... superior in comparison to conventional CABG A major limitation of this paper was, that more than 99% of population was male [3] Further goal of our study was to determine the gender-related mortality ... the preferred revascularization technique among female patients Authors’ contributions B.24.1 SE, EK, GJ, BR, PL have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of ... longer intensive care stay and therefore, a higher risk of pulmonary infection [14] Page of In conclusion, female gender seems to be a significant risk factor in many multivariate analyses Therefore,...
... Changes due tothe Adoption of Web Services Changes due tothe Adoption of Grids and Web Services 18 EXAMPLES OF ADOPTION FIGURES FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES AND AUTOS The main difference is the more ... network connectivity – Resource management of Virtual Network is the key success factor 34 ON- DEMAND COMPUTING a a a ON- DEMAND COMPUTING IS ONE OFTHE GREATEST BENEFITS OF GRIDS IN ON- DEMAND ... CREATES THE “SERVICES GRID” • PRIORITIZING & AUTOMATING THE USE OF COMPUTE/STORAGE RESOURCES AND • AUTOMATING COMPLEX BUSINESS PROCESSES WHY GRIDS ARE REVOLUTIONARY a THEY PROVIDE A STRUCTURE FOR THE...
... protons is responsible for the enhanced cross relaxation ofthe Asp2 b protons Assuming a binding mode as found in the X-ray structure analysisthe closest distance of a protein ˚ proton tothe ... step size for the integration of Newton’s equation was fs The coupling tothe temperature bath was set to 100 fs and the nonbonded interactions were updated every 25 fs The MD simulations ran for ... Most of these contacts are with the binding cavity in the Fv domain However, there are significant additional contacts tothe bottom ofthe next Fab (cf Figure 10) The surface covered by the nonbinding...
... The reaction was monitored by monitoring the decrease in A340 as a result ofthe enzymatic consumption of NADPH The HP1287 enzyme concentration was calculated by measuring A280 and applying the ... of a cartoon representation ofthe tetramer of HP-TenA The four chains are seen along one ofthe two-fold molecular axes The side chain atoms of Cys 135, shown as red spheres, underline the active ... and one responsible for the coupling ofthe HMP and HET moieties, corresponding to ThiE (HP0843) [4] By contrast, the bacterium apparently lacks the genes devoted tothe biosynthesis ofthe thiamin...
... domains may position them in a way that they can contribute tothe formation of higher order structures ofthe Mrs2p part onthe inner side ofthe membrane, which may contribute tothe proposed opening ... Isolation of mitochondria and measurement of [Mg2+]m by spectrofluorometry The isolation of mitochondria by differential centrifugation and the ratiometric determination of intramitochondrial Mg2+ concentrations ... Mrs2p has been shown to mediate Mg2+ influx into mitochondria Overexpression ofthe protein was found to increase Mg2+ influx into isolated mitochondria, while deletion ofthe MRS2 gene nearly...
... trading on an open market First, the 1990 CAA Amendments set the cap to correspond tothe overall goal to reduce 8.9 million tons of nationwide annual SO2 emissions through the two phases ofthe ... due to concern about the government’s confiscation or invalidation ofthe allowance Some scholars argue that only when barriers of this kind are removed can the goal of improving the environment ... also intended the market to take over, allowing for the termination of auctions.95 Consequently, today the annual “EPA auction only adds tothe market,”96 rather than comprising the market entirely...
... (5dFUR) to further examine the function of UPP-1 in the pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway 5dFUR is converted to 5-FU by UP and TP [9] The effects of 5dFUR in the upp-1 mutant are questionable, ... Comparison ofthe human and C elegans 5-FU conversion and pyrimidine biosynthesis pathways Two pathways allow the conversion of 5-FU to FdUMP in humans The C elegans genome has homologs for the enzymes ... for the synthesis of RNA and biomembranes and is involved in the regulation and function ofthe cardiocirculatory, reproductive, nervous and respiratory systems [7] Furthermore, it modulates the...
... order to extend the characterization ofthe members ofthe H+-PPase family Results and Discussion Characterization of H+-PPase members In order to detect members ofthe membrane-bound, proton pumping ... showing the degree of conservation averaged over windows of 11 residues along the protein chain (Fig 3) From the resulting plot it is clear that most ofthe conserved residues are located onthe cytosolic ... in red, together with a GGS pattern, possibly corresponding tothe GGG pattern in region (cf text) membrane, while only few residues onthe noncytosolic side are conserved Furthermore, there are...
... measured in theofthe host The size 2of the bone formationlateral view bone was also The size ofthe bone formation ofthe host bone was also quantitatively measured in the lateral view The area ... incorporation in part, bone absorption ofthe pasteurized bone continued Therefore, muscle-covering to pasteurized bone not only has a positive effect on bone incorporation tothe host bone, but also on ... 0%)] (Table 1) No bone formation or absorption was seen onthe grafted bone in any ofthe three groups The average score of bone formation and bone absorption onthe grafted bone was 0.0 (no change,...
... done for Tx2 2.0.1 Null beamforming To cancel the interference toward the non-targeted user, the matrix Z ij ∈ CNt ×Nt is used as the orthogonal projection onto the orthogonal complement ofthe ... the knowledge ofthe channels from its own antennas to choose the beamforming vector that maximizes the energy while placing the nulls in the direction ofthe non-targeted user The computation ... between the synchronization stage and the transmission stage, e.g., the synchronization is based on a feedback from the receiver terminal [15] Therefore, we consider a delay of 50μs for the IEEE802.11...
... evolution ofthe mean square deviation (MSD) defined by H MSD = E Vk Vk , (10) where (·)H is the transpose ofthe complex conjugate of (·) and E(·) is the expectation operator To evaluate the MSD, ... this condition means that, in order to converge tothe optimal solution, we have to excite the algorithm in all directions which spans the space Analysis of Adaptive Volterra Filters The Finite-Alphabet ... corresponding tothe minimum value of λmax (∆), is µopt = 0.062 The optimal rate of convergence is found to be λmax (∆) = 0.830 µ (51) In order to evaluate the evolution ofthe EMSE versus the iteration...
... variation in the response variable At higher altitudes, burning reduced the time taken for competition induced tree growth suppression to occur, a response tothe effect of site preparation onthe ... are related tothe onset of competition-induced tree growth suppression and not to develop a parameterized model for prediction Because ofthe complexity of environmental interactions these results ... reducing the rate of seed germination thereby delaying the onset of inter-specific competition The interaction between the site related variables (PC1 and 2) and method of site preparation (Burn)...
... peptide [58] In the case ofthe globins, conversion tothe secretory pathway (as well as gene multiplication) may be interpreted as a physiological adaptation tothe environment within the Similar ... disproportionately in the novel group rather than the conserved, and the conclusion drawn here would remain valid over a wide range of prediction accuracies Has there been evolutionary acquisition of signal ... taxa tothe Strongylida are members ofthe Rhabditina, including C elegans, and both are grouped in Clade V ofthe Nematoda, onthe basis of small subunit rRNA sequence analysis [48] The set of 742...
... between apple and tomato but one ofthe tomato genes showed a steady decrease in expression during cell expansion similar tothe apple genes For the three tomato SAM synthase genes only one (SGN-U312579) ... for the MegaBLAST comparison between the tomato gene and the apple gene that contain the sequence onthe array e Annotation for tomato gene is: Plastocyanin, chloroplast precursor f Annotation ... DAA the cells that make up the core and cortex ofthe mature fruit stop dividing and the rate of cell expansion increases The control of cell division and cell expansion is a key part of the...
... that is secondary tothe severity ofthe host response to infection, is another important avenue of research pertaining to HRV analysis and infection The prognostic capacity of HRV analysis in ... prone to erroneous results in the presence of noise and nonstationarity that are inherent to physiologic signals Hence, the investigation of a plurality of HRV analysis techniques is required to ... degree of nonstationarity in the heart rate signal to predict neonatal sepsis Nonstationarity is defined as the tendency ofthe statistical properties of a time series (for example, mean, SD) to...
... most other gene expression analysis studies, the number of genes n is considered as the number of cases rather than the number of variables In the present case the latter corresponds tothe number ... cell-cycle transcription factors from the Spellman data compared tothe respective ofthe TFAs (top row) of four (bottom row) Time profiles Time profiles ofthe TFAs (top row) of four well-known ... In contrast, only 804 ofthe 4289 genes (= 19%) exhibit significantly periodic expression profiles For the E coli data the time profiles ofthe estimated TFAs ofthe 16 transcription factors...
... masking often included exons derived from transposon ORFs An Aedes gene was often split into two predictions, with the incorporation of unmasked transposonbased and other random ORFs In addition, the ... molecular verification points tothe importance of manual annotations in a genome-annotation pipeline that can not only verify the quality ofthe auto-annotation but also provide a set of highquality ... (57% (8 of 14)), indicates the presence of an assembly issue which affects the number of gene predictions in the gene build and the relation of various scaffolds to each other This phenomenon also...
... Protein translation elongation factor G Protein translation elongation factor Tu 60 kDa chaperonin GroEL Figure Differential expression profile of proteins common to both growth phases of O anthropi ... available in the literature onthe expected distribution of proteins within sub-proteomic fractions of O anthropi As a benchmark, however, a study concentrating mainly ontheanalysisofthe cytosolic ... us to classify them as secreted proteins [47,48] This once again highlights the limitations of some ofthe present generation of bioinformatic tools, which presently are concentrated largely on...