... population and 0.9 percent of businesses, while Asian and Pacific Islanders constitute 3.6 percent of the population and 4.4 percent of businesses 21 Clearly minority-owned businesses have become a fast ... organizational cultureand supplier diversity effectiveness The cultureof organizations is reflected in shared values and beliefs and guides the behavior of organizational members such as buyers Culture ... of Spending Passive-Defensive Cultures for Diversity Moderate Levels of Spending AgressiveDefensive Cultures for Diversity Low Levels of Spending Figure Conceptual Model This research will test...
... population and 0.9 percent of businesses, while Asian and Pacific Islanders constitute 3.6 percent of the population and 4.4 percent of businesses 21 Clearly minority-owned businesses have become a fast ... organizational cultureand supplier diversity effectiveness The cultureof organizations is reflected in shared values and beliefs and guides the behavior of organizational members such as buyers Culture ... of Spending Passive-Defensive Cultures for Diversity Moderate Levels of Spending AgressiveDefensive Cultures for Diversity Low Levels of Spending Figure Conceptual Model This research will test...
... influences of adiponectin on insulin resistance, type diabetes, and cardiovascular disease Diabetes 2007; 5: 1198-209 Hu XB, Zhang YJ, Zhang HT, et al Cloning and expression of adiponectin and its ... cloned into the expression vector PET28a at Nhe I and HindIII sites Expression of N-terminal His-tagged gAd-GLP-1-A fusion protein and Western blot analysis Protein expression: The Escherichia coli ... agent for the treatment of type diabetes [2] Glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) is an incretin hormone released from islet -cell and intestinal L-cells in response to the ingestion of food [3] It plays...
... closing of roads, prizes, arrangement of fields, suspension of regular business and newspaper advertisements, necessitating the patronage of local squires or landowners But whatever its rules or ... all scenes of popular resort have been smothered with piles of brick; football and cricket grounds, bowling greens, and the enclosures or open places set apart for archery and other pastimes have ... drawn on these themes Tony Mason’s work on soccer and Wray Vamplew’s analysis of the development of professional sport have established the social history of sport as a legitimate area of study...
... semantics of job titles and descriptions, and in daily idiom 2.3.1.2 Espoused values The second level of corporate culture is espoused values that can be represented by the philosophies, strategies and ... questions that cover the concept of corporate culture Question and question asks about the awareness of interviewees about corporate cultureand its importance in business Question and question ... willingness, development, resource acquisition and external support Besides, because of bringing innovation and creativity, these processes encourages radical thinking, launches new ventures, speculates...
... arrangement and the accumulation of the individual tubules into inclusion bodies In silico analyses of NP (accession number: Z12132) revealed two stretches of 27 aa in the central part of NP (aa ... mutants of NP and reporter gene activity (CAT) was measured Below the CAT assay, expression of NP and the NP mutants was confirmed in Western Blot analysis +: presence of L -: absence of L (negative ... order Mononegavirales, Sendai virusand measles virus, a conserved central part of NP has been found to be necessary for homooligomerization of NP [21-23] Interestingly, the respective regions...
... detection of genotypes C1 and D1 and the first detections of genotypes C2, D2, D4, E and F As virologic surveillance expanded in the late 1980s and 1990s, the number of genotypes detected in cases and ... recommended a standard protocol for the designation of measles genotypes These recommendations, updated in 2001 and 2003, also included a standard analysis protocol and designation of standard reference ... abstracts describing measles genotyping Figure 2004 Temporal distribution of measles virus genotypes 1951 – Temporal distribution of measles virus genotypes 1951 – 2004 Summary of distribution of MV...
... the mecha- nism by which DA survives in macrophages may clarify DA persistence L and picornaviruses The aphthoviruses and caridioviruses are the only members of the Picornaviridae family that ... is cleavage of the p220 component of the cap-binding protein complex [32], resulting in the shut off of host protein synthesis On the other hand, the function of L of the cardioviruses is not well ... P388D1, was infected by wild type DA (which synthesizes L*) as well as DAL*-1 and GDVII viruses (neither of which synthesizes L*) DAL*-1 and GDVII viruses induced DNA laddering 12 hrs p.i., however,...
... arrangement and the accumulation of the individual tubules into inclusion bodies In silico analyses of NP (accession number: Z12132) revealed two stretches of 27 aa in the central part of NP (aa ... mutants of NP and reporter gene activity (CAT) was measured Below the CAT assay, expression of NP and the NP mutants was confirmed in Western Blot analysis +: presence of L -: absence of L (negative ... order Mononegavirales, Sendai virusand measles virus, a conserved central part of NP has been found to be necessary for homooligomerization of NP [21-23] Interestingly, the respective regions...
... detection of genotypes C1 and D1 and the first detections of genotypes C2, D2, D4, E and F As virologic surveillance expanded in the late 1980s and 1990s, the number of genotypes detected in cases and ... recommended a standard protocol for the designation of measles genotypes These recommendations, updated in 2001 and 2003, also included a standard analysis protocol and designation of standard reference ... abstracts describing measles genotyping Figure 2004 Temporal distribution of measles virus genotypes 1951 – Temporal distribution of measles virus genotypes 1951 – 2004 Summary of distribution of MV...
... epidermis of the muzzle and lips (Fig 1) No visible lesions were found in other locations Figure Representative clinical cases of ORFV infection in goats (A) Goat with severe proliferative lesions of ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/78 Page of Table 1: Detailed information on the ORFV used in the analysis; " -" indicates host species unknown S.No Virus strains Country and year of isolation Accession Number Host species NZ2/2005 ... editors and anonymous reviewers for their editing and revision the manuscript Author Details Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, State Key Laboratory of...
... (DQ263303) The sequences of MT05 and India82/04 showed 99.8% and 100% similarities at the nucleotide and amino acid level, respectively Multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences revealed a MT05 ... (Figure 1-A), and the paired identity at the nucleotide level ranged from 98.2% to 99.8% and from 98% and 99.8% for the MT05 and NE1 isolates, respectively Nucleotide and amino acid sequences demonstrated ... CB and EK participated in the planning of the project EK was the leader of the project ZL and CM collected the samples JA and RC, performed the PCR and phylogenetic analysis All authors read and...
... to investigate and understand the pathogenesis of EPEC and EHEC Approaches for understanding the pathogenesis of EPEC and EHEC, which involves studying the molecular and cellular basis of microbial ... representation of the EPEC/EHEC type III secretion apparatus The basal body of the TTSS is composed of the secretin EscC, the inner membrane proteins EscR, EscS, EscT, EscU, and EscV, and the EscJ ... microcolonies at a limited number of sites on the epithelial surface The existence of intestinal adherence factors of Stx-producing E coli strains of serotypes O157:H7 is suggested by the isolation of...
... DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE STUDIES NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2006 Acknowledgment The completion of this thesis certainly requires more than my personal effort First of all, ... medicine) and the likes This is an entirely new phenomenon, and it suggests that Chinese intellectuals attempted to “nationalize” their traditional culture My thesis examines this phenomenon and its ... consciousness as well as the initial conception of national essence and the likes 2) for 1912-1928, from the triumph of “1911 Revolution”, to the establishment of the Republican government of Nanjing,...
... handicraft markets.” Journal of Consumer Culture, (1), pp 5-32 Wherry, F F (2012) The cultureof markets Cambridge, England: Polity Press Wilk, R R (1996) Economies and cultures: Foundations of ... http://www.nhb.gov.sg/NHBPortal/AboutUs/Overview Preservation of Sites and Monuments (2013) About Preservation of Sites and Monuments Retrieved on 29 October, 2013, from http://www.nhb.gov.sg/NHBPortal/Institutions/PreservationofSitesandMonuments?_a ... less permanent alliances) Can you give me examples of who you buy and sell more frequently with, and less frequently with? Note: Pattern of more and less permanent alliances in the market, and...
... career and postgraduate advice, kept me on track with my thesis, and seen me through various phases of life as I matured from my undergraduate years Besides being my voice of reason and a professor ... their social circles and the marketplace itself They patiently taught a novice researcher and wet market patron about their cultureand memories, and blessed me with their care and friendship (along ... narratives of the disappearing marketplace 101 5.2 Of hardship and resignation: the hawkers’ narrative 103 5.3 Of inconvenience and resignation: the customers’ narrative 109 5.4 Of formal history and...
... marketplaces; marketplaces are spaces of commingling and meeting of strangers, andof mediating ethnic, class, and gender differences among heterogeneous groups (ibid.) In this thesis, I expand this research ... Watson and Studdert (2006:3) lament that the sparse literature on marketplaces privileges the economic dimension of these spaces and rarely explores the role of 15 marketplaces as sites of sociality, ... substantivist school of thought, and social networks theory – have dominated the field of economic sociology I will here assess the features, strengths and weaknesses of these paradigms, and communicate...
... institutional practices and policies, and the formation of new start-up business, a research was conducted in 44 countries that employed culture dimensions of Hofstede (1988) and a profile of environmental ... populations of Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, and native Hawaiian firms Their research finding had been presented the most identity of Vietnamese respondents are honesty, hard ... locus of control and innovativeness The results of the study give empirical evidence that on the one hand, individualistic cultures have a more internal locus of control than collectivist cultures,...
... by plaque forming assay The amplification profile of the assay is shown in Figure 1A The assay also showed linear results for the logs of the serial dilutions of the seed viruses as indicated in ... amplification of RNA extracted from uninfected human samples (sera samples, n = 5) and different RNA viruses were tested No positive results were obtained from the uninfected human samples Furthermore, ... identified in the regions of E1, nsP1, nsP2, Page ofand nsP4 genes More than 20 sets of primer pairs were synthesized and screened for initial evaluation of their specificity and sensitivity (Data...
... subunits in the trimeric structures Several disparate viruses, including arenaviruses, coronaviruses, filoviruses, orthomyxoviruses, paramyxoviruses and retroviruses, encode similar proteins that ... orthomyxoviruses, paramyxoviruses, filoviruses, coronaviruses, and herpesviruses have also been identified and shown to inhibit viral entry [10-18] The envelope fusion proteins of several virus types, ... the large number of other viruses with class II envelope fusion proteins with or without known structures Materials and methods Design and synthesis of peptides Sequences of DENV and WNV E with...