What’s in a Name
... they slowed ships down by attaching themselves to the hull Remora s suction power is so strong that, in some parts of the world, lines are attached to their tails and lowered into the water to fish ... not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is —L E O N A R D O DA V I N C I , painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452–1519) ... Any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae that have a dorsal fin modified in the shape of a suction disk that they use to attach to a larger fish, sea turtles, or ships Also called sharksucker...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20
... Frame easily scales to make the best use of expensive floor space Manages up to 2,304 fiber terminations Uses industry s highest count MPO plug-and-play cassettes Slack storage included in each ... removing any wires Testing Features When a look-both-ways Test Cord is inserted, both sides of the circuit may be tested independently • Accelerates fault isolation • Eliminates finger pointing in ... patented LSA-Plus Insulation Displacement Contact (IDC) is the highest performing, most reliable IDC in the industry • LSA Plus technology is used throughout ADC s TrueNet line – in jacks, panels and...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15
... loans Small businesses or small business organizations could presumably establish a health insurance co-op that would allow small businesses across a state to band together to purchase health insurance ... term health insurance premium assistance for small businesses, especially the smallest businesses that dominate rural economies The immediate tax credit beginning in 2010, and lasting through ... exchange or as a separate exchange The SHOP Exchange is designed to assist small business employers in enrolling their employees in small group health plans The law also enables other insurance alternatives...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "What''''s in a Semantic Network?" pptx
... Relations The final major type that needs discussing is the class of relations The same problems that arise in representing events arise in representing relations, l:or (try-l) FALL(BALL1), 21 instance, ... [1979] introduced some mechanisms that enable inequality to be proven In his system, mere are two forms of subtype links, and two forms of instance links This can be viewed in our system as follows: ... facilities needed by natural language systems is the ability to reason about whether individuals are equal This issue is often finessed in semantic networks by assuming that each node represents a...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Different roles of two c-tubulin isotypes in the cytoskeleton of the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii Remodelling of interaction surfaces may enhance microtubule nucleation at low temperature doc
... micronucleus Discussion In the present study, we have shown that the psychrophilic ciliate E focardii possesses two c -tubulin genes Fig Spatial distribution of c-tubulins in Euplotes focardii cells Confocal ... within the H2 helix, c-T2 possessed a striking substitution at position 72: glycine in place of the c-T1 ⁄ consensus arginine (Figs 2–4) The presence of glycine at this position in c-T2 has only ... residues replacing bulky and charged residues) is similar to those that transform mesophilic subtilisin-like proteases into cold-active variants [54] Similar trends in sequence substitutions...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: What’s in a covalent bond? On the role and formation of covalently bound flavin cofactors doc
... also exhibited a marked increase in Km for the substrate N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, suggesting that removal of this covalent bond also affects substrate binding This suggests a role for the cysteinyl–FAD ... proteins Also, the variety of substrates trans- formed by the different flavin-containing enzymes shows that a covalent flavin is not required to convert a specific class of substrates This is nicely ... flavoproteins in Table 1, it is clear that most of these enzymes are involved in oxidative processes In fact, it is striking that most covalent flavoproteins are oxidases, and only a few reductases and...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Multiplex Zymography Captures Stage-specific Activity Profiles of Cathepsins K, L, and S in Human Breast, Lung, and Cervical Cancer" potx
... Life Sciences (Plymouth Meeting, PA) Human cathepsins K and S were expressed in insect cells, human cathepsin V was expressed in NSO cells, and human cathepsin L was isolated from liver Western ... cathepsin K in normal breast tissue across all patients Conclusions: To summarize, this sensitive assay provides quantitative outputs of cathepsins K, L, and S activities from mere micrograms of ... measuring its activity in cancer specimens A number of studies have implicated cathepsin K expression in cancer progression and metastasis using cathepsin K inhibitors [19,20], mRNA analysis [21,22],...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
concentrate on what we can influence the financial dimension and what''''s in the cards theophil h schlatter cfo holcim group st louis september 15 2010 holcim ltd
... Analyst Capital Markets Event 2010 Reducing financial leverage while seizing investment opportunities • Developments since January 1, 2009 Capex to maintain 3'888 Business portfolio in Australia ... Cement Ltd in India • Cement capacity in India increased since 2005/06 by 20 million tons Further capacity increases in India and Indonesia of overall 5.2 million tons coming on stream in 2010/2013 ... Financial measures: Liquidity secured, maturities extended, dependency on bank financing reduced, rating maintained Focus on Cash flows • • • September 2008: CHF 1bn credit lines drawn to test...
Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2014, 21:32
Báo cáo y học: "The devil’s in the details" pdf
... disease or set of diseases Why not, instead, take CAN at its word? It wants to accelerate the finding of cures, so let s focus it on the major bottlenecks to going from fundamental scientific discoveries ... drug-like substances We need ways to design CNS-available compounds from first principles if we really wish to accelerate the development of cures for disorders such as Alzheimer s disease Most biopharmaceuticals ... are two major kinds of legislation that Congress can pass when it wants to establish new programs: authorizations and appropriations Authorizing legislation is that “which authorizes the appropriation...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 1 docx
... magistracies Senatusconsultum: decision of the Senate Servus: slave Servus communis: slave belonging to several owners Servus vicarius: slave who is a part of another slave s peculium Sevir Augustalis: ... coins or metals Spectatio: the assaying of coins or metals Spectator: money-assayer Sumptuosus: spendthrift xvi Glossary Tabulae auctionariae (or auctionales): registers sales by auction Tessera ... as) asses Bronze coin 1 ⁄ asses in the third and second centuries ; asses from the second century onwards Silver coin during the Republic, bronze coin in the Principate asses in...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 5 potx
... dispensator was certainly in a position to run some personal business in parallel to that of his master and, with luck, to make some money by so doing A dispensator was not in charge of a shop ... mentioned in the tablets So are wholesalers such as Caius Novius Eunus and L Marius Jucundus.19 Wheat and dry legumes are cited as security in their cases Finally, one of the Sulpicii is involved as ... also to be found in the imperial administration and the administration of the Emperor s personal possessions Suetonius relates that Otho received ,, sesterces from one of Galba s slaves...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 6 pptx
... acting as cashiers, coin-assayers or money-changers, working within the framework of their respective masters’ businesses, or else hired out by their masters to work in other individuals’ businesses ... this date figures so frequently on the tesserae?) () In several texts, spectare has the meaning of assaying coins or nonminted metals.12 Similarly, spectatio and spectator are sometimes used in ... the tesserae were imagined R Herzog had the idea of connecting them with the assaying of coins Showing that spectare, like probare, could mean to assay coins, that is to say Tessera Tessera...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 7 potx
... Rome s responses to financiers and financial crises should also apply to persons of Latin status and to Allies Clearly, measures affecting the interest rate were included in this law Secondly, ... was hard to come by, the interest rate rose, the price of land and buildings fell The passage of Suetonius cited above is also in line with this way of thinking It shows that Suetonius was conscious ... the subject in question is the minting of coins, changes in the structure of coinage, or the measures taken to eliminate financial crises Two opposed positions are invariably taken up The first,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 8 pps
... those responsible for managing his assets must have been considered as private loans, not as State loans According to the Historia Augusta, that still applied in the Antonine and Severan periods ... the possessions of debtors, whose property then passed to their creditors in lieu of the sums owed So they, too, according to Livy, at least, thus acted as temporary treasury officials, in the service ... creditors.26 In it lent money against securities, but without interest, to individuals wishing to ransom prisoners.27 It also sometimes happened that Rome would advance interest-free loans both...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 9 docx
... this in three instalments, the first of which was supposed to be paid within ten months He instructed his banker to pay all that was owed as soon as the first instalment fell due When the husbands ... It includes, on the one hand, operations conducted by specialist financiers who, in some cases, were profit-seeking and competent businessmen but did not practise any urban profession, strictly speaking, ... dissociated, and various signs indicate that Italy was sinking into financial decline, and Rome in particular, even if it still was the foremost town in the Empire Of course, each of those signs...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
BA N K I NG AND BU S INES S IN TH E ROMAN WORLD phần 10 docx
... (a) Senators and Business in the Roman Republic, B C Chapel Hill (b) Ciceros business friendships, economics and politics in the Late Roman Republic, Aevum : () Finances and estate sales in ... Sallustius sanctuary , Sardinia , M Scaptius , Scipio Aemilianus sealed deposit , , security for loans , , Index A Sempronius Asellio Ti Sempronius Gracchus (cos ): Ti Sempronius Gracchus ... Hesychus Hieron of Syracuse , hoarding Horace , , Horaces father , Q Hortensius ides index nundinarius India , , Industrial Revolution , , ingot , institor , instrumentum interest,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21
What’s in a centromere? doc
... contains is small and sequence analysis of the LTRs of the CRR-class retroelements shows that they have recently inserted into the region But because the CenH3-binding domain has not been determined ... is incorporated into nucleosomes In addition to binding microtubules, centromeres have other functions, including sister chromatid cohesion and preventing microtubules from both poles attaching ... indicates that the necessary regions span hundreds of kilobases and contain a specific repeat Some of this region is organized around nucleosomes containing CenH3 or histone H3 dimethylated at lysine...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21
who's in charge here_ - alan beattie
... private investors has risen, so the bank finds itself playing a less important role in filling financial holes Indeed, during the 200 0s one of the biggest threats to its preeminence was an emerging-market ... each point there are strong domestic pressures not to The classic example is fishing quotas: everyone knows it is in everyone s longterm interest to maintain fish stocks by limiting catches, but ... negotiate Most despise what they regard as business as usual in Washington; many spend as much time out of the capital as possible and some sleep in their offices rather than put down roots in the...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 11:56
Understanding cofactor f420 dependent mechanism(s) in the activation of bicycle nitroimidazoles and in the physiology of mycobacterium tuberculosis
... thesis delves into two areas that are in line with the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases’ initiatives in developing drugs against latent TB and in unravelling novel Mtb ‘targets’ for discovery ... significant insights into the progression of the disease In vitro analyses of the responses of murine and human macrophages to Mtb infection indicate a robust pro-inflammatory response of the cells Infected ... mechanism that protects Mtb against oxidative stress and bactericidal agents has been established (Manuscript submitted to PLOS Pathogens) The findings of this thesis enhance current understanding...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:17