... including mountainous regions in the North and Central highland The term “Lowland” is defined as deltas, hilly areas and coastal zone as well as islands Table Meteorological stations used for weather ... conditions and these are the best places for human health in general and for tourism, excursion and sea vacation in particular Results and discussions The results of classification and assessment ... To Island, Tay Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City, there are about 200 good weather days per year For health resorts and some weather therapies in highland areas Just in mountainous regions, because of...
... relatives: grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece and nephew; half sister and half brother Third-degree relatives: great grandparent, great grandchild, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, grand ... appropriate age and risk criteria Centres should record details of tumour size, grade and lymph node status and whether the cancer was a prevalent, incident or interval cancer so that sensitivity and specificity ... available from www.nice.org.uk/CG041 Risk levels and estimates presented in this guideline For risk classifications, data from both Claus and coworkers (1994) and the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors...
... responsible for causing many diseases in living things (herpes and HIV in humans, for example) Viruses are found everywhere Viruses consist of a core of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA, and a protective ... eukaryotic cells Viruses and bacteriophages invade cells and use the host cell's machinery to synthesize more of their own macromolecules Once inside the host the bacteriophage or virus will either ... Viruses The Boundary of Life At the boundary of life, between the macromolecules (which are not alive) and the prokaryotic cells (which are), lie the viruses and bacteriophages...
... they work and are they useful? [correspondence] J Bone Joint Surg Am 1994, 76:792-3, 299-301 35 Brennan R, Prediger D: Coefficient kappa: some uses, misuses, and alternatives Educational and Psychological ... fractures Acta Orthop Scand 1999, 70:325-8 Shrader MW, Sanchez-Sotelo J, Sperling JW, Rowland CM, Cofield RH: Understanding proximal humerus fractures: image analysis, classification, and treatment J ... al.: Classification and treatment of proximal humerus fractures: inter-observer reliability and agreement across imaging modalities and experience Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011...
... 237 1,338 > 1,500 0 170 17 235 - Customer focus - Value management - Pricing policies - Marketing and sales forces skills and motivation Cost Leadership - Energy and AFR - Logistics Total increase ... charges 2011 of CHF 375 m and w ithout fluctuations in currency, changes in scope of consolidation and similar market conditions) Adjusted for the sale of 25% of Cement Australia and Siam City Cement, ... 5.2 years with long-dated bonds in USD, EUR and CHF Major capital market transactions since January 1, 2013 USD 500 m bond (10 years) USD 250 m bond (30 years) USD 50 m bond (20 years) EUR 500...
... over the years I want to thank my husband Liu Keyao who has supported me with all heart unconditionally, and my parents and parents-in-law for their understanding and encouragement Last but not least, ... stated above We process and analyze the medical images and reports to extract deeper semantics and useful information We provide several modes to suit user’s needs to search and retrieval medical ... images, match and label the ROIs and pathological class in images and text, and thus create a region-based labeled data set for training We explored the features for hematomas in both 3D and 2D so...
... focus principally on psychological and gastroesophageal/gastrointestinal causes and essentially ignore the potential for musculoskeletal etiologies [45-51] We report on a multidisciplinary focus ... coordination of care; (5) Best practices and standardization of care; and (6) Training and education These thematic issues are summarized below, and key excerpts from the focus group transcript exemplifying ... cardiac and other major medical conditions first), and that musculoskeletal chest pain is principally a diagnosis by exclusion Anecdotal experience of both chiropractic and medical cardiology focus...
... discussion and its advantages 2.1.1 Definition of group discussion First, let us examine the different definitions of group discussion “Group discussion is an activity in which students usually ... of pauses and total silence) and had obvious effects on complexity (subordination and past tense usage) Mehnert (1998) investigated different length of planning time (none, minute, minutes and ... made between “syntactic and lexical modes of communication” on one hand, while maintaining that balance between “conservative and ambitious syntactic use” on the other hand (p 23) Willis (1996)...
... performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions ... between group work and individual presentation Objectives of the study contribute more theory to the understandings of group discussion find out the essentials of group discussion provide ... group discussion in classroom? Do the students in pre-planning groups perform more accurately and better than those in unplanning groups in terms of tenses, subject-verb agreement and pronouncing...
... T4.td, and T4.nrdD; and arrowheads in Azoarcus indicate the 5Â and 3Â splice sites FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 26312644 ê 2006 The Authors Journal compilation ê 2006 FEBS 2639 Mn2+ inhibition and structure ... the manufacturers conditions (Perkin Elmer-Cetus, Norwalk, CT, USA) The template was plasmid pGEM23S.5 [18], and oligos 104 and 158 served as the 5Â and 3Â primers, respectively Plasmid pGEM23S.5 ... it interferes with catalysis, and have addressed this question using ribozyme kinetics We also wanted to probe the folding and tertiary structure of the ribozyme using Fe2+EDTA, which promotes...
... greater use of exchanges and CCPs is that authorities need to understand thoroughly the margining and risk mitigation rules and practices of exchanges and CCPs as well as the default, insolvency, and ... originated outside Iceland in 2007 (31% in the United Kingdom, 26% in Scandinavia, 8% in Luxembourg and 2% in other countries) 39 Concerns increased with other Icelandic banks and the Iceland government ... entered into various arrangements to share information, including exchanges of letters and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) 21 They set out expectations for supervisory cooperation and exchanges...
... financial inclusion Good.bee is guided by three principles: The good of the customer is at the heart of our business They and their customers business on a commercially viable basis They business with ... way of doing business? Microfinance today is not sustainable completely, thus there is a need to adapt the model in order to make it sustainable; it’s a social approach and a business approach; ... savings bank tradition and an important means to stimulate social inclusion and job creation Savings banks tailor their products in order to finance micro and small enterprises and create specific...
... our RAND colleagues Beth Asch and Lynn Scott for reviewing our work and helping us to improve it We thank Aaron Martin for providing useful information on Army ROTC as well as helping us to ... posting of R AND documents to a non-R AND Web site is prohibited R AND documents are protected under copyright law For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit the RAND permissions ... and the defense Intelligence Community Nelson Lim served as the principal investigator Comments are welcome and may be addressed to Nelson_Lim@rand.org For more information on RAND’s Forces and...
... have previously reported the synthesis and biological activities of three model peptides: native cecropin B (CB), which contains both a hydrophobic and an amphipathic helix, and the custom-designed, ... and cecropin B3 (CB3), which contain two amphiphilic and two hydrophobic helices, respectively [27,35–42] Recently, we explored the kinetics of liposome lysis using fluorescent quenching and used ... melittin, alamethicin and magainin [44,45] In this study, we examined and compared the disruptive mechanisms of the natural peptide (CB) and the custom peptide analogues (CB1) and (CB3) against liposomes,...
... an excitation slit width of nm and emission of nm was used Samples were excited at 280 nm, and emission was recorded at 305 nm ApoACP and holo-ACP at 60 lm were used for the studies The anisotropy ... molecular mass of holo-ACP dimer and the mixture of holo-ACP monomer and apo-ACP were found to be 33 kDa and 25 kDa, respectively Puried holo-ACP and the mixture of apo-ACP and holo-ACP monomer were ... Carlsbad, CA) were used for cloning of the gene pET- 28a(+) vector (Novagen, Darmstadt, Germany) and E coli BL21(DE3) cells (Novagen) were used for the expression of PfACP Cloning and expression of...
... GMD1, GER1 and GER2), C elegans (GMD-1, GMD-1a, GMD-2, GER-1 and coexpressed GMD-1 and GER-1) and D melanogaster (GMD and GMER) were expressed in E coli BL21(DE3)pLysS cells for h, and the soluble ... various species together The incubations were then analysed by RP-HPLC, using authentic GDP-Man and GDP-Fuc as external standards Initially, 0.5 m KH2PO4 was used as eluent [37], but, analogous ... enzymes (GMD1 and MUR1; At5g66280 and At3g51160), displaying differential expression [18], as well as the previously proven GER1 and now, by us, proven GER2 (respectively, At1g73250 and At1g17890):...
... absence and presence of different concentrations (0.25 M, 0.5 M and M) of GdnHCl The excitation and emission wavelengths were set to 400 nm with excitation and emission band pass of nm and nm, ... Dasgupta and P Ghosh for critical reading of the manuscript This work was supported by a grant to D P from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and a Council of Scientific and ... respectively ð3Þ DGUÀFH2 O ð4Þ where aF and aU are the intercepts and bF and bU are the slopes of the baselines of the equilibrium fluorescence (F) at low and high denaturant concentrations, respectively...
... lane, two bands corresponding to GST-FL (upper band) and GST (lower band); Nt lane, GST-Nt peptide (upper band) and GST (lower band); Ct lane, only one band (GST-Ct peptide) (B) SDS ⁄ PAGE analysis ... gene were amplified by PCR (Pfu; Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) These DNA segments correspond to the coding regions of the FL, Nt and Ct peptides Two forward (F1 and F2) and two reverse (R1 and R2) ... and R1 was used for amplification of the FL peptide; F1 and R2 was for the Nt peptide, and F2 and R1 was for the Ct peptide The PCR products were digested with BamHI and EcoRI, and ligated to pGEX-2TK...
... products were amplified as the expected 390 bp and 437 bp products for positions U1357 and U1381, respectively (Fig 3A) Representative amplicons for all eight reactions were DNA sequenced and confirmed ... transcribed with primer OP299 using Superscript II RNaseH Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen) and amplified by PCR using different forward primers (OP764, OP765, or OP766) and a nested reverse primer ... OP890 and OP889 ⁄ OP890 for U1357 and U1381, respectively) The forward primers were used to generate alternative codons for the first 16 and 15 triplets following the target sites U1357 and U1381,...
... for I225F and I225V variants (Fig 4B and Table 2) However, the same experiment was not feasible using W50P or W50R DAAO variants because flavin was re-oxidized 488 The biochemical (and structural) ... (Cremello, Italy) at 15 °C and 0.1 mgÆmL)1 protein concentration, and corrected for buffer contributions Temperature-ramp experiments were performed as reported previously [30] using a software-driven, ... A e)k1t + B e)k2t + C, where A and B are amplitudes and C is an initial absorbance value) The determined rate constants were used to simulate the half-reactions and to estimate the kinetic steps...