... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing
school.
Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of
attending college. Further, ... Destin, 2009). Charles, Roscigno,
and Torres (2007) is the only study ofthe seven to examine the relationship between parent school
savings and college attendance. They find that having savings ... None ofthe
existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study
examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance.
Theoretical...
... suggested by the lack of coincidence of
the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in
k
and by the hysteresis ofthe reversibility process
(Fig. 4). At the end ofthe transition, the intrinsic ... that of the
wild-type; however, the integrity ofthe calcium bind-
ing site formed by Asp287 and Glu53 is essential for
interaction with the cation in 7.9 m GdmCl.
An interesting finding ofthe ... observed for the wild-type,
indicating the involvement of Glu53 and Asp287 in the
interaction with the cation (Fig. 1E,F). The regain of
aromatic chirality at 295 nm andinthe 260–270 nm
region for...
... for the central roleof ADAM10 and confirming that
TACE has a minor roleinthe a-secretase cleavage of APP
in human cells.
During the course ofthe present study it was reported
using an RNA interference ... critically involved
in blood pressure regulation due to its action in generating
angiotensin II andin inactivating bradykinin [1]. The
enzyme also has a roleinthe development of vascular
pathology and ... acid-based
metalloprotease inhibitors [14] inthe presence or absence
of APMA. Inthe majority of cases there was little difference
between the effect of inhibitors on the constitutive shedding
of ACE andthe APMA-induced...
... provided
further insight into the molecular mechanism driving the
formation ofthe covalent C115–fosfomycin adduct. A
conservative exchange of K22 to arginine maintains fosfo-
mycin binding, while ... in fosfomycin
binding, andin view ofthe multitude of interactions, it was
assumed that deletion of a single interaction would not lead
to a complete loss of fosfomycin binding. Therefore it ... form ofthe protein.
The results obtained with the K22V/R120K double
mutant protein point toward a central roleof arginine 120
in the conformational process occurring during catalysis.
Therefore,...
... University
Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and
training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the
training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius
in Northern Allegheny ... Programs
and Initiatives
Business accelerators and/ or entrepreneurial initiatives
Linking teaching and research to business opportunities
Collaboration with local business and industry
Small Business ... substance
Stimulate intellectual growth and individual productive
capacity
Ensure a stable supply of knowledge and skills in high
need areas
Increase the size, diversity of skills and productivity ofthe
labor...
... recruiting large
enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-
ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground
up and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and other
inputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc-
ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... recruiting large firms with tax incentives and other
inducements is to focus on the small business sector. Perhaps the great-
est generator of interest in entrepreneurship and small business is the
widely...
... domain is one of the
few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) or
leucine (L) inthe conserved sequence. To determine
whether DptF is the putative partner of DptE, we
expressed dptF using ... dptF using the pQTev vector in E. coli and
purified the resulting ACP as an N-terminal His7 fusion
protein (Fig. 3) with a yield of 9.5 mgặL
)1
of culture.
The identity ofthe protein was proven ... [37].
Interestingly, inthe case ofthe lipopeptide surfactin,
neither an acyl CoASH ligase-like domain nor an ACP
could be identified within the biosynthetic gene cluster
using bioinformatic tools...
... OS-fitness ofthe clone, the ratio ofthe specic
absorbance inthe presence of 10 lgặmL
)1
HEL to that
in the absence of HEL was taken as an index.
To analyze the effect ofthe type of each FR2 ... antigen in itself [7,20]. At
least for these antibodies, theroleofthe V
L
domain
might be to increase the affinity by supporting the V
H
domain. The phenomenon may also be observed in
the chain ... correlation between the antigen-
binding affinity andthe V
H
⁄ V
L
interaction, especially inthe presence of a
set of particular V
L
residues. The effect ofthe H39 mutation on the wild-
type variable...
... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringa
hand to pragmatic understanding: Theroleof speech and gesture in
comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,
577–592.
Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor-
mative cue according to the content ofthe lecture. The results of
the questionnaire revealed that the majority of those who
reported they paid ... minimal reference to the outline during
recording. The first part ofthe lecture covered definitions of
terms and a brief history of ceramics, which tended to be done
in narrative form. Most of...
... of roles and statuses, not inthe
feeling-state of one or another type of
personality (p.6-7)
Whereas sociological ambivalence in
conceptualized as resulting from
conflicting social roles ...
This finding is just reverse ofthe finding of
Belk (1973).
Ruth, Brunel, Otnes (1999) classified
categories of gift-giving into public
occasion (i.e., Christmas, Chinese New
Year), individual ... (1973) examined
the frequency of all gift-giving occasions in
the U.S and found that the most popular
occasion is birthday (35 percent) andthe
second one is Christmas (29 percent). The
other...
...
mainly individuals and small businesses, the
traditional target client group of savings
banks. By capturing and channelling more
of the remittances into the financial system
and intermediating ... out of
the savings banks movement, have done a
Bringing the Hidden Giants to the
Footlight: theRoleof Savings and
Retail Banks in Increasing the Level
of Access to Financial Services
Chris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting
loan repayments.
Another promising track for savings
banks is to invest their savings deposits in
microfinance institutions by specialising
in wholesale...
... documents and find that the fea-
ture vectors corresponding to some of these docu-
ments (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes
in them. In other words, none ofthe bigrams from
the training ... one in which the
author himself likes the movie, andinthe other,
the author’s cousin likes the movie. The over-
generalization resulting from these “stemmed” re-
lations renders dependency information ... extracting objective materials and re-
moving them from the reviews is not effective in
terms of improving performance. To determine the
reason, we examine the n-grams andthe depen-
dency relations...
... bridging the
A’ and G b-strands ofthe I27 protein during the main unfold-
ing barrier.
[39]
To further validate this view and gain insight into
the roleof solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, ... rapidly, causing the unfolding of one of
the I27 modules inthe chain. Unfolding then extends the over-
all length ofthe protein, relaxing the pulling force to a low
value. As the slack inthe length ... Snapshot ofthe b-strands A’ and G ofthe I27 protein
showing the protein backbone only for simplicity. C) Snapshot ofthe b-
strands A’ and G ofthe I27 protein showing 4 D
2
O molecules bridging the
protein...
... (glycero-)sphingolipids. In addition the
fatty acid chains ofthe phospholipids composing
these rigid domains are generally more saturated than
those inthe lipids ofthe surrounding membrane. In
fact, this ... cluster in
response to extracellular stimuli andthe size of the
domains containing those clusters has been estimated.
In summary, multiple lines of evidence have helped to
argue in favour ofthe ... carefully.
Isolation of lipid rafts ⁄ caveolae is very often the first
step inthe biochemical analysis oftheroleof these
domains in cellular signalling. After disruption of cells,
lipid rafts...