... ofmembranesforpervaporationintherecoveryofaromacompoundsRecoveryofaromacompounds by pervaporation and applications inthe food and beverage industries Sources of further information ... inthe hydrostatic pressure However, inthe presence of dense gas, the melting point ofthe solid decreases as the pressure increases owing to the increasing solubility of gas inthe solid The ... branches; one going from the critical point ofthe component with the higher critical temperature, initially inthe direction ofthe critical point ofthe other component and then rising sharply...
... steadily inthe last few years The short gestation periods for installing wind turbines, and the increasing reliability and performance of wind energy machines have made wind power a favored choice for ... with the geological analysis and examines the suitability of a certain location forthe proposed wind farm infrastructure These services mainly include the analysis ofthe stability ofthe subsoil ... owing to the current structuring ofthe industry supply chain, but with the opening up ofthe Indian electricity sector, wind power producers can expect more options available forthe trading of...
... prices (income) in important sectors ofthe economy (eg Agriculture) To protect workers (eg minimum wages) P What is the impact? S surplus minimum price Pe D O Qd Qs fig Q Gainers & Losers? Gainers ... dealing with resulting shortages => rationing black markets P Effect of price control on blackmarket prices Blackmarketeers’ profits Pb S Pe Price ceiling Pg D O Qs Qd fig Q Gainers & Losers? Gainers ... Equilibrium determined by market forces Equilibrium maintained by market forces Price Controls Some cases market forces are not allowed to determine equilibrium price and quantity Intervention...
... VALUE-ADDED MEASURES As shown inthe table, including teachers and the interac tion of teachers with each ofthe factors inthe design accounts for most ofthe observed variance inthe estimated teacher ... that are not There is a large amount of crossing ofthe lines for teachers, indicating that differentially weighting the subscales changes the ordering ofthe teacher effects and their statistical ... denote the vector of aggregates of some ofthe student -level variables forthe students linked to teacher j The aggregates include the percentage of students participating inthe FRL program, the...
... improve the quality ofthe GSMM Therefore, instead of utilizing these tools to automate the reconstruction ofthe draft model, this thesis adopts a more manual approach towards screening the microbe’s ... defining codon distribution ofthe host’s selected genes p1 Vector of frequencies defining codon distribution ofthe target coding sequence k q0 Frequency of occurrence of codon pair k inthe ... A,1 Number of occurrence of amino acid j inthe target coding sequence j θ AA,0 Number of occurrence of amino acid pair j inthe host’s selected genes j θ AA,1 Number of occurrence of amino acid...
... daily, was flowed into the system The characteristics ofthe influent wastewater were as follows: 160–200 mg/L of SS, 55–80 mg/L of TOC, 45–55 mg/L of T-N, and 4.0–5.5 mg/L of T-P In this study, ... phosphorus was then accumulated inthe sludge inthe subsequent oxic tank by normal oxygen-utilizing PAOs The residual phosphorus was removed inthe final anoxic tank without oxygen Especially in Phase ... and effluent ofthe phosphorus adsorption column are shown in Fig During the operation, about 70% ofthe phosphorus inthe sludge was solubilized by ozonation, and a large part ofthe solubilized...
... consider is the use, inthe other production chain, ofthe agricultural residues as livestock feed, which forms the basis for important protein inthe human diet [26] For example inthe Netherlands ... 2012, pp.541-552 Interpretation ofthe results Inthe assessment ofthe GHG savings ofthe bioenergy system, the definition ofthe fossil reference system is very important For instance, fossil-derived ... extraction of oil contained in dry pomace Before the extraction process, the process of distillation ofthe pomace oil separates the hexane from the oil and allows the sale ofthe pomace oil in the...
... Plasma Proteins Having entered the blood, drugs may bind to the protein molecules that are present in abundance, resulting inthe formation of drug-protein complexes Protein binding involves primarily ... resupplied from binding sites on plasma proteins Binding to plasma protein is equivalent to a depot in prolonging the duration ofthe effect by retarding elimination, whereas the intensity ofthe effect ... ng/mL for a drug 10 % bound to protein, but ng/mL for a drug 99 % bound to protein The reduction in concentration of free drug resulting from protein binding affects not only the intensity of the...
... examining the role of GIF in AD, linked to its initial discovery as a factor deficient inthe AD brain There remains no clear consensus on the role of GIF inthe pathogenesis of AD, and therefore ... explaining the vast neuronal loss inthe AD brain Further investigation ofthe increased neurotrophic activity ofthe AD brain revealed that it correlated with the loss of a specific neuroinhibitory ... whether GIF acts in a neuroinhibitory manner when administered directly into the brain following traumatic brain injury In one such study, the injection of GIF into the site of a stab wound promoted...
... plasticity of FVIIa, Hydrogen bonds involving Gly372 in factor VIIa especially inthe vicinity ofthe S1 pocket [11,34], inthe rst part of activation loop 3, and inthe area ofthe TF-interactive ... FX, indicating that substrate subsites located inthe vicinity ofthe active site and sensed by the peptidyl substrate are inuenced, in contrast to the remote exosites, e.g inthe vicinity ofthe ... identied in an alanine scanning mutagenesis study of FVIIa, shedding light on the amino acid residues that are important for TF binding and or the cofactor effect [13] In terms of intramolecular...
... Enlargement ofthe original plots shown in (B) present in cell extracts of succinate/glucose-grown cells; therefore, the synthesis ofthe enzyme was inducible Table shows a summary of a typical ... peak ofthe purified enzyme at 266 nm The typical protein absorption peak of 280 nm shifts to 265 nm if the protein contains a flavin-type cofactor [28] We failed to identify the cofactor ofthe ... released ammonia The coupled enzyme assay revealed the mechanism ofthe deamination reaction and the subsequent metabolism, including the deamination step The product formed from 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic...
... essential forthe binding of CP12 The presence of this region at the interface of GAPDH and CP12 could also explain the kinetic changes observed forthe binding ofthe substrate when the wild-type ... molecular modelling of all mutant GAPDHs indicate no changes ofthe global structure ofthe mutants To test whether the interactions of these mutants with the other partners ofthe GAPDHCP12PRK ... partners of this complex These mutageneses are a rst step toward the understanding of proteinprotein interactions inthe GAPDHCP12PRK complex and the nature ofthe physico-chemical forces involved in...
... made on the basis ofthe structure ofthe 5¢UTR ofthe plus-RNA, the structure ofthe 3¢-end ofthe minusstrand RNA being at that time unavailable Inthe present study we investigated the involvement ... molecules These data were confirmed by performing a kinetic experiment inthe presence of heparin at 200 lgÆmL)1 As shown in Fig 5B, the amount of synthesized RNA greatly increased inthe first 10 ofthe ... structure ofthe SL-A1 and ofthe SL-B1 hairpin and the nt at the 3¢-end remained free as inthe wild-type (–)IRES RNA synthesis obtained with the (–)IRES 104 RNA was only 24% of that ofthe wild-type...
... responsible for binding and proper orientation ofthe aminopyrimidine ring, are conserved in all ThDP-dependent enzymes One of these, the hydrogen bond between the N1¢ atom ofthe pyrimidine ring of ThDP ... structure Binding ofthe cofactors ThDP and Mg2+ The homo-tetrameric IPDC binds four molecules ofthe cofactors ThDP and Mg2+ The ThDP binding sites are located in narrow clefts at the interfaces formed ... (Fig 7) Inthe latter, differences inthe conformation ofthe loop between Fig Stereo picture ofthe model ofthe a-carbanion/enamine intermediate (light grey) inthe active site of EcIPDC The three...
... 428 aa; nine aa in total) were located near the interface ofthe physiological dimer The Cterminal domain may contain structural features involved in protein–protein interactions to form the physiological ... Determination of overall structure In a previous study [10], we determined the F structure containing the truncated region ofthe C-terminal domain; however, we failed to determine the structure of ... different conformations ofthe regions at 100-105 and 303-309 aa inthe N form, and we investigated the following points First, these areas are not involved in any contacts with other molecules in crystals...
... to SeV infection ArgII is involved inthe biosynthesis of natural polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) through conversion of l-arginine into l-ornithine [16] The latter is in turn ... [16] The two isoforms possess the same enzymatic activity for converting l-arginine into l-ornithine and urea, a critical step inthe polyamine biosynthesis pathway Subcellular localization ofthe ... infection As the two isoforms of arginase, I (hepatic isoform) and II (extrahepatic isoform), may contribute to the arginase activity measured inthe previous experiment, ArgII induction in response...
... of GSK3 (using Li or SB-415286) appears to be sufficient for inducing activation of GS in muscle and fat cells, and that inhibition ofthe kinase potentiates insulin action in muscle of insulin-resistant ... phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, p70, S6 kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3 activity in L6 muscle cells: evidence forthe involvement ofthe mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway inthe L-leucine-induced ... GSK3 inhibition improves insulin responsiveness in muscle of insulin resistant animals it had no insulin potentiating effect in skeletal muscle of lean animals [39,41] To assess whether chronic inhibition...
... without the benefit of hindsight, by ensuring that the examiner assesses the invention through the eyes ofthe person skilled inthe art, with the benefit of his common general knowledge The inventive ... chromatofocusing was the more normal method of purifying proteins (save if the sole purpose of obtaining a sample was for sequencing), to think of another method of purification (normally used for ... because of general developments inthe state ofthe art after the filing date The relevant date for complying with the requirement for sufficiency is the filing date ofthe application and not eg the...
... The singular set S (the axis) then consists of removable singularities Before we proceed, let us briefly describe the strategy ofthe proof of Theorem 0.2 The proof has the following three main ... original disk, contradicting that they were disjoint GRAPHICAL OFF THE AXIS 35 In this part, we prove Theorem I.0.8 when the surface is in a slab, illustrating the key points (the full theorem, ... Proof of Proposition III.1.1: Step 4: Extending the top and bottom components by the maximum principle They stay disjoint since the middle component is a graph separating them III.2 Proof of Theorem...