... produced, and how the artefact is produced using those materials For example: what are the origins ofthe yellow, red and black pigments of parietal paintings ofthe Magdalenian era inthe caves ofthe ... founded in 1997 with the main objective of promoting research and education inthe field of cultural heritage, based on the directions and recommendations given inthe Professional Guidelines ofthe ... ofthe paint layer, the characteristic touche ofthe author, the eventual existence of an underlying painting, the pentimenti, the alterations, the restorations, the modifications of frame, the...
... on the functioning of e-commerce and Internet marketing and selling techniquesinthe retail of goods • Many consumers research information on products and prices offline and then buy them online: ... online prices were lower than offline prices in 13 ofthe 15 Civic Consulting Consumer market study on the functioning of e-commerce and Internet marketing and selling techniquesinthe retail of ... the functioning of e-commerce and Internet marketing and selling techniquesinthe retail of goods Table 12: Consumer survey – Perceived savings while buying online or offline28 Online shopping...
... uptake ofthe plastic antibody was compared against that ofthe NIP andthe imprinting efficiency was found to be 1.3 The imprinting efficiency is defined as the ratio ofthe binding ratio ofthe MIP ... success ofthe imprinting process as seen from the difference in binding between the MIP andthe NIP while selectivity was defined as the efficiency in binding structural analogues ofthe template ... of vision and pinpointing ofthe pupils [9] Nerve agent poisoning may be treated with timely administration of antidotes such as atropine and diazepam The blister agents cause blistering of the...
... concentrations of organic substancesinthe aqueous environment has been a matter of increasing interest to the water industry, scientists andthe general public alike, from the point of view of possible ... aspiration ofthe ASP, following the first sampling cycle, ensures that both theOFandthe ASP are periodically renewed, and thus theOF would be in contact with fresh aqueous sample having the initial ... amphetamines and phencyclidine in urine were investigated using LPME combined with GC analysis [57] The optimized method was capable of detecting drugs in urine at concentrations below the Substance...
... War Memorial The photograph ofthe original painting was taken by the author inthe course of her investigations, and is not an official reproduction ofthe painting (ART40317) inthe Australian ... reflection, andthe shape ofthe capillary determines the overall flux gain andthe uniformity ofthe focussed spot Gains in flux of 100 and more have been reported However, there is a degradation inthe ... plain photograph and two hyperspectral images of a painting inthe collection ofthe Australian War Memorial Left: Photograph ofthe original painting Centre and Right: Hyperspectral images of the...
... integrated in a language processing chain (LPC), so that the output of a given NLP tool is used as an input for the next tool inthe chain The baseline LPC for each ofthe supported languages includes ... system andthe benefits of using it The chapter “Evaluation” briefly discusses the user evaluation ofthe new system The last chapter “Conclusion and Future Work” summarises the main achievements of ... or binary documents) inthe “preprocessing” phase Secondly, the text is annotated by several NLP tools, chained in a sequence inthe “processing” phase The language processing tools are integrated...
... publishers The remaining two areas – conflict of interest leading to biased selection of evidence, and bias inthe interpretation of evidence – fall within the domain ofthe compendia publishers and ... Conflict of interest inthe process of making study data available; 3) Conflict of interest leading to biased selection of indications to review, andof evidence sources; and, 4) Bias inthe interpretation ... conflict of interest in mind 21 Relevant information for assessing potential conflict of interest includes the identification ofthe sponsor, determination of whether an independent team reviewed the...
... MUPT The SMUP is determined by using the firing times ofthe main spike of each individual MUP firing within a MUPT and relating these to the potential observed at a surface electrode overlying the ... column, which indicate the number of samples assigned to each target class; inthe case of Table these are MUPTs, inthe remaining tables these are muscles The value at the foot ofthe “Per-class ... in which d is the dimensionality (the number of input features) inthe problem As can be seen in (2), this factor drops out inthe construction ofthe discriminant through the application of...
... define the parity values The data processing operations are combined with the parity generating function to provide one set of parity values The k is the basic block size ofthe input data, and ... by examining the magnitude ofthe respective syndromes and comparing against thresholds five times the standard deviation of syndrome values when only low levels of round-off error appear The simulation ... 1-out -of- 2 code indicating that no error has occurred inthe data processing unit and its checking facilities The precision required for the two parity values, the value characterizations in Figure...
... elimination ofthe excess during the carbon washing process The effect ofthe increase in proportion ofthe impregnation over the carbon porous structure is greater than the one obtained with the ... number of works increased inthe years from 2000 to 2010 The obtained carbons were mainly employed inthe removal of water pollutants Inthe present chapter the principal methods used inthe preparation ... according with the following equation, (1) where W0 is the weight ofthe original carbon and W1 refers to the mass ofthe activated carbon The use of CO2 during the activation process of a carbon...
... Facing the Reality of Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis: Challenges and Potential Solutions in India: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the Indian Nation FACING THE REALITY OF ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions inthe examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences andthe National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and...
... protein content in their latex; and (2) the presence of other cysteine proteinases or isoforms inthe latex To investigate these two hypotheses, the protein concentration per milligram of dried ... coding for cysteine proteinases inthe latex of V stipulata and V · heilbornii Based on these sequences, the evolution ofthe cysteine proteinases within the Caricaceae was investigated Furthermore, ... aid inthe protection against degradation, or in targeting or maturation ofthe enzyme, as was shown before in cathepsin C, which also belongs to the papain family of cysteine proteinases [27] The...
... mislocalization of all three enzymes in these cells clearly shows the involvement of PEX14 inthe targeting of PTS-1, PTS-2 and I-PTS proteins to the glycosome To further analyse the effect ofthe destruction ... N-terminal domain ofthe polypeptide of each of these organisms is followed by a stretch of hydrophobic amino acids that is presumably involved inthe protein’s anchoring to the membrane Also in ... was located inthe band This may be due to diffusion of some complexed protein as the band migrates inthe native gel Band contains the excess of TbPEX14-N,H In a second experiment, the same two...
... Comparison ofthe amino-acid sequence ofthe chrysophsins with other antimicrobial peptides Alignment ofthe mature amino-acid sequences of chrysophsin-1, chrysophsin-2 and chrysophsin-3, misgurin [15], ... phenylthiohydantoin amino-acid standards Tricine/SDS/PAGE The molecular mass ofthe sample was estimated by Tricine/ SDS/PAGE using a 16.5% separating gel, 10% spacer gel and 4% stacking gel inthe presence of ... concentration of purified and synthetic chrysophsin-1 and chrysophsin-2 was obtained from the A280 [24], and that of chrysophsin-3 with the DC-protein assay kit Solid-phase peptide synthesis Circular...
... excitation of H-1 H-resonance ofthe GlcNAc residue inthe TOCSY step andof H-3/H-4 1H-resonance ofthe GlcNAc residue inthe NOESY step (A) The assignments ofthe 1H-resonances ofthe Gal II ... 4-substituted and confirming the 3-linkages for the galactose residues ofthe Sial-lNnT unit (Fig 7) This confirms that a terminal Sial-lNnT unit is linked to the Hep I residue ofthe LPS inner core inthe ... supplemented with Neu5Ac The structure ofthe inner core glycoforms is shown and ions arising from the inner core and from the addition ofthe sialylated tetrasaccharide are indicated Ó FEBS 2002...
... utilization of galactose when the concentration of galactose is decreasing inthe medium To explain the mechanism of MRG19 in facilitating GAL gene induction, under low induction signal, we consider the ... the binding site ofthe repressor Therefore, the possibility that Mrg19p could be a member of Hap1p complex remains to be tested If MRG19 were a repressor of CYC1 involved inthe regulation of ... b-galactosidase activity in wild-type and MRG19 disrupted strains bearing the indicated fusion constructs Transformants were grown to D600 of 0.5 and 1.5, in minimal synthetic medium containing glycerol...
... growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable body of research on the impact of HAART on health-related quality of ... widely used in studies of quality of life in HIV-positive patients in both developed and developing countries, and has performed well in all of these settings [11,12,14,25-28] The instrument has ... study therefore supports the findings of Stangl et al [18] and Jelsma et al [19] who both reported an increase in HRQoL within the first three months of therapy in similar patient populations The...
... PiT1-binding immunoadhesin generated by fusing the aminoterminal residues ofthe GALV (SEATO strain) Env, comprising the signal peptide, the RBD andthe proline-rich region, to the rFc tag, herein, ... distribution in basal conditions With HRBD, the GLUT1 ligand, we observed a staining of GLUT1 inthe corpus callosum andthe basal ganglia apparently weaker than inthe cerebellum andinthe cortex These ... distinct binding ofthe GLUT1 ligand was detected, with the structure rather presenting a diffuse staining (data not shown) PiT1, on the other hand, showed a reticular pattern with several stained...
... within the ruptures of a temporary cavity inthe gelatin block revealed a deposition of particles along the entire bullet path for both types of projectiles examined Inthe case ofthe soft point ... and reproducible method of systematic examination inthe field of terminal ballistics The model permits the infiltration depth of exogenous particles leading to contamination in relation to the ... were found 6.0-10.0 cm behind the point Page ofof impact ofthe projectile on the gelatin block In this area, the gelatin blocks at which shots were fired with soft point bullets showed significantly...
... [39,40] In conclusion, our findings clearly suggest that the newly recruited ED7+ AM are involved inthe regulation ofthe ongoing inflammatory process Whether the antiinflammatory effects of IL10 ... < 0.01 the proinflammatory cytokine TNF-α However, significantly increased mRNA levels were found inthe ED7+ population for IL-12 p40 and iNOS Interestingly, the expression ofthe antiinflammatory ... exert antiinflammatory properties [36] and, therefore, ED7+ AM seem to play a role inthe control ofthe inflammatory reaction On the other hand these ED7+ AM also produce higher amounts of IL-12,...