... KAL's cartoon Leaders Energy Middle East and Africa Thefutureofenergy Europe Britain Thefutureofthe European Union A special report on thefutureofenergyThe power and the glory Trade winds ... prospects of Europe's biggest stateless minority THE village of Vizuresti lies 35km (22 miles) from Bucharest and on the wrong side ofthe tracks For the first few miles the road fromthe highway ... in the war for the Taliban's propaganda machine EVEN NATO officials gave grudging respect to the audacity ofthe Taliban raid that sprang the entire population ofthe main prison in the southern...
... biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy, and geothermal energy So far, even the high potential of RE resources, their contribution in electricity production in Vietnam is still negligible The Government ... resources (small hydropower; biomass/biogas energy, bio- fuel, wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy and tide) The potential role of RE in the National energy supply –demand balance RE strategy ... Small Hydropower Energy Technical potential > 4000 MW Geothermal energy and other types (tide, ocean waves ) Potential of geothermal energy resources: 200- 340 MW The renewable energy type such...
... makes it very hard to predict thefuture climate Then there are the other possible causes and contributors, like changes in theenergy output or magnetic activity fromthe sun Recent data suggest ... dividend checks from auctioning their carbon credits You might think these checks would offset the costs ofthe plan As carbon prices rise, so the dividend checks But so theenergy prices that ... even in the recent past.10 Much of this has come not from government control ofthe economy, but fromthe prosperity created by free people in free economies In the developed world, most ofthe really...
... water, the expansion of which provokes the formation of micro air bubbles The particles, that are likely to decant, accumulate at the bottom ofthe truncated part and are then evacuated towards the ... other petroleum products resold to the Ivorian Refining Company (SIR) The hydroskimming units and the DHC are the main producers of waste water Figure describes the treating process flow ofthe ... truncated base where they are evacuated 8) The observation tank The treated water flows through the siphoned partitions ofthe flotator and, under the influence of gravity, goes down in the equilibrium...
... to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core ofthe IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences ofthe respective genes The ... sequence show a degree of similarity to the carp IL-10 sequence The most highly conserved stretch in the IL-10 family is at the C-terminus in the C-helix and at the Nterminus ofthe F-helix; a similar ... against products of b-actin The x-axis indicates the time-periods of LPS incubation and the relative expression ofthe carp IL-10 gene on the y-axis Controls for 0, 1, and h of incubation without...
... 1) Subsite mapping On the basis ofthe assumptions of Hiromi [30] that the intrinsic rate of hydrolysis (kint) in the productive complex is independent ofthe length ofthe substrate, Km and ... subsite order from )5 to +3 [5] As the substrate most likely binds to the nonreducing end towards the N-terminus ofthe enzyme 5468 Fig Schematic representation ofthe subsite map of exopolygalacturonase ... the substrate, thereby facilitating binding to the substrate-binding cleft It is obvious that elucidation ofthe 3D structure of PelB would give more insight into structural organization of the...
... (e.g., the height of a person), while for others it is only the center of a distribution (e.g., the weight of a coffee cup) Questions with no trusted and exact answers were eliminated Fromthe remaining ... object During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract fromthe text a set of values for the requested object The bounds processing step rejects some of these values, and the comparisons ... choose the most frequent value based on the number of web snippets retrieved during the value acquisition stage If there are several values with the same frequency we select the median of these...
... the number of pages that contain the term on the Web We use the following notation H(x) = the number of pages that contain the term x” The number H(x) can be used as an estimated frequency of ... collected from each seed word, and then checked whether each ofthe target terms was included in the system output We counted the number of target terms in the following five cases The right half ... total; the average number of output terms per input is 12.2 terms We checked whether each ofthe 610 terms is a correct related term ofthe original seed term by hand The result is shown in the...
... air quality model to estimate the dispersion function, the accuracy ofthe estimated emissions will depend on the ability ofthe model to reproduce the dispersion ofthe pollutants Until now, in ... and when the wind is perpendicular to the street axis, the concentration of pollutants increases at the leeward side ofthe street concentrations are higher than that in the morning From pm to ... difference in the emission factors of VOCs for LDVs and HDVs The emission factors calculated in this study are generally higher compared to the results ofthe other studies around the world Only the emission...
... focused on the thermal stability, revealing that the secondary structure ofthe enzyme remains intact up to the upper limit ofthe investigated temperature range (99 °C) [1,4] To our knowledge the pressure ... in the protein In addition to pressure and temperature, the chemical composition ofthe protein solution (pH, salts) will also influence the stability ofthe enzyme In particular, the effect of ... treatment The pressure–temperature dependence ofthe pH ofthe Mes buffer (pH 6.0) was calculated in the relevant range for the enzyme inactivation experiments, using the equation of Elyanov...
... di-sodiated forms ofthe de-O-acylated LOS and the ion with m ⁄ z of 1479.6 is the anhydrous form ofthe de-O-acylated LOS The ion 1277.6 is the de-protonated molecular ion from de-O-acylated ... construction ofthe lgt3 mutant in M catarrhalis O35E Large arrows represent the direction of transcription; the site ofthe transposon insertion identified in the O35E is denoted as EN:TN, and the location ... consisted of Glc, Gal, GlcNAc and Kdo, whereas the carbohydrates derived fromthe mutant O35Elgt3 consisted exclusively of Glc and Kdo The glycosyl linkage analysis by GC-MS showed that the OSs from the...
... that the number of pilots hired by the major airlines is an indicator of some ofthe uncertainty in the civilian market and measures to some extent the health ofthe airline industry The number of ... YOS 20) as the difference between the log ofthe two expected earnings profiles.12 Whereas ideally we would like to separate the effect of ACP fromthe effect of other military pay on the stay-or-leave ... construct expected pay from civilian airlines Furthermore, because much ofthe variation ofthe civilian pay profile lies in the probability of being hired, the number of civilian major airline...
... above The fulllength cDNA of lac1 was then generated by 3¢-RACE using the primer 5¢-TCTCAACCGTCGACAGCAG TGTTCGTG-3¢ designed fromthe sequence ofthe extreme 5¢ end of lac1 The full-length cDNA of ... Although the spectral characteristics ofthe lac1 protein suggest the absence of a type copper site, this is not borne out by analysis ofthe deduced amino acid sequence ofthe enzyme Thus, the 10 ... positively affected the activity and stability ofthe enzyme [40] The effect of copper on enzyme stability may be related to the inhibitory effect ofthe metal on the activity of an extracellular...
... with the side chain of Lys10 The unusual chemical shift values ofthe side-chain protons of Lys10 are consistent with the vicinity ofthe aromatic ring Other residues giving NOE peaks to the indole ... Cys27 These data together with the calculated structures are indicative of a number of intersheet hydrogen bonds in both ofthe molecules The exchanging properties ofthe amide protons of SGCI[L30R, ... Furthermore, the results ofthe H±D exchange experiment suggest a signi®cant difference in the internal ¯exibility ofthe molecules The rigid nature ofthe second b strand is consistent with the...
... could suppress the cycle in order to change the carbon flux to other pathways, such as glutamate biosynthesis, under the condition of excess turnover ofthe RTCA cycle Further studies ofthe enzyme ... characterized one ofthe key enzymes ofthe RTCA cycle, ATP-citrate lyase [24] The results demonstrated the heteromeric structure of this enzyme and its role in regulating the direction and flux ofthe RTCA ... in the cell-free extract after induction with IPTG The activity ofthe recombinant cell-extract (19.5 UÆmg)1) was 100-fold higher than that in the host cells (0.20 UÆmg)1) The homogeneity of the...
... The E/D ratios ofthe high-spin signals were calculated fromthe effective g values by numerical diagonalization oftheenergy matrix for S ¼ 5/2 [7] Determination ofthe midpoint potential of ... suggest binding of chlorite to the five-co-ordinate high-spin ferric form ofthe enzyme as the first step ofthe catalytic mechanism Possibly the second step would involve oxidation ofthe ferric iron ... on the enzyme from GR-1 [4] However, the existence of a second high-spin species, which we have designated the ÔbroadÕ signal, has not been reported previously The nature ofthe multiplicity of...
... and pKa2 The pKa value is determined from a fit ofthe phosphorus chemical shifts ofthe without ionic, monoionic and diionic forms ofthe phosphate group as a function of pH [33,34] The phosphorus ... affects the electrostatic potential and quite often the conformation ofthe modified protein Even in the absence of rearrangement, the change in the electric field and steric hindrance from a phosphate ... Identification ofthe hydrogen-bonding partners depends on detailed investigations into the pH dependence of their NMR parameters over the pH range 3–8 Obviously, the pH titration curve ofthe amide...
... name”) The value ofthe :cs feature is the constituent structure ofthe subcategorisation frame, which lists the syntactic CF-PSG constituents in sequence The value ofthe :gs feature is the grammatical ... Section 23 ofthe WSJ It was found that the reference CCG lexicon contained 95.09% ofthe entries in the test lexicon, while 94.03% ofthe entries in the test TAG lexicon also occurred in the reference ... feature to the generated f-structures, the value of which is the syntactic category ofthe pred at each level of embedding Exploiting this information, the extracted semantic form for the verb...
... different primers designed fromthe cDNA sequence resulted in the amplification of bands in each case Sequencing of these bands showed that they matched the sequence ofthe cellulase cDNA completely; ... combined to the 3¢-end ofthe oligodT primer for first-strand synthesis of cDNA [12], and 5¢-RACE amplification was performed with a gene-specific primer based on the sequence ofthe 3¢-fragment The nucleotide ... shown to belong to GHF The activity staining indicated that there were no other CMCase activities except the GHF cellulase in the larval gut of P hilaris The sensitivity ofthe activity staining...
... seen as the technical domains solely of internal audit or other staff functions Management as well has begun to take ownership of risk to the business and of ensuring the effectiveness ofthe controls ... areas of risk • Anticipate the needs ofthe audit committee and senior management • Identify emerging trends and bring them to the attention of key stakeholders • Strengthen risk coverage of technology, ... respondents gave the highest priority to the areas of technology and risk management At the same time, 22 percent of respondents believe that the number of professional staff will remain about the same,...