... evaluation, since the nature ofthe data is different from that ofthe QA dataset Most ofthe questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors There is usually ... (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 ... directly target the acquisition of numerical attributes fromthe Web and attempt to deal with ambiguity and noise ofthe retrieved attribute values (Aramaki et al., 2007) utilize a small set of patterns...
... over the left (the prefix) andthe right (suffix) context ofthe head for each syntactic category occurring as the mother node of such heads To give a simple example, the rightmost NP to the left of ... 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...
... in the or outer layers ofthe peripheral meristem gave rise to prophylls These were situated opposite each other and perpendicularly to the plane ofthe needle axis andthe axis ofthe mother ... spring ofthe same year The difference in their structure would be due to the various rates of activity ofthe apical meristem The st arise in the slow, andthe 2nd during the rapid phases of bud ... 1991 and 1992, the dates of starting and termination of shoot growth, as well as the rate of shoot elongation, were established on branches fromthe same part ofthe crown of trees Terminal and...
... This result in the successive generation of two active forms ofthe factor: aFXIIa and bFXIIa The cleavage ofthe Arg353-Val354 bond of FXII results in the formation of aFXIIa form ofthe enzyme, ... combined with the cofactor thrombomodulin in the protein Case complex The product ofthe protein Case reaction, APC, inactivates the cofactors FVa and FVIIIa The cleaved species, FVai and FVIIIai, ... either damage or activation ofthe endothelium This may occur due to the perforation ofthe vessel wall or activation ofthe endothelium (Geczy, 1994) Upon activation of endothelial cells (EC) by an...
... present in the MALDITOF mass maps fromthe 60 kDa band were also present in the mass map fromthe 78-kDa band, suggesting that the 60-kDa band represents a fragment ofthe 78-kDa band Similar ... not cathepsin B or cathepsin H N-Terminal sequencing ofthe kininogens was only successful fromthe 42-kDa band of wolffish kininogen (XLVQPGVLI…, Table 1) The major bands of both kininogens and ... kininogen [6], and it is possible that the poor staining may be partly the result of extensive glycosylation Both bands ofthe wolffish inhibitor were investigated by in-gel digestion and mass mapping...
... contained galactose and glucose: 75.5% and 24.5% in A-1, 68.8% and 31.2% in A-2, and 70.5% and 29.5% in A-3 MALDI-TOF MS spectra (Fig 4) proved that three fractions were CMH, and each of them was found ... deduced from MALDI-TOF MS spectra The results are summarized in Table (adults) and Table (plerocercoids) They explain reasonably the order of migration rate of each CMH: hydrophobicity of ceramide ... percentages ofthe total component Fig Methylation analysis and MALDITOF MS analysis of A-4 and A-5 (A) GLC chromatogram of partially methylated alditol acetates derived from A-4 (B) GLC chromatogram of...
... OBJECTIVES OFTHE THESIS The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of state ownership and auditors' locality on the magnitude of asset impairment and on the reversal of asset ... Father Francesco Cumbo, the Reverend Father Gabriel Y.T Liu, the Reverend Father Joseph K.H Mak, the Reverend Father Paul M.J Vallat, andthe Reverend Father Edward F.M Yu, and sisters and brothers ... In other words, the demand for financial reporting by the public andthe government's participation in setting and enforcing rules and standards affect the ownership structure of enterprises and...
... form and lacks external limbs and digits The photos of L microtis and L punctovittata are by Mark Hutchinson andthe photo of L ameles is by Marco Sacchi for Lerista, which they use to examine the ... morphometric and ecological data to show that there are really two types of snake-like squamates One is the long-tailed surface dweller, in which much ofthe overall body length is tail, and which often ... reconstructed the phylogeny ofthe pivotal skink genus Lerista, sampling 79% ofthe 91 described species [12] They also reconstructed digit numbers (but not body form or limb loss) on their tree using the...
... procurement of 66% of their isolates from male patients and 34% from females Madani et al[27], 2001 also report a 65.8% recovery from males and 34.2% from females in Saudi Arabia Similarly, fromthe ... are often multidrug-resistant and are resistant to antibiotics such as the macrolides and aminoglycosides, even though the mechanisms of action of these antibiotics are different than that ofthe ... 41.5% ofthe isolates came from patients in the extreme age groups, 21.0% ≥ 60 years and 20.5% ≤ years Madani et al[27], 2001 similarly report isolation of 26.1% of MRSA from patients ≥ 60 years and...
... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/10/15 Page of Correction After the publication in this journal [1] we became aware ofthe fact that the article contained wrong data in figure This correction contains the revised figure ... and correlates of alcohol use from adolescence to young adulthood in a Swiss community survey BMC Psychiatry 2010 10:15 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ... Metzke C: Frequency, course and correlates of alcohol use from adolescence to young adulthood in a Swiss community survey BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8:5 Pre-publication history The pre-publication history...
... used to analyse and identify the 5' and 3' ends ofthe glucosyltransferases For these, μg of poly(A)+ RNA from stigmas was used to synthesize the 5' and 3' ends ofthe first-strand cDNA using ... the formation of these compounds in C sativus will help to understand the biosynthesis and regulation of these glucosides and their implications in the nutraceutical properties of saffron Methods ... demonstrate the differential accumulation ofthe mRNA in the tissues analysed Firststrand cDNAs were synthesized by RT from μg of total RNA using a first-strand cDNA synthesis kit (Pharmacia) and random...
... analysis ofthe EST-SSRs yielded a final number of 955 (3.71%) nonredundant EST-SSRs The percentage of redundant ESTs containing an SSR ofthe two genotypes NV#20F1-30 and NV#20F1-39 was 3.56 and ... NV#20F1-39, and F6 from three different genotypes Random sequencing of cDNA libraries leads to a high proportion of redundant ESTs In this study, both the redundant and non-redundant dataset of EST-SSRs ... however, the abundance ofthe different types of repeat units differed, especially between the genotype F6 andthe two other genotypes The repeat motif (CCG/CGG)n was highly represented in 42% of EST-SSRs...
... produced by the endothelial cell and consisting of three Kunitz domains The first domain binds to and inhibits TF–VIIa, andthe second, activated Factor X (FXa) The direct activation of FX is thereby ... conditions, FX is the preferred substrate of TF:VIIa The low initial levels of TF:VIIa are thought to trigger enough ofthe clotting cascade to result in the back-activation ofthe rest ofthe bound ... approximately 2,000-fold On the other hand, HK and fibrinogen have major inhibitory effects on the autoactivation andthe thrombin-mediated activation of FXI in the presence of dextran sulfate [92,...
... membranes of certain neurons and on the postsynaptic membrane side ofthe neuromuscular junction in many 29 Chapter tissues ofthe body They are one ofthebest characterized ionotropic receptors They ... Comparison of exon-intron boundaries of 513V5 gene to other SNTxs from D coronoides 179 Appendix A.1 Sequences ofthe peptides obtained fromthe trypsin digestion ofthe crude 225-228 venom of D coronoides ... hydrophobic patch starting fromthe tip of loop I and covering most parts of loops II and III, spanning nearly 40% ofthe molecular surface [105] Recently, a CTx isolated fromthe venom of Ophiophagus hannah...
... synthesis is also associated with aging and regulation of cholesterol levels (Belenky et al., 2007) The abundance ofthe NAD+ pools in the cells depends on the enzymes that catalyze the synthesis ... catalyze the synthesis of NAD + and location insidethe cells In addition, the Figure 1.1 De novo synthesis and salvage pathway of NAD+ De novo synthesis begins with the conversion of tryptophan to ... variety of fundamental processes aimed at maintenance ofthe functional integrity ofthe genome The function of poly(ADP-ribose) was first reported by Shall and coworkers showing the involvement of...
... impurities fromthe surface ofthe fibers and resulted in swelling of fibers thereby making further treatments easy Second, treatment removed excessive amount of lignin fromthe fibers The obtained ... measure the diameters The images were loaded into the software and diameters ofthe fibers were measured using a two point measuring analysis The scale ofthe software was calibrated using the scale ... straw is attributed to either the acetyl and uronic ester groups ofthe hemicelluloses or the ester linkage of carboxylic group ofthe ferulic and p-coumeric acids of lignin and/ or hemicelluloses.17,26,28...
... Peter Minuet handed a bunch of trinkets to the Indians and they paid him the island And now, people are handing us the trinkets, and we’re giving them the island It happens every day The trade deficit ... growth in the financial world And here are 37 out of 37, and those are some ofthe biggest names on Wall Street, and some of them had been around the longest, and 37 out of 37 have disappeared And ... cash for the members ofthe family that weren’t involved in the business, and then I moved the ownership ofthe remaining people down to the lowest generation ofthe ones that were in the business...
... presentation, the in¯uence of competitors is not shown The loop on the right connects the needs ofthe customer to the needs ofthe manufacturer andthe loop on the left connects the needs of society to the ... On the valuation of goods and selection ofthebest design alternative The purpose here is three-fold The ®rst is to illustrate the use ofthe model to gain insight into competitive behavior from ... values were determined from Eq The prices used in the computations are the sales over the period and prices are set equal to the Value trends If the demands and prices ofthe products competing...