... preemptivetroubleshooting is critical in maintainingcustomer satisfaction.Missing the sec-ond half of a fa-vorite televisionprogram may be an-noying for cableviewers, but failingto complete a 911call can have ... happy and reducing churn is critical for operators. And an effective power distribution plat-form can produce immediate results. Power to the peopleMSOs have traditionally used AC pow-er at ... voice and video services. A crit-ical element to its ul-timate success re-sides in the perfor-mance of CMTSunits. Designed tohandle the opera-tional, management and service demandsof today’s...
... postal savings bank, although insome cases this will be a department of the national post ratherthan a separately established bank.■ A variation of this isa separately established savings bank ... state banks with a specific savingsmandate that are common throughout East Asia and some partsof Latin America.Clearly the regional characterisations of these different models aresomewhat arbitrary ... opportunities and wellbeing hampered by a lack of access. That participation has been made immeasurably easier by the staff ofWSBI’s Joint Office, particularly Angela Arevalo, Mark Bienstman and Catherine...
... mutants) and per-manganese metal basis (manganesesuperoxide dismutase mutants).Table 2. Metal contents of mutant superoxide dismutases. Metal con-tent was measured by atomic absorbance andis ... residues.Further analysis of these and other mutant SODs is currently underway.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are indebted to G. Peplow, F. Yamakura and T. Matsumoto for the analyses of iron and manganese in ... programCE [35] while mutational analyses were carried out using the CARA and ENCAD algorithms included in the GENEMINEprogram.Bacterial strains and vectors The mutagenesis and expression phagemid,...
... mode. An external calibration wasperformed using standard peptide solution Cal Mix1 and Cal Mix2 (Applied Biosystems) and an additional internalcalibration was performed during mass spectra analysisusing ... Ure2p incubated with Ssa1ptreated with BS2G are seen in lanes 1 and 8, 4 and 11 and 6 and 13, respectively. Similar samples treated with BS3 are seen inlanes 2 and 9, 5 and 12 and 7 and 14, respectively. ... peptides. The listof light and heavy precursor masses was further used eitherto analyze the MS ⁄ MS spectra acquired in the data-depen-dent acquisition analysis or to build an inclusion list withthe...
... and characterized the MREa-binding activity, which consistedof two polypeptides of approximately 70 and 82 kDa.N-terminal and internal amino acid sequencing and immunoanalyses revealed that ... alsoobserved another band of 82 kDa when the MREa-proteinband from the EMSA was excised from the native gel and resolved by SDS/PAGE (unpublished data). We purified the MREa-binding proteins using the avidin–biotin ... Luciferase activity for each construct was normalized to b-galactivity, andthe relative increases were calculated as the ratio of normalized activity in MREa/mutant transfected cells to that in...
... these tables reveal are that: a) the retrieval errors of the various constitutive parameters are far from negligible, even for a discordance of a single parameter thatis as small as 10%;b) the ... and it is this imprecisionwhich leads to a retrieval error in the other parameter(s). In fact, it was observed that parameterdiscordance was the cause of the occasional occurrence, during the ... 1) andthe wnare the weightsassociated with the chosen quadrature scheme.In fact, we evaluated the rectangular, trapezoidal, Simpson and various Matlab functions, and finally settled for the...
... state’sMedicaid waiver by requiring that state laws and state Medicaid contracts mandatecommunication and information-sharing regarding maternal and child health careservices across physical and behavioral ... FOURBarriers and Issues Faced by Local Providers and Program StaffOngoing discussions between the project team andthe learning collaborative revealed that many local maternal and child health care programs ... challenging among organizations that are a significant distance apart (e.g., the distance between cities such as Clairton and Oakland).• There are also problems linking and coordinating with...
... while maintaining the variability in the originalvariables. More specifically, a principal component isa linearcombination of the original standardized (µ = 0,σ = 1) variables (inthis case, ... case, the four ASVAB components listed above) that maximizes the variance of that combination and has a zero covariance with all priorprincipal components. We take the first principal component as ... that haschanged over time. The Reserves, like the Active Duty forces, draws the bulk of its enlistees from Categories IIIA and IIIB, and we argue here and in later sections that it isthe demand...
... illustrating the NOEs observed between the amino acids side chains of residues Thr10 and Ala12 andthe carbohy-drate moieties of GalNAc (GN) and Gal (G). The individual aminoacids Thr10, A la12 are ... synthesis and NMR characterization of the glycopeptidetx 5a, a heavily post-translationally modified conotoxin, reveals that the glycan structure is a- D-Gal-(1fi3) -a- D-GalNAcJames Kang1,*, ... furtherinvestigation.Specifically, what isthe actual structure of the glycanmoiety in the native tx 5a peptide? Our NMR data indicatesan a- D-Gal-(1fi3) -a- D-GalNAc-Thrstructureforthisgly-can, anda renewed...
... min at37 °C in 95% air and 5% CO2, followed by treatment with TCDDfor 3 h. Then, a caspase-3 activation assay was performed for the evaluation of apoptosis. Data are presented as average values ... Recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of TCDD immunotoxicity. Int Immuno-pharmacol 2, 277–291.2 Kamath AB, Camacho I, Nagarkatti PS & NagarkattiM (1999) Role of Fas–Fas ligand interactions ... [7]. Ghaffari-Tabrizi et al. and others have demonstrated thatthe transfection ofconstitutively active PKCh A4 08E activates both JNK1 and its upstream activating kinase, SEK1 ⁄ MKK4, in a T-cell-specific...
... the bacterial two-hybrid system. We also thank Mr T.Kobayakawa (Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan) for the technicalassistance. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for ScientificResearch ... pKT25kan .The DNA fragments encoding tentative middle domain and C-terminal one of human GRP94 were amplified by PCRandtheninsertedinanXbaI/BamHI site of bothpUT18Camp and pKT25kan. The DNA fragment ... domain is associated with the C-terminal domain in an antiparallel fashion [20,37]. Ithas also been reported that purified HSP90, GRP94 and HtpG self-oligomerize at elevated temperatures and that this...
... far reaching consequences and, at the extreme, may lead to jeopardy of the organization's objectives. There may be a brain drain that negatively affects innovation and causes major delays ... the human relations area as well as others. Excessive turnover is driven by andisthe natural and inevitable result of poor management. Overall, organizations fail because of managerial incompetency. ... communication skills, lack of foresight, anda narrowly focused view of the management job are some of the reasons why managers fail in the human relations area as well as others. 2. Managerial...
... good at or bad at (Question 2), nearly all of them answer that they are good at writing and reading since they like and usually practice these skills; in contrary, they are bad at listening and ... speaking as their vocabulary is not enough and their pronunciation is not good, which makes them hard to listen and speak. Only one interviewee says that he is good at listening and speaking and ... nearly all of them say that they reread the lessons to improve their vocabulary and pronunciation and sometimes speak English with their neighbor friends, their brothers and sisters and add that...
... avoid basing the test on their own teaching rather than on the syllabus or course book in order to establish and maintain a certain standard. In addition, Mc Namara (2000) stated that test ... this table we can see that items in reading section have the best quality as they satisfy the requirement for p-value and discrimination value. Then come the items in vocabulary section. The ... with acceptable p-value and discrimination value Vocabulary 27Grammar 15Reading 25Functional Language 1Table 13: Number of test items with acceptable p-value and discrimination value in...
... nóng ẩm quanh năm. Độ ẩm trung bình hằng năm từ 80 – 90 %. Thời tiết hai m a m a, nắng. M a m a kéo dài từ tháng tư đến tháng mười. Lượng m a dồi dào, 90% lượng m a tập trung vào m a m a. ĐBSCL ... pháp, ngữ ngh a [80; 4]. Điều này sẽ được trình bày cụ thể ở mục “Nguồn gốc” c a chương hai và ba luận văn. Theo quy luật ngôn ngữ, theo xu thế phát triển c a xã hội Việt Nam hiện nay, việc ... thông qua các tài liệu có được c a các tác giả đi trước, qua thực tiễn lời ăn tiếng nói hằng ngày c a người dân đ a phương, luận văn nhằm tìm hiểu về định danh từ vựng c a PNNB, đ a ra những...