... believe figures strongly in a child’s personality development Explain how that factor may influence the child Broad topic: Narrowed topic: Further narrowed topic: Sufficiently narrowed topic: Topic turned ... rules for choosing a topic, and write a tentative thesis 47 – CHOOSING A TOPICAND DEVELOPING A THESIS – In Short To write an effective essay, you need a topic that interests you and fulfills the assignment ... assignment, a focused topic, and a question Assignment: Describe how you think the federal income tax system should be reformed and why Broad topic: Reforming federal tax system Narrowed topic: Problems...
... with less and less preparation”, and the speaker who falls into this trap will ultimately be caught with a substandard effort Probably every experienced speaker skirts this pitfall and some of ... audience laughs at the first upside-down slide; mutters at the second, and begins to leave at the third This and other projection problems are easily obviated by arriving at a session early and ... sparingly, spotting key points on the slide and otherwise kept off Holding a flashlight pointer with both hands or in the crook of the arm will help to steady it and salvage that image of comfortable...
... workstations, and PCs, many new video formats have appeared These include low end formats such as CIF and QCIF with smaller picture size and lower frame rates, progressive and interlaced HDTV formats ... determines such aspects as stationary and dynamic resolution, motion portrayal, aliasing, scanning structure visibility, and flicker Various formats have been designed and standardized to strike a particular ... at 50 Hz and 60 Hz, and other video formats used on computer workstations and enhanced television displays with field rates up to 100 Hz It will be clear that the problem of scanning format conversion...
... and attack some materials These air pollutants return to earth in the form of acid rain and snow, and as dry deposited gases and particles, which may damage crops and forests and make lakes and ... fertilizers and from animal manure; • land-use changes for feed production and for grazing; • land degradation; • fossil fuel use during feed and animal production; and • fossil fuel use in production and ... natural and human-influenced sources The latter include landfills, natural gas and petroleum systems, agricultural activities, coal mining, stationary and mobile combustion, wastewater treatment and...
... Key backbone hydrogen bonds between K12 and the side chains of N10 and Q64, which maintain the unusual Ramachandran angles for the K12 residue, and a Ramachandran scatter plot for the K12 residues ... Ramachandran angles of / = 54.3 5.5 and w = )144.1 7.0 [53] The distribution of the / and w values of all other Lys residues in the TIM structure is shown for comparison The possible role of ... examined N78T, N78I and N78D mutants The mutants had an appreciably lower kcat value and were signicantly less stable at elevated temperatures and in the presence of denaturants and proteolytic agents...
... occludin (OccWT) and variant occludin in apoptosis and invasion, as determined by assay, we revealed that exon played a major role in the induction of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis and the reduction ... sequenced (D) PCRs for exon and exon 1a were performed in Huh7 and Chang cells (E) The boundary regions of exon and exon in the genomic DNA of Chang cells were sequenced and aligned with OccWT (F) ... proteins, calmodulin and phospholipase were analyzed in several types of cancer cells from the perspective of TJ formation [18,19] Gaq protein, as a subunit of Ga, induces the formation of inositol...
... than Ca of SE and RE inhibitors ˚ (about 0.5 A in both cases) Although phenyl rings of OE and RE have very similar positions and orientation and have similar contact patterns (26 and 31 contacts, ... OE and SE inhibitors, and 38° for OE and RE inhibitors The S3¢ groups of OE and RE inhibitors having a similar orientation phenyl rings form a similar number of close contacts to protease (22 and ... conformations: Met46, Met146, Ile50, Ile150, Gly51, Ile151, Phe53 and Phe153 All of them have clear interpretation Two conformations of Met46 are associated with corresponding alternative conformations...
... PPases We also provide information concerning the kinetics and properties of the enzyme More strikingly, we show a novel role of the PPase enzyme in the development and molting process of A suum ... [35,36,41] Detection of native AsPPase activity and inhibition by IDP and NaF of larval development and molting Native enzyme activity in L3 soluble extracts and in ES products was detected by PPase-activated ... soluble extracts and in ES products (1.58 ± 0.02 lmol PiÆmin)1Æmg)1 and 0.51 ± 0.03 lmol PiÆmin)1Æmg)1 protein for PPi hydrolysis, for L3 extracts and ES products, respectively) strongly suggested...
... receptor specific role of the putative helix in G protein activation and interaction with receptor kinases 130 A Faussner et al Results Construction of truncated and point mutated B2wts and B1 ⁄ B2 ... 129–140 ª 2004 FEBS A Faussner et al Role of helix and C-termini in bradykinin receptors Fig Schematic representation of the C-terminal B1wt and B2wt sequences and chimera thereof The C-terminal ... B1CB2) and at Y7.53 within the NPXXY sequence (chimera B1YB2) 131 Role of helix and C-termini in bradykinin receptors A Faussner et al Table Receptor density (Bmax), receptor affinity (Kd), basal and...
... PP2500 and ANKHD1 variant In this study we focus on the biochemical and functional characterization of the novel VBARP-L and VBARP-S transcripts Bioinformatics analyses show that VBARP-L and VBARP-S ... 2B that VBARP-L and VBARP-S are coded by these specific exons VBARP-L and VBARP-S code for precursor proteins of 627 and 435 amino acids and with calculated peptide masses of 69 and 49 kDa, respectively ... were mixed and immunoprecipitated with VBARP-, Vpr- or Nef-specific antibody and analyzed by autoradiography (Fig 1A) Results indicate that both Vpr and VBARP were able to form a complex and the...
... vegetables, fruits and whole grain products Also include low-fat and nonfat dairy products, lean meats, poultry, fish and legumes (lentils and beans) Drink water to quench your thirst, and go easy on ... may be cheaper and just as good are often placed higher or lower • Assemble snacks at home in small baggies and use foods such as nuts and seeds, low-fat cheese and fresh veggies and fruits, rather ... good nutrition and regular physical activity Eating well and being physically active every day are keys to your child’s health and well-being Eating too many high calorie foods and getting too...
... merging of nanopores and the formation of a high porosity region which can deform and release the stress at dimensions small enough to prevent macroscopic crack formation and fragility Thus high ... and polished Si substrates, respectively The emphasis is mainly 265 on the development of PS with high and stable PL, control of pore size distribution and therefore a better control on the formation ... electrolytes A and B are shown in Figs 3(A) and (B) As evident from Figs 3(A) and (B), the absolute PL intensity is higher for the porous silicon formed on textured substrates and for PS films...
... ‘which’, and ‘how’ We refer to these two kinds of units as topic terms’ With topic terms’, we represent a question as a topic chain and a set of questions as a question tree Definition (Topic ... respect to both question topicand question focus For example, in Table 1, Q2 preserves certain useful information of Q1 in the aspects of both question topic (Berlin) and question focus (fun ... volatile and might occur in many categories Definition (Topic Chain) A topic chain of a question is a sequence of ordered topic terms such that is included in , ; 1) , 2) For example, the topic...
... standing between them and the verb are ambiguous in this respect: in some meanings of the sentence they are contextually bound and belong to the focus; a similar ambiguity concerns also the verbs ... to its context in the broader sense 266 an indefinite article, then the subject mostly belongs te the focus, and the verb to the r topic; however, marginal cases with both subject andverb in ... bearer of the IC belongs to the focus and all the complementations standing after IC belong to the topic; (b) rules (ii) and (iii) apply for the elements stand~-g before the bearer of the intonation...
... the topic- focus articulation in such languages can then be formulated as follows: (i) All complementations (participants and adverbials, or arguments and adjuncts) preceding the verb are contextually ... the topic; also verbs with very general lexical meanings (such as be, have, happen, carry out, become) may be handled as belonging to the topic Otherwise (i.e in the unmarked case), the verb ... f, and its subject belongs to the topic, which we denote by the index t; (bb) indef'mite, then the subject is (indexed by) f and the verb is t In either case, the other complementations are handled...
... S-glutathionylated and Grx2-treated samples) were reacted with 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD), a sulfhydryl and sulfenic acid reagent [1], and the formation of Cys-S-NBD and Cys-S(O)-NBD ... consists of a four-stranded, mixed b-sheet and five a-helices The b-sheet forms the central core of the protein, with helices and located on one side of the sheet and helices 2, and located on the ... recombinant Trx1 and Trx2 (A) n-PT preparations (20 lg) were mixed with Trx1 (3 lg) plus mM NADPH and 0.5 lg Trr1 and incubated at 37 °C for 15 or 30 (lanes indicated by 15 and 30, respectively)...
... tuberculosis H37Rv, and the PMM74 and the PMM56 mutant strains, and incubated for 20 h with continuous shaking Lipids were then extracted, and separated by TLC as described before, and labeled compounds ... OADC and incubation at 37 °C The values shown are the means ± standard deviations for three independent experiments important virulence factors for M tuberculosis, i.e DIMs and PGL-tb; and (b) ... the two related molecules DIM A and DIM B According to the accepted model of DIM and PGL biosynthesis [17], DIM A and PGL-tb are expected to be derived from DIM B and glycosylated phenolphthiodiolone...