ... $28,000 in average annual salary) Preserving Value Continuing education is important to preserving the market value of specialized education – particularly in professional fields Continuing education ... Shippensburg University Small Business Initiative in the Frehn Center for Management; offering information and assistance to individuals and groups planning to start a new business Best Practice Highlights...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... Ala219 of the catalytic site and His135 of the Mg2+ binding site The most striking result was the loss of the psychrophilic character of mutant W260K/A219N (as reflected by a threefold increase of the ... value in this temperature range is considerably lowered On the basis of the model, the behavior of the G261A variant can be interpreted in terms of constraints introduced by the Ala side chain The ... our incomplete understanding of the relation between enzyme properties and conformational flexibility limits the exploitation of the full potential of protein engineering in the redesign of psychrophilic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... evaluate the OS-fitness of the clone, the ratio of the specific absorbance in the presence of 10 lgÆmL)1 HEL to that in the absence of HEL was taken as an index To analyze the effect of the type of each ... antigen binding, this ‘increasing the affinity by increasing the VH ⁄ VL interaction’ might represent a mechanism of increasing Fv affinity This is also supported by the kinetic study of purified ... to retain the specificity and affinity to antigen in itself [7,20] At least for these antibodies, the role of the VL domain might be to increase the affinity by supporting the VH domain The phenomenon...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce, Chris Buckley Examining the role of statistical and linguistic knowledge sources in a general-knowledge que stion answering system In Proceedings of the 6th Applied ... hypernyms in the answer semantic form Step 3: The assessment of the similarities of dependencies In the third step, two classes of similar dependencies are considered, generating unications of the ... example, in the case of question Q209: Who invented the paper clip ?, the expected answer type is P ERSON and so is the subject of the verb invented , lexicalized as the nominalization inventor...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... change their brand attitude, may suggest an interesting implication for the new brand advertising strategy Instead of focusing on the content of the message which only emphasizes the benefits of the ... birthday This finding is just reverse of the finding of Belk (1973) Ruth, Brunel, Otnes (1999) classified categories of gift-giving into public occasion (i.e., Christmas, Chinese New Year), individual ... situational conditions of gift-giving may differ according to characteristics of the gift-giving occasion, whether the presentation of the gift is public, private, or anonymous, and whether the gift is...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... important for explaining wilt In the case of income, youth living in low-income households experience higher levels of wilt (45%) than youth living in either modest-income (35%) or high-income (23%) ... financing school Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase in the probability of attending college Further, when net worth is included in the model, Black youth are ... youth Youth savings Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of this money for...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... that the increase of Glc6P in the presence of S4048 was caused by the inhibition of Glc6P hydrolysis in the absence of detectable changes in glucose phosphorylation S4048 causes inactivation of ... [31], for evaluating the role of Glc6P, we determined the effect of different inhibitor concentrations on the Glc6P content and the rate of glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes incubated with 15 ... Harndahl et al ¨ levels through the interaction of glucokinase with binding proteins [5,6] The glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) is a specific inhibitor of glucokinase [5] and also a nuclear...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none of the bigrams from the training set appears in these reviews This suggests that the main problem with the bigram model is likely to ... Following Pang et al (2002), we use frequency as presence In other words, the ith element of the document vector is if the corresponding unigram is present in the document and otherwise The resulting ... relation is capturing two different situations, one in which the author himself likes the movie, and in the other, the author’s cousin likes the movie The overgeneralization resulting from these “stemmed”...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... strong indications for the involvement of a bacterial P450 in the hydroxylation of octane in Rhodococcus rhodochrous, the role of bacterial P450s in alkane degradation in addition to the well-established ... biological functions The proteins displaying the lowest similarity to the other P450s are those involved in oxylipin biosynthesis (2–6% amino acid identity) This can be explained in part by their bifunctional ... enzymes The FUM6 protein (CYP505B1) intervenes in one of the first steps in fumonisin synthesis by hydroxylation of the polyketide-amino acid at C-14 and C-15 (Fig 3) Fum6 deletion mutants of F verticilloides...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... the transaction from the vantage point of firm A, the floatingrate payer The cost of synthetic floating-rate financing is determined by the cost of servicing fixed-rate debt plus the net cost of the ... to the desire on the part of firms to hedge cash flows against the effects of interest rate volatility The timing of the appearance of interest rate swaps, coming as it did during a period of volatile ... argue, trading in interest rate swaps has helped to complete forward markets and to lower the cost to firms of managing their exposure to interest rate risk The Role for Hedging in the Theory of Corporate...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... unfolding of one of the I27 modules in the chain Unfolding then extends the overall length of the protein, relaxing the pulling force to a low value As the slack in the length is removed by further ... bridging the A’ and G b-strands of the I27 protein during the main unfolding barrier.[39] To further validate this view and gain insight into the role of solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, ... repeats of the I27 module, in D2O, showing a prominent hump in the rising phase of the initial force peaks which cannot be fitted with the worm-like chain (WLC) model (thin lines) B) The hump begins...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... explains some of the key concepts and outlines some of the basic IdM processes The range of conceptions of identity is very broad The examination of the following concepts is for the purposes of ... to take into account in the assessment of the security risks to − and privacy impact on − the delivery of online services, and in determining appropriate levels of security  In the case of sensitive ... accounts within the organisation The organisation is in some sense wasting resources and duplicating efforts in maintaining separate profiles with (mostly) the same information Nonetheless, there can...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... than those in the lipids of the surrounding membrane In fact, this fatty acid composition favors a tighter packing of phospholipids and cholesterol, increasing the rigidity of these domains [32–35] ... extraction during lipid raft isolation Moreover, these studies have provided some insights into the significance of the localization of the P2X7 receptors in lipid rafts regarding the regulation of intracellular ... formulation of the ‘lipid raft’ hypothesis in the context of membrane transport in polarized epithelial cells [27] It was postulated that domains rich in cholesterol and sphingolipids are preformed in the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... contribute to the optimization of electrostatic charges balance of pfLamA in the native state, independently of their interaction with calcium The role of electrostatic interactions in protein stability ... [2] The solid lines through the mutants unfolding data points (lled symbols) are intended to guide the eye of the reader and not represent the tting of the data Reversibility points are indicated ... binding of calcium to the mutant proteins in native conditions The single and combined mutations dramatically decrease the thermodynamic stability of the proteins with a signicant decrease of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... Properties of the iron-binding site of the N-terminal lobe of human and bovine lactotransferrins Importance of the glycan moiety and of the non–covalent interactions between the N- and C-terminal lobes ... lactoferrin where the protein has to survive the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal tract Thus, on the basis of this study, rhLF may be preferred over bLF in oral applications of lactoferrins in ... trypsin and chymotrypsin on the in vitro antimicrobial and iron-binding properties of lactoferrin in human milk and bovine colostrum Unusual resistance of human apolactoferrin to proteolytic digestion...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... both ADAM10 and TACE are involved in the shedding of APP, neither ADAM is involved in the shedding of ACE Furthermore we show that APMA can distinguish between the shedding of ACE and APP Materials ... dose-dependent increase in the shedding of ACE (Fig 3B,C), with a 12-fold increase in the amount of soluble ACE in the CHO cell medium observed with 500 lM APMA The effect of APMA on the shedding of ACE ... cells in the absence or presence of APMA Following this second incubation, the level of sAPPa in the medium was examined (Fig 4A,B) There was no significant difference in the level of sAPPa in the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... containing the same information, we conduct collinearity tests (VIF) when the regressions are run FINDINGS We now report the findings of a multivariate regression analysis to determine the community ... they not appear to contain the same information, since the clustering is generally made within a similar distance the main exception is the close connection between beauty of physical setting ... – the home, work and school environment – helps define an individual’s sense of being in a particular location Other research has focused on the attitude of “being at home” in a community; in...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... observe the factors that influence the perception and the purchasing attitude towards such products and the role of logos on the label in influencing their choices In particular, to investigate ... factors that influence the perception and the purchasing attitude towards PDO/PGI products, to analyse the role of labelling in influencing consumers’ choices and ascertain the existence of market ... foods were very interested in the Italian origin of the product, as opposed to 63.7% of the buyers of typical foods (p

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... facility level in Zambia served in the capacity of district managers of health programmes The finding that the nurses in Sudan were less involved in planning of activities (15.2% in polio and in measles) ... appears, in the case of Zambia, that an increase in the burden of one disease, mainly HIV-related care, takes up much of the nursing personnel's time Nurses were not performing the tasks related to their ... to HIV infection, including HIV counselling - including prevention of mother to child transmission - referral of patients and administrative tasks Furthermore, there was more delegation of tasks...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20