... filtered into the interior, and so reached the pipes of the Chinese. Just why the Chinese chose to obtain their supplies from India is no clearer than why, having obtained it, they smoked instead ... the intense dry heat of the north Indian plain had lowered the water content to 30 percent. Then it and the poppy petal sheets went together tothe caking room.Down the sides of the caking ... and the epicanthic fold.Yet no one can really say why the peoples east of the Indian Ocean got into the habit of assimilating the drug in this way. Opium came to them as it had come tothe Indians,...
... formed …………… they are cut off from rain-bearingwinds by the surrounding mountain ranges.a. becauseb. in spite ofc. sod. due to a57. …………… that the English settled in Jamestown.a. In 1607 ... You can’t rely …………… a hotel room.a. on findingb. in findingc. of findingd. about finding a171. According to a recent survey, ……………. doctors do not have a personalphysician.a. a large amount ... turning onb. being turned onc. to turn ond. to be turned on a211. Ann hoped ……………… to join the private club. She could make importantbusiness contracts there. a. invitingb. being invitedc....
... on tothe steel bars and blinds. It was astonish-ing how closely we kept tothe lines of Cavor's first inspiration in work-ing out the scheme. When the bolting together of the sphere was ... Cavor was too much im-mersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying ma-chine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was ... blind—"Came a click, and then a window inthe outer case yawned open. The sky outside was as black as the darkness within the sphere, but the shapeof the open window was marked by an infinite...
... factor).If the model corresponds tothe initial hypothesis, i.e. that the market interest determines movements inthe retail interest rate, the portion attributable to shocks to the market interest ... focus in particular on the extent towhichthe widening gap in financing costs among public sectors from end-2009 was passed on inthe financing costs of the two other sectors, and thereby ... due tothe shock to the retail rate, which indicates that this model is insuf-ficient for explaining the events during the crisis. The savings deposit interest rate is particularly important in...
... UDPNAG have providedfurther insight into the molecular mechanism driving the formation of the covalent C115–fosfomycin adduct. Aconservative exchange of K22 to arginine maintains fosfo-mycin binding, ... arginine 120 in MurA (Eur. J. Biochem. 271) 2685 the positively charged side chain of K22 participates in fosfomycin binding, thus providing a rationale for the loss offosfomycin binding tothe ... lysine reduces the probability offorming the fully closed form of the protein. The results obtained with the K22V/R120K doublemutant protein point toward a central role of arginine 120 in the...
... December to refit, leaving a few small frigates to lie in wait for some merchantmen reported to be in that region.[135] The first town on the Main to feel the presence of this new power inthe Indies ... islands (Tortuga) was contained in their former grant."[86] Although there were several islands namedTortuga inthe region of the West Indies, all the evidence points tothe identity of the ... between the Virginian Capes and the Bermudas to about 38°, in order to recover the strong northerly winds, and then east tothe Azores. In winter the galleons sometimes ran south of the Bermudas,...
... about 7 : 3. Kinetic analysis of the swapping pro-cess for a recombinant sample shows that it folds mainly in the MẳM form, then undergoes interconversion into the MxM form, reaching the same 7 ... J. Biochem. 270) Ó FEBS 2003 Role of the hinge peptide and the intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNaseCarmine Ercole1, Francesca Avitabile1, ... with Leu11. The in uence of the Leu side chain is also evident during the swapping process, and again the two mutants in which Leu28 had been substituted display closely matching kineticbehaviours...
... hat,’ the King said tothe Hatter.‘It isn’t mine,’ said the Hatter.‘Stolen!’ the King exclaimed, turning tothe jury, who in- stantly made a memorandum of the fact.‘I keep them to sell,’ the ... went in. e door led right into a large kitchen, whichwas full of smoke from one end tothe other: the Duchess was sit-ting on a three-legged stool inthe middle, nursing a baby; the cook was ... head down, and was going to begin again, it was very pro-voking to nd that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was inthe act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a...
... residents of thecountry (de jure population) or all persons present inthecountry (de facto population) at the time of the census. For purposes of international comparisons, the de facto definition ... continue to refer to “4 million Palestinians” living inthe Territories. It is important for Israelis, Palestinians and world agencies to arrive at more accurate PA population figures. The ... that are inthe best position to analyze migration into Israel. This discrepancy remains an unsolved mystery. This study, whichwas concerned with auditing the PCBS model, included the documented...
... disease in elderly patients. To investigate the function of the glycosyltransferase enzymes involved inthe biosynthesis of lipooligosaccha-ride of M. catarrhalis and to gain some insight into the ... conse-quently the b-d-Gal was found inthe terminal positionbecause the a-d-Gal found inthe wild-type 2951 oligo-saccharide was missing. What was most surprising,however, was that mutation of the lgt4 ... conspicuous in the 1H-13C-HSQC spectrum.Examination of the anomeric13C line of residue C in the 120 ms1H-13C-HSQC-TOCSY spectrumrevealed the location of the remaining ring protons.CD...
... anyincrease inthe activity of the AMPK a2b2c3 com-plexes inthe presence of AMP inthe phosphorylationreaction by LKB1, as measured through their ability to incorporate phosphate into the ... from brain was used, as we and others have not been able to detect any c3 mRNA or protein in this tissue [23,25]. In addition, it is possible that the antibody binding itself interferes with the ... nucleotide bind-ing in Sc. pombe AMPK may differ from that in the human enzyme. The present study does not explain the mechanisms by whichthe mutations in CBS domainsof AMPK c3 interfere with...
... SIK1(L602A/L604A) was distri-buted diffusely both tothe nucleus and tothe cytoplasmof resting Y1 cells. On the other hand, SIK1(I607A/L610A) was localized mainly inthe c ytoplasm. These findingssuggest ... arereplaced with other residues inthe corresponding regionof SIK2. To examine whether or not the lower similarity in domain 3 B between the two isoforms contributes to the difference in their intracellular ... werelocalized inthe cytoplasm. Inthe ACTH-treated cells,TORC2 seemed to move into the nucleus, although the extent of the nuclear import seemed less than that in the SIK1-nonexpressing control...
... complex[12]. Inthe present work, we have investigated the possible involvement of the N-terminus and of the C-terminus of PufX in protein–protein interactions stabil-izing the LH1–RC complex. To this ... ubiquinone between the RCand the cytbc1 in the presence of mutatedPufX protein The role of the PufX protein in facilitating the ubiquinone/ubiquinol exchange between the QBsite of the RC ... pufX.Inallthecases,theRb. sphaeroides hoststrain was DQ x/g [10]. The pseudo wild-type strain used in this work was obtained reintroducing the complete puf operon via the plasmid pRKX (in trans)...
... / trying / to travel b. see / wasn’t / to find / to buy / trying / to travel c. to see / wasn’t / to find / buy / trying / to travel d. seeing / am not / to find / buy / trying / traveling ... keep / making b. to keep / to fill / to ask / to keep / making c. keeping / filling / asking / to keep / to make d. keeping / to fill / to ask / to keep / make >a 14. He stopped for a rest ... across the road. a. have just put / to prevent / rushing / dashing b. has just put / preventing / to rush / to dash c. have just put / prevent / rushing / to dash d. has just put / to prevent...