... ofthe National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... changes in sur-face albedo. Holland and Bitz (2003) have suggested that the rapid loss of snow and sea-ice in certain areas ofthe Arctic can produce feedbacks that can affect climate change ... (changing latitudinal gradients and heat re-tained near the surface), which has further impacts on air temperature, ocean temperature and currents, sea ice and glaciers, and winds. These impacts...
... Cecilia Akselsson cecilia.akselsson@nateko.lu.se Lund University Sweden Nadine Allemand nadine.allemand@citepa.org CITEPA France Markus Amann amann@iiasa.ac.at IIASA Austria Kjell Andersson ... should have an address tag; an organisation or a community that should take care ofthe recommendations. The format was similar to that ofa set of three earlier workshops under the name of “Saltsjöbaden ... susetyo@student.chalmers.se Chalmers University of Technology Sweden Frank Raes francesca.DUCA@ec.europa.eu European Commission Italy Jean-Marie Rambaud jean-marie.rambaud@appa.asso.fr APPA, EFCA and IUAPPA...
... charge and an intraresidue hydrogen bondbetween the nearby amide proton andthe phosphategroup. As the pH increased, deprotonation began at the phosphate group, andthe hydrogen bond began ... Institute of Instrumentation Frontier, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, JapanPost-translational phosphorylation serves as a controlmechanism in a myriad of ... reveals thatboth tau peptides are capable of self-aggregation and that phosphorylationat Ser356 can modulate this process.AbbreviationsAD, Alzheimer’s disease; PHF, paired helical filament;...
... Education, globalisation and the knowledge economy A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme Education, Globalisation andtheKnowledge Economy 7Competition based on quality ... such as the ‘digital Taylorism’ depicted in Brown et al (2008) are interesting for education as they may shape the future ofeducation and education systems…If globalisation and information and ... initial assessment of whether the global knowledge- based economy is likely to meet the political aspirations of national governments andthe social and economic aspirations of students and workers...
... straight median incision was made on the skull via the posterior temporal route. The occipital squama was cut off andthe posterior edge ofthe fo-ramen magnum and posterior arch ofthe atlas ... which the cerebellar tonsil herniates into the foramen magnum and spinal canal to com-press the spinal cord, consequently causing blockage of the spinal canal andthe stoppage of cerebral spinal ... meningitis was the cause ofthe foramen magnum arachnoid cyst formation. Nevertheless, whatever the cause the patient had 6 years of clinical presentation and his condition had worsened in the past...
... and pedal pulses were absent bilaterally with poor capillary re-fill. The left foot was red and inflamed up to and in-cluding the medial malleolus. The lateral aspect ofthe great toe and second ... The low levels of antioxidants accompanied by raised levels of markers of free radical damage play a major role in delaying wound healing. Ultra-low microcurrent presumably has an antioxidant ... suffered renal failure as a result of her diabetes and underwent a kidney and pancreatic transplant in 1994. She also has hypercho-lesterolemia, left ventricular failure, renal failure and a history...
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... ofthe potential will only increase with the size ofthe structural database and as terms areadded to the model to account for protein and RNAintra-molecular interactions that are currently ... Given the relativesparsity ofthe structural database, we investigatedwhether a reduced-atom representation would not leadto improved performance in the protein–RNA case. The all-atom potential ... to less favorable statistics(fewer structures of protein–RNA complexes). Weanticipate that the increasing availability of protein–RNA structures, together with the availability of dataon specificity,...
... locations, and that factors such as the nature and level of air pollution, as well as the health status ofthe population may determine the extent of that variability (2,27,34,35). Analyses of effect ... COMMITTEE OFTHE ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ASSEMBLY OFTHE AMERICAN THORATIC SOCIETY (ATS). Health effects of outdoor air pollution, Part 1. American journal of respiratory and critical ... by a set of predicted hazard rates. Impact assessment requires quantification ofthe impact ofa change in hazard rates. But we may treat the calculations done so far as representing a baseline...