... position of QTL A and QTL B for useful yield (UP) and protein (PP) content and somatic cell count (SCC); the QTL effect and the standard error (SE) of both QTL positions QTL A and QTL B (positions of ... Joe Davis, Ms Renee Deever and the many casual staff who have contributed to the rearing of the lambs, the milking and the husbandry of the ewes, and the collation of data The contribution by ... traits of the somatic cell count and score and the cumulative somatic cell count and score; chromosomes are separated by vertical lines and further the significance thresholds (LOD = and LOD...
... OFASYMMETRIC GAMES AND VALUE OF INFORMATION IN MULTIAGENT DECISION SYSTEMS WANG XIAOYING (B.Mgt., Zhejiang University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ... NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my thanks and appreciations to Professor Poh Kim Leng and Professor Leong Tze Yun My supervisor, Professor Poh Kim Leng, ... influence of information structure and agents’ payoff functions on the sign of information value Many properties of VOI in multi-agent decision systems have not been revealed yet Different kinds of...
... determine the effect of UC -II on disease specific measures and blood measures of OA of the knee compared to G+C It was hypothesized that UC -II would reduce symptoms of OA of the knee to a greater ... rate, and pulse rate), and liver (bilirubin, GGT, and ALP) and kidney (BUN and creatinine) functions were not affected by UC -II treatment, suggesting that UC -II is well toler- 320 ated and does ... common form of arthritis, and it is often associated with significant disability and an impaired quality of life Clinical and radiographic surveys have found that the prevalence of OA increases...
... preparation and the crystal of complex II Lane 1, crystals of complex II Lane 2, molecular weight markers Lane 3, crystallization preparation of complex II The four subunits of complex II are labeled ... obvious activity of both complex IIand complex III, the purity of complex II being about 60% However, SDS ⁄ PAGE analysis showed the crystal we obtained to be mitochondrial complex II (Fig 1) Our ... Characterization of respiratory complex II Fig Sequencing of porcine heart mitochondrial complex II Total RNA was extracted and purified from the fresh porcine heart, and genes of four complex II subunits...
... properties of the wild-type, His120Asn, His145Asn and Asn149Asp variants of arginase II Purified wild-type, His120Asn and His145Asn variants of arginase II were active even in the absence of added ... Interaction of arginase II with substrate and manganese ions ´ V Lopez et al Table Kinetic properties of the arginase activities of wild-type and mutant variants of human arginase II Values, derived ... consequence of the mutagenic replacements Effects of the His120Asn and His145Asn mutations on the affinity of metal binding to arginase II To further examine the effects of the His120fiAsn and His145fiAsn...
... Keskin-Kozat, University of Michigan Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, University of Dhaka Mana Kia, Harvard University xviii list of contributors Azadeh Kian-Thiộbaut, University of Paris VIII and Monde Iranien, ... January and Fall of 2002 were joined by Marya Osucha, Emily Rostel, Monique Salas and Michelle Sandhoff in the Winter of 2003 Paulina Medeiros Tederer, Andrea McNees, Cristeta Shope, and Eva ... women and Islamic cultures and to a detailed analysis of the topics and researchers is rather unusual and quite admirable I have been impressed and humbled by their energy and commitment Each of...
... activation It inhibits PKA I andII (IC50 ¼ 135 nm), and also ribosomal S6 kinase (S6K1) and mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK1); with 10 lm of H-89 the activity of these kinases is suppressed ... mediators in L929 cells, are PKA, CaMK IIand MAPK Discussion Fig Effect of lM neokyotorphin and 50 lM 8-Br-cAMP in L929 cells in the presence of MAPK or CaMK II inhibitors Cells were seeded in 96-well ... containing 10% of fetal bovine serum (Sigma), mm l-glutamine, 10% standard vitamins solution, 100 lmÆmL)1 of penicillin G, 0.1 mgÆmL)1 of streptomycin sulfate and 0.25 lgÆmL)1 of amphotericin...
... ii Contents Contents iii List of Tables xiii List of Figures xv Preface xxiii Introduction 1.1 The rôle of microeconomic principles 1.2 Microeconomic ... Two views of the consumer’ optimisation problem s The e¤ects of a price fall Compensated demand and the value of a price fall Compensated demand and the value of a price ... production functions, utility, demand and supply curves, the operation of the market and the nature of equilibrium However we will reinforce and deepen understanding of these essential concepts by...
... expression and amplification of HCII in CHO cells Plasmid pWTBI2 was constructed by ligating a 1.6-kb HindIII/EcoRI human HCII cDNA fragment into a HindIII/EcoRI-cleaved expression vector of the pSV2 ... Microheterogeneity of plasma glycoproteins heparin cofactor IIand antithrombin III and their carbohydrate analysis Thromb Res 51, 97–104 11 Varki, A (1993) Biological roles of oligosaccharides: all of the ... accurate and efficient cleavage of the 19-amino-acid signal peptide in CHO cells [5,28] Characterization of the tryptic peptides of serum-derived and recombinant HCII Natural and recombinant HCII were...
... complexity and to provide an efficient means for people of all sorts to gain improved understanding of air quality and related government policies in terms of the future health and well-being of Ontarians ... requirements are: i) current and future air quality conditions, ii) current and future size, distribution and composition of the exposed population, iii) E/RFs for key air pollutants, and iv) economic coefficients ... (i.e., risk of premature mortality and pain and suffering) are derived from estimates of the willingness of people to pay (WTP) to reduce the risk of premature mortality and pain and suffering...
... brilliant ball There was too much of everything Too much light, and eating, and drinking, and dancing, and flirting, and dressing, and feigning, and smirking, and much too many people Good taste ... all of them, fresh and frank-hearted, and full of a noble ambition They had read and pondered the histories of great men; how they resolved, and struggled, and achieved In the pure portraiture of ... Theocritus, And talked about Democritus; And his most ardent passion balked, And talked and talked and talked and talked He begged her to become his own; She talked of ether and ozone, 36 The Wit and...
... 0006 and AUS 0005 that supported the research visits of M.I.C to the Gatty Marine Laboratory University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK andof V.J.S to the Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, ... carp apoA-I (27.5 kDa) and A -II (12.5), respectively Table Bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of carp apoA-I and A -II Each value in the table represents the mean ± SE of experiments performed ... ApoA-I and apoA -II in innate immunity of the carp (Eur J Biochem 271) 2987 Fig Synergy of the apoA-I synthetic peptide with lysozyme (A) Bacterial growth in the presence of different combinations of...
... quality in terms of precision and recall against manually constructed, gold-standard f-structures for 105 randomly selected trees from section 23 of the WSJ section of Penn -II The algorithm currently ... system of (Briscoe and Carroll, 1997) distinguishes 163 verbal subcategorisation classes by means of a statistical shallow parser, a classifier of subcategorisation classes, and a priori estimates of ... coverage, granularity and evaluation: First, we scale the approach of (van Genabith et al., 1999) which was proof of concept on 100 trees to the full WSJ section of the Penn -II Treebank Second,...
... with Ang II, the effect of Ang II on the phosphorylation of STAT5 and c-Jun was measured Ang II stimulated the phosphorylation of STAT5B and c-Jun, with levels of phosphorylated STAT5B and c-Jun ... AGCTTCTGCTTACCTTTAGCTCCAGCC-3¢ (HindIII site underlined), digested by KpnI and HindIII, and then inserted into the pGL3-basic luciferase reporter gene vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) linearized by KpnI–HindIII and named ... extracts from VSMCs treated with Ang II for 0.5, 1, and h, and the DNA-binding activity of STAT5B andof AP-1 increased in a time-dependent manner The specificities of two DNA–protein complexes were...
... CP43, CP47, PsbE) and MS analysis (MALDITOF) of various PSII core and OEC proteins (Figs and 4) In wild-type plants, the intact PSII core monomers, the PSII core dimers and PSII–LHCII supercomplexes ... disassembly and assembly of PSII is constantly occurring because of turnover of the reaction center D1 protein [30] In particular, the role of PsbL and PsbJ in the assembly and stability of PSII was ... association of PsbO with PSII–LHCII supercomplexes in the wild-type and with the PSII core dimers in DpsbJ, as well as the absence of PSII–LHCII supercomplexes from DpsbJ, and both the supercomplexes and...
... or with class II cognate help (p766 and p672, phase IIof the study; n = 6; Figure 1B) Peptides p766 and p672 are known to be promiscuous[52] Table shows the HLA class II profiles of the patients ... DCTs and DCTIs have an optimal antigen uptake capacity and upregulation of CD86, CD40 and class I, but low levels of CD83, as is expected of non-terminally mature DCs The phenotypic profile of ... differentiation and maturation of DCs [23-27] In the presence of GMCSF and IFN-α, monocytes are capable of differentiating into IFN-DCs[28] IFN-DCs show the phenotypical and functional properties of partially...
... platelet count of 9.2 × 104/μL, PT of 37% (PT-INR 1.78), T-Bil level of 11.7 mg/dL, ALT level of 260 IU/L, and serum albumin level of 2.9 g/dL Serum HGF and AFP levels were 1.07 and 3.9 ng/mL, ... days in patients and Patients and required cessation of rh-HGF on days 14 and 13, respectively, because of increased serum creatinine (2.1 mg/dL) and oliguria, respectively Both of these symptoms ... ALT and AFP, were measured before rh-HGF administration (day of rh-HGF dosing); on day of the rh-HGF dosing period; and one, seven and 14 days after the protocol therapy (days 1, and 14 of the...
... M: Type II InAs/GaSb superlattices for high-performance photodiodes and FPAs In Proceedings of the Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications III: September 2003; Orlando Edited ... summary, we grew and fabricated InAs/GaSb type -II SL materials and devices by MBE and wet chemical etching Lattice mismatch between the substrate and the SL is 1.5 × 10−4 The FWHM of the first-order ... infrared photodiodes have a cutoff wavelength of 4.3 µm A current responsivity of 0.48 A/W and a peak detectivity of 1.75 × 1011 cmHz½/W were measured The quantum efficiency of the device at 3.6 µm...
... independence and quality of life, affects more than half of the population over 60 years of age [1] Spatial learning and memory is one of the domains of cognitive function most frequently and severely ... of aged animals into cognitively intact and cognitively impaired groups and assessment of both age-related and cognitive impairment-specific phenomena [25-27] Glial activation and induction of ... peptide product of Cd74, called CLIP (i.e., the MHC II invariant chain), which prevents spontaneous binding of self-derived peptides An MHC II cofactor consisting of its own alpha and beta chain...