... sensitive and specific for SPPV and GTPV antibody detection, and was easier to produce and perform, and less expensive, than existing serological methods for SPPV and GTPV antibody detection The ... and B peptide based on P32 main antigen region were synthesized, and incorporated A and B to develop an ELISA method for detecting SPPV and GTPV antibody in animals Preliminary optimization of ... alignment and drafted the manuscript YC and JW carried out the MNT and established indirect ELISA YS participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis XL conceived of the...
... American Psychological Association (1985) Standards for educational and psychological testing Washington, DC: Author Anastasi, A., (1982).Psychological testing London: Macmillan Anastasi, A and ... and Test Analysis Program-ITEMAN for Windows Version 3.50 to analyze item difficulty and item discrimination, and to evaluate contruct validity 3.3.2 Participants The study is heavily based on ... can best redirect their future efforts Tests can help In addition, good tests can sustain or enhance class morale and aid learning 2.2 Language Testing Language testing is one of the forms of...
... hexosamines according to Elson and Morgan Acta Chem Scand., Vol.2, 467-473 Blumenkrantz, N and Asboe-Hansen, G (1973) New method for quantitative determination of uronic acids Anal Biochem., Vol.54, ... method of Blumenkrantz and Hansen (1973) with a glucuronic acid/galacturonic acid 1:1 standard Hexosamine was determined by the method of Blix (1948) with a glucosamine standard Phosphorus was determined ... study of floc strength and reflocculation of activated sludge Environ Tech Lett., Vol.2, 579-588 Kurane, R Takeda, K and Suzuki, T (1986) Screening forand characteristics of microbial flocculants...
... Exceptions.”) This ensures that a destructor always calls its base class destructor It's important to realize that only the compiler can make this translation You can't override Finalize yourself and ... language like C#, which places robustness and security high on its list of design goals Instead, the garbage collector is responsible for destroying objects for you The garbage collector guarantees ... guarantees are tremendously useful and free you, the programmer, from tedious housekeeping chores that are easy to get wrong They allow you to concentrate on the logic of the program itself and...
... Ecological Questions, Conservation Challenges, and Long-Term Research The conservation of biodiversity and the management of wildlife require an understanding of the basic ecology of animals That ... publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management We provide solutions-oriented information to professionals, public officials, business and community leaders, and concerned ... Density-Dependence and the Question of Population Regulation 177 11 Female Reproductive Strategy and Ungulate Population Dynamics 191 12 Management and Conservation of Mountain Goats 204 13 Long-Term Monitoring...
... ortholog from S mansoni J M Carlo et al enhanced the interaction of SmSmad2 and SmSmad4 and resulted in the formation of a stable and functional Smad complex [6,7] The above results are consistent with ... interaction of SmSmad4 with SmGCN5 and demonstrated its participation in the formation and, probably, the stabilization of the transcriptional protein complex Figure 9B shows that the presence of SmTbRI-QD ... basal transcription machinery and therefore activate transcription on both naked and chromatin templates, the Smads only activate transcription from chromatin templates [36] The transcriptional...
... rank the answers and offer bonuses forpeople providing good ones However, both sites suffer from excess of information FAQ-pages tend to also answer questions which are not asked, and also contain ... selection of natural questions The articles varied in topic, degree of formality and the amount of details; from ”Horror film” and ”Christmas worldwide” to ”G-Man (Half-Life)” and ”History of London” ... corpus consists of questions with their rephrased versions and answers There are total of 695 questions, of which 159 were considered unanswerable based on the articles, and 536 that have 810 answers...
... molecules responsible for immunosurveillance, there is strong evidence for their functional role in antigen binding First, an analysis of mutational patterns of membrane-bound and secreted forms of nurse ... replaced with alanine and valine, respectively, and the resultant VNARs evaluated for retention of binding affinity Material and methods Equipment and reagents Restriction enzymes and Vent DNA polymerase ... Library construction and panning DNA library cassettes encoding the Wobbegong VNAR with randomization of the CDR3 loop were constructed as described [10], using CDR3 randomization oligonucleotide...
... BSA was measured as a control and the activities of all of the samples were analyzed after 90 of incubation The concentration of BSA in each of the activity analysis reaction mixtures was adjusted ... incubated for 90 at 40 °C in 30 mM buffers: Na acetate, pH 4.1 and 4.9; Na citrate, pH 5.9 and 6.4; or Tris/HCl, pH 7.7 and 8.5 The activity of each sample was measured after and 90 of incubation For ... enzyme preparations contained a Fig SDS/PAGE pattern of the puri®ed proteinase Lanes and 2: 0.5 and 1.5 lg of CM-HPLC puri®ed enzyme; lane 3: molecular mass standards protein of mass 28 663 ...
... characteristics, and fate Petroleum is formed from the ancient remains of marine plant and animal life under extreme heat and pressure in an anaerobic environment Depending on the composition of the organic ... reliability, low cost, speed of analysis, ease of use, portability, and sensitivity (Van Emon and Gerlach 1998) Immunoassays can be faster and cheaper to manufacture and use than traditional techniques, ... quantification of petroleum can be used to verify the cleanup activity, determine the necessary actions, and streamline the amount andtypeof resources needed for such efforts Other uses of...
... rational development and testing of candidate live attenuated vaccines and antiviral therapeutics against CVA16 Methods Cells and viruses RD and Vero cells were grown in DMEM (Gibco, Grand Island, ... structural (P1) and non-structural (P2 and P3) regions [19] Recent efforts have been directed toward the understanding of the expression, processing, and function of CVA16-encoded proteins For example, ... investigation of hand, foot, and mouth disease, southern Vietnam, 2005 Emerg Infect Dis 2007, 13:1733–1741 Ang LW, Koh BK, Chan KP, Chua LT, James L, Goh KT: Epidemiology and control of hand, foot and...
... treatment, and the scales of EDSIS, ECI-negative and GHQ-12 were low, and most were non significant Significant correlations were found between typeof diagnosis and Dys- Table 3: Correlations between ... contributions ARS conceived and designed the study, oversaw all stages of data collection and analysis, and drafted the manuscript JW conducted focus groups, provided clinical advice on design and ... number of specialist services and via the magazine of the main voluntary user and carer organisation and the generalisability of these results are uncertain Conclusion There is currently no questionnaire...
... rational development and testing of candidate live attenuated vaccines and antiviral therapeutics against CVA16 Methods Cells and viruses RD and Vero cells were grown in DMEM (Gibco, Grand Island, ... structural (P1) and non-structural (P2 and P3) regions [19] Recent efforts have been directed toward the understanding of the expression, processing, and function of CVA16-encoded proteins For example, ... investigation of hand, foot, and mouth disease, southern Vietnam, 2005 Emerg Infect Dis 2007, 13:1733–1741 Ang LW, Koh BK, Chan KP, Chua LT, James L, Goh KT: Epidemiology and control of hand, foot and...
... and the uniqueness of the deflection ofan infinite beam resting on a both non-uniform and nonlinear elastic foundation by means of Banach fixed point theorem In fact, this restriction on the candidate ... Definition of the problem We deal with the question of existence and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear deflections foran infinitely long beam resting on a nonlinear elastic foundation which is non-uniform ... equivalent to the nonlinear and non-uniform beam equation The properties of the nonlinear, non-uniform elastic foundation are analyzed in Section 3, and a close investigation on the basic integral...
... optimization introduced in [2] Here, apart from providing a new theoretical energy-consumption analysis in nonsaturation conditions, an energy-efficiency comparison between DQMAC performance and that of ... energy-efficiency theoretical analysis for nonsaturation conditions and evaluate its performance in front of 802.15.4 MAC and BSN-MAC in BSN scenarios, bearing medical applications in mind Please note ... energy consumption is computed considering each body sensor time and power consumption in each of these states in non-saturation conditions Figure portrays the analytical results of the energy consumption...
... and the uniqueness of the deflection ofan infinite beam resting on a both non-uniform and nonlinear elastic foundation by means of Banach fixed point theorem In fact, this restriction on the candidate ... Definition of the problem We deal with the question of existence and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear deflections foran infinitely long beam resting on a nonlinear elastic foundation which is non-uniform ... equivalent to the nonlinear and non-uniform beam equation The properties of the nonlinear, non-uniform elastic foundation are analyzed in Section 3, and a close investigation on the basic integral...
... and transport information for congestion and network utilization purposes If the transport is aware of the links’ status, it can distinguish between congestion due to physical failures and congestion ... traditionally decrease the performances of wireless networks in any environment We believe that the contributions of our work can go well beyond the implementation and testing of a specific enhanced ... the 2nd Annual Conference on Wireless On- Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS ’05), pp 158–163, St Moritz, Switzerland, January 2005 [13] G Bianchi, “Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11...
... properties and therefore permeability of their dry film are compared as boron retention agent The impact of these combinations is evaluated for boron retention and biological resistance to termites and ... formosan subterranean termites, For Prod J 42 (1992) 61–65 [7] Hamilton S.J., Buhl K.J., Acute toxicity of boron, molybdenum and selenium to fry of Chinook salmon and Coho salmon, Arch Environ ... peptone, 15 g of malt extract and 000 mL of distilled water; for Brown rot fungi: 80 mL of a solution containing 20 g of glucose, 1.5 g of peptone, 7.5 g of malt extract and 000 mL of distilled...
... [54,55] and principle components analyses of the Irish cohort both in comparison to similar cohorts from the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland [15], and in separate analyses in comparison ... amplification of size-selected libraries; and library quality control and quantification For each library μg of DNA was diluted to 300 μl and fragmented via sonication - 30 cycles on Biorupter ... Tong et al.: Sequencing and analysis ofan Irish human genome Genome Biology 2010 11:R91 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission...