... obtained using linings of stone and marble. During the first year ofthe study, when the lining served only as mulch due to lack of rainfall, an increase of 33.3 percent and 25.0 percent in ... harvesting; increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas. WATER HARVESTING Water harvesting involves ... aeration and infiltration of water, it may also result in soil degradation inthe form of increased erosion (Fall and Faye 1999). Thedevelopmentof new farming techniques may be useful in combating...
... research so the input of Australian staff inthe actual training program of TOT was minimal and did not warrant inclusion inthe cost ofthe training. GAP Workshop in Binh Thuan (21-22/7/2008) ... 26.5% of their planting materials by themselves and 14.9% they bought from their neighbours making a total of 41.4%. The remaining 21.4% of respondents did not know the origin of their planting ... practice was the introduction of record keeping and also the ability of farmers to recognise pests and diseases andthe introduction of monitoring. Economic impacts The dominant economic impact...
... Kim) In this study, a set of PCRs was carried out to detect the hygromycin resistance gene, CaMV35S promoter (the promoter located in front ofthe AtAOS2 gene), andthe AtAOS2 gene inthe transgenic ... by other enzymes, including hydroperoxide lyase, peroxygenase, hydroperoxide reductase, and divinyl ether synthase. A typical function of these branch pathways is defence against insect and ... rice genome. The results of PCRs would confirm the appearance ofthe AtAOS2 gene inthe transgenic rice genome. 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1. Extraction of rice DNA The leaves of one-month-old...
... the dominance ofthe banking sector inthe financial system. At the same time, opening of markets and reforms have contributed to the strengthening of intermediation function of financial markets, ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... andthe central bank in bond marketdevelopment The government andthe central bank played significant roles in establishing and developing bond marketin China.Since 1998, inter-bank bond market...
... ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and ... toexplore the sources ofthe heterogeneity inthe efficacy ofthe BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site andthe data ... resurgence inthe incidence of TB occurred inthe UnitedStates and included increases inthe number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...
... Allen N., and Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... Bank of New York, CurrentIssues in Economics and Finance, August. Strahan, Philip, and James Weston. 1998. “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLEOF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system inthe United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small...
... days inthe differenti-ation medium: DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum and IDM (10 lgặmL)1insulin, 1 lm dexamethasone, and 0.5 mm IDM). Cells were then maintained in DMEM con-taining ... biologicallyrelevant roleof miR-27 inthe regulation of adipose tis-sue functions in vivo, we examined the expression of miR-27 inthe genetically obese ob ⁄ ob mice. The expression levels of both miR-27a and ... differentiationwas initiated at 48 h post-transfection by maintaining the cells in culture medium containing 2% horse serum. Cells were fixed on day 4 of differentiation and stained with hematoxylin and eosin....
... the dimerinterface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the mutated residues. The models of RNase A covalent dimers in the exchanging conformation were prepared using the 7RSA structure and ... at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start-ing from 1Z7X. The ... (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter and Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural...
... involved inthe regulation of the stability and trafficking of GAT1. It has beenreported that a variety of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesizedproteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal ... clarifywhether N-glycans are directly involved inthe GABA-uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly-cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of thisprotein, quantitative and kinetic...
... the genetic analysis of hf-2 in detail andthe attempt tocompensate the deficiency of SQDG in hf-2 by the culture in the presence of SQDG to elucidate that SQDG participate in PSII activity in ... Bands indicate as follows: 1, apoproteins ofthe PSIcomplex; 2, ATP synthase ab subunits; 3, apoproteins ofthe PSIIcomplex; 4, apoproteins of LHCII.Ó FEBS 2002 Sulfolipid maintains PSII in ... hf-2compared with that ofthe wild-type is therefore neither dueto the change in peptide composition ofthe PSII complexnor to the ultrastructure of thylakoid membranes. The growth rate of hf-2 was slightly...
... affinity of ChiB for allosamidin, which is ananalogue ofthe proposed oxazolinium ion intermediate [32]. The minor (or even positive) effects of Y214F on substrate and intermediate binding andthe ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv-alent inthe family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitiswas found to be inthe ÔdownÕ position inthe apoenzyme and inthe ÔupÕ position inthe complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34]. The pKacalculations indicate that the only candidate fora residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activityprofile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144. The...
... 2010)doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07685.x The hyperthermostable chitinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeonPyrococcus furiosus has a unique multidomain structure containing two chi-tin-binding domains and two catalytic domains, and ... Stereo figures ofthe model ofthe bound substrate inthe AD2 E526A mutant (A) and D524A mutant (B). The structures of boundsugars andthe side-chains of three acidic residues inthe conserved ... positions and ori-entations ofthe Glu526 side-chain inthe A-form werealmost identical, andthe maximum coordinate shiftafter superimposition ofthe two structures was 0.78 A˚. In the B-form, in...
... stimulated an interest in understanding the behavior of ecological, economic and social systems in terms of the linkages between them, specifically in relation to the structure and dynamics ... forest and grasslands of the Midwest. The U. S. Congress developed policies such as the Homestead Act toincrease settlement of the lands in the middle of the country by giving land ... Policy for the United StatesDramatic changes in the landscape of farming have unwittingly contributed tohypoxia in the Gulf. The increased nitrate loading to the Gulf of the past...
... ER81 and PEA3), ER81 and ERM being the most related [35]. PEA3 members all contain the highlyconserved ETS domain. ERM contains two DNA bindinginhibitory domains flanking the Ets domain: the ... protein,which controls signaling and cell–cell communication in development, have largely contributed to the understanding of theroleof presenilins. The Notch receptor, a type 1membrane protein, ... transcription ofthe humanpresenilin 1gene in SH-SY5Y and SK-N-SH cells The roleof Ets factors inthe regulation of presenilin 1Martine Pastorcic1 and Hriday K. Das1,2,31Department of Pharmacology...