... planetary disks themselves obscure the parallax shift When the planet Venus transits (passes across the disk of) the Sun, observations from different parts oftheEarth can made ofthe precise times when ... function of mass ofthe star expressed in solar masses The Sun s mass on this scale is The lifetime is given in years The timescales for the appearance on our planet of life, of complex cells, andof ... four ofthe solar system s moons (Earth s Moon, Jupiter s Ganymede, Callisto, and Saturn s Titan) But they are the largest of a class of debris left over from the formation ofthe solar system...
... simultaneously in glass vessels using the same stock solutions of these chemicals, with the fish species as part ofthe other aspect ofthe project [23,24] Recovery rates after 24 h for endosulfan, ... tolerances of fish in the absence and presence of chemicals were measured individually using the CTMaximum test method The methodology for conducting the tests for this study was designed on the basis ... concentrations used in the present study are presented in Table Measured values or recovery rates of test chemicals can be estimated on the basis ofthe results obtained from acute tests, conducted simultaneously...
... factors which are usually suggested as possible candidates The first is openness to trade (and the globalisation process) andthe second is technical progress andthe associated organisational ... discussed above While the services sector has facilitated both fragmentation ofthe production process andthe emergence of global value chains in the goods sector , it has itself been less associated ... levels of educational attainment andthe growth of certain occupations such managers, professionals, technicians and associated professionals Despite an increasing concentration on lessskilled...
... the timber increases the level of carbon dioxide in the air Less trees means less carbon dioxide absorbed for photosynthesis Soil is eroded as it is exposed to the wind and rain Less water is ... resources Humans are using up theearths resources, including fossil fuels Burning fossil fuels in cars and power stations produces carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases ... dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and causes the temperature oftheearth to rise • This leads to disruption ofthe weather patterns eg drought, floods • Some weeds may thrive on the extra carbon...
... the timber increases the level of carbon dioxide in the air Less trees means less carbon dioxide absorbed for photosynthesis Soil is eroded as it is exposed to the wind and rain Less water is ... resources Humans are using up theearths resources, including fossil fuels Burning fossil fuels in cars and power stations produces carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases ... dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and causes the temperature oftheearth to rise • This leads to disruption ofthe weather patterns eg drought, floods • Some weeds may thrive on the extra carbon...
... versus longitudinal studies Before discussing our results in details, it is also worthwhile discussing the intrinsic limitations of cross-sectional studies, such as ours, where age effects on ... of fact, key structures of these two systems (the substantia nigra andthe nucleus basalis of Meynert, respectively) show a loss of dopaminergic/ cholinergic neurons with age (Rehman and Masson, ... losses in the corpus callosum and in the major pathways surrounding the lateral ventricles such as the anterior and posterior callosal fibers, the optical tracts, andthe posterior limb of the...
... raising the pH to 8.9 The pH sensitivity of these frequencies is a common characteristic of all peroxidases and is a consequence ofthe strong H-bond between the proximal His and Asp residues ... this shows two Fe-Im stretches at 233 and 249 cm)1 This is a rather anomalous hybrid peroxidase, that exhibits the spectroscopic characteristics and substrate preferences of both class I and ... effects that are mediated exclusively on the reduced state ofthe enzyme We hypothesize that this residue imposes a degree of rigidity to the structure ofthe reduced state of class III peroxidases...
... ofthe new linguists is described, as well as the test data and experimental setting Finally, the results are presented ENGCG tag set Descriptions ofthe morphological tags used by the English ... identifies words left without an analysis, in which case the linguist was to provide the m~.~sing analysis These analysed versions ofthe same text were compared to each other using the Unix sdiff ... be always right (or wrong) and so 'reconsiders' only in terms ofthe existing analysis The linguists were told t h a t some ofthe words marked with the "RECONSIDER" symbol were analysed differently...
... disorder occurs with other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis and polyarteritis nodosa.2,15 The onset ofthe disease often ... “keratoconjunctivitis sicca.” Other systemic findings include synovitis, neuropathy, vasculitis and disorders ofthe skin, thyroid gland, urogenital system and respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts Most serious ... gums, mints, lozenges (Table) Oral rinses, ointments, pastilles Poorly Fitting Prostheses dSoft- and hard-tissue relines by dentist dUse of denture adhesives and troches are effective for most...
... domain of HSP70 is essential for the inhibition of H2O2-induced activation of caspases-9 and -3 and apoptosis (A) The effects of HSP70 and its deletion mutant proteins on the activation of caspases-9 ... apoptosis; however, HSP70 overexpression significantly prevented such stress-induced apoptosis Because these effects were similar to those of our previous observations for the same cells undergoing ... increased expression ofthe anti-apoptotic protein, Bcl-2 [33] On the basis ofthe available evidence, HSP70 and HSP70DPBD may also suppress Smac release and apoptosis by regulating the expression...
... vapors of 1000 ppm as presented in the lowest curve The vertical arrow corresponds to the magnitude of 10 in sensor response separated measurements using a fast response sensor Thelengthofthe ... exposure to other volatile vapors for evaluating the sensing characteristics of our nanorod sensors in terms of sensitivity and selectivity Fig shows time-dependent sensor response profiles of ... that the sensor has fast response and short recovery time In the case of a 400 ◦ C annealed sensor, the response abruptly increases to the 90% level of a maximum value within a time of less than...
... test systems such as primary spermatocytes and bone marrow cells, whereas the human lymphocyte system is relatively insensitive to their clastogenic effects He then reported the results of his ... apparatus for cell division (Kusyk and Hsu 1976) The effects of a mitotic disrupter mainfest themselves as abnormal movements of chromosomes errors of chromosome segregation (FCS), during mitosis, and ... other substances, nutrition, truthfulness ofthe woman 's recall and report ofthe amount of use, changes in use during pregnancy andthe trimester when these changes occurred, and a host of other...
... evaluate the list Li of target words produced by a transliteration system for source word si , a test corpus is constructed The test corpus consists of a source word, si , and a list of possible ... surrounding consonants and vowels The full details of this system are not important for this paper; here we focus on the performance evaluation of systems, not the systems themselves 641 2.1 System Evaluation ... result is a list of target words sorted by their associated probabilities, Li The first system we use (SYS-1) is an n-gram approach that uses the last character ofthe previous source segment to...
... on these substrates is the variability ofthe cleavage sites, which is a consequence of modications in size or in nature ofthe amino acids at different positions ofthe substrates [5,6] The ... cleavage sites and on the amount of their hydrolysis This series of peptides was chosen because the P2Â and P3Â positions were demonstrated to be very determinant on the specicity of neurolysin and ... [5] The kinetic parameters of hydrolysis andthe variations ofthe cleavage sites of this series of peptides by these two oligopeptidases were evaluated in different conditions of temperature and...
... in a simulation time as short as ns Although the loss of secondary structure for apoMb is expected, it is not obvious how fast this process may be Molecular dynamics simulation shows that the ... contamination ofthe apoprotein preparation by the holoprotein was assessed spectrophotometrically, and no significant absorption was observed in the Soret region 5186 Peptide synthesis The peptides used ... variants were also studied bearing a single residue replacement The amino acid sequences ofthe peptides used herein are shown in Fig 1B The peptides were synthesized by solid-phase peptide synthesis...
... TSHR RESULTS Synthesis, maturation and degradation of TSHR at the endoplasmic reticulum level To study the maturation of TSHR after its synthesis, K562 cells stably transfected with human TSHR [11] ... pulsechase analyses on TSHR-K562 cells treated with and without mM of CST, which is known to inhibit the trimming ofthe three glucoses from the core oligosaccharide andthe subsequent association ... been described as being necessary to the folding and oligomeric assembly of various glycoproteins [17] To study the role of CNX and CRT in the folding of newly synthesized TSHR molecules, we performed...
... hole increases, and therefore the Coulomb interaction decreases, as the energy ofthe quantum state increases The final result is a blue-shift ofthe OR and SHG peaks ofthe order of meV for ... manifests itself in a blue-shift ofthe energy peaks ofthe order of several meV in the studied spectra These results were found for two quantum dot sizes, in the first one the characteristic ... above We have used the software COM-SOL Multiphysics, which offers the possibility of defining a geometry, in this case the upper half of a sphere, and to solve the time-independent Schrödinger...
... consumption on the concerned information Results and discussion Figure shows the relative viscosity of water confined in SWCNTs versus the diameter at 298, 325, and 350 K The relative viscosity is the ratio ... nanoscale To further understand the size andthe temperature influences, the amount ofthe hydrogen bonds of water confined in SWCNTs is also studied The amount ofthe hydrogen bonds can be used to characterize ... bonds ofthe confined water versus the diameter; (b) the comparison ofthe amount ofthe hydrogen bonds andthe viscosity ofthe bulk water at the three temperatures Ye et al Nanoscale Research...
... with the stress on amorphous (spots S1 and S2 ) and polycrystalline samples (S3 , S4 , and S5 ) Note that the weak spots in the polycrystalline structure show, before the stress ("first scan”), larger ... However, the leaky sites of polycrystalline structures (spot S3 , S4 , and S5 ) have a larger conductivity compared to those of amorphous samples (S1 and S2 ) As discussed in the previous section, the ... images measured on the amorphous (a, b, and c) and polycrystalline (d, e, and f) samples The first scan corresponds to images (a) and (d) and, the last scan, to images (c) and (f) The sizes of the...
... blocking set So BSQSs(16) colourable with strict colourings which use two and three colours exist and only “3-strict” colourable BSQSs(16) also exist There are two classes of BSQS(16): the first class ... 2, then let us define the set of vertices SI ⊆ X as the union of |I| colouring classes coloured with the colours (i) inside I The number of triples of vertices coloured with different colours of ... C-edges and D-edges [8] In [8, 9, 10] the necessary conditions for the existence of strict colourings for BSQSs were determined andthe exact value ofthe upper chromatic number for BSQS(8), BSQS(10)...