... interval was selected for analysis This time interval was selected based on stable temperatures and gas compositions Average values ofgas compositions and temperatures within this time interval ... necessitates pressure drop prediction Particle size ofa reacting bed can be calculated by applying mass balance for one particle and mass of char particle mchar and mass of initial biomass particle ... calculating Equivalence Ratio (ER) Gas flow rate was calculated by applying Nitrogen balance over the gasifier The average gas properties such as density and viscosity within the gasifier bed were calculated...
... decreased, branch *!, decreased, revealing a mild but significant water stress Water stress occurs when the rate of water loss exceeds the rate of uptake It was clear that the rates of day and ... whilst at RWCs less than 90% crossover points in the data occurred Discussion and Conclusion The developms!nt of water stress is characterized by a decline in ’I In this study, w’ ’ as treatment ... acid-treated seedlings Pressure- volume analysis revealed significant effects ofthe acid mist Maximum turgor (’Fp, max) decreased with decreasing treatment pH This decreased t max p, y reflects a reduction...
... G-to -A substitutions (many of these amino acid replacements are not typically associated with resistance, but variation at these sites may impact mutational pathways and modulate viral susceptibility ... intermediate levels of APOBEC3 pressure exist naturally, and moreover, these sequences often possess multiple mutations of pharmacological and immunological significance An additional summary of observed ... hypermutant HIV-1 protease sequences Mutational spectra of subtype B patient-derived hypermutant HIV-1 protease sequences All available subtype B protease sequences in the Los Alamos Database are...
... basal levels [25] On the other hand, ectoenzymes producing cADPR (such as CD38 and CD157) and transport systems for cADPR in the plasma membrane open the possibility that cADPR acts as a paracrine ... probability of Ca2+ channels, either localized in the membranes of intracellular Ca2+ stores or in the plasma membrane Such Ca2+ entry channels in the plasma membrane and Ca2+ release channels ... Because the cADPR ⁄ Ca2+ signalling system was also observed in protozoa and plant cells, it appears to be a phylogenetically old and conserved system As for the InsP3 ⁄ Ca2+ signalling system,...
... greasing harness and took a position as salesman in the same business From this he was induced to become a salesman for a haberdasher He had charm of manner—fluidity, sympathy and health At seventeen ... most factories there are testing-jacks, gearing-jacks, lifting-jacks Falstaff tells ofa jack -of- all-trades The jack was anything strong, patient and serviceable When Hargreaves, the Lancashire ... apparatus for lifting has been called a "jack" since the days of Shakespeare The jack was the bearer of bundles, a lifter, a puller, a worker Any coarse bit of mechanism was called a jack, and is...
... characterization of six Tat variants J Biol Chem 1999, 274:11473-11478 Ranga U, Shankarappa R, Siddappa NB, Ramakrishna L, Nagendran R, Mahalingam M, Mahadevan A, Jayasuryan N, Satishchandra P, Shankar ... post-challenge in Tat Oyi vaccinated macaques Surprisingly, the macaque that had the lowest viremia had no antibodies against SHIV envelop proteins This macaque was challenged again, and the animal ... evaluated Apoptosis and the role of Tat The hallmark of disease progression in HIV-1 infected individuals is an increased virus load [78] and the progressive loss of CD4+ T cells [79] Apoptosis,...
... individuals with similar patterns of, in this case motherson relationships, which can explain associations ofa set of variables The parameters in a LCA model are class specific symptom profiles (which ... Moroccan parents of incarcerated and non-incarcerated adolescents, Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used LCA is a statistical method which is used to identify a set of mutually exclusive latent classes ... classes that account for the distribution of cases that occur within a cross tabulation of observed variables [36] In other words, the purpose ofa LCA is to find the smallest number of classes of...
... deletes a large number of small files Sprite LFS is almost ten times as fast as SunOS for the create and delete phases ofthe benchmark Sprite LFS is also faster for reading the files back; this is ... as the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state ofthe data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved ... this purpose The separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms ofthe Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a...
... multi-stage desalination system consists of Ns number of such stages stacked one over the other The condenser surface of bottom stages acts as the evaporator surface for the stages above The system ... various design and operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics ofthe system Description ofthe multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system The Multi-stage evacuated solar ... multi-stage and evacuated solar stills coupled to solar thermal collectors The experimental and analytical investigation ofthe multi-stage solar still, which consists ofa stacked array of distillation...
... from the other models of language, systemic functional linguistics possesses a number of analytical instruments, which helps researchers tackle grammatical, semantic, and discoursal problems ofa ... on these fundamental theories in analyzing a text teachers of English can further analyze the mistakes that learners easily make in specific situations Last but not least, a number of analytical ... Re-examine some ofthe most important issues related to the experiential aspect of functional grammar Analyze the meaning and structure ofa narrative based on the systemic functional analysis...
... The meaning and structure ofa science fiction story: A sysyemic 29 Clauses and Clause Complexes Analysis The analysis ofthe text into clauses and clause complexes and their logico-semantic ... || Theyll rescue us soon. ||| The analysis shows that the text XVI which read as Its all right, she said consists of 36 clauses which make up 18 to the man We can breathe the air its a clause ... the analysis ofa science fiction story, using systemic functional linguistics as the theoretical framework As can be seen from the analysis, systemic functional linguistics is a model of language...
... GCGGCCGCCACCATGGTCAGCCGTCTTGAACAC AAGCTTCTAAGGTTTGTAGATGCCGTGGAG TGGGGAGGACTTTTATGCTGT CTTTTGTGTAGGTGGGATTCG CTGAGGTTACAGACAACTGTTC CCTTTGACATCGCAAGTGGATCA TTGAGGTGACAGACAATTGCCT TCTTTGACTTCTCAAACTGATCG GCGGCCGCCACCATGCATCATCACCATCAC ... genomic DNA contamination, the RNA from the eyecups were treated with DNase I and cDNA synthesis was carried out with (+) or without ()) reverse transcriptase On the basis ofthe sequences available ... Immunostaining of zebrafish retinal section using antibodies for GS and RPE65c Fig S3 Hypothesized molecular mechanisms ofthe in vitro assay system and the intra-retinal visual cycle This supplementary...
... using the Bradford assay with BSA as the standard [28] Phytase activity assay Phytase activity was determined by measuring the amount of phosphate released from InsP6 using a modified ferrous sulfate ... phytases Thus, PhyH-DI fused to another single-domain phytase may improve the catalytic efficiency ofthe latter Materials and methods Strains, plasmids and chemicals E coli Trans1-T1 (TransGen, ... BPPs would improve the catalytic efficiency was assessed Results Microorganism isolation Using phytase screening and low phosphate media, three strains with phytase activity were isolated from the...
... states are comprised ofa mainland and islands, such as Australia, which consists ofthe mainland and islands including Tasmania, Norfolk, and very distant islands like Christmas and Keeling A ... West Bank) phrases is vital in assessing what it is that policymakers, and specifies that “ [a] rrangements for safe passage of such as President George W Bush and Secretary of State persons and ... guard the passage, or what criteria Article XXIX of Oslo II deals with safe passage, and states Israel would use in granting safe passage permits For that “ [a] rrangements for safe passage of...
... very small As observed for the case of phosphate binding, the signals for intermediate redox stages and of haems III and IV are the more affected This suggests that the binding of phosphate and ... tube the values for the redox–Bohr interactions and the macroscopic pKa values are absolute, and therefore the macroscopic pKa values ofthe various redox stages show only very small modifications ... structure was not affected The pH ofthe samples was adjusted using small volumes of NaO2H or 2HCl solutions In the reduced and intermediate 2257 Thermodynamic parameters in ligated proteins stages of...
... OS KERNEL OS KERNEL OS I/O SUBSYSTEM OS I/O SUBSYSTEM NETWORK ADAPTERS The OMG has issued a request for proposals (RFP) on a new Notification Service [20] that has generated several responses ... (consumers) As a result, the message delivery mechanism does not assign thread priorities according to the priorities of publishers or subscribers In contrast, the TAO Event Service utilizes QoS parameters ... improved avionics references to suppliers and consumers It appears as a proxy features For example, navigation suites are a source of continconsumer to the real suppliers on one side ofthe channel and...
... proteases not have an aspartate as the catalytic apparatus M NaCl However, for chymotrypsin-type serine proteases, the replacement of this aspartate with an alanine diminishes protease activity ... However, the ASAs of Asp113 and His57 remained constant when the side-chain at residue 169 was changed (Fig 3A) These results suggest that the side-chain at residue 169 is responsible for the solvent ... was used for energy minimization The solvent accessible surface areas (ASA) of individual residues in the API variants were calculated with the INSIGHT II/DISCOVER software The radius ofthe solvent...
... many ofthe standard results on de Rham or Dolbeault cohomology of nonsingular spaces will fail for singular spaces!) The concepts of K¨hler a classes and nef classes are still well defined (a K¨hler ... locally constant vector bundle over S, whose associated sheaf of sections is the direct image sheaf Rk π∗ (CX ) This locally constant system of C-vector space contains as a sublattice the locally ... In the case of projective manifolds, we get stronger and simpler versions ofthe above statements All these can be seen as an extension ofthe NakaiMoishezon criterion to arbitrary (1, 1)-classes...
... quantitative RT-PCR analysis The M sexta ribosomal protein S3 (rpS3) mRNA was used as an internal standard to normalize the amount of RNA template The primer pairs used are listed in Table S2 The thermal ... gaps were treated as characters, and statistical analysis was performed by the bootstrap method, using 1000 repetitions Quantitative RT-PCR analysis of Spatzle-1 mRNA ¨ level Fifth instar day ... proteinase called BAEEase as a candidate proSpatzle-1 ¨ activator, because it is activated by upstream serine proteinase cascade components in the presence of peptidoglycan and b-1,3-glucan, and has sequence...
... in the same office • A database administrator makes an extra copy ofthe database files, but says the tapes are bad He/she then carries the tapes out, and no one is the wiser • An insider has a ... • Attack: A deliberate attempt to compromise an organization s mission • Case: All events and states in the world associated with a related set of attacks A case may also be a set of other cases ... Build a library of attacks (scenarios) that researchers can use to train and test their anomaly detection systems The first research issue is related to the question of what datasets the researchers...