... type) and a2,3SA-gal (avian type) receptors, respectively [12,13] The presence of avian and human type receptors on the tracheal epithelium ofthe species of birds even at Page of one day of age, ... chickens also showing the presence of mammalian receptors (20%, ++) The distribution ofthe avian receptors varied from 40-70% in most ofthe epithelial cells of large intestine in the bird species ... not observe the presence of either type ofreceptors in the epithelium of small intestine of 2-weekold ducks However with 3-week-old turkeys, epithelial Page of cells from jejunum and ileum showed...
... crisis The book concludes with recommendations for the reform ofthe IFA as a means of minimizing the risk offuture financial crises The narrative and arguments ofthe book are laid out in the ... Central Bank andthe absence of capital controls The next section of this chapter reviews the architectural arrangements for the gold standard andthe interwar period andthe inf luence of that experience ... arrangements for the IFA during the 1920s andthe restoration ofthe gold standard in 1925, this regime was unable to survive the effects ofthe Great Depression at the turn ofthe following decade...
... and President Nixon's resignation; the sexual revolution; the invention ofthe computer chip; R o n a l d Reagan's election in 1980; the end ofthe Cold War; the creation ofthe Inter net; the ... about themselves and their society; h o w they voted andthe nature of their politics; h o w businesses operated and treated their workers; and h o w the American economy was con nected with the ... in the endless abundance of resources, convictions so deeply rooted in the * The Bureau ofthe Budget is now the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 16 The Lost History American character and...
... domains The chain comprises of MG1-5 and part of MG6 (MG6) while the chain is made up of MG7-8, part of MG6 (MG) andthe rest ofthe other domains found in the C3 molecule MG1-5 and MG6 ... the membrane-proximal region ofthe integrin, that is, the separation ofthe cytoplasmic and transmembrane segments, andthe release ofthe hybrid domain from its restraining interface with the ... downwards and outwards, along with the TED, towards the ring structure The movement ofthe TED results in the exposure the thioester bond (Cys988-Gln991) within the TED of C3b (Tack et al., 1980) The...
... Present, andFutureofthe Concept by A Ostenwalder, Y Pigneur, and C.L Tucci 1990s This surge coincidences with the advent ofthe Internet in the business world andthe steep rise ofthe NASDAQ ... Present, andFutureofthe Concept by A Ostenwalder, Y Pigneur, and C.L Tucci andthefutureofthe business model concept, particularly in the Information Systems domain To so, we first discuss the ... business logic of a specific firm It is a description ofthe value a company offers to one or several segments of customers andofthe architecture ofthe firm and its network of partners for...
... Assault Hoseline, andthe Tactical Water Delivery System The chapter then moves on to an analysis ofthe ability of these various systems to meet the set offuture requirements Inland Petroleum Distribution ... operation for the duration ofthe mission, andthe lines required high maintenance andthe constant supervision of an engineer unit that was in support ofthe fuel mission.9 In summary, the HRS proved ... ofthe NEO and HA scenarios The effect would be to further reduce the potential size of a future tactical pipeline requirement Taking this thought one step further, and considering the success the...
... in 2005 With the introduction ofthe iPhone in 2007, it became the foundation ofthe mobile web WebKit is now the main engine for Android andthe only engine for iOS, and dominates the mobile market ... Table of Contents The Past, Present, andFutureof JavaScript The past Standardization Historic JavaScript milestones The present Thefuture Evolving the ... can extract values from the right-hand side, via a simple form ofpattern matching: // Swap the values of a and b let [b, a] = [a, b]; Thefuture | // Assign the value of property x to horiz let...
... the U.S.) Such was the weight ofthe NSFNET program’s COMMUNICATIONS OFTHE ACM February 1997/Vol 40, No 105 ecumenism and funding ($200 million, 1986–1995) andthe quality ofthe protocols themselves ... specifications ofthe protocols The beginnings ofthe ARPANET andthe Internet in the university research community promoted the academic tradition of open publication of ideas and results However, the normal ... ofthe Internet program at DARPA, he and Clark recognized that the continuing growth ofthe Internet community demanded a restructuring ofthe coordination mechanisms The ICCB was disbanded and...
... Some ofthe researchers died of starvation surrounded by packets of rice and other food items that made up the collection (Alexanyan and Krivchenko, 1991) The staff realized the value of these ... sister to the wild progenitor populations Evolutionary History ofthe Domesticated Sunflower 37 from which they were derived, and this is not the case On the other hand, given the lack of extensive ... introduce the reader to the subject of crop plant research and identify some ofthe challenges and pitfalls that the authors of Darwin’s Harvest faced during their research Beginnings of Agriculture...
... beyond the null in the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 220 GHz, and achieve the spectral separation ofthe thermal and kinematic effects The measurement ofthe radial peculiar velocity of a ... e a m ofthe OVRO telescope andthe 0.5-arcmin resolution limit ofthe Ryle data Even with the small (13-m diameter) antennas andthe most compact configuration ofthe Ryle telescope, the effect ... bands A suitable choice of differencing between elements ofthe array reproduces many ofthe sky-noise subtraction properties of radiometric observing, andthe multiband capability holds out the...
... primary object of study, exchange, and archiving PF: As with any archiving project, one needs to con sider the cost of storage relative to the potential future reuse In the course ofthe 1000 Genomes ... being deleted RK: If there is a good chance that the data are going to be used by others, then yes, there is a good case for storing them Just storing the raw data for the sake of it, however, is ... MG: Due to the huge size ofthe files, uploading and downloading data from a central repository is not easy The model of a central archive may need to be revisited and we may see in thefuture an...
... understanding how the process and dynamics of admixture manifest themselves in patterns of variation [30] across the genome At the individual level, exome data may allow reconstruction ofthe mosaic ... unknown whether these more complex forms of balancing selection have an important role in the patterns of human genetic diversity, and exomes are ideal for this line of inquiry because their cost-effectiveness ... tests of selective neutrality, but the overlap among these lists of candidate regions is often poor, suggesting a high proportion of false positives [4] In addition, it is often unclear whether...
... 0.02) at the 95% confidence interval presence of three clusters of TEs, two of which are localized near the distal ends ofthe chromosome while the other is centrally located The locations ofthe ... for the first time to perform an in-depth analysis oftheevolutionofthe structure of fungal genomes With the combined BACWGS sequence for chromosome 7, we have a more accurate estimate ofthe ... divergent evolution [22] The ancient radiation of these fungi andthe karyotype variability not fit the expectation that large segments of conserved synteny should exist between M oryzae and other...
... lost after they have survived for hundreds of millions of years ofevolution Some of those genes are lost only after the divergence of human and rodents, or after the divergence of mouse and rat ... created during the FSGD fishes than to that ofthe land vertebrates, because of both the FSGD and species specific duplications Indeed, while for land vertebrates the fraction ofthe paranome formed ... (Figure 2) if a land vertebrate and a fish gene are clustered at one side ofthe root and at least one other vertebrate sequence is found on the other side ofthe root For example, the topology (((TNgene1,...
... the confined space ofthe pores will be characterized by the geometry ofthe environment ofthe active site (ED and ER ) and by the chemical composition ofthe environment (EP and EN ) Derouane ... shortening ofthe fluorescent lifetimes, the observation of vibronic couplings, the appearance of room-temperature phosphorescence, andthe shift ofthe Raman peaks to lower vibration energy due to the ... take advantage ofthe properties of zeolites in base catalysis In the case of zeolites the basic sites are of Lewis type and correspond to framework oxygens, andthe basicity of a given oxygen...
... the catalytic activity andthe oxidation state ofthe catalyst, the nature ofthe support, the metal-support interaction, andthe morphology ofthe catalyst particles [389,403–417] However, the ... continue in thefutureThe catalysts Since ancient times, the development and use of materials have been one ofthe basic objectives of our world Eras, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, andthe Iron ... (2012) 2–27 Fig Scheme ofthe effect ofthe adsorption rate of reactants on the reactivity, depending on the polarity ofthe reactants versus that ofthe zeolite [63,64] ofthe catalyst, as already...
... wrong, the objectives, and even the roles, of central bankers were being abruptly questioned, as were the tools they had at their disposal andthe way they used them What really was the purpose of ... about the economics of monetary policy, nor is it a detailed historical account oftheevolutionofthe role ofthe central bank Still less is it a technical guide to the nuts and bolts of central ... up to the 1980s, and then something of an ebb in the last twenty-five years in terms ofthe breadth of responsibilities, but certainly not in terms of their overall status and influence The latter...
... impurities (Co and Au for example) scattering strongly the electrons in the same channel and leaving the second channel open The idea of GMR is the replacement ofthe impurities A and B ofthe ternary ... demonstrated the existence of GMR in multilayers made by the simpler and faster technique of sputtering (Fe/Cr, Co/Ru and Co/Cr), and found the oscillatory behaviour ofthe GMR due to the oscillations of ... Variation ofthe GMR ratio of Co/Cu multilayers in the conventional Current In Plane (CIP) geometry as a function ofthe thickness ofthe Cu layers13 The scaling length ofthe variation is the mean...
... terms of how much ofthe live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much ofthe data written to the log they represent More than 99% ofthe live data on disk consists of file data blocks and ... cleaning the segment and chooses the segments with the highest ratio of benefit to cost The benefit has two components: the amount of free space that will be reclaimed andthe amount of time the space ... delay the cleaning a while and let more ofthe blocks die in the current segment The value of a segment’s free space is based on the stability ofthe data in the segment Unfortunately, the stability...
... very specialized audience State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications ofthe work A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... generation andrecognition are used to communicate between humans and machines Rather than using your hands and eyes, you use your mouth and ears This is very convenient when your hands and eyes ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken...