... and offer documents) to be paid directly from the fund The responsible entity recovers costs related to custody, and a portion of the costs related to audit, regulatory, production of the offer ... can appoint a verifying officer to identify your agents or signatories To appoint a verifying officer, you will need to complete the verifying officer form Copies of this form can be obtained from ... application is signed under Power of Attorney, the Attorney declares that he/she has not received notice of revocation ofthat power (a certified copy of the Power of Attorney should be submitted with...
... factors Various demographic, physical, psychosocial, and organizational factors have been investigated, yet results are often inconclusive Studies have shown that individuals over the age of ... the importance of considering other factors in addition to health to understand and possibly prevent disability Psychosocial factors, such as mental demands at work, controllability of work, time ... with their physical health and wellbeing and 21.9% had HSCL-25 scores equal to or above cut-off of 1.55 Continuous physically or mentally strenuous work was reported by 8.5% and 9.9% of the sample,...
... we can notice that there is a tool that helps the Agent to perform the action That is the semantic role of INSTRUMENT He felt sad about cutting his hair When the action is related to a feeling, ... the opposite of meaning The concrete formof antonymy is called “antonym” (opposite) The word pairs of antonym can be divided into several types: •Implicitly gradable pairs (graded antonym) •Complementary ... study of meaning Polysemy is the capacity for a sign or signs to have multiple related meanings Synonymy is a word with the same or similar meaning of another word Antonym is one of a pair of words...
... arrangement of the chain folding corresponds to an event of having a specific sequence of ϩ and Ϫ Another way to look at this sequence is torelate ϩ to the head and Ϫ to the tail in a series of coin tosses ... free MODELS OF POLYMER CHAINS a atomistic model b main-chain atoms c bonds only d thread model Figure 1.4 Simplification of chain conformation from an atomistic model (a) to main-chain atoms only ... Correlation of Random Force 3.4.3.3 Formal Solution 3.4.4 Results of the Normal-Coordinates 3.4.4.1 Correlation of qi(t) 3.4.4.2 End -to- End Vector 3.4.4.3 Center -of- Mass Motion 3.4.4.4 Evolution of qi(t)...
... appears to be the key factor for denitrification in the paddies in addition to the apparatus for paddy surface drainage treatment This information is an important indicator of the stabilization of ... types of quinone related to denitrification rates in the apparatus were thought to be similar to those in the surface of paddy soil, because microorganisms in the apparatus were thought to have ... Characteristics of Microorganisms were evaluated by the quinone compositions of microorganisms From the results, we conclude that Q-8, Q-9, MK-7 and MK-8 containing bacteria appear to strongly contribute to...
... moved to new positions The significance of this last observation is that due to the proximity of residues 120–125 from each subunit in the centre of the trimer, the side chains of Val122 of one ... corresponding to the presence of a given concentration of inhibitor I and I0.5 is the concentration of inhibitor for half-maximal inhibition Equation (3) was used for hyperbolic binding of ligands to the ... conformer and the dTTP-binding conformer of dCTP deaminase We were not able to identify structural changes in the main chain of the subunit, or in the interaction of subunits within the trimer that...
... the automatic stabilizers from 2012 to 2013 that is presented in Table C-2 of The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 The change in the automatic stabilizers reported in that ... fiscal policy in late 2012 to remove or offset all of the restraint that is scheduled to reduce the federal budget deficit by 5.1 percent of GDP between calendar years 2012 to 2013, real GDP would ... and 2013: Provisions of the Budget Control Act that established automatic enforcement procedures designed to restrain both discretionary and mandatory spending are set to take effect in January...
... downstream of a series of genes similar to the E coli mdoGH operon that govern the synthesis of OPGs belonging to family I In this paper, we describe the molecular and functional characterization of ... opgI131::kan, opposite to gene orientation 2.4.1 ndvB238::W (Strr, Spcr) Laboratory stock This work Laboratory stock This work This work This work This work This work This work Source of the W interposon ... into pRK415 digested with HindIII and KpnI, to give pGAK247 (Fig 3) A 1.2-kb BglII–KpnI fragment from pUI2509, containing an intact copy of opgI, was inserted into the BamHI site of pRK415, to...
... tailoring of a brochure advising a patient on the benefits and risks of hormone-replacement therapy needs to take into account a large number of interacting factors in her medical history and thatof ... the creation or inclusion of pieces of text, it is to be understood that these pieces might actually be not complete text but rather templates that are to be further customized by filling with the ... master documents, and specifies the name of the patient to whom it is to be given; in addition, she may offer, or be asked to provide, information to supplement that which the system will find in the...
... 5¢ -to- 3¢ polarity of the ligand follows thatof most other nucleic acid complexes of OB-fold proteins, starting in the vicinity of L12, proceeding along the N–C polarity of b2 and pointing towards ... obstruction of stem–loop formation prevents termination and leads to transcription of cistrons on the 3¢ side of termination sites The ability of the CSP to prevent doublestrand formation in ... (similar to state 2) (B) Superpositions of L34 residues from Gln34 to Lys39 involving all backbone atoms (Left) Superposition of two models featuring Glu36w ⁄ Gly37/ torsion angle combinations of state...
... Internalization of 125I-sMTf as a function of time is less marked than thatof 125I-Tf To determine whether SK-Mel-28 melanoma cells could internalize sMTf, experiments were performed to assess the uptake of ... competitive inhibitor of Fe uptake from Tf Incubation of cells with 59Fe-sMTf (0.05 mgÆmL)1) and a twofold excess of nonradioactive 56Fe-sMTf (0.1 mgÆmL)1) decreased 59Fe uptake to 29 ± 7% ofthat found ... of conjugates compared to free agents [49,50] It is possible that the use of the conjugate may enable the delivery of the agent to the lysosomal compartment that then results in degradation of...
... is bounded in R ∪ SR of Equation 9, such that it R The propertiesof particular solutions of Equation m Let Hn (x) be mth the harmonic of a homogeneous harmonic polynomial of degree n,a m m m ... correspond to the blocks of Jordan matrix JΛ, where both vi and gi are midimensional vector functions If Λ is a matrix of simple structure, then all mi = 1, i.e., (6) splits into N separate equations, ... main aim of this article is to give a well-posedness of the Dirichlet type problems to the system v0 − q(r)Lm0 (0)v0 = 0, (8) which is in accordance with eigenvalue l0 = of Λ In order to avoid...
... either multiples of b in [1, z0 ] or not divisible by b This implies that |B| ≤ |An | and completes the proof of part (i) of Theorem 3.1 Proof of Part (ii) : We divide the proof into two cases Case ... point to locate just one extra element in Ac we may for the remainder of this argument assume that b ≥ and that 1, ∈ A The latter implies that there are no solutions in A to either of the equations ... that B ∩ ( c n, n] contains no multiples of b But then another application of the induction hypothesis yields that |B| ≤ |An | in this case too Thus part (ii) of the theorem is proved Proof of...
... this paper is to present the method developed in our laboratory to measure the geometry of a standing mature tree and torelate it to the occurrence of reaction wood, even though that growth stresses ... internal quality of Pinus sylvestris They concluded that the current shape of a trunk is a good indicator of the location of compression wood but the relationship is complex and difficult to assess ... assumption was to consider the tree as a rigid body and to neglect the changes of shape of the stem and logs before and after felling and bucking For that it was necessary to know the location of the...
... removal of causative antibodies and to slow down the rate of hemolysis Splenectomy has been employed in patients with warm autoimmune hemolytic disease to slow down the hemolysis Recently, reports of ... 62-year-old Caucasian man with a history of chronic alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and confusion of three days’ duration The patient’s ... were significant for an elevated total Page of bilirubin level of 5.3 mg/dL, a direct bilirubin level of 1.8 mg/dL and an ammonia level of 136 μM/L His albumin and total protein levels were 3.1...
... different susceptibility to atherosclerosis, even in the presence of other risk factors, individual immune cell response to infective stimulus should be taken into account To the best of our knowledge ... the correction of risk factors may contribute to the assessment of the efficacy of drug therapy Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report ... presence of other risk factors, individual immune cell response to infective stimulus must be taken into account Case presentation A 43-year-old Caucasian man was referred to the Department of Internal...
... 10 No Timsit evidence of the cost of MRSA infections and provide new arguments for funding the fight against MRSA spread in the ICU Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing ... coding of complications? Med Care 2000, 38:868-876 Combes A, Luyt CE, Fagon JY, Wollf M, Trouillet JL, Gibert C, Chastre J; PNEUMA Trial Group: Impact of methicillin resistance on outcome of Staphylococcus ... 1998, 17:622-628 Rello J, Torres A, Ricart M, Valles J, Gonzalez J, Artigas A, Rodriguez-Roisin R: Ventilator-associated pneumonia by Staphylococcus aureus Comparison of methicillin-resistant...
... appropriate cut-off point with a sensitivity for death of 64% (95% CI = 47 to 82%), specificity of 74% (95% CI = 65 to 84%), PPV of 47% (95% CI = 31 to 63%) and a NPV of 85% (95% CI = 77 to 94%) In ... the NPV of 88% demonstrated that low lactate levels identified patients with a low risk of dying Our study found that a cut-off value of 3.5 mmol/L for the out -of- hospital setting is close to 4.0 ... CI = 53 to 73%) for prediction of death, with a PPV of 41% (95% CI = 29 to 54%) and a NPV of 88% (95% CI = 80 to 96%) Mortality in patients with a high lactate level was 41% (95% CI = 29 to 54%),...
... self-assessment tool Of the 41 suggested modifications, 14 were related to Leadership (38,39%), to Policy & strategy (32,14%), to People (18,92%), to Processes (14,89%), to Customer results and ... presume that these results are related to the fact that many experts are programme leaders and thus, are more aware of practices that pertain to Leadership Also, experts may have been aware of the ... belong to the sub-criteria that concern the interaction of programme coordinators with politicians, customers, partners and representatives of society While our study revealed that most of the...
... using NaOH Prior to use 12.5 ml of M MgCl2, 12.5 ml of M MgSO4 and 10 ml of M glucose are added to complete the NZY+ broth Liquid SOB media contains 20 g Bacto tryptone, g Bacto yeast extract, ... for adequate growth and division The landmark events of G1 are formation of the bud and septin ring, polarization of the actin cytoskeleton towards the new bud site and spindle pole body duplication ... mechanism of factor recruitment to sites of polarized growth by Cln (1 or 2)/Cdc28 is not fully understood but recent evidence demonstrates that the Cdc42 GAPs, Bem2 and Bem3, are subject to Cln2/Cdc28...