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... enter the periplasm through porins in the outer membrane, and some drugs exert their effect in the periplasm; for example, ampicillin andthe other -lactams interfere with the synthesis of the ... the outer membrane, the peptidoglycan cell wall, the periplasm, which contains enzymes required to synthesize the cell wall, andthe cytoplasmic membrane (a) The entry point and targets of antimicrobial ... thank the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy andthe Royal Society for funding Other...
... philosophy, and law He writes and blogs regularly on these topics, and is the author of Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity and Character (Stanford, 2011) and editor of The Thief of ... own frameworks and paradigms by exploringthe philosophy and methodology of social economics in relation to orthodox and other heterodox approachesto economics By furthering these goals, this ... the task of supplying shirts tothe world’s population, the complexity of the challenge would render it impossible to achieve and lead to chaos The lesson, counterintuitive to many, is that the...
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... between the enzyme and coenzyme at both the cobalamin moiety andthe adenine ring of the adenosyl group seem to produce angular strains and tensile force that likely contribute to labilization of the ... and catalysis, but can not predict the extents of their contributions tothe enzyme catalysis The structural and biochemical studies are complementary to each other In this paper, we report the ... It was demonstrated that the adenine ring andthe ribosyl moiety of the adenosyl group are required for tight binding tothe apoenzyme and for transmitting strains tothe Co-C bond, respectively,...
... vector of expected stock returns at time t, F is a vector of risk factors with mean zero and unitary variance, S is a matrix of the sensitivity coefficients tothe risk factors, and z is a vector ... tests, the b-test reports the significance of either the money-center variable or the post-October 1979 variable The a-test reports the F-value for the joint test that the coefficients of both the ... insignificant in both the unexpected and actual value estimations This is due tothe diffusion of the market factor by the interest and exchange rate risk factors within the context of a multifactor model...
... state of mind, their physical condition, the degree to which they appeared to fully understand the aims of the study, the extent to which they assented to participate in the study, andthe relative ... other youth tothe study (she said that she knew others) and they explained how the coupons worked She seemed decidedly uninterested in recruiting others tothe study and made no commitment to ... bring their acquaintances to get interviewed, and they sometimes gathered in numbers far too large for the interview team to handle Because of the large number of youth who flocked tothe study, the...