... either the likelihood a loan is repaid (and thus, the cost of a loan) or the availability of credit These results highlight the distinct tradeoff between 1) limiting thecollectionand use of ... defaults The percent of accounts which are delinquent at any point in time varies between and percent nationwide, depending upon the product.5 Looking at the market fromthe standpoint ofthe borrower ... present in the simulated environments were dropped fromthe set of potential variablesandthe model was re-built on the remaining variables 14 This method allowed for the construction ofthe best...
... 72% and 85% inhibition of BHLmL2 and BHAb, respectively, while mm 2-mer- captoethanol caused 85% and 97% inhibition of BHLmL2 and BHAb, respectively The influence of pH on the activities ofthe ... BHLmL2 for the BH from L maculans L2 ⁄ M2, and as BHAb for the BH from A brassicicola Table summarizes the purification procedure used for BHLmL2 and indicates the degree of purification and yield ... mass of about 120 kDa Thus, these data suggest that native BHAb is a dimer Identification and chemical modification ofthe purified enzymes To identify BHLmL2 and BHAb, the bands obtained from SDS...
... approximately 17 bands (consistent with the number of hybridizing plaques/genome in the library screens) of various intensities could be resolved in the SstI, HindIII and EcoRI digests ofthe DNA from individual ... the majority ofthe putative coding sequence, and a small portion ofthe 3¢ UTR Northern analysis showed the accumulation of two transcripts, at 1.4 kb and kb (Fig 4) In contrast to the expression ... 2.7a Assuming that the gene has a 5¢ exon and 5¢ UTR of roughly the same length as the other AFP genes (100±115 bp depending on the isoform), transcript sizes of 0.9, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.8 kb would...
... on the LTFR ofthe wives from each ofthe five source countries The effect was moderate for the Vietnamese (by 0.21 children) andthe Filipinas (by 0.20 children) and modest for the Thais (by ... 1987, the lifting ofthe strict regulations against visiting relatives back in Mainland China in 1988, andthe first granting of permission to the Mainland spouses of Based on thedatafromthe ... universe ofthe census was created by merging (1) the records of foreign spouses (not including those from China) in thedata system ofthe National Police Agency, (2) the records of spouses from...
... are written by members ofthe Monetary and Economic Department ofthe Bank for International Settlements, andfrom time to time by other economists, and are published bythe Bank The papers are ... while it decreased in the rest of Asia In the case of Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest ofthe region (ii) Bythe end of 2009, real credit growth and t he real credit ... regarding the construction ofthe indicators is twofold First, the criterion used in the selection ofvariables was, first and foremost, their relevance for emerging markets Second, and guided by the...
... giving the best fit to the scattering intensity The resulting dummy atom model represents the shape ofthe scattering particle To increase the reliability ofthe results, the final model for the dummy ... system in the apple snail eggs, the role of ovorubin Arch Biochem Biophys 422, 1–8 12 Norden DA (1972) The inhibition of trypsin and some other proteases by ovorubin, a protein fromthe eggs of Pomacea ... bythe Fourier inversion ofthe scattering intensity I(q) using the gnom 4.5 program [16] The low-resolution model of ovorubin was obtained fromthe algorithm built in the program dammin [36] The...
... covers the period from fertilisation to hatching ofthe egg During incubation, the embryo cannot feed, but is nourished bythe egg yolk and other food stores The embryo’s cells divide and differentiate ... environmental data (on flow rates and habitats), as well as estimates ofthe likely age of specimens, field workers may be able to draw some conclusions about the likely time and place of spawning ofthe ... recorded fromthe Mekong basin, and about two thirds of these (including most ofthe common species) are from purely freshwater families (Hortle, 2009), so there is a very large gap in the information...
... increasing the amount of seed that could be planted andthe amount of land that could be usefully farmed with the same amount of labor Then, shortly after the turn ofthe 19th century, the Haber-Bosch ... agriculture; and (3) for a variety of reasons, these technologies have not yet reached the parts ofthe world where they could be most beneficial On the other hand, the Gene Revolution is unlike the Green ... Mexico andthe rest of Latin America, India, and much of Southeast Asia On the other hand, the Green Revolution has had little significant impact in most areas of Africa Two prominent hypotheses...
... in the tiger prawn Penaeus monodon As there is a high degree of sequence similarity and structural conservation of these genes and gene products, confirmation ofthe true identity and function of ... synthesized fromthe 238 bp coding region ofthe mature peptide As the coding sequences of all the neuropeptides are short (< 350 nucleotides) and there are scattered repetitive sequences in the ... drops of 20%, 71% and 23% ofthe overall MeVg1 transcript level were recorded (Fig 6A) Unlike in the hepatopancreas, the reduction of MeVg1 expression in ovaries of these female was small after the...
... region from H2 to H6a ⁄ H6b, particularly H4, and barely interacts with the region of H1 andthe O-methyl group The crystal structure of EW29Ch with lactose showed that the O2, O3 and O4 atoms ofthe ... to that ofthe higher binding site by NMR, even if the sugar-binding ability of one ofthe two binding sites is much higher than that ofthe other However, the hemagglutinating activity of lectin ... describing the binding of one ligand molecule to a single protein site using the Solver function of 15 EXCEL 2002 The weighted average ofthe H and N chemical-shift changes of Gly122 given by Dav...
... subtracted the control traces fromthe traces recorded in the presence ofthe toxin The amplitude of these toxin-induced currents was analyzed by plotting the value ms after the onset ofthe depolarizing ... (CON) and in the presence of 2.8 lM Cn12; right, the slowly inactivating toxin-induced current obtained by subtracting the control current fromthe trace in the presence of toxin (E) Plot ofthe ... from )100, )60 and )20 mV in the control (upper) and in the presence ofthe toxin (lower) The central inset shows the recordings obtained after subtraction ofthe control traces fromthe 2.8 lM traces...
... this region and lower the entropy difference between the free and bound forms ofthe molecule [44] Furthermore poor experimental restraints and possibly bulkiness ofthe tip portion of loop II ... chain of Tyr23 extends over Gly42 on the neighboring strand and therefore its HN is affected bythe ring current ofthe aromatic group leading to an up-field resonance frequency the 500 ps of trajectory ... while the side chains of Trp27, Arg33 and Asp29 in these peptides protrude fromthe concave face ofthe molecule (a common situation), the aromatic side chain of Trp27 in a-BTX occupies the convex...
... polariser set at either or 90 (with respect to the plane of reections) In the case of lipid-bound protein, the spectrum ofthe protein was obtained by subtracting the contribution ofthe lipid alone, ... nres is the number of residues ofthe protein (assumed to be 140), A90 is the absorption with the 90 polarizer, and S are order parameters calculated fromthe ratio ofthe parallel and perpendicular ... change and that ofthe long axis ofthe molecule) set at 90 Samide IÂ is the order parameter for the amide IÂ band (between 1600 and 1700 cm)1, with h ẳ ) The integrals were calculated from the...
... lane andthe arrow indicates the position ofthe b-tubulin/CCT complex (B) The amounts ofthe tubulin bound to CCT were quantitated bythe use of a phosphorimager and expressed as a fraction ofthe ... analysis ofthe interaction between CCT and b-tubulin by cryoelectron microscopy allowed the identification of three regions fromthe N-terminal, and five fromthe C-terminal domains of b-tubulin, ... and b5/Cof A complex, respectively (B) In vitro folding reactions of labeled denatured b-T1 and b5 tubulins in the presence (+) or the absence (–) of purified CCT and Cof A The upper, middle and...
... features N, V and BAR in the sample entries above follow fromthe part of speech of ~oelieve= The values of PLU and P E R are predictable on the basis ofthe word grammar rules and need not be independently ... entries, andthe respective head features sets, the only other features required bythe lexical nodes in the grammar are NEG, and DEF Features like SLASH, WH, UB and EVER, which are required bythe ... frames Exercising the first option causes all instances ofthe surface form and associated syntactic frames to be removed fromthe screen andfrom further consideration bythe user However, this...
... rates of nonEnglish proficiency and illiteracy It has a higher rate of violent crime than the rest ofthe State, but the rate is lower than the Nation Selected Determinants for Lane County and ... rate combines years of data, Date refers to final year ofdata 19 Health Status: Morbidity and Prevalence 61 percent of Oregon adults have at least one ofthe following chronic conditions: arthritis, ... affects the rates of many diseases Higher rates of smoking interact with other risk factors to raise the risk of morbidity and mortality for multiple diseases Tobacco use raises the risk of stroke...
... both the rescue agent andthe substrate Therefore, this suggests that guanidine binds to the cleft vacated bythe replacement ofthe side chain of Arg507 in the mutant and both the rescue agent and ... cross-reactivation of R507A by propargylamine (10200 mm) and K512A by guanidine (10200 mm) was observed Addition of 200 mm of NaCl did not alter the activity of either one ofthe site-directed mutants These ... parameters The value of kcat Km was obtained fromthe slope ofthe straight line tted to thedata in Fig It was 1.5 ã 107-fold lower than the corresponding catalytic efciency ofthe wild-type enzyme The...
... inhibit activation of factors V and VIII by thrombin and then prevent these cofactors from forming prothrombinase and tenase complexes On the other hand, as shown in Fig 7, madanin and suppressed ... Figs and 6, activation of prothrombin and factor X by prothrombinase and tenase were inhibited, respectively, bythe presence of madanin and It was further confirmed that they not inhibit the activity ... madanin and specifically interacted Fig Effect of madanin and on prolongation of APTT and PT The effects of madanin and on intrinsic and extrinsic pathways were investigated by APTT (A) and PT (B)...
... ecliptic plane andthe equatorial plane, andthe angle ofthe ascending node α ofthe Sun’s equator, i.e., the angle in the ecliptic plane between the direction ofthe vernal equinox andthe direction ... cause ofthe low 12 Stormy Tour fromthe Sun to the Earth temperature and thus the relative darkness ofthe spot because it inhibits the hot plasma of reaching the surface Around the spot there ... better understanding ofthe role ofthe magnetic fields in the heating ofthe chromosphere and corona The cyclic appearance ofthe sunspots, with a quasi-period of about 11 years was found by Schwabe...
... reduction in the parenchymal virus load andthe eventual eradication ofthe pathogen fromthe CNS over the ensuing months These data suggest collectively that temporal diversification ofthe immune ... remained there for the duration ofthe examination period The shift in the CD8:CD4 ratio during the reanimation phase prompted us to further investigate the entire immune repertoire in the CNS For these ... and CNS of clone 13 infected mice over time by dividing the absolute number of CD8 T cells extracted from each tissue bythe absolute number of CD4 T cells Note that the ratio is highest in the...