... single functional gene in Arabidopsis thaliana[6] and its disruption by a T-DNA insertion caused an embryo-lethal phenotype [7], indicating the essentialrole of Toc75 in the viability of plants.Unlike ... thermolysin after the import (Fig. 4A, lanes 14 and 16 ; data not shown). The intermediate form derivedfrom GGE mutant recovered both in the supernatantand pellet fractions was resistant to trypsin ... (Fig. 4A, lanes 15 18 ; Fig. 4B,C), indicating its localization to the stroma, and thylakoid or inner membranes. These dataindicate that a repeat of glutamic acid cannot replace the tri-glycine segment...
... poten-tially hazardous substances in an effective and conservativemanner. In Canada, the Canadian Environmental Protec-tion Act 19 99 (CEPA 19 99) defines a set of criteria to assesswhether a substance ... (2000). [19 ] American Standards for Testing and Materials., StandardPractise for Conducting Bioconcentration Tests with Fishesand Saltwater Bivalve Molluscs. E 10 22 ± 10 84,inAnnualBook of ASTM Standards, ... modelrelating the loading to water and sediment concentrationsand a food web model to relate the water and sedimentconcentrations to concentrations in fish and other aquaticorganisms. In absence...
... the data and co-wrote the manuscript. SJ and AAW performed all the pilot studiesin humans and monkeys that identified the candidate biomarkers, and theyparticipated in the data analyses. AAH ... treated with Ab- 01 and control Ig and analyzed the data, and KA and SAperformed the experiments on monkeys dosed in vivo with Ab- 01 or IgG 1 TM.ERL performed data analysis and review and participated ... Devanarayan V, Konrad RJ: Optimization of analytical and pre-analytical variables associated with an ex vivo cytokine secretion assay. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2006, 41: 189 -19 5.7. Parasrampuria...
... W2and p and the resultant maximum profit (panel A) and number of returns (panel B).Ghoreishi et al. Journal of Remanufacturing 2 011 , 1: 1http://www.journalofremanufacturing.com/content /1/ 1 /1 Page ... ourmodel: the financial incentives, the transportation and the advertisement. Each of these aspects incurs a cost to the process, and in return, can increase the revenue byincreasing the number and average ... minus any hand-ling fee associated with the resell.Conclusion The amounts and types of advertis ement and transporta-tion can significantly affect the net profit of take back. The type and amount...
... heads and/or higherσR. For notational convenience, we define a constant trans-mission range R, which is the range where the packeterror rate (PER) goes above 10 −2in absence of fadingand interference. ... Architectures for WirelessSensor Networks, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA,2006.[2] W. B. Heinzelman, A. P. Chandrakasan, and H. Balakrishnan, An application-specific protocol architecture for ... converge in some scenarios, the maximumpotential gain of an unknown optimal solution over the best known schedule is always obtained. This result hassignificant practical importance as it can...
... gainof the antenna, r(m) is the distance between the antenna and the human subject.In our life-detection system, the radiating power is30 mW and the gain of the antenna is 17 dB. If the mini-mum ... mbehind the antenna [1, 2], another volunteer was behind the antenna 5 m away and walked around the system with the velocity less than 2 m/s in the distance from−3to+3m.Allof the 15 volunteers ... Life Parameters via RadarWang Jianqi, 1, 2Zheng Chongxun, 1 Lu Guohua,2and Jing Xijing2 1 The Key Laboratory of Education, Ministry of China, Xi an Jiaotong University, Xi an 710 049, China2Department...
... observation space into two orthogonal subspaces (the so-called signal subspace and noise subspace) and arebased on the autocorrelation matrix eigenanalysis. In con-junction with signal subspace ... emitterlocation and spectral estimation, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford Uni-versity, Stanford, Calif, USA, 19 81. [3] A. Paulraj, R. Roy, and T. Kailath, A subspace rotation ap-proach to signal parameter ... eigenvalue variation can be still used, in a dif-ferent form, for obtaining N. The main idea behind the new method is that estimat-ing N is equivalent to finding how many eigenvalues areassociated...
... A special thanks to Sonja Ali, who assists us in getting the words out by managing our marketing communications and ourspeaking and training engagements. And to Ana Hicks for herconsiderable ... economy, where anyone could be instantaneouslyconnected to anyone else. It was obvious that this major eventnecessitated a change in business patterns. Communication andinformation technologies ... thousands of needs and wants,ranging from the essentials of life, such as safety and security, to20 Part One❘ The Era of Collaborative Business WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? 1 ❚ Business patterns are...
... Business A special thanks to Sonja Ali, who assists us in getting the words out by managing our marketing communications and ourspeaking and training engagements. And to Ana Hicks for herconsiderable ... wants.Many of the companies we as consumers deal with on a daily basis are the worst offenders in all three areas. Considertelecommunications providers, insurance companies, banks, air-lines, ... customer’s viewpoint? And how doesthis focus make a difference in thedesign and operation of a business?As individuals, all of us have thousands of needs and wants,ranging from the essentials of life,...
... markerdata was discussed by Fernando and Grossman [2], van Arendonk et al. [12 ],and Wang et al. [13 ]. The covariance can be divided into two parts: betweenindividuals and within individuals. ... developments by Fernando and Grossman [2] and vanArendonk et al. [12 ], and using the partitioned matrix theory, Wang et al. [13 ]described an exact recursive method to obtain the inverse of the covariancematrix ... dimatrices along its diagonal,and diis proportional to the conditional variance and covariance of Mendeliansampling within individual i. Therefore, diis positive definite and can bewritten...
... scoring status (4 levels: not weaned, just weaned, weaned,unknown), calf particular individual situation (2 levels: favoured in view to the agricultural shows; normal) and calf rearing management ... approximated.Attention has mainly been focused on diagonal elements and, therefore,on individual PEV or CD. Approximations have usually been found usinganalytical methods. Typically, diagonal elements are ... with about300 000 animals included in the evaluation, which corresponds to seven beefbreeds currently evaluated in France (Blonde d’Aquitaine, Salers, Aubrac,Gasconne, Parthenaise, Maine-Anjou...
... transposase was added in the transposition reaction(data not shown). Restriction analysis of recombinant plas-mids confirmed that they contained an inserted transposon(data not shown). Transformants ... All the remaining CDSs were then annotatedmanually using the same procedure as for strain 8 013 , start-ing with Z24 91 and transferring this new annotation to the remaining genomes using the same ... managed bioinfor-matics resources. DV and VP performed manual annotationand bioinformatics analyses. SF and CMS sequenced transpo-son insertion sites in the library of mutants. HE and VP con-structed...
... countriessuch as Pakistan that previously supported the Taliban. Fearinginstability, Pakistan offered information about, and access to, the Taliban and Afghanistan to the United States. In return, the United ... relationships one interaction at a time.In iterative relationships (and all relationships are iterative),each relationship starts with an assumption about the needs andwants the relationship ... design and operation of a business?As individuals, all of us have thousands of needs and wants,ranging from the essentials of life, such as safety and security, to20 Part One❘ The Era of Collaborative...
... the competition in the business world will center on gaining and maintaining the or-chestration role fora value chain or industry. . . . More money canbe made in managing interactions than ... fundamentally changes the nature of the value proposition between the entities that interact.Implicit in changing the value proposition is the recogni-tion and understanding that value can ... anywhere—in a division of GeneralElectric or in an individual free agent. But what is a free agent?Since his article “Free Agent Nation” first appeared in FastCompany in January 19 98, Daniel...