... influence on the reliability of the feed andthe consistency of condition of the bulk material, but also affects the form in which the contents discharge from the hopper serving the feeder The amount ... increases in the pitch of the screw along the axis, after the inlet Short-pitch flights offer a better mechanical advantage for moving the material settled in the lower end of the casing, andthe progressive ... example, the nature of the material handled andthe need to minimize wear may compromise the speed of operation of conveyors The size of an elevator may be determined more by the casing span than the...
... contributions MZ and BA contributed by reviewing the literature and drafting the manuscript MB and SB reviewed the manuscript and supervised the conception and design of the article All authors read and approved ... travel into the right bundle branch, migrate retrogradely to the atrioventricular node and then downward antegradely into the left bundle [9] Another theory states that some portions of the anatomical ... routine follow-up echocardiogram showed the ventricular pacing wire to pass from the right atrium to the left atrium and then through the mitral valve to the LV with no visible attached thrombi...
... Organization of the Study: The study is organized into five chapters as follows: Chapter – INTRODUCTION - includes the statement of the problem, the aims andthe objectives, the scope of the study, the research ... questions andthe organization of the study Chapter – LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND - includes two parts The first is the review of the previous studies The second is concerned with theoretical ... Sps andthe first and second parts of the pair must be appropriately matched to each other It means that all the pairs whether they are adjacency or insertion ones contribute to the coherence and...
... dx 2 0 where the first andthe second terms represent the contributions from the mass of the carriage andthe inertia of the rotor respectively The third term is the energy from the flexible ... the angular velocity of the rotor andthe angular velocity of the screw in x = was considered The fourth andthe fifth terms represent the kinetic energy from the distributed rotary inertia and ... where T and V are the kinetic and potential energy of the system, whereas Pin and Pdis are the power input andthe power dissipation in the system Using the defined variables, the kinetic energy...
... interacts with the TOM receptor, responsible for the translocation of the preproteins to the translocase of the inner mitochondrial membrane (TIM)23 complex located in the IMM The presequence ... translocase-associated motor is directly associated with TIM23 and completes the translocation of the preprotein into the matrix There the presequence is removed by the mitochondrial processing peptidase Subsequently, ... site andthe endogenous BamHI site divided the MDL1 gene into three cassettes, facilitating the exchange of segments between different constructs By means of the inducible GAL1promoter, the protein...
... is consistent with a topology where the loop is in the thylakoid lumen, andthe N -and C-termini face the stroma, opposite to that of PSI-K On the other hand, the second scenario implies a stromal ... ‘horseshoe’-like topology, with the loop facing the stroma andthe N- and C-termini in the thylakoid lumen This topology is also suggested ˚ by the structural model of PSI based on the 4.4 A ˚ crystal structure ... of the thylakoid membrane using the detergent dodecylb-d-maltoside Here, the solubilization of the complex from the membrane clearly renders the PSI-O subunit accessible to the protease but the...
... [Ala9]SP and [Gly9]SP on the one hand, and [b2-HAla9]SP and [HGly9]SP on the other hand Indeed, the higher pharmacological potency of [b2-HAla9]SP compared to [HGly9]SP suggests that the methyl ... of a-amino acids The atoms used in the rmsd calculation are those involved in the two peptide bonds andthe two N- and C-terminal methyl groups, in order to compare the backbone orientations ... behaviour in their affinity for the NK-1m binding and their potency to stimulate PLC (Fig 4B) Whatever the affinity measured for the NK-1m binding site for these agonists (from pM to 0.54 nM), the corresponding...
... Glu, Ser and Thr residues, the absence of Lys, His and Arg except at the termini, andthe fact that it is completely unstructured based on the absence of medium- and long-range NOEs andthe observation ... further structural elements at their C termini, including the ‘BG loop’ andthe ‘G’-strand (Fig 2) [24] Hortner et al [25] have modelled the structure of the SOCS3 SH2 domain and suggest that the ... whilst residues 22–28 are unstructured The helix encompasses the entire ESS andthe four residues at the C terminus of the KIR The remaining residues that comprise the KIR appear to be unstructured...
... London and met him at his Iarge house in Harley Street They were his brother's children; his brother w a s dead, and now he had to look after them The man was handsome, rich, and unmarried, andthe ... slept there I put my face against the glass of the window The garden w a s very bright in the moonlight Somebody w a s standing on the grass and staring up above me at the tower So there was another ... are wicked, and they taught Flora and Miles to love wickedness.They're bad!' 'Yes, they were a wicked pair,' Mrs Grose said 'But what can they now?They're dead.' 'They're still here! Their ghosts...
... molecules in the asymmetric unit The edge of the pyrrole ring C andthe propionic group D are exposed towards the solvent The heme group is covalently linked to the polypeptide chain through thioether ... from the Cys14 and Cys17 sulfhydryl groups to the two vinyl side chains The iron of the heme group is in the FeII oxidation state, maintained by the presence of 20 mm dithionate in the mother ... conformations The pale blue island on the visible red face of the molecule corresponds to the NH3+ group of the N-terminus The figure was prepared in PYMOL using default settings of the APBS plugin [41] the...
... which splices the auxiliary tree into the target tree at a node labeled with the same nonterminal as the root and foot of the auxiliary tree By using a tree representation, LTAGs extend the domain ... word in the sentence, the only structure is right branching are iteratively refined until the grammar generates, hopefully, all and only the sentences in the target language, for which the training ... the same number of bracketed constituent errors as that of the trained PCFGs, but they achieve a much lower entropy score While the average entropy value of the trigram model is the lowest, there...
... 64-ELD-SacI-back and 64-993-for primer for the second, the template was p64flank in both cases After digestion with SacI the two fragments were ligated and another PCR was carried out with the primers ... 64-394-SacIIback and 64-ELD-SacI-for and 64-ELD-SacI-back and 641536-BamHI-for (Table 1, section C) The two fragments were treated with SacI, ligated, and afterwards another PCR was carried out with the outer ... tropism To exploit fully the possibilities of the baculovirus surface display system, it becomes necessary to understand and investigate the functional and structural domains of the baculovirus major...
... maintained These observations suggest that the folds of the carrier protein andthe inserted peptide are very similar to those of their native counterparts In contrast, the insertion of the V3 and V3P ... and transformed in E coli DH5a The resulting pCR–V3 and pCR–STa plasmids were purified andthe nucleotide sequences of the inserts were verified Construction of the hybrid b-lactamases The V3 and ... resistance Therefore, in this study, we first characterized the tolerance of TEM-1 to the insertion of two different peptides: (a) the V3 loop of the gp120 protein of HIV; and (b) the thermostable...
... (b-sheet like) and bound with their long axis perpendicular to the plane of the lipid membrane Furthermore, the 4.7 nm thickness of the peptide layer indicates that the hydrophobic tail of the peptide ... experimental spectra (In these experiments, the k-value is caused by light-scattering effects and will be ignored.) In the present analysis, based on the structure of the peptide andthe literature data, ... function of the concentration of Ab added to the PWR sample compartment The binding data were fit by a single hyperbola (solid line), andthe binding affinity values andthe magnitude of the spectral...
... After this, the nouns occurring in the first half of the corpus but not in the second (and therefore not tabulated) were listed and each was classified intuitively as a member of one of the five ... of great importance, was another criterion: "Is the English noun token singular or plural?" To test the significance and power of these two criteria, and to gauge the strength of additional criteria ... to the pattern of article occurrence indicated for them in the tabulation This was regarded as encouraging because, first of all, three of the classes were quite small compared to the others, and...
... and chromosome Table lists the results for the NOR andthe mitochondrial DNA insertion isochore in chromosome II andthe whole chromosome The results for other isochores and chromosomes are listed ... of the curve denotes the variation rate of the GC content According to the z¢ curve, each chromosome is composed of several GCrich and AT-rich regions alternatively The maximum, minimum and other ... arbitrarily chosen as h ¼ 0.2 There are many unassigned regions, as shown in [17] If these regions are further segmented according to the turning points in the z¢ curves, most of these regions are identified...
... provided the standard curve The different standard curves were analyzed by linear regression to check the linearity of the data and then used to determine the titers in the experimental groups Therefore, ... authors MCB and RG andthe Oswaldo Cruz Foundation as the sponsoring institution Authors' contributions MCB designed the viral constructions andthe study, coordinated the study and drafted the manuscript; ... region On the other hand, the opposite situation could also occur, in which a 288-nucleotide alignment may occur in the region encoding the stem and anchor domain of the virus E protein with the negative...
... (MSKCC) The chip images were scanned and processed to CEL files using the standard GCOS analysis suite (Affymetrix Inc) The CEL files were then normalized and processed to signal intensities using the ... procedures, and regulatory requirements of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the Research Animal Resource Center of MSKCC, andthe National Institutes of Health “Guide for the Care and ... monitoring of therapy is needed for human studies The tracking of viral delivery could give clinicians the ability to correlate efficacy and therapy and monitor potential viral toxicity Furthermore,...
... Luque and CotrelDubousset [14,15] The use of hooks in the thoracic spine has been considered as a gold standard for the treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis There has been a movement toward the ... recreate sitting balance and to achieve a solid fusion of the balanced spine in the frontal and sagittal planes [20,21] The average age of the patients in this study was 17.5 years The increase in age ... conception and design and acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the manuscript and revising it critically, SWS has contributed in conception and design of data, drafting the...
... proximal nail segmentand base fixture ing part in the base plate incorporated either, the barrel and side-plate, in case of the DHS, or the section of the cephalomedullary nail with the two support ... central axis of the femoral head leaving space in the distal third of the femoral head and neck for the distal screw The tip-to-apex distance was 20 mm for the proximal and 23 mm for the distal screw ... DHS and DHS Blade the authors noticed an enhanced cut out resistance of the DHS Blade The main difference between the two implants was the implantation technique, pre-drilling for the DHS and...