... unstable An unstable isotope loses a portion of its nucleus (radioactively decays) through emission of particles of various types; very unstable isotopes may split apart Some unstable isotopes ... the solar system The solar system consists of eight major planets, several classes of minor planets, some 166 (as of the beginning of 2006) named natural satellites (or moons), and innumerable small ... brightness of their streetlights Light spreads out and dilutes in two dimensions as it moves away from its source, so that the apparent brightness of an object must decrease as the square of the distance...
... study are presented in Table Measured values or recovery rates of test chemicals can be estimated on the basis of the results obtained from acute tests, conducted simultaneously in glass vessels ... cadmium Water Res 22:511–515 Beitinger TL, McCauley RW 1990 Whole animal physiological process for the assessment of stress in fishes J Gt Lakes Res 16: 542–575 Cherry DS, Dickson KL, Cairns Jr J 1975 ... base relationship [45] However, ectotherms possess some interacting homeostatic systems that act to minimize the deleterious effects of rapid temperature change [45] Water-breathing animals also...
... occupations such managers, professionals, technicians and associated professionals Despite an increasing concentration on lessskilled intensive manufacturing export sectors as a result of trade ... and the second is technical progress and the associated organisational change The third is based on institutional factors such as the presence of unions Increased openness to trade increases the ... sector is also very “sensitive” with the increasing demand for skilled workers There are many private schools, institutes, etc, that supply services such as English education, IT education, soft skills...
... resources Humans are using up the earths resources, including fossil fuels Burning fossil fuels in cars and power stations produces carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases ... 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 transpired ... die • This process is called Eutrophication • Raw sewage pumped into rivers has the same effect Pesticides • Pesticides kill insects that will damage crops • They also kill harmless insects or can...
... resources Humans are using up the earths resources, including fossil fuels Burning fossil fuels in cars and power stations produces carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases ... 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 transpired ... die • This process is called Eutrophication • Raw sewage pumped into rivers has the same effect Pesticides • Pesticides kill insects that will damage crops • They also kill harmless insects or can...
... details, it is also worthwhile discussing the intrinsic limitations of cross-sectional studies, such as ours, where age effects on neuroanatomy are measured at a single time across a sample of subjects ... for tissue segmentation Second, segmentation of the CSF class was refined using T2 images Creating EVA priors Tissue templates specific to our database (EVA priors) were created using a sub-sample ... images in the segmentation leads us to conclude that it was an artifact of the mono-spectral segmentation Age effects in cross-sectional versus longitudinal studies Before discussing our results...
... reduced state of the enzyme We hypothesize that this residue imposes a degree of rigidity to the structure of the reduced state of class III peroxidases Results and Discussion Table shows some of ... 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 class III peroxidases ... 8.9 The pH sensitivity of these frequencies is a common characteristic of all peroxidases and is a consequence of the strong H-bond between the proximal His and Asp residues that is weakened...
... ambiguous input, using mainly structural, but in some structurally unresolvable cases also higher-level, information The corpora consisted of continuous text rather than isolated sentences; this made ... considerably larger corpus The rest of this paper is structured as follows Next, the ENGCG tag set is described in outline Then the training of the new linguists is described, as well as the test ... chief source was chapters 3-6 in Karlsson et al (eds., 1995) Because the linguistic solutions in ENGCG are largely based on the comprehensive descriptive grammar by Quirk et al (1985), also that...
... intraoral soft tissues (Figure 2) Fungus-associated denture stom1 8S JADA, Vol 138 The first step in treating patients with xerostomia is establishing a diagnosis This frequently involves a multidisciplinary ... 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 ... arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis and polyarteritis nodosa.2,15 The onset of the disease often is insidious; accordingly, diagnosis may be delayed for many years The...
... 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 ... of H2O2 for h Cells were harvested and cell lysates were assayed for protease activity of caspases-9 or -3 using caspase fluorescent assay kits Data of caspase fluorescent assay were obtained from ... this end, in the present study, we over-expressed HSP70 and characterized the subsequent cellular changes using C2C12 as an in vitro system Results Over-expression of HSP70 inhibits oxidative stress-induced...
... no-annealed sensor was observed to be around 30 which is too long to use as a practical MOS gas sensor Such a long recovery time was previously observed in other MOS sensor systems operated at ... magnitude of 10 in sensor response separated measurements using a fast response sensor The length of the vertical arrow corresponds to the magnitude of 10 in sensor response, which was defined by a ... glass substrates The sensor substrate was prepared by the consecutive e-beam depositions of nm Cr and 100 nm Au layers through a shadow metal mask It possesses two interdigitated Au electrodes...
... expression The human ribosomal genes are represented as a reiterated set of sequences and the final gene products are the major structural RNA species associated with large and small ribosomal subunits ... sensitive 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 ... peers; Disseminate findings to researchers in the field and to administrators, planners, instructors, and other interested persons; Provide a feedback mechanism to NIDA staff and planners so that...
... 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 target words {ti j }, ... 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 of the previous source segment to condition ... current source segment This system has been shown to outperform other n-gram based methods for English to Persian transliteration (Karimi et al., 2006) The second system we employ (SYS-2) makes use...
... details are provided elsewhere [35] An automated bench-top simultaneous multiple solidphase peptide synthesizer (PSSM system from Shimadzu) was used for the synthesis of all the peptides by the ... proteasome system due to proteolysis of intracellular and/or of foreign proteins However, only some of these peptides are presented to the immune system on cell surface MHC class I molecules [2628] ... the substrates TOP and neurolysin also hydrolyze IQF peptides derived from bradykinin by a similar way In this case, depending on the sequence and size of the substrates, the hydrolysis were observed...
... holoprotein was assessed spectrophotometrically, and no significant absorption was observed in the Soret region 5186 Peptide synthesis The peptides used in this study were designed to reproduce chain segments ... conditions described previously The identity of the fragments was established by electrospray mass ionization mass spectrometry using a Micro Q-Tof mass spectrometer (Waters) CD spectroscopy Globin ... 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 N-terminal...
... B and, s, n) After 48 h, pulse-chase analysis was performed as described in Fig s and d, TSHR bearing high mannose type structures; n and m, TSHR bearing complex-type structures plus A subunit ... pulse-chase analysis was performed as described in Fig Samples were analyzed by SDS/PAGE after a reduction step and quantified by phosphorimaging s, d, TSHR bearing highmannose type structures; ... Overexpression of GRP78 mitigates stress induction of glucose regulated proteins and blocks secretion of selective proteins in Chinese hamster ovary cells EMBO J 11, 1563–1571 Nicholson, L.B., Vlase,...
... onedimensional quantum dots The eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are presented in references [5] and [8] In one-dimensional case, the confinement potential also imposes constraints to spatial coordinates, ... manifests itself in a blue-shift of the energy peaks of the order of several meV in the studied spectra These results were found for two quantum dot sizes, in the first one the characteristic ... Prazeres R, Ortega J-M, Gérard JM: Second-harmonic generation resonant with s- p transition in InAs/ GaAs self-assembled quantum dots Phys Rev B 2001, 63:113312 11 Que W: Excitons in quantum dots with...
... 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 of the viscosity of ... relative viscosity As the temperature increases, this structural configuration gradually disappears since the thermal motions of the water molecules get faster, which can associate with the disappearance ... relative viscosity, which demonstrates the present predictions of the relative viscosity The computations in this study reveal that the trend of the size dependence is almost insensitive to the...
... 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 ... result, since the resolution in these experiments is not high enough to resolve grain boundaries This is because the CAFM measurements presented in this section have been performed with Si tips ... charge-trapping properties of amorphous and polycrystalline samples were also investigated after an electrical stress The results suggest that, although the crystals are more resistive and robust (from an...
... 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 ... case N1 , {7, 8, 9, 11, 14}, {10, 12, 13, 15, 16} give a strict colouring for these BSQSs(16) In [2] it is shown that it is possible to construct BSQSs(16) which contain blocking sets and BSQSs(16) ... every t-element subset of X occurs in exactly λ blocks of B When λ = the t-design is referred to as a Steiner system S( t, k, v) A Steiner Quadruple System (briefly SQS) is an S( 3, 4, v) In 1960...